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Babyface Ray drops a bombshell about his upcoming album, “The Kid That Did,” set to release on all platforms this Friday! 🚀 Join Sway as he delves into an exclusive interview with the Detroit sensation, exploring his dynamic evolution in the music industry over the past decade. Babyface Ray candidly discusses reinventing his brand, the significance of his name change, and his remarkable journey from the Detroit streets to achieving over 200 million streams annually.
Discover his inspirations, collaborations with heavyweights like Benny The Butcher, and his groundbreaking partnership with Rich Paul. Uncover the heartwarming story of his family and the powerful women in his life, including his ambitious manager, Barline.
Don't miss this authentic conversation filled with laughter, wisdom, and an inside look into the making of his latest project. Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive interviews, and stay connected with hip-hop’s biggest stars!
CHAPTERS:
01:15 - Babyface Ray Album Promotion
04:56 - Baroline Track Overview
08:24 - Babyface Ray’s Style & Collaborations
11:32 - Balancing Relationships & Music Career
13:18 - Influences: Genres Babyface Ray Enjoys
14:54 - Babyface Ray - Wavy Navy University Insights
17:25 - Effective Networking Strategies
18:37 - Warhead from Michigan Calls In
21:36 - Sway’s Message to Babyface Ray
25:31 - Caller from Texas
27:14 - Caller from Las Vegas
28:53 - Ray’s Artistic Evolution
30:15 - Wavy Navy Foundation Overview
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bar right there have the be took that
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from on the radar Freestyle right shout
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out to my family over there on on the
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radar we see what you doing pushing the
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platform pushing the C the culture
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forward a lot of people get discovered
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on the on the radar as well so I want to
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take the moment out to salute them and
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then to welcome our guest man it's a
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young man I've been watching for quite
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some time I keep my eye on Detroit right
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what up th I keep my eye on Detroit he
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may not realize the relationship I have
0:28
with Detroit he though he might not I
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mean he know where he at though right
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Shade 45 yeah you know who's the curator
0:37
of Shay 45 yeah you know his name
0:41
Marshall Ms I was there back in the day
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when he first came out and he first put
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out mixtapes how you did with Mia season
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and you you start coming out to the
0:52
world he was putting out mixtapes in the
0:54
same vein WatchON come on the show and
0:57
work his way up and then I start getting
0:59
really invested into Detroit as a as an
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environment Detroit as a scene and I
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realized there were a lot of
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similarities with Detroit and where I
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grew up Oakland California so baby face
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Ray man you got to be a real tough guy
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to walk through life with a name like
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baby face Ray I want to welcome you to
1:17
the show Give It Up to Baby Face Ray
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man thank you thank you apprciate
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appreciate that my grandma gave me that
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name too did she yeah when you was a
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baby no she just called me baby baby Ray
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you know what I'm saying baby Ray and
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then I put the they say I had a baby
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face all so mhm it stuck you like that
1:37
like Baby Face I don't like it but it
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just it just that's what worked for me
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you know I'm saying then people kind of
1:43
like just and then I'm trying to remove
1:45
it right now are you yeah I don't want
1:47
the baby face I want just call me face
1:49
or something just call you face call me
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face okay face Ray face or just face or
1:55
Ray or Ray or either way that's
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interesting cuz that's that that that to
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me that's indicative of what you've been
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able to do um through your career like
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it's been since 10 years now right and
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people don't last 10 years brother not
