The Mystery Guest Episode

Hi, how are you doing? Are you super busy? I am. Oh, you are? Okay. Are you really busy right now? Yeah, I'm sure I'm having a good time. Okay, okay, okay. Would you ever do an interview? No English. Oh. Are you interested in being interviewed at all? We're trying to interview someone. You want to get interviewed? We do a podcast, like an interview podcast. It's not a podcast. Old lady, old lady in the paint. No, you're the best. What if we paid you? What if we paid you? No, no, no, this man in this 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 them. I want 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, inherently, with the whole premise of this thing? No, I think we've got to say something to them. I think we're like, "Whoa, cool house, windwheels." Funky-dunky. Now, what if I told you, in about 20 small steps, you'd have a front-row peek at exactly what you're looking for? 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 there. You guys. Yeah, you should. It's cool. It's inspiring, the way it looks is inspiring. And then that looks like a parasite to me. Oh, my god, there's people. Oh, god. Oh, my god. I'm humiliated. I'm humiliated. I'm embarrassed. I'm just a guy who works for Benny. Benny Blanco. Pretend that we're doing like a 60-minute interview. And-- 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, big star. Did you feel like your life really changed after "Teenage Dream"? OK, so what do you want to-- That guy's cool. That guy-- 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 woman walking out of the building. I want to say, hey-- We want to get a good life story. We're trying to do-- we're doing interviews on people we think could be interesting, we think you could be interesting. Would you-- would you give me-- I would not do that. No, no, here's what I'm 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? You don't have to say that when you come in on the house thing. No. Let's just keep walking. Well, we can circle back. I think I want to find a guy with a unique voice, like a-- Why does it have to be a guy? Oh, you know, guy, like one of those guys Yeah, I work with those guys. That means, like, the whole company, you know? What? Guy doesn't have to mean man. When you say guy, I just say-- No, when you say guys. --it's sexist. Uh, we could find a girl. Shoot, we could find a girl, no problem. We might 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. You feel comfortable taking to your home. He's working. Hey. Are you in the middle of something? He's going-- Oh, you are? OK, I understand. OK, nice to meet you. No. He's on hold with the company. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Go, Mochi. Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Are you-- are you super busy? I am. Oh, you are? OK. I can't. I actually can't. You can't. She can't. I can't. I can't deal with this sort of rejection. I can't feel rejected like this. No, that was good. That was good. 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. Chuck, I want to interview that man in that SUV right there. Chuck, he's far. He was like-- his name was like Sal Saladino. I wouldn't mind-- If you're wondering, we just did it on the street. Where, where, where? Oh, I love this guy. Do you want to get interviewed? Chuck, I think there might be a machine gun. Hi. OK, it's not a podcast either. I was just trying to make it clear initially. OK. OK. All we're doing is meeting people and interviewing them, just saying hi and-- 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. They're just doing their own thing. Do you live in the area? Just moved here, actually. Oh, from where? From Connecticut. OK, what part? Ridgefield? Ridgefield. No, really? Yeah. Isn't that a crazy guess? Wait, how'd you know that? I have one friend, one of my best friends is from Ridgefield, Connecticut. He went to like Ridgefield High or what's the-- Yeah. Is that where you live? Yeah. That's crazy. Dude, that's wild. Like, how the fuck? Ridgefield High in the house. Thanks for meeting us. Yeah. We'll see you later, dude. See you later. I'm cool. Hi, man. Hi. How you doing down there? Hi. How 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 right now. Oh, no, you're the best. Hey, what if we paid you? What if we paid you? No, no, I got it. Oh. Oh. Hi, how are you? Good. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No. No, no, no. I have a music partner. We just love both of you guys. Oh, really? You're a music partner? I've literally listened to a song you did. That's fucking crazy. What are you doing right now? Supposed to be an Instagram. Sure. Perfect. Can we get a ride? Yeah. Can you drive us home, though? Do you want to be inter-- do you want to be interviewed? Are you going to be interviewed for it with us? Not fucking yet. OK. She's getting interviewed. OK. Well, explain to her-- OK, so here's what we do. It's like, it's essentially-- no, not yet. We're making a podcast. It's essentially a podcast. It's not a podcast, though. It's much, much cooler. Got you. And we have, like, all these cameras in a home. And we just hang out with people and just, like-- like, you don't see microphones. It's not like a typical podcast. I'm there, so it's safe. It's not just two men asking to take you home. Yeah, exactly. Put a camera in the car, and I'll walk. And I'll meet you there. OK. The cameras are rolling. We're rolling, David. Let's-- you know what? I can show you how to get there. Yeah, we really caught you off guard. Who thought we would all be in your car where they went? You guys have no idea. I'm not famous. It's a good