The Mystery Guest Episode

Hi. How are you doing? Are you super busy? Oh, yeah. Oh, you are? Okay. Are you really busy right now? Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay, okay, okay. Would you ever do an interview? Oh, no English. Oh. Are you interested in being interviewed? We're trying to interview someone. We do a podcast like an interview podcast. Oh, no. It's not a podcast. Oh, wait. Oh, no. You're going to be paid. What have we paid you? No, no, no. This man in his car. Yes. You're exactly who we've been looking for. So, guys, what kind of human being are we looking for right now? I don't even know what I want. I'm not going to know until I see him. I'm an older person with experience. Let me ask you guys this question. If we're really not talking to these people first, and we're just kind of looking at them, aren't we judging a book by its cover immediately? And, apparently, with the whole premise of this thing? No, I think we got to say something to them. I think we're like, whoa. In the house. When will? Sanky, ducky. Now, what if I told you that about 20 small steps, you'd have a front row peak, and exactly where season three was conceived, written, documented, and explored, and turn the camera now. Turn the camera now. Here. Just show it. Oh, thank you. Don't do anything illegal. Now, turn the camera now. Turn the camera now over here. No, turn the camera now right now. Yeah, you should. It's cool. It's like, it's inspiring. The way it looks is inspiring. And then that looks like a parasite to me. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm humiliated. I'm humiliated. I'm just a guy who works for Benny. Benny Blanco. Pretend that we're doing like a 60 minutes interview. So, Benny, after you did that hit song, Teenage Dream. Did you feel like your life really changed? Hi. This guy's a star. How you doing? This guy's a big star. Did you feel like your life really changed after Teenage Dream? Okay, so what do you want to say? That guy's cool. What do you want to say? What do I want to say? I don't have much to say. I mean, I kind of want to hear what they have to say. There's a lot of them walking out of the building. I want to say, hey. We want to get a good life story. We're trying to do it. We're doing interviews on people we think could be interesting. We think you could be interesting. Who would you do? I would not do that. You know, here's what we're going to say. Say, hey, hey, do you have a second? What do you mean, why? That's perfect. Are you really busy today? Whatever their answer is. Then you say, do you have an interesting life story or do you have anything interesting to say that you'd want to come back to our house and tell us? We don't have to see that one in the house now. Let's just keep walking, but we can circle back. I think I want to find a guy with a unique voice. Why does it have to be a guy? Oh, you know, guy. One of those guys. Yeah, I work with those guys. That means like the whole company, you know. But guy doesn't have to mean man. When you say guy. No, when you say guy. Sexist. We could find a girl. Shoot. No problem. We'd have to do this on a slight different street. Well, this street is, you know. Pretty dead. I'm sorry, it's not him. Although it's hard to just pick somebody off the street and go found a human being. Well, we haven't found a human being. He's working. Hey. Are you in the middle of something? He's going to the street. Are you are? Okay. I understand. Okay, nice to meet you. No. He's on hold with the company. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, go mochi. Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Are you super busy? Oh, yeah. Oh, you are. Okay. I can't. I actually can't. I can't. I can't. I can't do it with a sort of rejection. I can't be rejected like this. Yeah, she said she was. We're experiencing a heat wave. We just really, really got to find someone soon. We could just stand and wait for someone to pass by like on the bike. Check, I want to interview that man in that SUV right there. Chuck, he's far. He was like, his name was like, Sal Soledino. I won't mind what this guy right here in the rest. Where, where, where. Oh, I love this guy. Do you want to get interviewed? Chuck, I think there might be a machine gun. Hi. We do a podcast, like an interview podcast. Okay, it's not a podcast either. I was just trying to make it clear initially. Are you interested in being interviewed at all? Okay. All we're doing is meeting people and interviewing them just saying hi. Oh, nice. What's your name one more time? Isaac. Isaac. That's Benny. Oh, they're not even. Yeah, they're doing some shit. You live in the area? Just moved here. Oh, from where? From Connecticut. Okay, what part? Richfield. Richfield. No, really? Isn't that a crazy guess? Wait, how'd you know that? I have one friend. One of my best friends is from Richfield, Connecticut. He went to like, Richfield, high or what's not? Is that really high? Yeah. That's crazy. Oh, fuck. Richfield, high in the house. Thanks for meeting us. Yeah. We'll see you later. See you later. Hi, man. Hi. How are you doing? Would you ever be interested in being interviewed for something? Yeah, we just want to know about you. Do you have time right now? I'm fabulous, but I don't have time. Oh, no, you're the best. What if we pay you? What if we pay you? No, I can't pay you. Oh. Hi, how are you? Good, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, no. You're a music partner. What are you doing right now? Perfect. You want? You got to ride. Yeah. Can you drive us home, though? Do you want to be interviewed for us? Open yet. Okay. She's getting interviewed. Okay. Okay. Okay, so here's what we do. It's like, it's essential. Not making a podcast. It's not a podcast, though. It's much cooler. Got you. And we have all these cameras in a home. And we just hang out with people. And you don't see microphones. It's not like a particular podcast. I'm there, so it's safe. It's not just two men asking to take your home. Yeah, exactly. Put a camera in the car and I'll walk. And I'll meet you there. Okay. Where's everyone? We're rolling. Let's. You know what? I can show you how to get there. You know, we did really caught you off guard. Who thought we'd all be in your car? Or they would? You guys have no idea. It's a good cut off guard, but it was just like, what is going on right now, if that makes sense. So happy I'm not walking that. And welcome. Welcome to home. Oh, I