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Jake&Papa Talk New Project 'Tattoos&Blues II' and Avoiding a Near Death Experience | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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Jake and Papa
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from L.A I've known him for a long time
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shout out to Nikki G Nikki
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first person to really bring uh bring
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them into our atmosphere yes yes you
0:16
know and we discovered how talented they
0:18
are as not just singers but also MC's
0:21
right yeah and um your your journey has
0:24
been really interesting I want to
0:25
welcome Jake and papa back to the show
0:26
y'all
0:27
blessings thank y'all for having us man
0:30
this is child careers yes
0:32
[Applause]
0:37
20 months apart that's our mom talking
0:39
on his own I was just playing what's she
0:41
saying right there man she was just
0:42
giving out that game y'all gotta listen
0:44
to tattoos and blues too you know what
0:45
I'm saying yeah she was pretty much
0:46
she's talking throughout the whole
0:47
project yeah I listened to it actually
0:49
but what was she you know on that one
0:51
specifically she was basically saying
0:53
that if we were to live in a world
0:55
without money we'd all be able to
0:56
survive because everybody has a trade
0:58
that they'd be able to offer like
0:59
somebody has everybody has something to
1:01
offer the world and most people don't
1:02
know it probably just not really taking
1:04
full advantage of our potentiality
1:06
because we're just living based on money
1:07
but she was like we can all we all have
1:09
something to offer the world what what
1:11
is it you feel you discovered you have
1:13
to offer the world a light a light of uh
1:15
when I experienced my Awakening it's a
1:17
light that I feel like I can offer
1:19
through multiple platforms and the light
1:21
is encouraging people to remember who
1:24
they are whether that's through music
1:26
whether that's through combat whether
1:28
that's through meditation and healing
1:29
people go out in the world and they are
1:32
distracted all day every day with TV
1:34
with smog in the air with nasty foods
1:36
with dirty water blah blah before you
1:38
know it you're drifting further and
1:39
further away from the purpose that you
1:40
came here to fulfill as a spirit and one
1:43
day you're slapped awake and you're like
1:45
oh crap I don't like this job I don't
1:47
like this food I didn't I never wanted
1:49
to work at this job for 50 years my
1:51
grandma worked at a job for
1:54
and so what is your purpose that your
1:57
spirit came down here to fulfill as a
1:59
human I feel like that's what I'm here
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for because I show up as myself
2:03
wholeheartedly and I don't give a [ __ ]
2:04
and so when I don't give a [ __ ] it
2:06
encourages other people to not give a
2:07
[ __ ] and when you don't give a [ __ ] you
2:09
slowly but surely go inward further
2:10
further further and then you start to
2:11
remember [ __ ] you know
2:13
I like that man I like that get that man
2:16
around the floor did August Alsina have
2:18
anything to do with designing here
2:21
this came all the way from look my own
2:24
girl
2:25
um my homegirl Vanessa brought this to
2:26
me all the way from Ecuador so unless he
2:28
was in Ecuador helping out he should be
2:31
I don't know if he's I don't know if
2:32
he's that cultured
2:38
[Laughter]
2:40
authentic so when did what was your
2:42
Catalyst for really diving deeper into
2:44
your spiritual journey for the both of
2:45
y'all
2:46
I had a really uh
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I had a I had a traumatic experience a
2:51
near-death experience in my near-death
2:53
experience a lot of people talk about
2:54
life flashes before your eyes like that
2:56
whole thing when my life flashed before
2:58
my eyes it wasn't the life that I had
3:00
lived it was the life that I wasn't
3:02
going to be able to experience the life
3:04
and the future that I hadn't experienced
3:06
yet and so it I basically got a gun put
3:08
on me and like it was this dude was
3:10
looking for a homie he was like where
3:11
your homie at it you came about he's
3:13
pointing the gun in my face with his
3:14
hand on the trigger and my sister's
3:16
right there I'm like man this is it and
3:17
then the annoying thing was he was too
3:20
far for me to do anything but too close
3:21
to where I knew he wouldn't miss so I
3:24
was like oh man this is it all right
3:25
cool but when it didn't happen and I