cut off guard, but it was just, like, what is going on right now, if that makes sense? I'm so happy I'm not walking back. And welcome. Why, thank you. Welcome to-- Welcome to home. Oh, why, thank you. Yeah, come on in. This is really cool. Yo. You know Benny. That's crazy. Mochi, this is insane. I've never seen a-- I've never seen a human being leave leftovers like this. Why aren't you saying hi to Natasha? Hi. Hi. Well, first look at this. This is-- Oh, sorry. I would have did something. Because, you know, you don't leave anything. But what is there? That was my dinner. Yeah. What else do we have? Are you hungry? Do you want a snack? Oh, we do have snacks, not, like, some chips. Are you hungry? I'm good. OK. I've done two things-- never get in a car with strangers, and-- I know. But, like-- You know. But don't you feel like you kind of know me? A little bit, yeah. You trust me enough. Yeah. She doesn't know me. She doesn't know you. What's crazy is I trust you the most. Oh. I trust you the most. Do you trust me? You trust in the least. I do. The least? The least? No. OK. Who is-- It's one of the three. No, do not. Do not do that. You have to. You have to. You can't do that. Who do you trust most to least? You can't do that. It's OK. You can't do that. OK. Who do you trust the least? It's got to be you. No? You said you trust me? Between the two of you, that's hard, though. Oh, yeah. Between you and the two of us, who do 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-- You don't. We don't have to play this game. Oh, yeah. To trust to not be put in a weird situation, I really don't know. Yeah. But who she trusts the most-- But don't you think he looks kind of sleazy? What? Like, the way he dresses is, like, kind of sleazy. I think I look great. What do you think? I like the outfit. Yeah. This is a good-- 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 going to go pee, and if you have to go after, you can. Oh, you have to pee, too? I don't know. No, I'm good. I'm a good host, you guys. Do you have to pee? I'm good. OK. I'm good. So you never know. Well, I guess while we wait-- you have any hidden talents? Me and my best friend make music. Tell us about it. Artist name? Bex Grimes is her name. Yes. We met at LA Film in our math class, the only class we ever had. But we just linked. We heard each other's stuff, and we linked up, and just started making music. Do you make the music that she sings or raps on? Basically, yeah. So I produce, and then she writes, and she sings. But we co-produce everything together, all of a sudden. So we go back and forth, and we ping pong off of each other. But her heavy thing is songwriting, singing, artistry. Mine's just producing. So yeah. But we've been-- and just kind of working for the past three years, just trying to find her sound, find what fits her. And finally, we're in this spot right now that's just been-- we're finding it, if that makes sense. Wow, it's so crazy. We all just met. That's what I'm saying. I'm so happy you make music. I don't think you understand. Yeah. Like, yeah. That's amazing. So yeah. It is crazy. It is cool. Yeah, this is what people move to LA for. Yeah, this is like a quintessential LA. No, like, she makes music-- You say move to LA. I'm from LA. Oh, I thought you said you were from Oklahoma. No, I lived in Oklahoma for like four or five years from like 1924. But I'm born and raised confident. Got it. Since 1924? No. I'm kidding. Domino's s'mores lava cake. Go, go, go, Christian, go, go, go. I'm the one that's eating it. Oh, I was going to say, my favorite part about camping is the s'mores. But when I do go camping, I don't really like to sleep in the tent or really camp. I prefer to be in a car, to be covered. In a car? And I'll come out for the s'mores. I don't like camping. But honestly, now that these s'mores 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 stinky 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 have to do scoring, all that stuff. Wow. Yeah. But they have the recording side that's for music. Do you play the instruments? I play piano. Oh cool. Yeah. I play a little guitar and stuff but I'm not like. She plays piano too. No she doesn't. No she doesn't. No I can play the jolly old St. Nicholas. I know like C. They don't believe but I know the keys. I know C, D, E B flat. But she has to label the keys. I know how to read some music. That's how I started. I was like 13 and I labeled my keys and like. She's not 13 anymore. No it was just I only labeled the keys so I could like do it faster. Yeah. I get that. Her voice is so. Do you sing in the group? No. I have. I'm not going to lie like when it comes to like singing in front of people I kind of climb up a little bit. But your speaking voice is so good like if you did an ad with on Sprite right now with that like with your 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 L.A. film school? Like 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 good club choir and all that stuff. When I was about 13 though my dad bought me a little keyboard and I labeled the keys. You see. And I would listen to like songs like Unfaithful 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 a performing arts high school. Did you have to like apply to get into that or you just got in? No. Crazy thing at the time. Because this is like 2004. Yeah. And when you were in high school? Yeah. I 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 either going to have to go to Jordan High School or Compton 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've always loved music and then like life and then so school I started working and then I got to go to a school and then eventually like some years later I was like I got to 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 a surface and I just started tapping away. I already knew like theory and piano so that was 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. Let's go sit on the couch. Let's sit on the couch. We haven't even had a chance to open a drink yet. We're grilling you. You're good. How did you meet Bex? She was working at Benihana's at the time and she's like I'm quitting Benihana's so after I quit Benihana's 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'd she say? I told her just be ready. She said okay. Should we call her? Yeah. FaceTime her? 