thank you. Yeah. Come on in. This is really cool. Yeah. You know, Benny? That's crazy. Munchie, this is insane. I've never seen a human being leave leftovers like this. Why aren't you starting hide in Natasha? Hi. Well, first look at this. This is. Sorry. I would have did something. You know, you don't leave anything there. But what is there? That was my dinner. Yeah. What else do we have? Are you hungry? Do you want to snack? Oh, I do have snacks. Not like some chips. Are you hungry? I'm good. I've done two things. You never get in the car with strangers. I know. I've never got your butt like, you know. But don't you feel like you kind of know me? A little bit, yeah. You trust me. I know. She doesn't know you. She doesn't know me. What's crazy is I trust you the most. Oh. Do you trust me? You trust in the least. I do. The least? No. Do not do that. Do not do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. Okay. Who do you trust the least? It's gotta be you. No. You said you trust me. Between the two of you, that's hard, though. Oh, yeah. Just do the two of us. Would you trust more? You're really putting her on the spot. You know what? Because I've seen more of. But I've seen some of your. Yeah. You know, we don't have to play this. Oh, yeah. To trust and not be put in a weird situation, I really don't know. Yeah. But who should trust the most? Don't you think he looks kind of sleazy? What? That the way he dresses is like kind of sleazy. I think I look great. What do you think? I like the outfit. Yeah. What do you think about his outfit? Well, it's very. It's not his best outfit. I love this shirt. Thank you. I'm gonna go pee. And if you have to go after, you can't. Oh, you have to pee, too. I don't know. I'm a good host, guys. You have to pee. I'm good. I'm good. Well, I guess what we wait. Do you have any hidden talents? Me and my best friend make music. Tell us about it. Um. Artist name. Bex Grimes, this her name. Yes. Um. We met at LA Film in our math class. Only class we ever had. Um. But we just. Linked. We heard each other's stuff, and we linked up, and just started making music. Do you like, like, the music? Like, that she sings or wraps on her? Basically, yes. So I basically. I produce, and then she writes, and she sings. But we kind of like. We co-produce everything together. Yeah, I understand. So, like, we go back and forth, and we ping pong off of each other. Um. So, it's. But her heavy thing is songwriting. Singing artistry minds. It's, like, producing. So, yeah. Um. But we've been just kind of working for the past three years, just trying to, like, find her sound, find, like, what fits her, and finally we're, like. In this spot right now that's just been, like, we're finding it. If that makes sense. Wow, so crazy the ultimate. That's what I'm so happy about. I don't think you understand. Yeah. Like, yeah. That's amazing. So, yeah. It's great. It's cool. Yeah. Yeah, this is, like, this is, like, a quintessential L.A. No, like, she makes me use it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you say Mootale. I'm from L.A. Oh, I thought you said you were from Oklahoma, no? No, I lived in Oklahoma for, like, four or five years from, like, 1924. But I'm born and raised constant. Got it. So, it's 1924? No. Okay. Domino's Smores Lava Cake. Go. Go. Go, Christian Go. Go. I'm almost eating it. Oh, I was going to say, my favorite part about camping is the Smores. But when I do go camping. Oh, yeah. I don't really like to sleep in the tent or really camp. I prefer to be in a car, to be, to be covered. I'll come out. I'll come out for the, for the Smores. I don't like camping. But honestly, now that these Smores Lava Cakes from Domino's exist, I might like camping a little bit more than I did yesterday. Well, you don't even have to go camping. Camping right now, we have all the perks of camping without having to get all. - Spinky and sweaty and dirty, no mosquitoes, no little critters coming by. - You can get three. - Domino's lava cakes when you mix and match any? - Two or more menu items. - Is LA Film School not for filmmaking? - It's for both, so they have the film side and they have the audio side. - Interesting. - Yeah. So and then sometimes they kind of like infuse it. So like we had to do scoring all that stuff. - Wow. - Yeah. But they have the recording side that's from music. - Do you play the instruments? - I play piano. - Oh cool. - I play a little guitar and stuff, but I'm not like, she plays piano too. - Yeah, no she doesn't. - No, no she doesn't. - No, I don't play the dolly, I'm so ridiculous. I know like C, they don't believe, but I know the key is I know C, D, E, B flat. - But she has to label the things. - I don't want to read some of these. - That's how I started. - Yeah, it was like 13 and I label my keys and like that. - She was like 13 anymore. - No, it was just, I only labeled the key so that I- - We got to start somewhere. - So I could like do it faster. - Yeah, I do that. - Her voice is so- - Do you sing in the group? - No, I have, I'm not gonna lie. Like when it comes to like singing in front of people, I kind of climb up a little bit. - But you're speaking voices so good. Like if you did an ad on sprite right now with that, like when you're speaking voice, I would, I feel like I would buy it, right? - Yeah, I mean, if it's now that we know her personally, I feel like you're very inviting. - Are you comfortable telling us about your life? How you even got to the LA film school? Did you always know you wanted to do music stuff? - Yeah, so when I was like 13, like growing up, I went to like, I was always in glue club, choir, all that stuff. When I was about 13, though my dad bought me a little keyboard and I labeled the keys and I would listen to like songs like "Unfateful" by Rihanna, like one of my favorites. Like I learned how to play that by ear and I just kept learning stuff and over time, it kind of like, I started to know where they were and then I went to performing arts high school. And just like a fly to get another, you just got in. - No, crazy thing at the time, 'cause this is like 2004, so at this time. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It was starting high school. And that school was like a continuation school before and this year they changed it to a performing arts high school. And so they had got grants and everything. And so I was going to a Catholic school in downtown Long Beach and I guess somehow they got like my grades and stuff. So he called and I was able to like just go look at the school and see if I wanted to go and I got to go there instead. - Oh wow. - Which was dope because like I was in Long Beach at the time but we moved to Compton so it was kind of like, I was just gonna have to go to Jordan High School or Compton High High School. And so I got to go there instead in downtown Long Beach. So there I met my mentor who like, definitely like took me in and like taught me more and everything. It always was just a thing I always loved music and then like life and then so school I started working. And then eventually like some years later I was like, I gotta get back into like what I love. And so finally I was like, you know, I have the confidence. I feel like I know what it takes for me to like just keep going until like 2019 I bought like a little MPK mini and I started to tap it away. I already knew like theory and piano. So that part was easy and so eventually just kind of like COVID happened so I was able to like really lock in. I had some buddies who had a space that let me just kind of like build up a little makeshift studio. So I was just in there figuring it out then once COVID ended and LA film opened back up the campuses I went. - Okay. - Let's put it on the couch. Let's put it on the couch. - We didn't even have a chance to open and drink it. (laughing) - We're grilling it. - You're good, you're good. - How did you meet Bex? - She was working at Benny Hanna's at the time and she's like I'm quitting Benny Hanna's. So after I quit Benny Hanna, she's like, I can be in here every day with you and we just somehow just locked in. - So you're each other's anchors artistically? - Yeah, big time. - That's amazing. - So and it just, it's been-- - Did she respond Bex to your text? - She did. - What she said. - I told her to just be ready. She said okay. - Should we call her? - Yeah. - At a FaceTime, right? Yeah. - Yeah. - And then I have two important questions for you. - Of course, of course. - Hey, guess what? I have some people that want to say how do you friend? Who should I-- - Who should I friend? - Hello? How are you? - I'm good, how are you? - We're hearing all about-- - Yeah, we heard great things about you. - Yeah, we love your name, Bex Grimes, which you know is really based off your actual name, but we think it's a cool abbreviation. - Thank you. - And we just met Natasha on the street, actually. We don't even know her. Basically, we were filming this thing that's like a, you know, I guess to simplify it, it's like a podcast, but it's really not a podcast. It's just people hanging out right here. I don't know. There's Benny-- - I told you. - Okay, I'm sorry. - How you doing? - Don't be too shocked when you see me. - This is my wife Kristen. - I'm not known yet, but maybe one day. - She's the coolest one, friend. - Yeah. - Honestly, we were walking around just looking for people and it was really hard to find anybody that we trusted enough to bring back to our house but then we saw Natasha sitting in the driver's seat of her car and she actually drove us home. - What? - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah. - Do you care if she plays some of your music for us? - Not at all. - Okay, cool. How crazy is this L.A., huh? - This is probably the craziest thing that's happened to me ever. (laughing) - We're right here. - Wait, can I just say that I'm like completely obsessed with your show? - Thank you. - Hey, like I'm completely obsessed. - Thank you so much. That's so sweet. We found the right people. - This is good. - Yeah, it was fake. - This is good. - Literally. - Thank you, I mean, that's very sweet of you. All right, well, look, this could be the beginning, but you know that you guys live in the area. So you know, maybe it's the beginning of a new friendship. - Yeah. - Okay, it was so great to meet you. - Nice to meet you. - Okay, bye. - Can you ask her what song she's on? - Oh, what song do you want us to play? What songs? - Do you wanna play "Bless First"? - "Blessed" yeah, can I play, could you be mine? Even though it's not done. - You mean dirty dishes? - Yeah, that one. - Yes. - Okay, cool. I love the name. - Yeah, I'm so particular about like what I play, what, what do I play it like I totally understand all that. - I've just just claimed where we played. - Yeah, please. Yeah. - We just made the demo last night. - Yeah. - Oh wow. - I appreciate that. - Wow, so fresh. I could never play a song. I never have confidence in this song. - What do I know? - No, no, I'm just me. I'm my music. I take something. - You should have been doing this. - No, no, no, you should be. I wish I was this kind of artist where like I'm so excited about the thing that I made the night before that I love that. I think that's great, right? Okay, well it was so great to meet you. - Nice to meet you. - Bye. - Bye. - Bye. - Bye. - World to me, remember the MTV things? - The song is called "Blessed." - This is crazy. - Wow, beautiful. - So much cooler than I thought. ♪ You see through the chewy ooey gooey doughey dead ♪ ♪ Need a wake up now ♪ ♪ But they got me drooling foolin' and wooing and wooing on ♪ ♪ Baby did you come down from above ♪ ♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪ ♪ When I need to de-stress, you're my drug ♪ ♪ Peace, I'm a please say craze ♪ ♪ Peace for you, bless my face ♪ ♪ Yes, my face ♪ ♪ Drunken and escalated ♪ ♪ Spiked on you, damn you, damn you, damn you, damn you, damn you, damn you ♪ ♪ 'Cause it was over when I saw you ♪ ♪ I couldn't help but wanna take ♪ ♪ But God, I dreamin' shit, I want you ♪ ♪ Baby, baby, let it go, let it go, let it go ♪ ♪ You know exactly what I grew up in ♪ ♪ And I'm a fool, and I'm a fool ♪ ♪ 'Cause it was over when I saw you ♪ ♪ I couldn't help but scream your name ♪ ♪ Better clean up, play like my mind, tell you ♪ ♪ Don't let this party go away ♪ ♪ I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, baby, slow it down, take a second ♪ ♪ There's no need to rush, I got ample time ♪ ♪ And this one, baby, with the plug, woo, woo ♪ ♪ Come here, let it go, under your control, woo, woo ♪ ♪ See my pockets, oh, every time you move ♪ ♪ Please, my peace, say, please, please, for your blessed, my friends ♪ ♪ Drunken and escalated ♪ ♪ Respect, honey, let me love, let me love, let me love, woo ♪ Who's clan, though, Warren? Uh, our friend Tatiana Tate, she's dope, so dope. I love that. Aw, thank you. ♪ I'm a fool, but I'm dreaming, shit, I want you ♪ ♪ You know exactly what I could've done in the flow ♪ ♪ 'Cause it was over when I saw you ♪ It's so much, not that I, it's so much more elevated than I expected. Yeah. It's so high-brow. I thought we were gonna have to be so nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never know. See, and I would have been mad if I sucked and you guys were nice. Yeah, I wouldn't have known. I wouldn't have known. I never know. I know. But I would have been mad. So, whatever stuff, especially the next one, please let me know. That's why I want to play it. It's so well done. It's not like. I'm obsessed. I'm the number one, I'm ours. I want to listen to it. It's my favorite song. Aw. Thank you. like the drum production. So that, I found a loop and I just chopped it up with the bass and made it like, "Yeah, yeah." I really liked her when I talked to her too. She's so funny. Yeah. She's super dope. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we were like, "Who do you least trust?" Honestly, I don't know because like, that's my best friend and she's on the line of how you trust her. Right. Like, is that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Wait, who is doing the horse? No, the horn, it's our friend Tatiana Tate. She's really dope. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah. She just got off the off tour with Macklemore. Oh, really? Yeah. She's from LA. Yeah. She's really dope. I love how jazzy it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I never know what to do with my body when I listen to every rapper when I go to the studio. Like, they're like, they're standing and they're like, "Do what I can't do that." I like, "I can't." Yeah. No, I have. How are you? They're like this. And I like, "I look down. I can't make eye contact." Yeah. I don't look up to see any of those faces. A few people that I really care about, I'll just like, kind of like glance and see how they're nodding. Yeah. One time, I'm almost tired and engineered just because I liked the way he nodded his head to the music. I made it feel cool. Yo. I love it. I love that. I really love that. Yeah. I want to hear another song. So this next one, this was the last night. This was the last night. There's some, like, because I respect you so much as a producer. Some hits in here that I'm trying to figure out, I'm not a drummer, but I'm trying to figure these out. I forgot they were in there after I sent them. Okay. This is like a once in a lifetime being and to be able to like, get some, maybe if you guys have feedback, you know, like so. No, no, I respect. I have zero feedback on the first song, except that it's perfect. I love the first song. Like, I just love it. Don't you chill? Yeah, that's great. Appreciate it. You guys aren't just being nice, right? No. It was, it was so clear that it was so great right away. Yeah, right when the first note it, I was like, "Yeah, too." And then when I found out that the sax wasn't a soul or a sample or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. She's playing. Okay. What's the second song called? The second one right now, "Dirty Dishes." Right. Yeah. And like, she's still writing, so you'll hear some "Nun-Nun-Nun" and it's like, it's fresh. Now I'm like, I don't know if I'm wrong. No, just do it. Do it. Play a play. I'm so intrigued. I already love it. Yeah. I love it. Wow. ♪ Keepin' movin' slowly ♪ ♪ Gotta like to say ♪ ♪ You're my one and only ♪ ♪ So why you actin' like a fool ♪ ♪ Bitch get out of bed now ♪ ♪ You know you got shit to do ♪ ♪ Stop livin' with dread loud ♪ ♪ Baby got somethin' to prove ♪ ♪ Get out the bed, go head and roll up and stay ♪ ♪ Motivation to get dressed, go a new gut ♪ ♪ Make sure the dishes is done ♪ ♪ So let your mama compress, there's no fun ♪ ♪ Not for anyone, notice the pattern you said ♪ ♪ You and I don't know that you're doin' it wrong ♪ ♪ Everyone goin' through shit ♪ ♪ Stoppin' lazy ♪ ♪ Banana, banana, banana, banana, banana ♪ ♪ Stuck in the daydream ♪ ♪ Banana, banana, banana, banana, banana ♪ ♪ This one I hate ♪ Oh, he's still. Like, stocks are gonna be hard to do that night. ♪ Banana, banana, banana, shaw, I'ma go kick it west out the door ♪ Oh, cool. This is like through that it's not red. Yeah. ♪ So shine on a gloomy day now ♪ ♪ Banana, banana, banana, banana, banana ♪ Do you see what's happening? They haven't finished eating yet. Yeah. See, oh, I love that part. You didn't like that? There's a way to make that. Yeah, the first song is cool. Yeah, yeah. So I might do that, but I still feel like there's something that makes it insituate a little bit more. ♪ Could you be more, could you be more ♪ ♪ Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, - It's not like warring, it's not like stupid. Like it's like-- - Right, that's crazy. - You know like when it's like-- - That's crazy. - You could come in here with just like bad trap hats and like the same loop that everyone has. Like all this stuff sounds so like a lot. - Yeah, it's like it's so good, but not like old sounding in a bad way. Like it's still like sounds so contemporary. - Boy, thank you. - I love it. - Brian, that's crazy. - That's crazy. Thank you, respected. - Yeah, I would never even give like notes or advice 'cause you guys are more musically talented than I am. (laughs) - God, I'm so good. - We are so good. - I like, I want to, I already want it. - I can't believe, I really can't believe though that you had, that you had, that you really had the balls to play this so in a draw for, I would never have. - But see for me on my end of it, it's okay. I'm in a once in a lifetime kind of space and so it's like, you got to go for it. - So what's the game plan? Like the rollout. - So right now our game plan was we're gonna roll out kind of like singles with everything and then her goal, her end goal is touring. So that's why we're, it's like the project is kind of like what we right now are envisioning. This would be like the touring set basically. And then we're creating, right now we're thinking of singles but she also is like, maybe we do do it as a project and we could just drop some singles. But yeah. - You didn't realize you'd be rolling it out on Nashville. That's crazy. - Can I talk to you about eBay life? - I would love if you talk to me about eBay life. - Because this is a live event happening right now and every day it's live. Yeah, look, look, look, look, yeah. Actually look, that's it. - That's fun. - eBay live. - This is live auction type