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Meet the East Bay rising star who is redefining vulnerability in hip hop. Yatta Bandz joins Sway in the Morning to discuss his journey from the basketball courts of Hayward to massive viral success on TikTok and SoundCloud.
In this deep dive interview, Yatta Bandz opens up about the importance of being an artist who actually writes down his lyrics and the power of emotional intelligence in modern rap. We get a rare look into his support system as his father, Nuke Bandz, joins the conversation to talk about passing the musical torch and keeping his son grounded amidst rapid fame.
The episode takes a legendary turn when West Coast icon Xzibit calls in to show love to the next generation and share details about his latest business ventures and upcoming celebrations. From discussing the inspirations behind his new album One and the Same to breaking down the accountability found in his hit songs like Memory Lane, Yatta Bandz proves why he is one of the most refreshing and self-aware voices coming out of Northern California today.
Chapters
0:00 Intro and Yatta Bandz joins the show
3:15 The art of writing lyrics and vulnerability
7:05 Growing up in Hayward and East Bay roots
11:20 Choosing music over a basketball career
14:45 Surprise appearance by his father Nuke Bandz
18:30 Viral success with Unseen Scars on TikTok
22:10 Signing with Empire and the Bay Area connection
25:50 New album One and the Same breakdown
29:40 Accountability and relationships in songwriting
33:15 Caller Monroe on the Abe Lincoln lyric
36:50 West Coast legend Xzibit calls the show
40:30 Xzibit on his cannabis business and community
44:15 Sway shares stories of North Oakland and Big Vine
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[applause]
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Yo man, we going to do a medly of songs
0:04
today. HB, this young man has come a
0:07
long way.
0:08
>> Okay.
0:08
>> Got a story to tell, too.
0:10
>> Good, good, good. Happy that he's here.
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>> Yeah, man. That's have to be right
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there, yada.
0:14
>> That's a blessing.
0:15
>> Yada Bz is in the building. Citizens
0:18
representing East Bay, man. Hey, man.
0:20
Welcome to the show, family.
0:23
>> Yeah. Yeah man. that was that uh you did
0:25
something with uh on the radar and I
0:27
went into that and um I saw you got busy
0:30
on that and um I've been following this
0:32
man for quite some time Heather.
0:34
>> Okay. And you know, I really what I
0:36
admire most about is people who could
0:38
take their emotions and translate them
0:42
in translate them into words. And I've
0:44
always had a hard time doing that, even
0:46
as a young man, really speaking out my
0:49
emotions. And when you listen to your
0:51
music, um, yada bands, there's a level
0:54
of vulnerability that's extremely
0:56
refreshing. It's almost healing. Like
0:58
you [clears throat] you get to say the
0:59
things from your heart that a lot of
1:01
young men won't say. So congratulations
1:03
on your pen game.
1:05
>> Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that.
1:06
>> Yeah, man. You write down your music or
1:08
you write down your lyrics
1:09
>> all the time.
1:10
>> Yeah. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
1:11
>> Every song. Yeah.
1:12
>> I respect that.
1:13
>> You respect that?
1:14
>> Absolutely. Because I think and
1:16
everybody, every artist has their
1:18
process, right? But I think sometimes
1:21
people have heard throughout so many
1:24
years that, oh, I don't write. I don't
1:25
write. I just go into the studio and
1:27
whatever comes out just comes out and I
1:29
live in that moment. And that may work
1:31
sometimes. It may work sometimes.
1:34
>> But I think there's a beauty and an art
1:36
to writing down your lyrics, you know,
1:39
and and and speaking those into
1:41
existence as well and then just kind of
1:43
like going back maybe a year later and
1:45
looking at your work, you know what I
1:47
mean? And just actually seeing how far
1:49
you've come as an artist. So I love to
1:51
hear when artists say they actually
1:53
wrote their lyrics down. I I think it's
1:55
fire. So salute to you for that.
1:56
>> Thank you. I appreciate it. Mhm.
1:58
>> How did you um get into music, man?
2:01
What's your origin story? I mean, when
2:02
you Hayward, California is, you know,
2:04
you don't always hear a lot of people
2:05
from Hayward, right? Nah,
2:07
[clears throat] I don't know.
2:09
>> It's a lot of folks from Hayward, but I,
2:11
you know, you ain't hearing this
2:13
>> rap star is from Hayward. Like, really?
2:16
Like we used to go to Hayward Plunge
2:18
[laughter]
2:19
>> when I was a swimming like Yeah. N
2:23
[laughter]
2:25
swimming pool.
2:25
>> It's like a public pool, you know?
2:27
Everybody wow the hood.
2:28
>> So we went from cuz we used to go to
2:30
Diamond Park in East Oakland and then
2:32
you know you know it was a little rough
2:34
at Diamond Park. So if you go to Hayward
2:36
Plunge
2:37
>> it's a lot lighter right? You know
2:40
physically and uh literally right it's a
2:42
lot it's a lot lighter. But
2:43
>> what's your story man? Did you did you
2:45
grow up with a family? Did you talk talk
2:47
to us?
2:48
>> So my pops actually did music like when
2:50
I was coming up. So I'll probably say
2:52
like when I was like around like 6 years
2:53
old that's when I really was around him
2:55
for the first time doing cuz he from
2:56
Oakland so you know what I'm saying he
2:58
was making like you know you know like
2:59
street music you know what I mean? So I
3:01
was always just always around just
3:03
peeping and then it kind of just
3:04
motivated me like you know what if I
3:06
could write a song one day you know what
3:07
I mean? So
3:08
>> probably like by middle school that's
3:10
when I started like really writing my
3:11
own raps and like posting myself rapping
3:13
like you know what I mean? He always
3:14
knew I could rap cuz I always would show
3:15
him like little stuff that I'd be
3:16
working on. Like I might make a little
3:18
catchy hook or something like that, you
3:19
know, just off the off the head. So
3:21
>> that's really how I got into it, you
3:23
know what I mean? Like found the love
3:24
for it because I always was a basketball
3:26
player first. Like I didn't think I was
3:27
going to be no rapper. I thought I was
3:28
making it to the league and then
3:29
>> yeah, I knew at one point I wasn't going
3:31
to make it to the league. [laughter]
3:32
I was like, "Yeah, I don't think I'm
3:34
going to
3:35
>> cuz you know, I always, this a funny
3:37
story, but one time I'm shooting around
3:39
at the park and I'm by myself, so I'm
3:41
getting my own rebounds."