3:27
said I was like okay this is what I'm
3:29
about to live my life the way I want to
3:30
because that could have been it right
3:31
there right and then from then on you
3:33
know I just what did you see you said
3:35
you saw your future with the life you
3:37
could live what did it look like I saw a
3:39
daughter I remember seeing a daughter I
3:40
remember seeing us on stage I just
3:42
remember seeing us on stage with our
3:43
hands up like this and it just being
3:45
lights thousands of people I was like
3:47
dang I'm never gonna get experience that
3:49
like and I remember seeing my daughters
3:51
were the two main things that I saw in a
3:54
house
3:55
and so now I'm I'm going for that I
3:58
gotta experience that I ain't mad at
3:59
that Jake and papa are hear tattoos and
4:01
blues too it's the name of the uh the
4:04
new project yes what happened did the
4:06
guy just leave right man
4:09
we had to get the homie out you know and
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uh as you know what every time we're in
4:14
a tricky situation I'm always the one
4:16
driving every time so I had to uh get my
4:19
homie out by it was some tricky [ __ ]
4:20
like he had to get out the window and
4:22
then climb over somebody else's fence
4:23
run through their yard climb over
4:24
another fence while the people were
4:26
still searching in the house and he got
4:28
in the car we skirted off just in time
4:29
like it was surreal some movie [ __ ] like
4:31
they were looking for him all over the
4:33
house yeah and they saw us come in with
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him so they came when I just held my
4:36
grind I was like bro I don't know who
4:37
you talking about like I came here I'm
4:39
just here with my sister please leave me
4:40
alone blah blah I just held my ground he
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left he ends up leave me alone
4:59
the project is incredible I love the
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project you guys make um
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I don't know romantic music you make
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very romantic music to me you know it's
5:10
not it's not Chris I'm not cringing On
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lyrics you know I mean it's to really
5:16
Swoon the lover the person that you're
5:18
interested in whatever it is one of my
5:20
favorite songs is best part of you
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um which uh kind of the way I
5:27
interpreted it is is amplifying the best
5:30
part of a woman being what her spirit is
5:33
what her soul is that's much what we see
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on the surface amen right yes
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um is that is are y'all single What's
5:41
your deal man good that's good you're
5:44
good that was a great transition but um
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I'm not single man everybody who follows
5:49
us know I've been in a relationship for
5:50
a while got a four-year-old daughter
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okay and uh yeah got a great family yeah
5:54
did she what was it about her though was
5:57
it that it was that it was that for sure
5:59
you know it's it's certain things that
6:01
you just can't explain you know I I
6:03
always told her when she first hugged me
6:04
it was something that so electric that I
6:07
never felt before and this wasn't me
6:08
just kicking no game like I literally
6:10
felt it from the bottom of my feet to
6:12
the top of my head and I was I didn't
6:13
want to let go and then it just even
6:15
still now we've been damn near nine
6:18
years in wow
6:20
she got it on her finger oh yeah we
6:23
engaged we're not we're not married yet
6:25
yeah yeah so you know best part is just
6:28
simply saying it ain't on you it's in
6:29
you mm-hmm dude does a person have to be
6:33
spiritually evenly yoked in order for
6:36
you to even engage her is that for Jake
6:40
that's what Jay killed you Jake got in
6:41
the man
6:42
if I use words like spiritual you know
6:46
introspective
6:48
you know that's all for Jake
6:51
that was beautiful that was Jenny but
6:55
right I don't know I don't think it
6:56
necessary
6:58
I think the potentiality has to be
7:00
evenly yoked I don't know if our stories
7:02
are going to line up to where we were
7:03
able to experience the same progression
7:05
at the same time but if we at least have
7:08
the same potentiality in the same end
7:09
goal that would be that would be super
7:11
great like that would be really like
7:13
convenient because the last situation I