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in this business but in that 10 you got
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to find ways to reinvent yourself yes is
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that part of that yeah yeah yeah walking
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into a new phase of your life yeah
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Reinventing trying to stay something new
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you know what I'm saying that's part of
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that for sure how many streams you get a
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month from uh from your music right now
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I I can't I can't put a number on it I I
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like when they say that I like when they
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say that I don't be into I like that
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though not being so focused on the metri
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I don't be into none of that like
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somebody had to tell me for me to know I
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don't
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know this is a tell you I love it 200
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million streams yearly yeah so if you
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divide that time 12 you'll get your
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number but I want to say that this is
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kind of what I admire about you and and
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plus he got his new album the kid that
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did is dropping on all platforms this
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Friday yes sir Friday the 13th yeah
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Friday the 13th scary hours okay um you
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went from product of my environment to
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unfuckwitable M and now you know um
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you're the kid that did yeah what what's
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different from you now then from that
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first mixtape cuz you wasn't the kid you
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was a product of your environment yeah
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you know I'm glad you paying attention
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yeah for sure you know what I'm saying
3:30
No Cap the the product of my environment
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that meant something at that time like I
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was a product of my environment I wasn't
3:35
the kid that did but now it's like I am
3:37
the kid that did I done a lot of stuff
3:39
off rap that I'm proud of you know what
3:41
I'm saying and I'm just really taking it
3:43
all in like I'm blessed to be in the
3:45
position that I'm in so I feel like I'm
3:47
the kid that did you know what I'm
3:48
saying I'm the youngest of four brothers
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um uh I was in a group before I wasn't
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the favorite out the group so for me to
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be doing what I'm doing is like it's a
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blessing for real you deserve as an
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artist let me just remind you Ray um you
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deserve to sit with people who've been
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paying attention yeah you owe that as an
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artist if you put the work in you should
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sit with people who respect you and
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appreciate your work and who are
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informed of who you are artist shouldn't
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just go places just to be seen or just
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to be heard you you deserve for to to be
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here and for us to be familiar with your
4:24
work I appreciate that yeah man just
4:26
know that as an artist you deserve that
4:28
give it up for right bar line just
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walked in there she
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goes that's my family right there bab
4:35
I'm knowing her she and my um nephew car
4:38
Carrie Norris his father was my mentor
4:40
oh okay who who passed on a couple years
4:42
ago I I watched her come up in the game
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yes and I watch she supported us every
4:48
step of the way she would just show up
4:51
to broadcast we were doing like Dam
4:52
that's a bad line she here again you
4:54
know and she always supported us so
4:56
always make a note to support what she
4:58
supports and she made call about you she
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feel real special about you yeah that's
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my introduction to you as well yeah yeah