3:43
>> And as I'm doing that, I'm just like,
3:45
"Do I really love this as much as like
3:47
the next man might love hoop?" Like, you
3:49
know, cuz like I got partners that
3:50
really love basketball and they could
3:52
sit there and shoot for hours and get
3:53
their own rebound and be having fun and
3:55
whatever. I was like, "Bro, this is
3:56
terrible. I'm outside. It's hot. I'll be
3:58
I'd rather much be in the house writing
3:59
a song right now than I be." That's when
4:01
I kind of realized like, yeah, I think
4:02
this is more my passion, you know.
4:04
>> At what age was that though? Like what
4:06
grade was that?
4:06
>> I think that was like my sophomore year
4:08
high school. You know what I'm saying? I
4:09
had just made VAR and everything. I'm
4:11
like, "Oh, I'm feeling good. I'm on
4:12
varsity." But then it's just like, you
4:13
know, I think my passion kind of lies
4:15
somewhere else. Like, you know,
4:17
>> y'all the bands bailed out on
4:18
basketball, man. [laughter]
4:19
>> I don't get it. Don't get it wrong. I
4:21
still
4:23
>> I still though.
4:24
>> It's funny cuz you look athletic like
4:26
you do. You look like you're in shape. I
4:28
I would have thought football, not not
4:29
basketball. what everybody say.
4:31
>> Yeah, but it's basketball.
4:32
>> But I still hope though. And to anybody
4:33
listening, if you don't think that means
4:34
you could take me in one v one or you
4:36
could beat me in basketball. I I'm still
4:38
like that. I promise you. I promise you
4:39
I'm still like that.
4:40
>> Swear you could dunk over him cuz
4:41
normally that's followed by [laughter]
4:44
dunked on. Bro,
4:45
>> you'll dunk on him?
4:46
>> Me? You dunking on me? Swag.
4:49
YEAH. [laughter]
4:52
>> WAIT. I saw you look twice and say cuz
4:54
you He was about to ask you how tall you
4:56
are and you bailed out. Many many have
4:59
many have been victimized.
5:02
>> I'll meet him at the rim. I ain't going
5:03
to say I ain't going to say he wouldn't,
5:05
but I ain't going to say he would. You
5:06
know what I'm saying?
5:06
>> Dude my size to talk like that. I must
5:08
have something going on right
5:09
>> in his head.
5:10
>> In my head. Right. [laughter]
5:12
U Yeah, man. This is great to hear.
5:14
Where did you go to school?
5:15
>> Um I went to OO Middle School and then
5:18
after that I went to Mount Eden in
5:19
Hayward.
5:19
>> Mount Eden in Hayward. And I, you know,
5:22
listen, the Bay Area is full of a lot of
5:24
cities and I'm just really happy to be
5:26
talking about Hayward, California. My
5:28
history with Hayward King Tech used to
5:30
live off of Tennyson,
5:32
>> Tennyson High over there by the by the
5:34
railroad tracks by the BART station. He
5:36
went to Hayward High. Um, and so when we
5:39
were coming up in high school, I used to
5:41
catch the Bart to Tennyson and meet him
5:44
at his house and we would practice
5:46
rapping, dancing, and making music and
5:49
going to Sonatas burritos.
5:50
>> Yeah. Sonatas, the the whole nine. And,
5:54
um, I, as we got more successful, uh, we
5:57
opened up, uh, a studio, Art of Ears,
6:00
with a good guy, friend of ours named
6:02
Andy Ernst off of D Street over in that
6:04
>> industrial area. You know what I'm
6:06
talking about, right? And so I always,
6:09
you know, have an affinity for Hayward.
6:11
And when I found out you were from
6:12
Hayward, I said, "We got to get this guy
6:14
up here."
6:15
>> Your name is Yatada Bans.
6:16
>> Mhm.
6:17
>> How did How many names did you have
6:19
before you settled on this one?
6:20
>> Honestly, it was like first try.
6:22
>> Really?
6:22
>> Yeah. Cuz uh my name Kinyatta. So my
6:25
partners in high school,
6:26
>> they just one day one of my partners was
6:28
like, "Oh, like oh, yada this." But mind
6:31
you, I never like that was never really
6:32
something I told them to call me. This
6:34
kind of just happened. Like you know
6:35
what I'm saying? So once they start
6:36
calling me yada, my pop's rap name is
6:37
nuke bands. So I just took the bands
6:40
from the end of his name and just threw
6:41
it on mine. And then once they say yada
6:42
bands, people just started calling me
6:44
that like and it sounded pretty good
6:45
like off the
6:46
>> You know what I'm saying? Off the rip.
6:47
So I was I'm just stick with that.
6:48
>> Your father's name is what?
6:50
>> Nuke Benz. Rap name. Nuke Bansz.
6:53
>> You're his dad?
6:54
>> Yeah, that's my pop.
6:54
>> Oh my god.
6:57
>> Nah. Yo, you got to get on the camera.
7:00
[laughter]
7:01
>> THAT'S MY
7:01
>> THAT'S YOUR FATHER? I thought that was
7:03
your homie.
7:04
>> NO. DUDE, GET ON THE MIC, MAN. COME ON,
7:07
MAN. GET HIM A CHAIR, MAN.
7:08
>> I ain't never been in no studio where
7:10
I'm older than the the artist and they
7:12
father. [ __ ]
7:14
[ __ ] I'm out. Nuke looked at me. I WAS
7:17
LIKE, "WHAT'S UP, YOUNG MAN?" [laughter]
7:20
>> ME, TOO. I was like, "What good? What's
7:22
What's up, y'all? What up, homie?"
7:24
>> Wow, man. What was going on?
7:26
>> No. Turn the mic your way.
7:28
>> Yo,
7:29
>> what?
7:30
>> This is Dad. That's great.
7:33
>> Yo, that's crazy. Congratulations.
7:35
>> He thought you you thought about it when
7:36
I said my name in the hallway. You saw
7:38
me.
7:39
>> Yeah. [laughter] I got to look at me
7:41
like it.
7:42
>> Hey, Nuke. Nuke. [laughter]
7:44
>> Yo, how long you was you was spinning
7:46
for a while, right? How long?
7:47
>> Yeah. No, I was spending
7:50
music probably I've been doing music
7:53
probably like 20 years type.