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 hi to you friend. Who should it go for? Hello? Hello? How are you? I'm good. How are you? We're hearing all about your. Yeah we've heard great things about you. Yeah. We love your 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. So basically we're filming this thing that's it's like 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. Oh my god. I told you. Okay hi. Sorry. How you doing? Don't be too shocked when you see me. That's my that's my wife Kristen. I'm not known yet but maybe one day. She's the coolest one friend. Yeah. Hi. Honestly we're 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. We're right here. Wait can I just say that I'm like completely obsessed with your show. Thank you. Dave. Like I'm completely obsessed. Thank you so much. That's so sweet. We found the right people. This is good. Yeah. It was fate. Good sign. This is good. Literally. Thank you. I mean that's very sweet of you. Of course. Alright well look this could be the beginning. We know that you guys live in the area so you know maybe it's the beginning of a new friendship. Yeah. I'm cool with that. Okay it was so great to meet you. Nice to meet you. Okay bye. Can you ask her what song she's playing? What song do you want us to play? What songs? Do you want to play Blessed first? Blessed yeah. Can I play Could You Be Mine? Okay. 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 order I play it. Like I totally understand all that. Just disclaimer. Yeah please. Yeah. We just made the demo last night and we're still figuring some stuff out. Oh wow. I appreciate that. Wow so fresh. I could never play a song. I never have confidence in a song. No. No I'm just me. My music. No, no, no. You should be. 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 that's like I love that. I think that's great. Okay. Okay well it was so great to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. World premiere. Remember the MTV thing? This is crazy. This song is called Blessed. This is crazy. Pfft. Wow. It's so much cooler than I thought. Yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Better clean the plate like mom I tie you ♪ ♪ Clean it up until it's done ♪ ♪ Don't let this body go away ♪ ♪ You are gonna be a nun ♪ ♪ You are gonna be a nun ♪ ♪ Baby slow it down take a second ♪ ♪ There's no need to rush ♪ ♪ I got ample time and this wine ♪ ♪ Pair it with the blunt ♪ ♪ Like whoop whoop feel me letting go ♪ ♪ Under your control whoop whoop ♪ ♪ Feel my fucking soul ♪ ♪ Every time you moan ♪ ♪ Please let me say praise please for you ♪ ♪ Bless my face whoop whoop ♪ ♪ Drunk in an Escalade ♪ ♪ Spiked honey lemonade ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Who's playing the horn? Uh, our friend Tatiana Tate. She's dope. So dope. I love that. Aww, thank you. ♪ Fuck all that dreaming shit I want you ♪ ♪ Fuck all that dreaming shit I want you ♪ ♪ You know exactly what I crave ♪ ♪ You know exactly what I crave ♪ ♪ Cause it was over when I saw you ♪ ♪ Cause it was over when I saw you ♪ ♪ I couldn't help but think ♪ It's so much, not that I, it's so much more elevated than I, it's like so highbrow. I thought we were gonna have to be so nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you never know. See, and I would've been mad if I sucked and you guys were nice. Yeah, well you wouldn't have known. Well, you never know, I mean, I. I know, but I would've been mad. So whatever sucks, especially the next one, please let me know. That's why I wanna play it. It's so well done, it sounds like. I'm obsessed, I'm the number one, I'm already like, I wanna listen to it. It's my favorite song. Thank you. And 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, like, 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 guys are. Right. If that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, who is doing the horns? Oh, no, the horn, it's our friend Tatiana Tate. She's really dope, yeah. It's so good. Yeah. She just got off tour with Macklemore. Oh, really? Yeah. She's from LA. Yeah. Yeah, she's really dope. I love that. I love how jazzy it feels. Yeah. Yeah. I never know what to do with my body when I listen to music. Me neither. Every rapper, when I go to the studio, like, they're like, they're standing and they're like doing, I can't do that. No? Yeah, no, I have to. How are you? Are you just? I just sit there like this and I like, I look down, I can't make eye contact. I don't look up to see like 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 almost hired an engineer just because I liked the way he nodded his head to the music. It made me feel cool. Yo. I love it. He's nodding. I love that. I really love that. Yeah. I want to hear another song. So this next one, "Displayers." This was last night. This was last night. There's some, like, because I respect you so much as a producer, there's 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 thing. Yeah. 