stuff. - Where you can really in real time, you may not have to wait for a date. - Yeah, that makes sense for eBay. This is like where eBay belongs. - I agree. - I agree. - Live, auctioning, interacting, fitting. - Yeah, and you're a part of a community when you do this. They got playing cards. - They got shoes, they got watches. - I don't wear watches, but-- - I do. - We can't afford everything. - But we will. - Be able to one day if we keep working hard. For real, we can honestly, Kristen, in 10 years. - I will go on eBay live and I'll get you whatever you want. - I'm gonna go on eBay live, tonight. - eBay live is live. Interactive shopping on the eBay app. Watch live, shop live. - Okay, I need to know two things. - Yes. - I want to know what the best day of your life is or was. - I want to know what the worst day of your life is. I want to know both of the things. - Okay, best day. Outside of today. - I was gonna say you can't say today. - Your whole life. - Best day of my whole life. - It's just like the first thing. - I guess the first thing. So music is like something really big to me. And like, I've been like working towards it. And so there's one day that always pops out. Kalani is one of my favorite artists. And so I was interning and somebody that was, I got invited to do take video at one of like, behind the scenes at a song camp for a week. And one of the producers came in, was working with her at the time. And I got to hear her song like before it was pre-released. And for some reason, like that just, it's like one of those things where it's like, oh my gosh, but at the same time it's like yo, I'm like doing what I said I wanna do and I'm getting into these spots where it's like, things are like, you know, of course. - So it's like, it's something that's kind of like, I guess more so just like, and here is like a confirmation of like, doesn't matter what you came from. Like go do what you gotta do. - Yeah, behavioral moments. - Yeah. - Okay, not a worst. - Worst. - Oh man. You know, I guess I'll say it just 'cause like, the contrast I guess, but I guess one of the worst days of my life was in this is like long, long time ago, I was like the kid, just the filling of like, if I can remember fillings of days in my life was, there was a day 'cause I grew up in like, the foster system and stuff. And so there was a day where I was with like my parents who I call my mom and dad. And at the time I didn't know what was going on, but like a social worker came and got me and just put my stuff in like this black bag and just like took me away from them. And I think I was away from them for like six months, I want to say. And these weren't my biological parents, but these were my parents that like, took me in when I was like a baby. And yeah, so that is like probably one of those, the heaviest moments of my life. - Harper, yeah. - So do you know your real parents? - Um, so my, I thought we, I don't know who my father technically is, we thought we knew who that was 'cause that was the side of the family that kind of took us in, but my sister did like the ancestry thing, come to find out it, for her for sure, I still have to do it 'cause we're like 12. And then my biological mother, I know of her, and she's around, but I don't really. - Yeah, yeah. - So you were, you were put up for adoption, is that it? How did it work? - So basically like as a kid, 'cause my sister before, our biological parents, they came up in the 90s, or the world, I was born in the, I was born in 90. So like 80s, you know, crack up a mimic, all that stuff, like they came up in that, so I have like 13 brothers and sisters are so kind of like spread out by, like with the same mom. And so my sister was adopted. I did, like, taking in with the family that took us in before everything, and so I was a year after her, and they found out that she was pregnant with me, and they didn't let her leave the hospital with me, so, like, the other family kind of took in at. It's kind of so blurry. I remember there's, like, some nurse that took care of me until she moved to Vegas, and then I went with, like, that side of family. So, yeah. - And this side of the family isn't technically your family, it's another family? - Now, possibly. I haven't done my ancestry, my sister did hers, and everybody said, "Growing up, we have the same dad." We looked just to, like, like, she has green eyes, my older brother has green eyes, though. Like, there's different similarities, and I've met all my other siblings, and we all have, yeah. - Are you guys friends? - All the most of them. For the most part, yeah, like, my brother, like, we're pretty, like, super close. But, at the time, I wasn't living in Oklahoma when we found him and stuff, and so, when I got back out here, we met up and got super close and everything, and I've met all my siblings and stuff. - Oklahoma, why'd you go from LA to Oklahoma? - My family, so, it started, you know, Jim, like, Jim Motors, when they moved to Oklahoma, basically. My uncle and my aunt moved out there, and, like, my family just slowly moved out there, and so, when my grandmother passed away, my cousin and everything moved out there, and it was just me, my brother, and my brother, and she let me finish high school, and then we went to. - If I was up to Oklahoma? - You know, I love it. It's slow, a little slow, but it's very, like, nice and everything, but I came back home. They love it, it's, yeah, but it's very, yeah. I don't like the tornadoes. - No, that's scary. - Like, the black ice, like, I literally, like, literally almost lost my life. - Whole winter's hot summers, what's the client? I don't even know much about, yeah? - Pretty much, yeah. - It's like, I'm from Michigan, I'm from Michigan. I feel like Oklahoma's, like, kind of, and it gets muggy, but yeah. - Way in Oklahoma. - Yeah, Oklahoma City. - Oklahoma City. - Oklahoma City. And when I lived there, the thunder were basically brand new and stuff, for whatever. Like, yeah. - What a great time that must have been. - It was, it was, it was crazy, 'cause, like, out there, it's so chill, it's so different from that, like, so different. So, like, there was one night, like, I'm walking to go be my friend at a bar, and, like, I walk, and I drop my keys, and lo and behold, someone picks them up for me, I look, and it's Kevin Durant. It's him and one other guy. - He does. - That's how chill it. - You have good energy. - You have the crazy, I don't know. I'm telling you, I