7:54
>> 20 years. So, who did you come up with?
7:57
>> Uh,
7:57
>> who was out when you were coming up?
7:59
>> Like who was like in the Bay rapping?
8:01
>> Yeah.
8:02
>> Ah, man. It was a lot of dudes like
8:04
Young Gully.
8:05
>> Uhhuh.
8:06
>> Um
8:10
DLo, all of them. Um DB,
8:12
>> like all of them.
8:14
>> Yo, this is amazing, man. Your your
8:16
music y'all music is totally different
8:18
though.
8:19
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah.
8:19
>> Yeah. Right.
8:20
>> Right.
8:20
>> But then I I think that's one thing.
8:22
Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say that's
8:23
one thing that kind of helped me too is
8:25
cuz like even though he was like on the
8:26
street scene like you know what I'm
8:27
saying in that kind of mix I I since I'm
8:30
like at home with him I get to hear like
8:31
the the more heartfelt you know what I'm
8:34
saying like different kind of music that
8:35
he was making at the time that might not
8:37
have like been
8:38
>> heard by the people but I was listening
8:40
to it like you know the pain songs the
8:42
struggle songs even love songs
8:43
heartbreak songs so I was able to get
8:44
like a step into that world you know
8:46
what I'm saying with him too like
8:47
hearing the music that he put out to the
8:49
music that I'm hearing him make that's
8:51
not getting like put out it is like, you
8:53
know, like night and day. Like I was
8:54
like, he could really do [snorts] both,
8:56
which made me feel like, you know, you
8:57
could always be a versatile like rapper.
8:59
You even if you do the street scene, you
9:00
don't got to stay in that lane. Like,
9:02
you know what I'm saying? If you feel
9:03
like you are good at something else,
9:05
too.
9:05
>> Mhm. I think Pac was a good example of
9:07
that, right? Yeah. Pac had that kind of
9:09
range. Um,
9:10
>> you spoke about put your music, you put
9:13
out, how did people discover you? Like,
9:15
how did you utilize social media and
9:18
then Soundcloud to become who you are?
9:20
>> All right. So I say like middle school
9:22
that's when I was you know first
9:23
recording myself. I was in the car like
9:25
doing my little like I just put on the
9:26
instrumental like one of the
9:28
instrumentals I did was like Ashanti
9:29
always on time like you know what I'm
9:30
saying I would do beats like that like
9:32
classes that people know and then once I
9:34
started posting those I started noticing
9:36
like people from other schools like in
9:37
my area like when I would go to like
9:38
posting like football basketball games
9:40
or whatever they'd be like hey don't you
9:41
go to so and so and you rap right? They
9:43
were like we've seen you like on
9:44
Instagram and stuff people be posting
9:45
your music. So after that, I just kept
9:48
doing it and doing it. And once I got to
9:49
high school, like around my junior year,
9:51
that's when I was like, "Bro, like I
9:52
need to take this more serious, like you
9:54
know." So that's when I dropped like my
9:55
first song on Soundcloud. It was called
9:57
Loyalty. And I think like maybe like
9:59
within a week I seen it jump to like
10:01
100k like plays. And at the time I lost
10:04
my mind. I'm like, "Oh my god, like I'm
10:05
really I'm really doing it." Like people
10:07
was really taking their time out of
10:08
their day to listen to my song. So, I'll
10:10
probably say 2020
10:12
2021 is when I posted a clip of my song
10:15
Unseen Scars on TikTok.
10:17
>> Yeah, that's that was
10:18
>> I wasn't mind you I at the time I wasn't
10:20
even going to post it cuz I wasn't too
10:21
sure about it. It was just me sitting in
10:22
the car and then I put the lyrics on the
10:24
video and I'm looking at the video. I'm
10:25
just like, man, do I really want to just
10:26
throw this out there? It's like 1:00 in
10:28
the morning. I'm like, I'm going just do
10:30
it. So, I threw it out there, woke up
10:32
the next morning and my phone was
10:33
blowing up like nothing I'd ever seen
10:35
before. I was like, this is crazy. Like,
10:37
you know what I'm saying? like kind of
10:38
like like overnight kind of thing. And
10:40
then I was like, "Okay, maybe this is
10:42
just for the moment." But then the more
10:44
I'm looking at the video, the more it's
10:45
just starting to rise now. People is
10:47
texting me, calling me, like, you know
10:48
what I'm saying? And I'm just like,
10:49
"Wow." Like, this is the first time I'm
10:50
really seeing a real interaction with
10:53
one of my songs that's like not just
10:55
>> like uh in my area. Like, it was coming
10:57
from all over. So, it kind of just hit
10:59
me all at once.
11:00
>> Well, you're a good-looking guy, too.
11:01
That helps. No, it helps. It's different
11:03
if a ugly [laughter] rapper put up
11:05
something versus
11:06
>> he looks like me.
11:09
>> No, but that helps. If you're a
11:11
good-looking artist, I'm just saying
11:13
it's if you're a good-looking artist,
11:15
I'm sure you have a lot of female fans.
11:18
I don't like to say female appreciators,
11:20
you know, listening to your music. And
11:22
>> I like that, by the way. I like I like
11:23
appreciate. I don't be liking to say
11:25
fans. I love that.
11:26
>> No, but female appreciators and that
11:28
that goes far. Look at him. He's
11:29
good-looking and he's all he he can also
11:31
rap and he's speaking to us. But I want
11:34
to go back a little bit about hooping
11:36
and you said you knew then that you
11:38
weren't as passionate about it as you
11:41
probably should be. Maybe one of your
11:42
homies, but in hip-hop is a different
11:44
world though.
11:46
>> When did you actually know? Cuz numbers
11:48
can lie sometimes. I don't care what
11:49
anybody say. You know, you might have a
11:51
million followers and then you go do a
11:53
show and 25 people show up. So it's like
11:57
what happened? you know, but how did you
11:59
know that you made it in hip? Like, how
12:03
did you know that was your thing?