7:16
was in it ended up imploding for really
7:19
weird reasons but really what it came
7:20
down to is that our trajectory just
7:22
wasn't the same how did you break up
7:25
it was uh it was a regular day it was
7:29
kind of sociopathic bro like it was a
7:32
regular day and she just realized that
7:33
she couldn't take any more of the pace
7:36
that we were on and she just needed to
7:39
go off and she felt like she needed to
7:40
do work on herself and that she wouldn't
7:42
be able to do it while in the
7:43
relationship
7:44
and so I respected it and and so we we
7:47
separate you know you remember what you
7:49
ate for dinner that night uh man that's
7:53
a good question because usually when
7:54
these moments happen you don't remember
7:56
that kind of [ __ ] right or you do or you
7:58
do I remember we had some type of
8:01
Mexican food it was some good ass
8:02
Mexican food we watched a good ass movie
8:04
great psych Thriller on Netflix it was a
8:08
great day I think that's the weirdest
8:11
thing about all of it is The Human
8:13
Experience is really weird it was a
8:14
regular day so you didn't see that one
8:16
coming though hell no I would shoot so
8:19
she said uh she said after the movie she
8:22
said do you want a cocktail I was like
8:25
uh I was like yeah I was like oh wait no
8:27
I can't we got the show on Thursday I I
8:29
can't drink I told myself I'm not gonna
8:30
drink before the show and I think that
8:32
was the last straw
8:35
I'll make you one I'll make she was like
8:38
she was like no I don't want I was like
8:39
okay you want a back rub like I got you
8:41
foot rub all right well she was it was
8:43
over she was like how do you feel I was
8:45
like I feel great life is beautiful I
8:47
was like how do you feel and she
8:49
proceeded to leave me
8:55
so
8:56
it's a good time to play this ballot
8:58
called Promise
9:03
it's not a lot of beautiful ballads out
9:06
left this is the beautiful man it
9:08
promises about what so promise I wrote
9:10
this I started writing this song in 2019
9:12
when my girl was going through
9:13
postpartum okay and um I just noticed
9:15
something different and for the first
9:17
time I just felt helpless like there's
9:18
nothing I can do to help I knew it was
9:20
something wrong but she never said it
9:22
and I was just paying attention I was
9:23
just like you know what the best thing I
9:25
could do right now is just stay down for
9:26
it do whatever and write a song about it
9:28
yeah you know so a real promise Jake and
9:31
papa the brothers are here the new EP is
9:33
called tattoos and blues two citizens
9:36
please please it's available now support
9:39
them they're independent now they got a
9:41
new clothing line yes Rose worldwide
9:43
Rose stands for real one still exists if
9:45
you stand on respect Integrity 11
9:46
loyalty this is a brand for you love it
9:48
damn I like that you got a whole Mantra
9:50
to it huh yeah that too um do you guys
9:53
feel any pressure as r b artists right
9:55
now with this whole Army be this dead
9:57
narrative that's happened or do you not
9:59
even entertain it no I don't it's
10:01
actually exhausting in here because it's
10:03
a lot of great r b Kenyon was just up
10:05
here yeah that's the Bro great r b you
10:07
know what I'm saying Alex Eisley is you
10:09
know out there doing her thing you go to
10:10
r b now play this on Apple music you'll
10:13
probably find 300 songs full of new r b
10:15
songs you know Jasmine Sullivan just did
10:18
the um national anthem at the football
10:20
game like it's bad
10:25
you know what I'm saying that's a big
10:27
stage so that's gigantic it was gigantic
10:30
for her yeah y'all music I was
10:32
mentioning is very romantic it's also
10:34
very clean like um except for slippery
10:37
and wet yeah
10:39
Slippery When Wet yeah yeah did was that
10:42
natural or you just felt like you needed
10:44
to be freaks I know that's definitely
10:46
natural I mean I know for sure for
10:47
myself it's a it's an even balance to
10:49
all of that tattoos and boots too that's
10:51
like that's just me that's just
10:52
conversations I have with my woman and
10:54
that's why we work so well because we
10:55
can have both of those conversations and
10:57
I don't feel weird for talking to her
11:00
like slippery room wet or talking to her
11:01
like promise you know and then it felt
11:03
weird relative one day our grandma said
11:05
our mom was like yo did you hear the
11:07
boy's new song we was at dinner and our
11:09
mom was like yo did you hear the boys
11:10
song and our grandma was like nope I
11:11
can't listen to none of that music and
11:13
that made us that was like back in the
11:14
day that just made me feel like I was