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. Aw. I love the first song. Like, I just love it. Don't you, Chad? Aw. Yeah, it was great. Appreciate it. You guys aren't just being nice, right? No. It was so clear that it was so great right away. Yeah, right when the first note hit, I was like, "What?" And then when I found out that the sax wasn't there. That the sax wasn't a soul or a sample or something? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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 na-na-na-na's. Like, it's fresh. Now I'm like, I don't know if I want to play it. Oh, no. Just do it. Do it. Play it. Play it. I'm so intrigued. I already love it. Love it. Love it. I love it. Wow. I love it. Keep it moving slowly. Got a lot to say. You're my one and only. So why you acting like a fool? Bitch, get out the bed now. You know you got shit to do. Stop living with dread loud. Baby, got something to prove. Get out the bed. Go ahead and roll up and stand up. Get out the bed. Get out the bed. Motivation to get dressed. Grow a new gut. Make sure the dishes is done. So that your mama can rest. This ain't no fun. Not for anyone. Notice the patterns you set. You and I done. Know that you're doing it wrong. Everyone going through shit. Stop being lazy. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. Stuck in a daydream. This one I hate. Are you still? Like, stacks are gonna be all do that. Yeah. Like. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. I'ma go kick your ass out the door. Oh, cool. This is like through the. Yeah. It's not written. Yeah. Sunshine on a gloomy day night. Do you see what's happened? They haven't finished it yet. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I love that part. You didn't like that? There's a way to make that picture. Yeah. The first one was cool. Yeah. Yeah. So I might do that. But I still feel like there's something that make it insituate a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I might do that. And then next part is empty. And it kind of repeats. And then we add all that together in the last chorus. But yeah. I like it even more than the first one. Yeah. Really? I love it. I love it. Yeah. That's crazy. It's just such high quality. Yeah. And the production is so like, it's not like boring. Timeless. It's not like stupid. Like it's like. Fred, that's crazy. It's so, that's crazy. You know like when it's, you could come in here with just like bad trap hats and like. Yeah, I hate trap hats. Same look that everyone has. Like all this stuff sounds so like alive. Musical. Yeah. 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. That's great. That's crazy. Thank you. Respect it. Yeah. I would never even give like notes or advice cause you guys are more musically talented than I am. I'm done. I'm dead. You know. I like, I wanna, 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 thrall form. It's so good. 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. I know. It's like. You gotta go for it. So what's the game plan? Like the rollout. So right now our game plan was we're going to 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. Got it. 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. Yeah. You didn't realize you'd be rolling it out on a national. Yo, that's crazy. Can I talk to you about eBay live? I would love if you talked to me about eBay live. Because this is a live event happening right now and every day it's live. Yeah. Look, look, look. Yeah. Actually let them see. That's fun. eBay live. This is live auction type stuff where you can really in real time, you don't have to wait for a date. Yeah. That makes sense for eBay. This is like where eBay belongs. I agree. Live, auctioning, interacting, fitting. Yeah. And you're a part of a community when you do this. They got that. Yeah. They got that. They got that. - 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. - Yeah, you do. - You could get me a new one. - We can't afford everything. - But we will. - Be able to one day if we keep working hard. For real. 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 wanna know what the best day of your life is or was. I wanna know what the worst day of your life was. I wanna know both of the things. - Okay. Best day. Outside of today? - I was gonna say you can't say it today. Of your whole life. - Best day of my whole life. - Or 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. Kehlani is one of my like 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 wasn't there. 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 like I said I want to do. And I'm getting into these spots where it's like, things are like, you know. - Yeah, of course. - So it's like, it's something that's kind of like, I guess more so just like in here is like a confirmation of like, it doesn't matter what you came from, like go do what you gotta do. - Pivotal moments. - Yeah. - Okay, now the worst one. - Worst, oh man. You know, I guess I'll say just 'cause like the contrast, I guess, but I guess one of the worst days of my life was, and this is like long, long time ago. I was like a kid, just the feeling 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 like 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 wanna say. And these weren't my biological parents, but these were my parents. These are 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. - Yeah. - So do you know your real parents? - So 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. 