12:05
>> Honestly, it honestly happened kind of
12:07
well, I'll say I started believing in
12:09
myself pretty much because like I feel
12:10
like I had a really good support system
12:12
like with my dad, like with my family
12:13
and everything like they're telling me
12:14
like, you know,
12:16
>> you're actually going crazy. Like, you
12:18
know what I mean? Like, this is actually
12:20
really good music like that people would
12:22
love to hear. And then I say once I just
12:25
started seeing like honestly I was
12:27
appreciative for any views or any likes
12:28
or like the one person that was
12:30
listening to my song. Yeah. Like as long
12:32
as I could reach a certain group of
12:34
people that actually like are getting
12:36
something out of my music, I felt like
12:37
that was like
12:38
>> I felt like that was my I made it
12:39
moment. Like you know what I mean? But
12:41
definitely
12:43
>> definitely after dropping my first album
12:44
and seeing how that did and then how
12:46
many people were like telling me like
12:47
you know what my music does for them.
12:50
You know what I'm saying? how it makes
12:51
them feel. You know, that's kind of like
12:52
the biggest thing that I took away from
12:53
it. Like,
12:54
>> good for you. I'm happy for you.
12:55
>> Yeah. Perfect. Perfect storm was the
12:57
first.
12:57
>> Yeah.
12:58
>> Yep. Um
13:00
>> the Unseen Scars song that really got
13:02
you like
13:04
>> I feel like damn near half a billion
13:06
views [laughter] or some [ __ ] like that,
13:08
right? Right. Yeah. Yeah, man.
13:10
>> Did that translate into finances for
13:12
you?
13:13
>> Definitely. Yeah, definitely. Cuz that's
13:14
when I, you know what I'm saying?
13:15
luckily was able to get in touch with
13:17
Furious from Empire reached out uh and
13:19
then he was able we was able to get a
13:20
conversation cuz a lot of people was
13:21
reaching out but I don't know something
13:23
about Empire that really kind of felt
13:24
like more like homie. I don't know if
13:25
that's just cuz it's in the Bay but it
13:27
felt very like genuine like how they
13:29
came at me and like you know what I'm
13:30
saying introduced me to like the label
13:31
and everything. So shout out Nemo, shout
13:33
out Gazi, you know they take really good
13:34
care of me over there.
13:35
>> No, those are good people. Tina Davis
13:36
too. Tina Davis, the legend, the
13:38
legendary Tina Davis, you know, Gazi
13:41
>> and his start, the way Gazi even got
13:43
started, you know, it's just a great uh
13:45
it's a great story. Um I love when Bay
13:48
Area bands together, right? You know,
13:50
it's it's a great feeling uh for you.
13:54
Are you still going?
13:56
>> Yeah. He he be he be pressing he be
13:59
pressing me like, "Come on, folks. You
14:00
need to put this up. You need to do
14:02
this." And this is like, you know, I
14:03
just been honestly I just been focused
14:05
on his stuff like trying to get him
14:07
going, you know, and
14:09
>> you know, making sure everything going
14:10
smooth with what his transition and what
14:12
he got going on. So I kind of I still
14:15
been doing stuff, but I ain't really
14:16
putting nothing out in a in a while. I
14:19
still got some stuff though.
14:20
>> You've been with him his whole life.
14:21
>> Yeah. Yeah, man. Salute to you, bro.
14:23
>> For real. I wanted [laughter] to say
14:25
that, too. We love it when fathers and
14:27
sons come up here cuz let's be real, you
14:30
had you don't see that a lot.
14:31
>> Yeah, exactly.
14:32
>> You know, you don't see that a lot.
14:33
>> Yeah, man. I You still married to his
14:35
mom or Yeah. Okay,
14:37
>> cuz boy, y'all could be out there
14:39
killing him, man. You look
14:40
[laughter and applause]
14:41
>> Wow. Slay, you trying to bust it up
14:43
already? New album alert. [laughter] I
14:45
used to be with her.
14:50
>> Yo, man.
14:52
[laughter]
14:53
>> Bad influence. Yo. And you look like his
14:56
brother. Forgive me. I was
14:58
>> No, I was saying you LIKE A YOUNGER MAN.
15:02
>> ME, TOO. I was like, "What up y'all? How
15:03
y'all doing? What [laughter] family?"
15:05
That's what I said to them.
15:06
>> That's great. I ain't
15:07
>> That happened to us a lot, though. I
15:09
ain't going
15:09
>> No. Yeah, that is true. It has happened
15:11
a lot.
15:11
>> What's the age gap if y'all don't mind
15:13
sharing?
15:13
>> I'm 24.
15:14
>> Oh, okay. 40. I was going to say Oh my
15:17
god.
15:18
>> Yo, [laughter]
15:19
that [ __ ] homie.
15:21
If I was a [ __ ] I could have BEEN YOUR
15:23
MOTHER. [laughter]
15:25
NO, I'M NOT LYING. LIKE,
15:27
>> if I was a [ __ ] I could have been his
15:29
mother.
15:29
>> You didn't have to be a [ __ ]
15:31
[laughter]
15:32
>> Yo, to have a baby at like 14 years is
15:34
that make you a [ __ ] I'm not talking
15:37
about I'm talking to my people.
15:39
>> Okay. I'm just saying it could have
15:40
happened.
15:41
>> Yo, if I was a [ __ ] I could have been
15:42
his mother. [laughter]
15:44
>> You fell in love at an early age.
15:45
>> You're not in love at 14. You ain't in
15:48
love at 14.
15:48
>> You were in love at home. You know it.
15:52
[laughter]
15:53
Wow. That's deep. This is deep,
15:55
>> man. Hey, Yada B is here, man. Give this
15:57
little dude a round of applause. Uh the
16:00
new album is coming out on the 24th.
16:02
It's called
16:03
>> One and the Same.
16:04
>> One and the Same. Uh which implies, you
16:08
know, uh people have might have
16:11
different stances, different beliefs,
16:14
>> but are have some commonality at the
16:17
same time. What what did the title mean
16:19
for you when you created this title? I
16:21
really feel or like I'm a strong
16:23
believer in like you know like how you
16:25
said everybody has their own like you
16:26
know what I'm saying beliefs and like
16:28
how they go about things but I feel like
16:29
at the end of the day we all go through
16:31
certain situations in our life to where
16:33
it's like you know you felt pain somehow
16:35
you you know you felt love what it feels
16:37
like to be loved heartbreak all these
16:38
kind of things even if you might have
16:40
felt it in a different experience or in
16:42
a different way than somebody else I
16:44
feel like emotions and all those kind of
16:45
things are what actually bring us
16:46
together like you know as people so
16:48
people who listen to my music I want
16:49
them to know like you're a lot closer to
16:52
somebody else than you think. You know
16:53
what I mean? So, I feel like that's like
16:54
the biggest part for me is that we
16:56
should all look at each other that way.