11:16
like immature like I was an immature
11:18
artist like why can't I make something
11:19
that everybody can listen to so we just
11:22
needed to you know evolve evolve yeah
11:25
yeah yeah
11:27
um Mike Muse what what the with the
11:29
evolution I find it interesting we're
11:31
having a conversation after coming up
11:33
conversation we were talking earlier
11:34
about the discourse and where the state
11:35
of hip-hop is right now in state of r b
11:37
I would say the same thing in the way
11:39
that they describe words and its various
11:42
sexual explicit do you though when you
11:45
guys in your writing session do you ever
11:46
feel toiled right like to have to say
11:50
what it's what's trendy right now which
11:52
is very explicit I think sexual lyrics
11:54
versus what you guys have been
11:56
describing do you feel that pressure I'm
11:58
gonna say why I'm a fan of our music you
12:00
know what I'm saying and why I'm a fan
12:01
of our music is because I don't do none
12:03
of that I'm just being myself you know
12:05
what I'm saying if you rock with it you
12:07
Rockwood if you don't that's cool too
12:08
I'm just being me and sometimes I want
12:10
to be romantic sometimes I just want to
12:12
be direct yeah it's all relative you
12:14
know
12:15
um so yeah that's just I if I'm being if
12:18
I know that we're putting out something
12:19
that I put my authentic self into I'm
12:22
cool with it I'm wondering because
12:24
you're in a relationship you're engaged
12:27
feel like every song has to be about
12:29
your woman like what does it feel guilty
12:32
if you were to use a muse from your past
12:34
to write a song it's a good question
12:37
um I have a lot of stories from before
12:39
her and um usually those are the more
12:43
um I hate this word but the toxic you
12:46
know type so when I had we had a project
12:48
called October and the song Last Song
12:50
you know that was about something from
12:51
the past you know
12:53
um so sometimes I feel a little weird
12:55
because I'm a very like I'm I'm loyal
12:57
you know what I'm saying if I'm in this
12:58
I'm in this but also sometimes if I hear
13:00
a beat that brings a certain story out
13:02
of me that doesn't relate to right now I
13:04
have to I have to entertain that you
13:06
know I have to get it out so what would
13:07
be your advice then for artists for
13:10
women who want to be with artists but
13:12
then feel like dang why is he speaking
13:14
about all these other women and not me
13:17
oh man I think it's it's 50 50 because
13:20
the guy gotta do his job too I'm very
13:22
communicative I'm very open you know
13:24
what I'm saying like I don't leave much
13:25
room for mystery if she got a question
13:27
she's already gonna have to answer
13:28
because I already gave it to her you
13:30
know but she's also very solid in who
13:32
she is you know she's a soldier you know
13:34
so she doesn't even think like that and
13:36
if she do she don't tell me you know all
13:38
right hey let's Jacob papa is here a big
13:40
round of applause once again now you pay
13:42
his tattoos and blues two eights call me
13:46
Ace called me that's a manager have to
13:48
be and she do text me last night and
13:51
said hey by the way man the fellas want
13:53
to know can they rap
13:56
Ace what I tell you Ace
14:00
that's so this is Jake and papa in the
14:03
morning y'all welcome to the new show
14:04
here on Sirius XM
14:09
yes sir
14:12
oh
14:20
[Applause]
14:23
[Music]
14:27
spiritual Warrior for my people
14:29
apparently speaking the truth is illegal
14:31
so like Cynthia ariva I've been
14:33
underground and shackling and rescuing
14:35
the Sheep until the resurrection of
14:36
Harriet Tubman is complete I'm really
14:38
with the business I'm from L.A hella
14:40
gang banging no witness [ __ ] I don't
14:42
bang I chose to sing but don't get it
14:43
twisted I come with love but if you try
14:45
to be filled I will knock you out your
14:47
[ __ ] fitted quiet but I'm never timid
14:49
this ain't the old days when singers
14:51
wore perms tight suits and spoke soft I
14:53
got about a switch that [ __ ] is never
14:55
turned off harness the power of
14:56
motherland like Joe Loft you study
14:58
history that should have pissed your ass
15:00
off they rated tombs like Indiana and
15:02
Laura Croft they stole jewels and told
15:04
you that all your kings were white
15:05
dehumanized you and said that the Bible
15:07
said it's right [ __ ] please I got a
15:09
purpose in life that won't be
15:10
compromised protected by the hands of
15:12
Shango and Oya Silva back on the track
15:15
of my revenge consider this the
15:16
resurrection of harambe [ __ ] I will
15:19
never switch I got the energy to win it