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. - Contact her. - 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, well, I was born in the, I was born in '90. So like '80s, you know, crack epidemic, all that stuff. Like they came up in that. So I have like 13 brothers and sisters or so kind of like spread out by like with the same mom. And so my sister was adopted 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. 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 yeah. I haven't done my ancestry. My sister did hers and everybody said growing up we had the same dad. We looked just alike 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? Most of them uh for the most part yeah like my brother uh like we're pretty like super close but uh 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 but yeah. Oklahoma why'd you go from LA to Oklahoma? Um my family so it started you know GM like GM Motors when they moved to when they moved to like uh 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 uh 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. Thoughts on Oklahoma? You know I love it. It's slow a little slow um but it's very like nice and everything but I came back home they love it it's yeah but it's it's very yeah yeah I don't like the tornadoes like no that's scary like the black ice like I literally like literally almost lost my life like cold winters hot summers what's the client I don't even know much about yeah pretty much like Michigan I'm from Michigan yeah I feel like Oklahoma's like kind of well and muggy it gets muggy yeah yeah yeah Oklahoma's Oklahoma City. Oh that's fun. I've been there. Go Thunder. Yep. I've been there. And when I lived there the Thunder were basically brand new and stuff or whatever like yeah what a great time that must have been it was it was it was crazy because like out there it's so chill it's so different from LA like so different so like there was one night like I'm walking to go meet 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 that's how chill it is you have good energy I don't know I'm telling you I have no I want to hang out with you I don't know you have good energy I mean you're friendly like people are attracted to you they come to you I have no idea like Katie 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 is I number one oh yeah but come on I guess yeah okay okay okay athlete okay I was the first didn't hit me the same when you hit me I'm guessing you guys are like best friends we are I felt like yeah that was personal yeah I hit him up the first day he ever made music no way he did but but in my defense he didn't even know I didn't know who he was so it didn't hit me the same way I looked up and I his resume was unbelievably impressive it was cool 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 get when I was backstage like at this like small venue in San Diego just like minding my business eating my like pizza Lunchables in my green room and then Mike Hurts was like no way and I was like what and he was like KD what was yours I am 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 CEO oh Jay-Z oh I mean Jay-Z and Beyonce as a unit if they both did it together you can't have both that's unfair yeah you can't have it they can't have it they're not their entire family acknowledged me even their mother and their sister no not contacting you as a unit you have to be serious pick one person to acknowledge you and then you're going to 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 going to be like I fuck with that girl in like some way yeah I hope so I'm going to say Em shut your fucking yeah no I love Eminem I was going to say I love him yeah I love him he's so dope who do you want to acknowledge you oh that's so hard there's so many um can I pick one if I had to pick one the person that's sticking out is Erykah Badu oh yeah Erykah Badu 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 person who came up to me in person I was like man I fuck with you and you know who put me on to you Badu oh yeah I think I was there for that I was shocked I was like I can't believe she listens to you or likes or watches your show that'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 6 30 in the morning and be like hey thinking about you how's your day oh wow that's so cool I was literally just listening to I like the way you move and roses last night yeah it's got to be the coolest thing in my phone because he's like so unattainable yeah yeah this was a recent one I like it he 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 that's what he said and I said down to earth 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 he's so cool every time I'm with him I'm like I'm like it's like an atom bomb is going on 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 offers them in the coolest way and he was like sitting with like a robe like like he had it was so cool everything's cool yeah Andre'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 did he always play the flute I think he like eased into it he was like on the street with the flute for years being photographed everyone was like he hasn't dropped an album in so long but he's with that flute you have perfect hair yeah me yeah yours is like can't can't be frazzled in this weather it's it's bad right now well you don't like so it was longer and I cut it because I damaged it and now I'm letting it grow back out how'd you damage it so you're transitioning you're a work in progress hair like the hair is like it was so basically like sometimes like I would like want to straighten it and I straightened it too long for too many times and my curls just were not doing what it did so how long was