have no idea. - I want to hang out with you. - Well, you have good energy, I mean, you're a friendly, like, people are attracted to you. - Dude, I have no idea. - Like, yeah. - Kiddie was the first celebrity to ever acknowledge my existence as a rapper, Kevin Durant. - No way. - Yeah, I mean, I was so happy. I was just, like, back sign number one. - Oh, yeah. But come on. - I got, yeah. - Okay, okay. - Okay, athlete. - Okay. - I was the first. - Didn't hit me the same. - Yeah, I'm guessing you guys are like best friends. - We are. - 'Cause that felt like, I was personal. - Yeah, I had my first day ever made music. - No way. - But in my defense, he didn't even know who he was. - I didn't know who he was, so it didn't hit me the same way. - I looked up, and his resume was unbelievably impressive. - I guess. - And it was, there was an early handful, like, back at this time, I would be like, yeah, like, Kevin Durant tweeted about me, Benny Blanco hit me up. Like, he was in this, like, short list of people. - I guess so. - When I was backstage, like, at this, like, a small venue in San Diego, just like, mine and my business eaten, like, pizza lunchables, and my green room, and then my curse was like, no way. And I was like, what? And he was like, "KD." - What was yours? - Yeah, I'm still waiting for that one. - Who would be your favorite to acknowledge you? Like, you had one celebrity be like, you know what, I like that girl. Who would you want to say that publicly? - Cracker Barrel, see you. - Oh. - Jay-Z? - Oh, I mean, Jay-Z and Beyoncé as a unit, if they both do it together. - You can't have both, that's unfair. - You can't have it later, right? - Their entire family acknowledged me. - No. - And their mother and their sister. - No, not kind of that he was eating it. - That's one person to be serious. - And then you're gonna go next after that about acknowledgement. - What is that? - It's just like, an interview of them being like, you know what? - Jay-Z, I guess. - Okay. - Or Eminem. - Eminem. - Yeah, Detroit, Michigan. - That's cool. - If Eminem, one day I think Eminem's gonna be like, I fuck with that girl in like, some way. - Yeah, I hope so. - I'm gonna say, Em, shut your fucking mouth. (laughs) No, I love Eminem. - I was gonna say. - I love him, I love him. - He's so dope. - Who do you want to acknowledge you? - Oh, that's so hard, there's so many. - Can only pick one. - If I had to pick one, the person that's sticking out is Eric about you. - Oh, yeah. - Eric about you acknowledged me. - Oh. - This is the best, this is one of the best versions. She actually didn't acknowledge me. Although she might have. But the way I know about Eric about you is Dave Chappelle came up to me in person. I was like, man, I fuck with you. And you know who put me on to you? By do. - Oh yeah, I think I was there for that. I was shocked. - That's crazy. - That's crazy. - I was like, I can't even see this. - That's crazy. - It's crazy. - One of my favorite things in the world is that I text with Andre 3000. - Yeah. - Bro. - That's crazy. - He'll write me at like 630 in the morning and be like, hey, thinking about you. How's your day? - Aw. - Wow. - That's so cool. - That's so cool. - I like the way you move in roses last night. - Oh yeah. - It's gotta be the coolest thing in my phone. 'Cause he's like so unattainable. - Yeah. - This was a recent one. I like it. It says, thanks for coming through the show. Also, I think someone dropped a joint in case you guys were looking for it. - That's so nice of him. - That's what he said. And I said, I said, oh my God, it could have been me. I like to leave a trail. - Yeah. - And then he said, it smelled like some good good. And he said, I'm happy we can vibe and inspire. - I love that. - Isn't that so cool? - I love that, yeah. - He's so cool. Every time I'm with him, I'm like, I'm like, it's like an atom bomb is going up. I'm like barely conscious. And he lives up to every cool thing. Like even his backstage has like the best cool like fruits and like chocolate. Like it's like, and he like, it offers them in the coolest way. And he was like, sitting with like a robe like, he was so cool, everything's cool. - Yeah. - And he's a, he's a different being. - Yeah, he's so cool. - He's a different being for sure. - He's played flute for just me. Well, and a few friends. - But he always played the flute? - I think he like eased into it. - He was like, on the street with the flute for years, being like, photographed, everyone was like, he hasn't dropped an album in so long, but he's with that flute. - You have perfect hair. - Yeah. - For me? - Yeah, yours is like, can't be frazzled in this weather. - It's, it's bad right now. - What are you going? - Like, so it was longer and I cut it 'cause I damaged it and now I'm letting it grow back up. - How did you damage it? - It's so transitioning. You were working on this hair. Like the hair was like-- - It was so basically like, sometimes like, I would like want to straighten it and I straightened it too long for two more times. And my curls just were not doing what it did. - How long was it when you cut it? - When it straightened, it was like right here. Yeah, the curls were probably about like, right here. - Oh wow. - Yeah, so-- - One time I did a music video with E40. - I love that. And they wanted to like, put curlers in my hair. But to do it, they like basically curled half my hair and then straightened half my hair. It was like, the look was like, you know what I'm like? - I get you, yeah. - I get you, yeah. As we were going for-- - I love it. - And I was getting it straight and I said to the woman, I said, there's nothing that would make it not curl back. She said, no. - Yes, yes, there it is. - She did it. It didn't curl back for six months. - Yeah, it was crazy. - His hair was like this like, wait, it looked like you had like a woman's head. - Was it like a curl? - Yeah. - Like a no. - Sometimes it's just the, like depending on how curly your hair is, like the, the flat iron or the heat just damages the curls and it's just hard to-- - It looks like it, it looks like it might be happening now. - I think I have curly hair. It's on me up. - Your hair is great. - It's not curly. I'd like to have curly hair. - Everyone's like, whatever. - Which I really, really rather have full on curly hair. - No, your hair is so much more, you have no idea. - I want curly hair. I think it's easier for guys, like long curly hair is-- - You have curly