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and it also makes me I have to say like
5:07
a part of the appeal is I love when a
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man feels comfortable enough in his
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masculinity where he can't have a very
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ambitious woman because barline being
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your manager I don't see a lot of male
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artists that have female managers right
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can you speak about that relationship
5:27
and how you guys met and if you do see
5:29
you know some characteristics maybe
5:32
feminine characteristics that make
5:34
working with a woman very unique versus
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working with a male it was rough at
5:38
first with be because like y'all say she
5:40
was very ambitious and she was like on
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it you know what I'm saying like once I
5:44
seen that she believe like how I believe
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cuz that was my biggest thing like
5:48
coming into and making a transition into
5:50
the big you know big leagues I didn't
5:52
want to just have somebody to just be
5:54
like trying to do it just to do it cuz
5:56
they see I'm hot you know what I'm
5:57
saying so I kind of like had to F out
5:59
and see if she believed in what I
6:01
believed in and when she showed me that
6:03
you know what I'm saying it was on
6:04
popping and we grew together so it ain't
6:07
got nothing to do about no woman and
6:08
none of that like I hear what you say
6:09
who the best person she just was the
6:11
best fit for me I like that man that's
6:13
how I feel about the presidential
6:15
election right now yeah Y what what you
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feel he I well my I've gone on record
6:21
I'm I'm from Oakland I I like her
6:23
policies I'm voting for KLA Harris but
6:26
not because she's a woman not because
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she's a black woman not because she's
6:30
where I'm from I'm just looking at my
6:33
options and I feel more comfortable with
6:35
her leading this uh free world than I do
6:37
the other candidate right and she
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happens to be and I I do the research so
6:41
I'm not going by headlines and and
6:43
slogans and mantras and and people think
6:45
that because they got a check during the
6:47
pandemic that uh that man had you know
6:50
was strictly because of him um and so a
6:53
lot of reasons why I hear people not
6:55
voting for her um I don't align with why
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I am voting for her haven't done the
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research
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but it wasn't because she's a woman but
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I'm not mad at the idea of a woman being
7:07
president mad at that come on man mad at
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right I mean they raise you ain't mad at
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the idea when that woman is
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breastfeeding you or sending you off to
7:15
school or or taking you in when you
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don't know what decisions to make in
7:19
different crossroads right put that
7:21
woman on a higher platform and see what
7:23
kind of worldly decisions because we see
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what the men are doing yeah I kind of
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learned as growing up that women kind of
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care a little B little bit more you know
7:30
I'm saying even with my mom like my girl
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and my manager they care a little bit
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more okay I feel that's just me though
7:36
has that helped you to care more as well
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yeah yeah cuz they cuz them riding you
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is like it's telling you like it's
7:42
helping you like you know what I'm
7:43
saying constructive criticism that's why
7:44
sway got us
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here we got look
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got if I we a t-shirt that don't match
7:54
my hat man they go in on it's all kind
7:56
of [ __ ] I deal with you know what I mean
7:59
need that that be true though we got to
8:01
bring him F I got to cook for him he
8:03
show up at my house on the weekends
8:04
right after work this is just not that's
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fire no you know how to
8:09
cook he said do I you know how to cook
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wow why he just show up okay he show up
8:14
I can cook but he's after work hours
8:17
shouldn't really be allowed right well
8:19
you got to set some type of lemons then
8:21
and just be like you can't come over
8:24
listen right let's get back to the
8:25
project don't fall
8:28
of drifting off she running she running
8:31
game on you right come on man trying to
8:33
tell him you know the other thing I I
8:36
like about you is you have your own
8:39
style but you found a way to make your
8:42
style be compatible with different
8:45
spectrums of them seeing of Lyricist
8:47