16:57
You know what I mean? So, whatever you
16:59
going through, you should look at the
17:00
next person and be like, they could have
17:01
had it 10 times worse than you did. And
17:03
even if they didn't, like you don't
17:05
downplay somebody else's, you know what
17:07
I'm saying, feelings just because you
17:08
feel like yours are more valid or
17:10
whatever, whatever. So, I feel like we
17:11
all one and the same in a way, you know?
17:14
>> And these young folks, man, they way
17:16
more mostly [laughter] mature than we
17:17
are, boy. That's why you at 24. You
17:20
thinking like that?
17:21
>> No,
17:22
>> we weren't thinking like that.
17:23
[laughter]
17:24
>> That's beautiful.
17:25
>> That is beautiful. That's why I wanted
17:26
to have you up here. Uh even with the
17:29
song we played out of time,
17:31
>> it it it to me I interpret it as
17:33
somebody who um going through a
17:35
potential breakup and you're reflecting
17:38
on it and you know it's almost like you
17:41
at a point where you fighting for the
17:43
relationship. But
17:45
>> this is my interpretation, right? It's
17:47
art. So we all might have a slightly
17:49
interpretation.
17:50
>> Uh but so at some point a relationship
17:53
becomes more damaging
17:55
>> than it is worth saving right
17:58
>> for you. At what point is that? When do
18:00
you know it's like okay it's over. I got
18:04
to stop. I got to I'm starting to it's
18:06
becoming more damaging. We're prolonging
18:08
this thing. It's more fights. It's more
18:10
heartache. I feel like once you have to
18:13
once something happens to where it's
18:15
like you felt like you've had to
18:16
question who you are as a person too
18:18
many times like at that point I feel
18:19
like if that per if your person is
18:22
making you question who you are as much
18:24
as you know what I'm saying more than
18:25
you would like that's when I feel like
18:26
maybe that's just not the person for you
18:28
cuz don't get me wrong like I know
18:29
relationships take work and you know
18:31
what I'm saying there's effort supposed
18:32
to be put in on both sides but I feel
18:34
like it gets to a point to where it's
18:35
like you also have to accept each other
18:36
for who you are too when it comes to
18:38
like loving somebody you know what I'm
18:39
saying not try to change somebody so I I
18:41
feel like if you're in a relationship
18:41
where it feels like there's more there's
18:44
more pieces of you leaving because of
18:46
somebody else cuz you want to be with
18:47
that person, I feel like maybe that's a
18:48
sign that you know there might be
18:50
somebody out there that could actually
18:51
care about you for who you are. You know
18:53
what I'm saying? And help you try to be
18:54
a better you, not try to change you. You
18:56
know what I mean? So,
18:57
>> how do you spell your name?
18:59
>> N U K E.
19:00
>> Give him a standing over [laughter]
19:04
this emotionally conscious young man.
19:06
>> Shout out to your mom as well. Yo, this
19:09
dude is amazing, man.
19:10
>> Yo, Bay Area, get up on this. This Yada
19:13
B, this is the next movement right here.
19:16
Bay Area Yada B is here.
19:19
>> Tracy, you want to ask him a question?
19:20
Tracy and Mike's all the way in New York
19:22
City right now.
19:23
>> New York City, baby.
19:24
>> What's up, yada? What's up, Daddy B. How
19:26
you
19:26
>> doing? [laughter]
19:28
Well, I'm doing well. Just like Heather
19:30
would sway, I'm also appreciating this
19:33
display of self-awareness that you've
19:35
given us through your music and through
19:36
the conversation. And it makes me think
19:39
about other peers that you have in this
19:41
industry, other artists, because as the
19:43
generations have continued on, you see
19:48
how using something like social media,
19:50
like you mentioned with Tik Tok, you can
19:52
immediately get your bag, your your
19:55
audience, and they can see you develop
19:57
and you have this like focus group from
20:00
day one. And I feel like that has
20:02
adjusted a lot of artist view on success
20:06
and defining it in a completely
20:08
different way. I know that there are a
20:10
number of artists who don't have a
20:12
desire to be larger than life superstars
20:16
because they don't want to deal with the
20:18
burnout or the constant um being placed
20:22
under a a magnifying glass like all of
20:25
those things. but they can still have
20:26
incredible careers without being
20:29
everywhere all the time or everything to
20:32
everyone. I wanted to know what are you
20:35
chasing on this career path? Do you want
20:39
mega superstardom where you are a
20:41
ubiquitous name or are you chasing
20:43
something different?
20:46
Uh, I feel like more so what I'm chasing
20:48
is
20:49
definitely not the I I wouldn't the
20:51
biggest name really or like being a mega
20:53
star really isn't uh something I really
20:55
think about. You know what I mean? It's
20:57
kind of more just
21:00
I kind of want the people to feel like
21:01
you know I never want to get to a point
21:03
where it's like I'm a superstar type
21:05
like uh like personality. I feel like
21:07
people let being a rapper or like being
21:09
a, you know, feeling like a superstar
21:11
become who they are or like who they
21:12
have to be, which is why I feel like a
21:14
lot of the stress comes of trying to,
21:15
you know, stay out the limelight and
21:17
this and that, but I feel like I I want
21:18
to be the type to whoever enjoys my
21:20
music and listens to my music. I just
21:22
want to embrace it and let them know
21:23
like, you know, I'm really just one of
21:24
y'all, you know? It's not really I'm not
21:26
too cool for school. You know what I'm
21:28
saying? It's like we all people like,
21:30
you know what I'm saying? You just
21:31
listen to me because you like my music
21:32
and then that's what it is. Like, you
21:33
know what I mean? So that's kind of like
21:35
as many hearts as I could touch. That's
21:37
is really all I could ask for for real.
21:39
>> Word. That's what's up.
21:40
>> Lot of bands. Y A TA bands with a Z at
21:43
the end.
21:44
>> I'm about to follow.
21:44
>> Mike News. What it do? What up though?
21:48
>> How's going on? Let her have the follow
21:50
on first. [laughter] Okay. All right. Go
21:51
ahead. I got it. Okay. Go ahead, Mike.