hair. - I like that, I like my hair. - I'm telling you. - I just like the way curly hair looks. I mean, I can't say, I've never had-- - There's so much hard energy. - I know that it's a lot of work, but I think it looks great. - It's so much fun. - But we also, like when I was growing up as you were, like it was like, we've all straight and like I'm going to be like, - Exactly, straight. - Yep. How do they know if your hair is going to be straight or curly? - Yeah, that's a thing. - How do they say it? How do they decide? - I mean, I decide, no, it's crazy. - I didn't even know I had curly hair in tone, college. - Really? - Yeah, my hair, 'cause I cut it. - It was just like a short man's haircut, you know, like a white guy with a short haircut. - I got you. - Like, unless it throws-- - Frosted to like Zuckerberg, kind of like-- - His curl, more. - No, okay. - Like your gears had no curl. - My hair had no curl, I had a short man's hair cut. - Oh, right. - It was a short, right? - It wasn't a buzz cut, but it was just like, you know, a white male, short hair. - Gotcha. - Like, nothing remarkable. And then I let it grow a little bit, and then things started happening. Then I put my beard on, and then I, that changed everything, and then I didn't, the thing that really took it over this half for me, so I grew a beard, and I didn't even know or consider that the mustache was a part of the beard. So when I started growing the beard, I would always just shave my mustache. - What? - So for the first, like, few years-- - I have to do that. - I just had a beard. - I just had like a beard, no mustache. - And then-- - And then it grew in, and then it looked like a complete, yeah. - It's like you just shaved it. - It all came together at the right time for me. I remember like looking in the mirror, like right when my music was dropping, and I was like, oh, yes, like-- - It's like physically, yeah, physically. - Physically, you can pull off what you mentally are striving to do. - First, you just had to fix your voice. It was like, I don't know, I would, I would, I would, I don't love his voice. - No way. - That voice in the beginning of my career. - Oh, no. - It'll be like, I don't know how I do it, and I don't know how I do it. - He's true. - It's so cool. - Oh, and why did you go to voice lessons? - Like a little magnet, I think this is why it happened. Everything I was doing back then was so DIY and I had like, I don't even know what the machine was called, but it was like, there was the microphone in there, there was this little box, I don't know, it was a box that like, things went into. - What color was it? - Like metal or blue or something. - Yeah, blue and white? - Yeah. - Yeah, the M box. - Yeah, I don't think it was M box. But I think I had like some sort of limiter or something on it to where like, I had to, for it to come in loud enough, to simply loud enough, I had to like, wrap at a certain volume. - Got you. - Like, I never could even entertain like, wrapping like this, like it was not an actual question. - Oh, I didn't have an answer. - And I just wasn't aware enough, we're in a studio enough to even know that, that was different. So I was just, I had to scream and then I screamed, I felt cooler by, I can't even. - You don't know that? - Yes, so. - He's like, "I want a listen, I'm like, no, I need a listen." - It's good, let me play two seconds. - Please. Please. - I'm just gonna play part of "X Boy Friend." - Okay, fine, this is the first song I ever put out. - Yeah, okay. This is dope, 'cause I had no idea that you guys were like, - So I put the song out. - Yeah, I know. - I put the song out April 26th, 2013, like, I thought putting anything out, all my friends thought I was so crazy. I put the song out that day, it got so viral, that in the first day that he actually tweeted at me the very first day ever with something out. And that's had a really good video. Like, my ideas were good and they were funny. But my rap voice was just so bad. - "X Boy Friend." - Yeah, yeah. - I said, that's a little dicky, "X Boy Friend." On YouTube, on YouTube, it's not on Spotify, no. - He said, "Hegno." - I don't even own the rights to any of those beats. I would just download a beat on line. - You know, I love that, 'cause that's like, that's what a lot of people do these days. - I didn't know any producers was crazy. - This was like before. - Listen to how bad his voice is. (chanting) - The vibe today. - I like it. (chanting) - It's different. - Okay, what is it? (chanting) - What is it? - Why do I scream? - My favorite song is "X Boy." - I like it. - I like it. - I like this part. - Wait, my favorite song is "X Boy Friend." - My favorite song. - The shower's getting. - Never been up here before, because she's-- - Here, look. - Wow. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Hold on, let me get to the part. - Oh my God, I wanna-- - This is embarrassing. ♪ You know I'm gonna be the dryest guy ♪ ♪ But as I'm a good student ♪ - I know this. I know this. - Oh, look at that, dude. - I've heard this so high. - Sorry, man. - Yeah. - It wasn't really viral. - How did you change it so quickly to let me free? - Good, it wasn't that quick. There's a lot of shit in between. - No, I know, but it's not really that much time. It's like a year. 'Cause it was also, I was just evolving in a rapid rate. - It was like bone thugs a little bit of your influence, but I don't know. - I love bone thugs, and I think in that song, you could hear it, it's like that kind of-- - Yeah, what a compliment. - Only now do I feel like I evolved to a place as a rapper where I feel confidence, but-- - I get you. - None of that music's even out, so-- - I get that. - I get that. (laughs) - Oh, let me take a rest now and talk about Helix. - Yeah, I love Helix. - Mark. - Well, I like sleeping on them. - Yeah, why? - 'Cause they're comfortable. And they help you back. - That's what I was gonna say. 