whether it's Benny The Butcher which is
8:49
a [ __ ] [ __ ] Braun you know
8:53
that's Benny The Butcher or a little
8:55
yachty you know what I mean that two in
8:57
my opinion different kind of Ra
9:00
I want to know about your love of the
9:03
you know your love ofpp what did that
9:05
develop and how do you choose are you
9:07
choosing these folks like a to want to
9:10
rap next to being a butcher is saying I
9:11
want to show off my skill set absolutely
9:14
right talk about your love of rap and
9:17
why people like Benny The Butcher I'm a
9:19
I'm a super fan of music so I understand
9:22
the different styles of different genres
9:24
so when Benny Benny The Butcher might
9:27
approach me I know I got to bring my egg
9:29
in I'm not saying that I don't have to
9:31
bring with yachty but I know what I'm
9:34
signing up for when I'm dealing with Ben
9:35
I might sit with it a little bit longer
9:37
I might write this one down you know
9:39
what I'm saying so I understand what
9:41
you're saying and I I got a super love
9:42
for hip-hop period like that's when I
9:44
just seen you out there I say it's a
9:46
good day when I with sway cuz you a
9:47
legend you know what I'm saying
9:48
apprciate BR for me to be sitting up
9:50
here it's a it's a great moment you know
9:52
what I'm saying so I'm a super fan of
9:54
hip-hop I love it you love it if you've
9:56
been paying attention like I try to go
9:57
back and reach and do a lot of stuff
10:00
that I seen in my early years you know
10:01
what I'm saying they ask me about
10:03
hip-hop all the time even being on XL
10:05
magazine like I I cherish those moments
10:07
cuz I remember seeing how lit it was you
10:10
know what I'm saying I still want to go
10:11
to award shows and be accepted like back
10:13
in the day watching you know what I'm
10:15
saying so I appreciate everything oh man
10:17
I love that okay I like that you when
10:20
you said um you're proud of some of the
10:23
the things you've accomplished through
10:24
rap right you've accomplished a lot I
10:26
just gave up a stat of 200 million stre
10:31
he he could live off that by the way
10:33
right but he does so much more what are
10:35
like can you identify the top say three
10:38
things you most proud of you
10:40
accomplished um being able to help and
10:43
accelerate um different artists and help
10:46
them to find their way and being able to
10:49
support their family that's one I
10:51
recently just got my mom and dad at home
10:57
oh I ain't spoke about that or even
11:00
nobody even really know that if you
11:02
ain't close to me like but that's
11:03
something I hold dearly to me you let
11:05
them pick it out or you picked it out
11:06
from I'm like y'all find it
11:08
wowow and um did they go high with the
11:11
price or they did right it was cool it
11:13
was cool I went mad like I ain't
11:15
tripping but um that and what's another
11:17
thing and just being able to get paid
11:19
off what I love you know I'm saying I'm
11:22
not out here trying to do something and
11:24
risk my life just to live a certain way
11:26
I'm actually doing what I love like this
11:28
is what what I imagine myself doing so
11:31
that's my top three my man face you
11:33
mentioned your parents um you mentioned
11:36
your manager you mentioned your girl as
11:37
well as a young artist cuz you're you're
11:39
still young in this how do you we talk
11:42
about work life balance a lot here you
11:44
know it's hard when you're in a
11:46
relationship with somebody trying to if
11:48
they're not in the same business trying
11:49
to get them to understand you're not
11:51
home you're not around you're late in
11:53
the studios you got to travel here you
11:55
have to do this how were you able to
11:57
balance that or were you able still work
11:59
working on it um with your girl in
12:01
particular yeah yeah I'm balancing it
12:03
but before I even was known as a rapper
12:05
I still was in motion doing things I be
12:08
out like she know me from she don't know
12:10
me from you know what I'm saying she
12:11
know me from doing my thing kind of so
12:13
she not really tripping but she tripping
12:15
for real like it's just like regular
12:16
life I'm trying to balance it like
12:18
everybody else I still you know [ __ ] up
12:20
sometimes but it's regular human [ __ ]
12:23
yeah regular human [ __ ] yeah okay when
12:26
he spoke about regular human but it's
12:28
real for real being honest MH I ain't
12:31
mad at that s [ __ ] up we all not as much
12:35
right not as much not as much [ __ ] still
12:38
[ __ ] up I [ __ ] up right I [ __ ] up I you
12:40
know if I told you my fuckups based on
12:43
what your perception of me probably is
12:45
you probably grew up watching MTV Sway
12:47
and Tech world famous wake up show we we
12:50
we them
12:51
dudes right D Hall of Famer hold up
12:54
right I'm in your interview talking my
12:55
[ __ ] you know the first interview of
12:58
President I'm sorry
12:59
let me get this [ __ ] off right yeah pop
13:01
that [ __ ] yeah release My First Single
13:05
in 88 R that's a
13:07
long a long time okay you been getting
13:10
money since 88 okay yeah but I still be
13:11
[ __ ] up present tense
13:15
presentent part of
13:17
life I'm just like right Tracy go ahead
13:20
and that's where the reinvention comes
13:21
in right because the [ __ ] up happens you
13:24
reflect you take accountability and
13:26
they're like okay how can I make a shift
13:30
to go in a different direction when you
13:31
were mentioning reinvention in terms of
13:33
your music and also saying how you love
13:36
music in general thinking about how hip
13:38
hop now um has so many different artists
13:41
that's the opportunities that are
13:43
afforded through this genre but it also
13:45