21:53
>> We good. Okay. I'm enjoying this
21:55
conversation, yada, but um I'm thinking
21:57
about, you know, the emotional
21:59
intelligence you have, the
22:00
self-awareness that you have, the
22:02
responsibility that you have by opting
22:04
out of saying, you know, I'm not going
22:05
to go to the NBA. Let me pivot to
22:06
another career. [laughter]
22:08
>> I hear you as a person, but as an
22:10
artist, is there any conflict and any
22:12
reconciliation that you have to do from
22:14
who you are as an individual, from like
22:16
things that you write about and and rap
22:18
about and perform about? I feel like
22:21
that's kind of the beautiful part of it
22:22
is that I can really since I'm pulling
22:24
from my own experiences and my own
22:26
emotions and stuff like that. I feel
22:27
like I can merge who I am as an artist
22:29
with who I also am as a person too like
22:31
you know so I think in that aspect it's
22:33
kind of like
22:34
>> one and the same I was saying like you
22:36
know what I'm saying with my artist self
22:38
and then my um my personal self you know
22:40
what I mean?
22:41
>> Yeah. No pun intended. [laughter]
22:44
>> Very good man.
22:45
>> Thank you.
22:46
>> Did you finish high school?
22:48
>> Yeah. How did you as a parent you and
22:50
your wife um keep him focused because he
22:53
blew up you know during this time and
22:56
there's a lot of stuff going on and you
22:58
did experience fame so to speak at a
23:00
very young age. How did you guys as
23:03
parents
23:04
>> keep him focused for all the parents
23:05
listening now that that have you know
23:07
kids um you know experiencing fame at a
23:10
young age?
23:11
>> Yeah. Um I mean the blueprint was there
23:15
for him. just get it started in high
23:17
school and just keep him grounded, you
23:19
know? Um, it's just I try to give him
23:23
everything I would have wanted when I
23:24
was growing up, you know what I mean?
23:26
>> So, everything I would have wanted, I
23:28
try to give to him. So, being
23:29
supportive, being there every step of
23:31
the way and, you know, letting him
23:33
figure it out, but also being a
23:37
>> being a ear for him to give him advice
23:40
on what he need to do. So, I mean,
23:42
honestly, he was always a good kid, so
23:44
it really wasn't that hard to keep him
23:45
grounded.
23:47
>> He just needed the He just needed the
23:48
the support system.
23:50
>> I'm going be real.
23:50
>> Okay.
23:51
>> Whoopins will definitely keep you in
23:53
line as I'm going to be real. But look
23:55
though,
23:57
I'm telling you though, that right there
23:59
at an early age, I'm telling you, YOU
24:01
YOU'LL BE ready to go and off. You'll be
24:04
ready to go and chat off [laughter] with
24:05
your partners, with your friends, be out
24:07
late.
24:08
>> And then you just think about the belt
24:09
waiting for you at the crib. you like
24:11
I'm just you know what I'm saying and
24:12
then here to go home you know it gives
24:14
you a good I feel like it gave you a
24:16
good like radar on what was good and bad
24:18
like you know what I'm saying like what
24:19
I you you know what's that saying that
24:21
you always like you know what you should
24:22
and shouldn't be doing you know what I'm
24:24
saying so at that point
24:25
>> I feel like always kept those in the
24:26
back of my mind like but I get you know
24:28
struggle for this he was like I ain't
24:30
going to lie my friends used to be want
24:32
to go do stuff and I just be thinking
24:33
like nah [laughter]
24:36
>> I think I'm going to go to the house
24:37
>> I'm just go to the tripping Bring
24:39
beatens back. Yo,
24:41
>> stop, Heather. Bring be back. Come on,
24:43
man. You sound very, very
24:45
>> Didn't you stay out of jail? [laughter]
24:47
>> I never got whoopings.
24:49
>> Oh, is it?
24:50
>> Oh, well, you was the youngest.
24:51
>> So, you learn from you learn from the
24:53
other two that got beat. [laughter]
24:55
That'll work, too.
24:56
>> That work, too. I'm the second born, so
24:59
you can I'm the bluepint. [laughter]
25:02
>> I peeped gang.
25:03
>> You peeped the game,
25:04
>> man. I grew up on 23rd, so it was a lot
25:07
of stuff going [laughter] up, man. And I
25:08
was watching the consequence of it. I
25:10
was like, nah, I I avoided.
25:12
>> You avoided.
25:13
>> I don't think my mother whipped me one
25:14
time in my life.
25:15
>> That's legendary.
25:16
>> Yeah.
25:18
>> I was smart with it.
25:19
>> And you had older siblings.
25:21
>> I had older siblings. They took they
25:22
took they took the pain. [laughter]
25:26
>> So you have to do that. Hold this crap.
25:30
So you have to do that. [laughter]
25:32
>> SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
25:34
>> And my brother's birthday is the same
25:36
day as your album release. So, I know I
25:38
know I'mma [laughter] be in the Bay. I
25:40
know I'mma be in the Bay.
25:42
>> Your music um you you're definitely bae,
25:44
but your music is universal. So, what
25:47
what kind of reception have you been
25:48
getting in the bay on the industry side
25:51
and then also on the on the on the fan
25:53
side?
25:54
>> I feel like on the industry side, they
25:55
definitely show me a lot of love. You
25:56
know what I'm saying? cuz I feel like
25:58
every time I run into, you know, other
26:00
Bay artists, they always tell me like,
26:01
you know, you do have a sound that, you
26:03
know, we also are trying to, you know
26:05
what I'm saying, bring out of ourselves,
26:07
like, you know what I mean? Because, you
26:08
know, a lot of people put the bay in a
26:09
box like with how our music and stuff is
26:11
and everything like that. But
26:13
>> there's a lot of talent coming from out
26:14
of the Bay, you know what I mean? And a
26:16
lot of people that are trying to express
26:18
themselves
26:19
>> and, you know, but also stay true to
26:20
themselves, too. like, you know, cuz at
26:22
the end of the day, I feel like the Bay
26:23
kind of I wouldn't say it's like slept
26:25
on, but it's not really looked at as
26:27
like a music, you know, really a place
26:30
of where people make good music. So, I
26:32
want to let everybody know like
26:33
>> great music comes out of the bay. It's a
26:35
lot of creative minds out there, you
26:36
know. Shout out like One Umbrella what
26:38
they got going on and going crazy. So,
26:39
so RB
26:41
>> all these things that are, you know what
26:42
I'm saying, keeping the bay
26:44
>> positive and like, you know what I'm
26:46
saying, uplifted with music, you know?