it when you cut it um when it straightened it was like right here yeah the curls were probably about like right here yeah so one time I did a music video with E-40 I love that and they wanted to like put curlers in my hair and uh 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 like half curl yeah that's what we were going for I love it and when I was getting it straightened I said to the woman I said there's nothing that would make it not curl back she said no yes yes she did it it didn't curl back for six months yeah it was crazy his hair was like this like weight it looked like you had like a woman's hair was it uh like a perm yeah like a like a no it wasn't sometimes it's just the like depending on how curly your hair is like the the flattern or the heat just damages the curls and it's just hard to look like it looks like it might be happening now if I can have curly hair sign me up your hair is great it's not curly I'd like to have curly hair everyone wants to have whatever right would you really rather have full-on curly hair no it's 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 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 it so managing it is like but I think it looks good to manage is so much but we also like when I was growing up as you were like it was like we've all straightened like our hair would be like exactly straight yep how do they know if your hair is going to be straight or curly how do they decide no it's it's crazy I didn't even know I had curly hair until college I thought yeah my hair because what was your hair like before it was just like a short man's haircut like you know like a white guy with a short haircut like unless it grows like zuckerberg kind of like his crawled more no okay like like yours had no curl my hair had no curl I had a short man's haircut right it wasn't a buzz cut but it was just like you know 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 out and then I that changed everything and then I didn't the thing that really took it over the top for me was I grew a beard and I didn't even know or consider yeah 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 three years I would do that I just had a beard I just had like a beard no mustache and then and then it grew in and it like 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 like physically physically you can pull off what you mentally are striving to do first you just had to fix your voice it was like my rap voice in the beginning of my career yeah he's true 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 and there was a 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 you have mbox maybe so I don't think it was mbox but I think I had like some sort of limiter or something on it to where like right I had to for it to come in loud enough just simply loud enough I had to like rap at a certain volume like it like I never could even entertain like rapping like this like it was not an option like I didn't have it and I just wasn't aware enough or 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 but I can't even but you don't know it yeah it sucks he's like I got I want to listen I'm like I have no idea it's great let me play two seconds please please I'm just gonna play part of Ex-Boyfriend okay fine this is the first song I ever put out yeah okay this is dope because I had no idea you guys like so I put this song out yeah I know I put this song out April 26, 2013 like without putting anything out all my friends thought I was so crazy and I put this song out that day it got so viral that in the first day that he actually tweeted at me the very first day and I was like I don't know what to do I don't know what to do I don't know what to do and this had a really good video like my ideas were good and they were funny but my rap voice was just so bad ex-boyfriend's not on I said it's Lil Dicky ex-boyfriend on YouTube on YouTube oh it's not on Spotify no why he said heck no I don't even own the rights to any of those beats I would just download a beat online you know I love that because that's like that's what a lot of people do these days I didn't know any producers this is like this was like before listen to how bad his voice the vibes today though I like it it's different it's cool my favorite is when he starts singing I like this part wait my favorite is when he's singing oh man wish I was kids here we go wow okay hold on let me get to the part oh my god I want to this is embarrassing I know this I know this I've heard this somewhere yeah it went really viral how did you change it so quickly to let me freak dude 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 because it was also I was just evolving at a rapid rate it was like Bone Thugs a little bit of your influence but I think I love Bone Thugs and I think and that's why I love Bone Thugs - Yeah. - You can hear it. It's like that kind of-- - Yeah. - Yeah, I love that. - What a compliment. - Only now do I feel like I have evolved to a place of, 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. Oh, let me take a rest now and talk about Helix. - Yeah, I love Helix. - Why? - Well, I like sleeping on them. - Yeah, why? - 'Cause they're comfortable. - Yeah. - And they help your back. - That's what I was gonna say. - Yeah. - 'Cause I actually have back pain. - I know, I know, you do. - Well, I should say had. - Yeah, you're on the road to recovery. - I'm all right. - Not just because of Helix, because of a lot of things. - Hard work, but I think-- - Colonoscopy. - I think Helix has something to do with it. You don't have to say that. - Okay, well, we might-- - That's