'Cause I actually have that pain. - I know, I know, you do. - Well, I should say had. - Yeah, you're on the road to recover. - I don't mind. - Because of Helix, because of a lot of things. - Hard work, but I think-- - Full anoscopy. - I think Helix has something to do with it. You don't have to say that. - Okay, well, we might-- - But it's okay. I've got a colonoscopy, but Helix can't fix this stuff. - Helix can't fix the cuts, but they can help you sleep better. - They can align my spine. Go to HelixSleep.com/FKS for 20% site wide. - That's HelixSleep.com/FKS. It's been a long 12 hours. - It's been a long time. You made it better. I was out there sweating. - How long were you guys out there? - Oh my God, it was starting to get better. - Literally, I was about to go-- - It's bad for you. - Yeah, crazy. - You really were the, if you weren't there, I was about to be like, we have to go out. - I was really thinking about it, yeah, it's crazy. - Have you guys done it before? - No. - Is this the first one? - On the street. - On the street. - Really? - Really? - That's why we don't even know what we're doing. We don't know. - You know what I'm saying? - Like, we were in-- - Yeah. - It's wind blowing at such a hair. - It was hot. - It was like cold. - It was like cold. - And I was like, what happened? - It's been hot this week, so I understand. - That's crazy. - The universe aligned. We saw it-- - It did. - It is crazy. - You saw them. - I did, 'cause at first I think I saw you first and I was like, and then I looked and I saw, you know I was like, wait, what? - Double-checked it. - Yeah. - We were blown away that not only could one man be so strange looking, but another one could be equal-- - Handsome looking. - You know what? - I told her, and I told Selena this also, that if you think he's handsome, you have to think I'm handsome. - I think you're handsome. - Because we're the same man. - I don't think you have to think that. - Yes, you do. - He's like, no, no, no, no. - I think they're both handsome, but I-- - We could both be handsome. We look like cousins. - Tuck, you look like the stretched out version of me. - I don't think cousins look similar. - There we go. - We have the very same vibe, like very-- - A little different, but like that, yeah, yeah. - Actious. - But he's a little sleazeier for me. - If we're saying sleazy, sleazeier, but you're like-- - Scummy. - There we go, we can, if we have to change the air, it-- - You guys really think I'm sleazeier? - No, no. - Like you guys have a scruffy vibe. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But a wholesome, but sweet. - Yeah. - I feel like it's so sweet. - Shaggy, yeah, but I'm scruffy around the edges. - Yeah, you know? - Scruffy. - Yeah, yeah. - Brought to you by scruffy around the edges. - But that's a vibe. Like girls go crazy for that. - For the scruff, yeah. - You have such an amazing energy. We walked by 35 people. We talked to so many people, and we couldn't land on one that we all liked. - Well, none of them wanted to come back with us either for being honest. - I'm so happy we could listen to your music, and I'm so happy like we're gonna be a part of this story and then like who knows what happens in the future. - You have a good future ahead. - Thank you. - And I'm already your number one. - If you need an extra piano player. - Yeah, she knows where the D's are as long as she has her piano to test with it. - I don't have to bring anything to see. - You don't have to upstage. - I'll just be a fan. I'll just be a fan. I'll be your number one listener. - There we go. - I like that. - I got you that's what we need. - That's a really good part of that. - You have any final words for the people, the international world wide that are tuned in? - I guess anything can happen literally. I was literally sitting there just waiting for like, frustrated waiting for another order like, day just took a turn, so. - What would you do, my one question is, what would you do if you had the Instacart order in your car? - We would be eating it right now. - And we would've gone with it and dropped it off. - Yeah, you would've dropped it off. - Yeah, I would've been upset because that would've been torn because like, if I did that, no more Instacart. - Yeah. - But at the same time, it's like, you know. - We would've literally driven it. - Yeah, we would've gone with you. - I would've just waited for you to do it. - I love that. - Wow. - I love that. - So cool. - But luckily she was in between orders. - Yeah. - And that's also so you never know when life is gonna take time for you. - Do you believe in fate? - I do. - What does fate mean though? Is it mean that we have no time? - Well, I don't know if it's, I guess it's like, I feel like there's like, something that's like pulling you. - Yeah. - 'Cause I was about to park in the back 'cause it was like, it's hot, I need shade. And a car came out, I was like, you know what? 'Cause if I get an order, I can just walk in. So I went up there and parked there. It's been some like crazy stuff. Yeah, I used to do lift. - Oh yeah. - And yeah, lift, I did, I met this one lady who also like, it ended up tying up her name's Angela Bibb Simmons. She used to work for like Motown. She was like the VP of like, the Grammy something. But I took her home and like, she gave me her information. And this was before like, I really started and everything and can't come to find out. She was like the head of, I can't remember what, but the head of something at LA Film. And so I got to go do a meeting with her at like the beginning and she kind of laid me out to like, do you have to grab it to put shoved up your butt? You need to go. - I don't know. - I'm excited for you, I can't wait to follow your future. - Aww, that's so awesome. - Where are you number one fans first? - Aww, I appreciate that. - And maybe we'll have both you guys on at some point. - She would love that. - Yeah. - We'll get her to follow up a follow up. - Backscrap. - Backscrap. - Backscrap. - I have a number. - Such an amazing answer. - Yeah. - She does. - She does. - I'm trying to put it in her phone. - Do I ask her about you guys? - When I saw you guys, like my first initial reaction was like, damn. I wish she was here. It was her instead of me because the way that she like, your show like is one of her biggest things in you, like she's production-wise. She's like, one day I'm gonna work with Blinney Blocket like all the time, like, so like, that's how it's like, damn. But I know that. - But I know that was. - That was, tellbacks we love her. And we will see you. - We love you, Becky. - We love it. - We love it. - We love it. - We love it. - We really do. - We appreciate it. - By the time this comes out, everybody else will love it, too. - Thank you so much for coming back now. - Thank you. - Thank you guys. This was. - The best day of my life. - I love it. - I love it. - It's good. - It's good. - It's good. - It's good. - Aww. - Aww. - Aww. - Aww. - Who is it? - I don't know. - Hello. (upbeat music)