makes it I'm sure a bit challenging to
13:47
see how to stand out so I'm wondering if
13:50
you love from music are there other
13:52
genres outside of hip-hop outside of rap
13:55
that you also are a fan of and maybe
13:58
kind of listen to get inspiration so
14:01
that your music can stand out amongst
14:03
your
14:04
peers um as of lately uh my bad uh afro
14:09
music afro be AF be yeah piano yeah yeah
14:13
what they've been doing is like I could
14:14
just see how I affect people in the club
14:16
and how they just feel good when they
14:18
come on that's fire so that's something
14:21
that I don't know if I want to tap into
14:23
it but I think that's fire though like
14:24
what they got going on I like that Ray
14:27
I'm trying not to call you baby face Ray
14:29
officially
14:31
just don't want to confuse it with
14:33
Scarface that's true too but that's it
14:35
that's why I'm saying I'm super fan like
14:37
that like I he Scarface then you know
14:39
what I'm saying I'm not trying to I know
14:41
I have to be original but yeah I'm just
14:43
yeah I called you right he called you
14:44
face I I like both we working with it by
14:47
the end of the conversation we going to
14:49
have it now right you big Scarface fan
14:51
that's good to know that says a lot
14:53
about your character all right I want to
14:55
get into this wavy Navy University y all
14:58
right let's play that that's the new
14:59
single right yeah let's play that and
15:02
then we going to come back and talk
15:05
with Ray R from Detroit face you know
15:10
him as baby face Ray right formally baby
15:12
face okay 888 742
15:15
3345 famous the M Mo
15:19
project formerly known as baby face Ray
15:23
you can still call him that but face or
15:24
Ray you could call him Ray I'm mad I
15:27
even said that I know right it's getting
15:29
confusing yeah what do you want us to
15:31
call you man we going to stick to baby
15:33
face
15:34
baby I'm back I'm back that
15:37
fast I'm back you got to stay openminded
15:40
bro yeah I'm back bro I'm back you got
15:42
to stay openminded um want to talk about
15:45
this project some more uh one of the
15:47
people I respect heavily in this
15:49
business goes by the name of Rich Paul
15:52
yeah and I got information that he's a
15:54
part of this project somehow or another
15:56
what is the truth behind that the very
15:59
much so the truth he actually the beat
16:00
that he on he sent me that personally
16:03
Rich Paul sent you the beat yeah via
16:05
text message like I think this will be
16:07
fire you know what I'm saying and he end
16:08
up letting me know he had connection to
16:11
a studio in California like if I'm ever
16:13
out there let him know so when I got out
16:15
there I'm I need the studio he set the
16:17
time up and um when I pulled up to the
16:19
studio he was in it you know what I'm
16:20
saying so we chopped it up for probably
16:22
like three hours and then we got into
16:24
the song but I seen him you know John
16:27
some down I'm like what you over there
16:28
working
16:29
I'm saying he read it off I'm like you
16:30
should say that at the begin of the song
16:32
so that's how it came about how did the
16:35
relationship come about through my
16:36
homeboy he do clothes you know what I'm
16:38
saying so they was like kicking it I
16:40
don't know how I came out the
16:41
conversation just FaceTime Like You Know
16:43
Rich Paul I'm like yeah he like he want
16:45
to highl at you so he gave my number and
16:47
we've been rapping there since Rich came
16:48
to Detroit did something for my
16:50
Foundation I done spoke on a panel with
16:52
him like cool cat I [ __ ] Rich for real
16:55
can you speak to that what you find
16:57
about I think
16:59
longevity has a lot to do with
17:01
relationships and it may not be the ones
17:03
you see up front that you not the DJ or
17:06
the whoever else it's other kind of
17:08
networking you have to do uh to sustain
17:10
these relationships that could benefit
17:12
you later in life a lot of folks burn
17:14
bridges yeah they jump off the bridge
17:16
for because for one thing you know might
17:19
be one thing that upset you that's true
17:21
and now you hate this dude or you know
17:22
you can't rock with them talk about how
17:24
you develop a relationship like with
17:26
somebody like Rich Paul it's it um you
17:29
just got to be yourself like my homeboy
17:32
I always say like you got to keep your
17:33
roller Deck full of good people because
17:35
uh even if in down times you might get a
17:38
chance to do something else to like
17:40
reinvent yourself you know what I'm
17:41
saying so it's always good to have good
17:43
people on your side you know what I'm
17:44
saying and keep the relationship healthy
17:46
you know what I'm saying so I know
17:48
exactly what you mean for what would you
17:50
say is like a good method you know say
17:52
if you're going to an industry event
17:54
right yeah is your kind I don't want to
17:57
say game plan but are you someone that's
18:00
comfortable when there's an individual
18:02
that you respect you go up to them you
18:04
introduce yourself do you wait for your
18:07
manager to make the introduction do you
18:08
wait for them to come to you kind of
18:10
like bring us into the room with you no
18:13
no none of that like if I know who you
18:16
is like if I seen you somewhere I'm G to
18:18
speak like sway I'm a big fan like I'm
18:20
that type of guy but still sometimes it
18:22
depends on the type of say like we in a
18:25
club and I see you like enjoying
18:27
yourself then I'm not going to bother
18:28
you but if we in a set where it's uh
18:30
respectable like and I can do that then
18:32
I'm going to do that for sure you know
18:33
what I'm saying introduce myself then
18:35