okay. I got a colonoscopy, but Helix can't fix those cuts. - 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, no, you made it better. - Aw. - I was out there sweating. I was like, you guys-- - How long were you guys out there? - Too long. - Oh my God, it was starting to get-- - We were literally, I was about to-- - Thank God for you. - That's crazy. - You really were the, if you weren't there, I was about to be like, we have to go badly. - I was almost gonna give up, yeah. - That's crazy. Have you guys done it before? - No. - No. - This is the first one? - On the street. - On the street. - Really? - Like, we never, like, yeah. That's why I was like, we don't even know what we're doing. We don't know, like, who knows? - Like, we were in cliffs. - That's crazy. - The wind was blowing, it's such a, the hair. - It was hot, it was like, and I was like, what happened about the-- - It's been hot this week, so I understand, that's crazy. - The universe aligned. We saw you. - It did. - It is crazy. - You saw them. - I did. - Yeah. - 'Cause like, at first, I think I saw you first, and I was like, and then I looked and I saw you, and I was like, wait, what? - Double jeopardy. - Like, yeah. - You 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 Celine, and 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. - I think you're both handsome. - You guys are. - We could both be handsome. We look like cousins. - Tuck, you look like the stretched out version of me. - You look like cousins. - I don't know if you guys look similar. - There we go. - But you have this very same vibe. - Yeah. - Like, very, well, a little different, - Incredibly infectious. - But-- - Yeah. - But like, that, yeah, infectious. - But he's a little sleazier. - If we're saying sleazy, sleazier, but you're like-- - Scummy. - There we go, we can, if we have to change, yeah. - You guys really think I'm sleazier? - No. - Like, you guys have a scruffy vibe. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But wholesome, but sweet. I feel like we're really sweet. - Wholesome is like, shaggy, from Scooby-Doo. - Yeah, but like, scruffy around the edges. - Yeah, you know? - Scooby-Doo. - Yeah. - Scruffy. - Yeah, brought to you by scruffy around the edges. - But that's a vibe. - Girls go crazy for that. - For the scruff? - Yeah. - You have such an amazing energy. - Aw, thank you. - 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, if we're 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. - Aw, thank you. - You've got a good, you have a good future ahead. - Thank you. - You're already your number one listener. - And if you need an extra piano player, she knows where the keys are, as long as she has her piano that says what it is. - No, I can just be a fan. I don't have to bring anything to the table. - 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. - On repeat. - I got your back. - That's what we need. - I'm really good for that. - Do you have any final words for the people international, worldwide, 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? - Would we be eating it right now? - And we-- - We would have gone with you to drop it off. - Yeah, you would have dropped it off. - Yeah, I would have been upset, 'cause that would have been torn, because like, if I did that, no more Instacart at all. But at the same time, it's like, you know. - We would have literally driven with you. - Yeah, we would have gone with you. We would have just waited for you to do it. - I love that. - Wow. - I love that. - So cool. - But luckily, she was in between orders. - Yeah, exactly. - And that just goes to show, you never know when life is gonna take a turn of heart. - Do you believe in fate? - I do. - What does fate mean, though? Does it mean that we have no-- - 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 by the 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 Lyft. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, Lyft, 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. This was before like, I really started in everything and 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, - You got a rabbit's foot shoved up your butt. You need to go. - I don't know. - You need to get-- - I'm excited for you. - I don't know. - I'm excited, I can't wait to follow your future. - Aw, that's so, that's so awesome. - We're your number one fans first. - Aw, I appreciate that. - And maybe we'll have both you guys on at some point. - She would love that, she would love that. - Yeah, we gotta get her on. - Follow up, a follow up. - Bex Grimes. - Bex Grimes, yeah. - I have her number. - Such a good name. - You do, she has her number. - She does, she does. - Do I put her in my phone as Bex Grimes? - You should, you should put her in your phone. - Do I have to ask for her portion? - When I saw you guys, like my first initial reaction was like, damn. I wish she was here or it was her instead of me because the way that she like, your show like, is one of her biggest things and you like, she's production-wise, she's like, one day I'm gonna work with Blini Blanca like, all the time. Like, so like, I just was like, damn. But yeah, but I know that was, that was. - Tell Bex we love her and we will see her. - We love you, Bex. - We love you guys, we love the songs. We really do. - We appreciate it. - And I'm sure by the time this comes out, everybody else will love them too. - Thank you so much for coming and hanging out. - Thank you guys, this was, best day of my life. - I love, I love the, yeah. - Group hug? - Of course. - Group hug. - Aw. - Oh my God. - Who is that? - I don't know. - Hello. - Hello.