26:47
It's really just great to see.
26:48
>> It's great to see, man. Yada Bands is
26:50
here, man. Y'all can follow him at
26:52
[applause] Y A T T T T T T T T T T T T T
26:53
T T T T T T T T A B A DZ. I'mma play
26:57
Memory Lane this on this. You say
27:00
>> um on this you talk about how the woman
27:03
gave you grace,
27:04
>> right? Um um but at the same time there
27:08
there was times Well, she did dirt, too.
27:10
>> Mhm.
27:11
>> That based on a real story.
27:13
>> Yeah, definitely.
27:13
>> What happened?
27:14
>> Oh, see Sway come. I'm just I'm just
27:17
saying
27:17
>> dog. I'm Uncle Slay. I know your dad.
27:19
>> I'm just saying like [laughter]
27:23
>> I'm going just say as a young man, you
27:24
know, you kind of might not be thinking,
27:27
you know, in the right mindset when it
27:29
comes to certain things. Like you might
27:30
think something is not as bad, but you
27:32
know, and not really consider your
27:33
partner's feelings and stuff like that.
27:35
So, I just say it's one of those
27:36
situations where I might have made some
27:38
mistakes and then, you know, some people
27:40
are more
27:42
>> like tick for tat people. Like, you know
27:44
what I'm saying? It was kind of one of
27:45
those things.
27:45
>> He got revenge on you.
27:46
>> It wasn't terrible, but you feel me? It
27:48
it was one of those things where it's
27:49
like, damn, that kind of hurt a little
27:50
bit. But at the same time, it's like,
27:51
you know, when you do what you do, you
27:52
can't really put everything on somebody
27:54
else. Like, you know what I mean? So, I
27:56
had to take accountability for things
27:57
that I did, too. She do though.
27:59
>> Wow.
28:00
>> Come on, Suede. She being
28:02
>> I'm just saying he ain't said her name.
28:04
I'm just like,
28:04
>> he protected.
28:05
>> But, it's good for young men to hear
28:07
this [ __ ] Like, what did she do? We
28:09
always hear what we did.
28:10
>> She don't watch.
28:11
>> She might watch. I don't want to just,
28:13
you know,
28:14
>> she don't know we talking about her.
28:15
What she Yeah. and she don't know what
28:17
she do.
28:18
>> Basically was just, you know, talking to
28:20
some talking to somebody I didn't want
28:22
talking to. Like, you know what I'm
28:23
saying? But
28:24
>> I can't say nothing because I because I
28:27
was lowkey, you feel me? I lowkey did
28:29
the same the same thing and I did it
28:31
first. So, it was kind of like you
28:34
>> Yeah, [laughter]
28:36
>> that was from New York, too.
28:37
>> Play that game.
28:39
>> But see, like, you know what I'm saying?
28:40
But this the thing though, it we wasn't
28:43
really like,
28:45
>> see, I don't want to say that because
28:46
then it it sound bad, but I ain't going
28:48
to say we wasn't locked in.
28:49
>> Y'all was just hanging out,
28:50
>> you know? We was locked in, but we
28:51
wasn't locked in. You know what I'm
28:53
saying? But at the same time, y
28:55
wasn't a double lock. [laughter]
28:57
>> Like a Love Island episode.
28:59
>> Yeah. See, that's what I'm saying.
29:01
>> Well, y'all locked in but without the
29:03
rules. Y'all didn't explain the
29:04
perimeters.
29:05
>> Yeah, it was kind of like that. And it
29:07
was like what I did was kind of like
29:08
more of a like she said like that's more
29:10
so common sense than anything like not
29:12
to do something like that. You know what
29:14
I'm saying? But
29:15
>> at the time I didn't think you know as a
29:16
young I'm not thinking
29:18
>> Yeah man. I'm not really think about all
29:19
that at the time. You know what I mean?
29:21
But
29:21
>> nuke what you tell him nuke what you
29:23
tell him under these circumstances as a
29:24
dad man.
29:26
>> I said man you just got to keep it aund
29:28
man. [laughter]
29:30
>> You just got to keep it a honey man. For
29:32
real.
29:32
>> Yeah.
29:33
>> Keep it aund going. You want this what
29:35
you want. You can work through it. If
29:36
not, hey man,
29:38
>> motivate.
29:38
>> Got to get up out of there. Get up out.
29:40
[laughter]
29:41
>> Get up out of there.
29:42
>> But that's that specific situation was,
29:44
you know, a long time ago. I'm not that,
29:46
you know what I'm saying? I'm not that
29:47
no more. So, you know, but I I will say
29:49
I have made my fair share of mistakes,
29:50
which is why I like to make sure
29:52
>> I like to put that in music, too. Like,
29:53
it's not always just like what the girl
29:56
did or like, you know what I'm saying?
29:57
It's like, you know, us [ __ ] do stuff
29:59
too that, you know what I'm saying? We
30:00
have to own up to and just be a man
30:02
about it. You know what I mean? So, like
30:04
live and learn situation. This is yada
30:06
bands Bay Area. Stand up. 8887423345.
30:11
If you like this conversation, call up
30:13
and ask this man a question. I'mma play
30:15
Memory Lane.
30:16
>> This is off the album coming out next
30:18
week. One in the same
30:21
>> Janu I mean July 24th. Here's Memory
30:24
Land. Yada Bands new here too.
30:26
>> Let's go.
30:27
>> Daddy Bands is in the building.
30:28
>> In the building.
30:30
>> Can't believe she did that to you, bro.
30:32
>> Wow. Still you back on that. They in
30:35
their 20s. Yeah. Young stuff. Almost
30:38
like some ice cream.
30:39
>> You was with somebody who legs was
30:40
longer than yours and you dumped up. So
30:42
let him live. Exactly. He want
30:45
[laughter] to tell your [ __ ] Tell make
30:46
him tell his. I've been drinking. So
30:49
[laughter] it's going to be a lot of
30:50
stuff happen.
30:52
>> Somebody legs was blowing up.
30:54
>> Ah, she lived in North Oakland.
30:56
[laughter]
30:56
She lived in North Oakland.
30:59
West MacArthur and San Pablo.
31:01
>> Damn. you give it hell [laughter] at me.