most of the times they might know who
18:36
you is so that's how that go nice great
18:38
quality to have like that HP I do all
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right we got Warhead on the line 888 742
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3345 let's go to Michigan Warhead
18:46
welcome to the show man what up what's
18:48
popping yo yo yo y'all know what it is
18:50
it's Warhead Lance of Michigan what up
18:53
Ray what it do
18:54
bro hey so you know we you know L we
18:57
kind of living yall shadow you know like
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but uh we we done watch the come up bro
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like you know uh I think a lot of us was
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sleeping on you a few you know what I'm
19:08
saying you really came out your bag bro
19:11
you came out your bag and showed up like
19:13
how long how long youve been around like
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where you where where where do you know
19:16
me initially from like where did you
19:18
first discover so so like so I used to
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do music like uh sway you don't even
19:23
notice you know I'm a super duper
19:25
citizen like Warhead about to blow like
19:27
I got songs with French Montana songs
19:30
with doboy Cash Out songs with juvenile
19:33
uh John Conor you know that was uh Dre
19:36
John Conor he helped with he helped with
19:38
the NWA soundtrack so I got a lot of
19:40
songs with a lot of famous people and we
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was actually the first people to link up
19:44
with French Montana from Michigan we was
19:46
on the cocaine City DVD and all that so
19:49
we been you know we've been in the
19:50
streets and we've been in the music but
19:52
like you know Doughboy Cash Out team e
19:54
side like that's what it was sway in
19:56
Michigan it in DBC you know and teami
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side like the west side of Detroit had
20:02
no boy cash out in my era you know not
20:05
you know obviously Street Lords and all
20:07
them came before is Street Lords and uh
20:09
obviously Blade but in my era getting
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money out here in these streets in
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Michigan and Lansing Detroit Sagen mosan
20:17
Pontiac Kazo Battle Creek ipsan in
20:21
Michigan you was either banging you
20:23
banging both of them is TE side team
20:27
sidey cash so is he accurate right here
20:30
no he very he's super I was in team is
20:32
that's the group I was talking about he
20:33
very oh yeah he's super accurate so I
20:36
know what you're talking about yeah he a
20:37
founding member of Team Eide so like was
20:40
so much talent there so all the members
20:43
of Team isi it was uh so baby face Ray
20:46
okay uh rest in peace soda you know Soda
20:49
rest in peace soda uh Tey Snoop uh uh
20:53
[ __ ] D nice uh Lil Perry yeah u l
20:57
Perry his brother L that's my
21:00
guye I swear vzo not I guess a honorary
21:04
member I would say Ray right kind of
21:06
kind
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of another another uh member GT as well
21:12
you know what I'm saying he was around M
21:13
as well I love his
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history L Graham L Graham is now like
21:19
the [ __ ] the
21:21
baby for sure yeah the black yeah he
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like the baby of Michigan you know
21:26
Louisiana they got they got baby you
21:29
got baby and we got L gram like if you
21:31
don't know now you know we damn sure do
21:38
know hey Ray let me tell you
21:41
this you need like so y'all don't know
21:44
Ray a Storyteller though like one of my
21:46
favorite songs ever like don't don't
21:48
miss this sway you need to go back and
21:50
listen to loyalty over money now story
21:54
bro this you got to go in the crate let
21:58
me
21:59
okay well let me ask let let me join the
22:01
conversation if you don't mind
22:04
Warhead Warhead going him as a public yo
22:08
Warhead said go
22:11
ahead no no but I like I like hearing
22:14
the history but I like the the girl like
22:16
spended or or um understand more the the
22:20
girl records too like people don't talk
22:22
about the soft records that you I say
22:25
soft because they have a different
22:27
appeal yeah for sure you're talking to
22:29
the women on those records do you not
22:31
like those type of Records when you make
22:33
them or or do you do you do you
22:35
understand the beauty in and what it
22:36
brings to your brand no no if I'm on
22:38
that like if I'm in that mood yeah spend
22:40
it was a little bit different because I
22:42
got led to that so okay if I'm in that
22:44
mood yeah I like them records I just got
22:46
to be feeling like that know I'm saying
22:48
yeah okay um Warhead I appreciate you
22:51
man when your music come out send it to
22:53
Kanani we'll Rock It Word all right hey
22:55
hey one thing I want to say though SW
22:57
Dam you said 20 already War you said
23:00
okay hey hey hey all this money you make
23:04
what I hey them last bars on that
23:06
loyalty over Money Man what I tell you
23:08
all this money you done made don't
23:10
switch up bro and you doing it bro you
23:12
keeping it funky bro much love
23:14
appreciate that my man hey and tell my
23:17
guy French Montana I said what's up you
23:20
when I see French Montana I'mma let him
23:21
know uh Warhead you said what up bro all
23:25
right Warhead you a citizen too by the
23:27
way he hung up oh I want to say
23:29
something too I ain't going lie go for
23:32