15:21
baby you may not like it but I swear you
15:23
won't forget it baby if I am destined my
15:25
brother here is too song suckers do what
15:27
they can players do what we want [ __ ]
15:36
m
15:38
two sides the Haitian history let's go
15:42
let them know
15:44
revolutionaries
15:46
we know where you that was Jake how
15:48
about Papa let's go prop that beat on
15:51
them torch Sway in the Morning shave
15:53
four or five Jake and papa are here who
15:55
we
15:57
oh brought the W up in here had to throw
16:00
them off
16:06
JP Santa Valerie respect Integrity
16:09
loving honor my anatomy passing over
16:12
Perfection soul of a salary cover me I'm
16:15
going in huh I don't trust nobody
16:17
everybody leave me it's funny though
16:19
cause when I'm up everybody need me I'm
16:22
Viking out like
16:23
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah pick it up pick
16:26
it up pick it up gotta listen my bro my
16:29
head won't grow I got dreams of flying
16:31
high that hair on Hulk both my
16:34
granddaddies died from a heron dose but
16:36
they living through these bars it's that
16:38
Heron flow bro it's true serum when you
16:40
hear him [ __ ] mad cause the flow sick
16:43
and they hate cure them you gotta love
16:44
it and sell my soul just selling flows
16:46
if you got a budget I hear your fans way
16:48
overdue for a soul tugging I swear this
16:51
beat is anti-police the way it let me
16:53
set my soul free I hop on it and let my
16:56
soul bleed they get a wrong [ __ ] flow
16:58
seats tripping at the Laker game trying
17:00
to trip the road team like rest in peace
17:02
Kobe hell yeah I'm on [ __ ] I come from
17:05
the nosebleeds I headliner from an
17:07
opener they're trying to box me in can't
17:09
control them why they holding them West
17:11
Side [ __ ] flow like he got some hope in
17:13
them I'm going in like I'm surfing to
17:15
concurrent life sentences no parole in
17:17
them a beast but I'm so poised I Feast
17:20
on an app like syrup high then I play
17:22
koi yeah imma fly young black boy that's
17:25
a factoid but this that Herron flow so
17:27
call me that boy boy boy boy boy
17:34
[Applause]
17:38
[Music]
17:39
[Applause]
17:45
it's all good
17:48
[Applause]
17:53
thank you
17:56
and then if we could just say one thing
17:58
to leave everybody with man yeah I know
18:01
a lot of it sounded aggressive but
18:03
really the goal for us is to inject
18:04
light and love and black power into the
18:06
world through our music through our
18:07
words through every vibration to our
18:09
clothes through everything so the kill
18:11
culture [ __ ] we know is coming to an end
18:13
everybody's tired of this R.I.P [ __ ]
18:15
yeah and everybody's tired of hearing
18:17
there's certain songs that come on now
18:18
just give me a [ __ ] stomachache like
18:20
yeah everybody's sick of it it's time to
18:22
inject light and love and black power
18:24
into the world through this music so if
18:25
you just listen to tattoos and blues too
18:27
I promise you it's going to be a dose of
18:29
light you're going to leave feeling
18:30
better than you can yes absolutely yes
18:34
hey Rose worldwide.net holla at this man
18:37
tattoos and blues two out now if you're
18:39
ever in La holler at us at Donnie's
18:41
wings in North Hollywood
18:43
yeah man our uncle got a spot man his
18:45
family owned black owned good ass wings
18:47
too Johnny Weems where Donnie's wings
18:49
and spicy fries in North Hollywood yo he
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has a Famous Recipe yeah he won't tell
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nobody what it is but I'm telling you my
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uncle got something that it just gets
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people hooked up
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in here
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well I don't say the name I want to yeah
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I know if I'll come up in there we
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getting free Wings
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absolutely come on love y'all I'm proud
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of y'all Jake and papa tattoos and blues
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they're independent they're doing it on
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their own so support these brothers all
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right man appreciate you fellas thank
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you for having us absolutely
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