it brother when Doughboy Cash Out came
23:34
up here that was like a big moment too
23:36
in Detroit yeah hell yeah when we seen
23:38
them up there we like they gone like
23:40
this [ __ ] fire for real like no [ __ ] I
23:42
remember that that [ __ ] was turned man I
23:44
love these stories bro and and I I'll
23:47
tell you 100 and I understand that like
23:50
cuz a lot of younger artists are come
23:52
and say we watch that and when folks
23:55
come up here I want to give you that
23:57
experience no for sure you feel me like
23:59
what you grew up watching and it ain't
24:01
always like that in the environment
24:03
right now you can't always get that
24:04
loving that experience you want to have
24:07
right the new kids wouldn't understand
24:09
like they W they you know yeah so I'm
24:11
I'm trying to give them that experience
24:13
too and so when you tell me this stuff I
24:15
know I kind of talk through it but I'm
24:16
really kind of have the I'm kind of um I
24:19
have a hard time receiving accolades you
24:22
know I'm more about giving them and so
24:23
but I want to let you know I appreciate
24:25
it that's what we want people to look at
24:27
it be six smile in Detroit and see this
24:30
[ __ ] and go wow I'm going to be here one
24:33
day too so let me put this other [ __ ]
24:36
down yeah that's fighting against me
24:38
yeah I think I'm coming up but I'm
24:40
really digging the hole no cap and maybe
24:42
rap can help get me out of that hole
24:44
long enough where the rap money can make
24:46
other money and the other money and I'm
24:47
out of the hole or your fashion or your
24:49
Beats or whatever it is anything outside
24:51
of illegal stuff like legal whatever bro
24:55
you can do it I swear to God you can do
24:56
it come on man and it also informs as
24:59
the audience I mean think about it a lot
25:00
of folks who have never been to Detroit
25:02
don't have family they probably just
25:04
think about eight mile and to learn
25:06
about six mile from you it can just
25:09
widen someone's like knowledge yeah yeah
25:11
they don't know about all the miles and
25:13
all the streets that people like 8 Mile
25:15
is definitely a historic place because
25:17
of what Eminem did but it's different
25:19
hoods and different places out there
25:21
yeah I went to a couple of those Miles
25:23
when I was out there yeah I didn't go
25:25
back though
25:26
right I just passed through right but
25:29
I'll go I'll go back Sit Down chop it up
25:31
with folks um we got D from Texas on the
25:34
line you got a lot of fans calling up D
25:35
go ahead what you want to say to Ray hey
25:37
what's good man I just want to say man
25:39
coming all the way from Dallas Oak Texas
25:41
Man Ray I really [ __ ] with you bro I'm a
25:43
big fan bro I been rocking with you damn
25:45
near since like 2019 type [ __ ] like a
25:48
[ __ ] really been waiting on you to
25:49
really like get your worldwide shine
25:51
because like from Texas down here in the
25:53
South they not really super Hipp and big
25:55
to your to like Detroit culture and
25:57
style rap [ __ ] yeah like for me to just
25:59
see you getting as big as you is now
26:01
like even with you bees lucky like the
26:03
whole set and free Rio young G2 yeah he
26:05
on his way saying like yeah you know I'm
26:07
saying like I really [ __ ] with you right
26:09
like real [ __ ] you made it cool for
26:11
[ __ ] to just be cool like you ain't
26:12
playing too tough and super ganger like
26:15
you a chill laidback [ __ ] that just get
26:17
money you know what I'm saying be on
26:18
that player Vibe [ __ ] bro like a [ __ ]
26:20
[ __ ] with you for real appreciate that
26:21
bro appreciate that I hate I missed your
26:23
show when you came to the city cuz they
26:24
told me it was a more intimate setting
26:26
again cuz the city ain't that big on we
26:28
on our way back Bro stay tuned Friday we
26:31
on our way back listen backstage pass me
26:35
bro I'm on that what's your name bro my
26:39
name d bro write D name down bro
26:41
somebody you want D get us information
26:44
information bro okay and D remember
26:46
mention us when you mention when you
26:48
talk
26:50
from man I listen to y'all every day man
26:53
hey D man hey give give him a plus
26:56
one you got somebody even people hitting
26:59
me somebody named great shots one of our
27:01
citizens they listening now they said
27:02
Detroit is tuned in they want to let you
27:04
know five M # shout out man shout out
27:08
shout out my f boys man there it is man
27:10
hey D you a citizen we got youro all
27:13
right I'mma put him on H Lon like let me
27:14
take this one from Las Vegas Roger what
27:16
up what's up what up R thanks for waking
27:19
up early with us word he in Vegas uh
27:22
good morning good morning s morning man
27:24
hey what's up Ray what up bro what's
27:26
good yeah yeah yeah man I just had a
27:29
question man first off you know I'm a
27:31
I'm an AV here born listener shavo I
27:33
just want to talk about the Michigan
27:35
remix uh you killed that verse first of
27:37
all which one um did they approach you
27:39
or did you approach them about the remix
27:42
who on which one what song uh travo
27:45
Michigan oh I was banging that I was I
27:48
was playing that I was I was listening
27:49
to that shout out to Chavo so I was
27:52
playing it and he got win that I was
27:53
playing and he asked me to get on the
27:55
remix so that's what I did oh you just
27:57
playing online like on IG I think I just
28:00
tagged it like I was listening to that
28:01
or something and he was like Dam bro I
28:03
[ __ ] with your music get on there so
28:05
that's what that happened that's damn
28:07
[ __ ] you didn't have to go through
28:08
nothing that's all it take now but also
28:10
he didn't even have to play it like for
28:12
others to find out like that shows that
28:14
you have a Generous Heart no I'm just a
28:16
I'm just a regular guy bro I'm still a
28:18
fan of other music if it sound good it
28:20
sound good I'm not what you down there
28:22
if it sound good I still [ __ ] with it
28:24
like it don't make no difference to me
28:26
mhm you know what I'm saying like this D
28:28
man baby face Ray man get that man a
28:29
round of applause Roger thank you for
28:31
your call bro you're a super Citizen Way
28:33
in the morning Ray man thank you all I
28:36
listen y'all every morning on my way to
28:38
work thank you brother have a beautiful
28:40
day hey have a productive day okay bring
28:43
yourself a moment of Joy have a great
28:45
day my man ray man I'm glad we got a
28:47
chance to do this bro man I appreciate I
28:50
hope you enjoyed your time with us man I
28:52
feel like we know you a lot better
28:53
absolutely I love your Evolution as an
28:56
artist summmer mind
28:59
all these projects you put out I got a
29:00
chance to just go through in my own time
29:03
I never knew I would have you on the
29:04
show you know and and here we are M
29:07
right I hope this ain't my last time
29:09
right I'll be back that's all I needed
29:11
you to say let me do the weather or
29:12
something I ain't
29:14
tripping who did we just have uh who was
29:17
that
29:18
Polo sports
29:20
with I like sports too whatever y'all
29:23
need me to do I'll be back I'll do it
29:25
man I put on the work Ray don't say that
29:27
got co-host to show us you want to come
29:29
co-host man Zoom meeting whatever we got
29:31
to do to do what we got to do I'mma do
29:33
it Line This is the official invite for
29:36
R to come co-host when he come to town
29:38
again come four hours of work we'll just
29:41
give him you want to give to whole four
29:42
he got to work he got to work [ __ ] what
29:44
time I got to be here though okay so we
29:46
got to talk about all right so we have
29:48
an 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time start
29:51
8:00 a.m. yeah I know damn so it might
29:53
be two hours for him y ain't got nowhere
29:54
for me to sleep in here y'all can just
29:55
come man we got a couch in the office
29:58
know that couch been in that office a
29:59
long time right I don't know if you want
30:00
to
30:02
sleep that's house a lot of folks oh
30:05
quickly also speak your foundation my
30:07
found yeah I got a uh wavy Navy
30:09
Foundation we just do workshops help
30:11
kids out do whatever we can do to the
30:12
community to help out whenever we can so
30:15
that's something we just started this
30:16
year and we slowly building it up
30:19
absolutely once again Rich Paul came he
30:21
donated some shoes New Balances to all
30:23
the kids at the boys and girls club we
30:24
went up there took pictures spoke and
30:26
all of that what kind of um Workshop
30:28
yall do that's just like we did a
30:29
basketball Workshop okay one and then we
30:32
go and uh we we in the football now my
30:35
son and my nephew play so we helping out
30:37
with the football little leag football
30:39
now that's amazing I commend you for
30:40
that take care our youth man give it up
30:42
for baby face R the new project the kid
30:44
that did if you listen to this
30:46
conversation you know that how he did
30:49
it all right great music on there uh
30:53
he's a great individual U most
30:55
importantly terrific artist baby face r
30:58
y'all make sure y'all support it and uh
31:00
we go in the show we got it we going in
31:02
the show with wavy Navy University talk
31:05
to me about that title wavy Navy
31:07
University it's actually uh a sample
31:11
from can I say that no I don't
31:20
say Okay bar line you you are you
31:23
speaking your voice is heard the
31:25
audience need to see who's speaking
31:26
right your camera already we sampled the
31:31
composer that Britney originally sampled
31:33
for toxic cuz she didn't clear the toxic
31:36
sample so that's a remake of it okay
31:39
okay all right smart way to go about it
31:41
I like and we also got the original
31:44
composer of 007 to remake one of the
31:47
songs the golden ey game we had the
31:49
original comp listening to yeah that one
31:53
oh I don't know who the Bro oh that's
31:54
what those cords are in the background
31:57
yeah yeah yeah had the the pron I
31:59
couldn't figure out where I those CS
32:00
from you know what it is we did that
32:03
golden ey I was a golden eye champion in
32:05
southern mad at I'm glad you didn't you
32:09
play with our job the short guy yeah
32:11
okay play bro come on man my proximity
32:13
mind game was crazy you never saw where
32:15
I dropped them just exploded out of
32:17
nowhere you didn't even know how that
32:18
[ __ ] happened right don't believe a lot
32:21
of stuff I know all the ins and outs all
32:23
the boards the whole n okay you know
32:25
it's
32:26
formulaic I used to cold my video games
32:28
Ray this is your interview but I'm just
32:30
talking about what I used to clearly you
32:32
still get it in no no more no
32:36
I I saw my bank account dwindling right
32:39
there the way you ask
32:40
that Ray it's good to have you on the
32:42
show man give it up for baby face R
32:44
citizens he'll be back he'll be
32:47
co-hosting now he can add that radio
32:49
broadcaster to his resume wavy Navy
32:53
University this is the new single we'll
32:55
be back tomorrow God willing Ray if they
32:57
want to reach you on social how can they
32:59
reach you babf face Ray uh Twitter and
33:02
Instagram hit them up citizens let them
33:04
know what you think um and he's one of
33:06
us on that note we have nothing left to
33:09
say
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