31:04
>> Yeah, cuz I was from the east. So, it
31:06
was like anytime I went over there, it
31:07
felt a little different, right? And um
31:10
>> she lived in one of them houses I that
31:12
they have on West MacArthur. One of them
31:14
nice little houses they got over there.
31:16
I was like, "Okay, [ __ ] man. All right.
31:18
Let me run up in here, man. See what it
31:19
do. Yo, here's the craziest [ __ ] ever.
31:23
[laughter]
31:25
This shit's so funny. I'm still on Kel
31:29
and I run knock on the door. I'm moving
31:31
dooo, you know, town [ __ ] We move do
31:33
when we do our thing.
31:34
>> And uh some dudes came through the door.
31:37
Big ass dudes too, right? I'm like, "Ah,
31:40
[ __ ] What's this [laughter] going to
31:41
be?" Right.
31:42
>> And they come out and they look at me
31:44
and I mean tall big dudes. I'm like,
31:45
"Hey, what up man? What up?" You know,
31:47
you know being real town cool.
31:49
>> Yep.
31:50
>> And they was like, "Hey man, what's up
31:51
man?" And you sway, right? Yeah man.
31:53
What's up man? Good to meet y'all man.
31:55
Y'all on your way out? They was like,
31:56
"Yeah man, go ahead man. They up there
31:57
blah blah blah." That [ __ ] was Big Vine
32:00
and his brother. That's the first time I
32:01
MET BIG [laughter]
32:04
>> That's crazy.
32:05
>> Are you serious?
32:06
>> The first time I met Big Vine, he grew
32:08
up listen to us on the wake up show and
32:10
he was like, he was so excited.
32:12
>> I was like, "Yeah, man. All right,
32:13
cool." But I'm like side hiding like,
32:16
you know, [laughter] you know what's
32:17
going on.
32:18
>> Brothers, uncles, whatever.
32:19
>> Yeah, man. And so, yeah, man. And the
32:22
girl I went to see was probably about
32:23
61, dog. And so,
32:26
>> yeah, man. And and as we [laughter] as
32:28
we got cozy, I realized
32:31
her [ __ ] legs were longer than
32:33
mine. [laughter]
32:35
>> You got to be a tree climber.
32:37
>> My feet climb that mountain, homie.
32:39
>> Oh, dang it. [laughter]
32:42
>> No, I climb that wall, homie. [laughter]
32:46
>> Dang it. Is crazy.
32:48
>> Yeah, man. That's what happened, man.
32:49
>> I mean, life is like, you know, you go
32:51
through. [laughter]
32:53
>> Come on, man. He kicked you out.
32:56
>> Yeah, man. We had a cool We had a nice
32:58
It was fun for while lasted. [laughter]
33:01
I'll say that, man. But, you know, I I
33:03
didn't have no emotional intelligence
33:04
then, though. Like, what I'm what I'm
33:06
hearing in your music, man. We got
33:08
Monroe in line all the way from
33:10
Louisiana. Welcome to the show, Monro.
33:12
Say what up to Yada B. Yada B on the
33:14
line. Monroe, what up?
33:17
>> What up, family?
33:19
>> What up, man? You heard
33:22
>> family? What do you think of this young
33:24
man? Y the band.
33:25
>> Hey, listen. So, I I got to keep it a
33:28
buck with you, man. At first, when I
33:30
first heard you come on, I was like,
33:32
"Oh, man. Not another uh autotune young
33:34
dude trying to be, you know, the same as
33:36
everybody else." But as I kept
33:38
listening,
33:39
>> man, your emotional intellect,
33:41
um the refreshness that that you brought
33:44
with it,
33:45
>> um man, it it it's what we've been
33:47
needing. And I gotta ask, there's a line
33:49
in that I believe you said uh shot it in
33:54
the back of the head or something in the
33:55
back of the head like Abe Lincoln.
33:58
>> Um and I I I instantly knew exactly what
34:01
you were talking about. You were
34:02
referencing, you know, how Abe Lincoln,
34:03
you know, obviously got shot in the back
34:04
of the head or whatever.
34:06
>> But what made you come up with that
34:07
line?
34:09
>> Honestly, that line is kind of crazy
34:11
because I I I let me think of a whole
34:12
line. I said, "Wonder if you know like
34:15
Tokyo, babe. You just keep drifting in
34:18
the back of my mind is killing me like I
34:20
was a Lincoln.
34:21
>> Yeah, that's Yeah, that's the one you're
34:22
talking about. Yeah, cuz in my mind I I
34:24
don't know. I be cuz sometimes when I be
34:25
writing I just be like, you know, kind
34:26
of freestyling as I go with it and then
34:29
I just, you know, the Lincoln line. I
34:31
don't know how that just hit me. But
34:32
>> I know a lot of things that you do keep
34:35
in the back of the mind is really what
34:36
eat at you the most. Like you know what
34:38
I'm saying? That's really what like you
34:39
know
34:40
>> really tear you down, you know, if you
34:42
really just like let it linger and you
34:43
know what I'm saying? So, I feel like
34:45
the back of the mind I just it just made
34:46
me think of the the Abe Lincoln
34:48
situation and I was like, "Yeah, that's
34:49
kind of that's kind of what it feel
34:50
like." You know what I'm saying? Right
34:51
to the back of the bro.
34:52
>> That was a clever that was a clever way
34:54
to add a little bit of history, you know
34:55
what I'm saying, into that and and and I
34:57
I appreciate that and I want you to keep
34:59
pushing forward doing what you doing and
35:01
I'm about to follow you as soon as I
35:03
finish uh driving.
35:05
>> Oh, yeah. Appreciate you, man. All
35:06
right. That means a lot to me for real.
35:08
>> Can I say one more thing though, Sway?
35:10
>> Yeah, go for it, family. Wait, Heather.
35:12
Hey, I dropped y'all uh um I inboxed
35:15
y'all on y'all Instagram. I'm not sure
35:17
if you guys are are knowing, but there's
35:20
this black guy [clears throat]
35:22
>> out of uh Philly,
35:23
>> and he's been he's he didn't walk from
35:25
Philly. He's in Arizona right now.
35:27
>> He's uh walking across America.
35:29
>> I've seen that. Yes.
35:31
>> Awareness. Yeah. So, and he's in Arizona
35:33
right now almost to Cali.
35:36
>> So, I don't know. I I put that info in
35:37
y'all uh inbox, you know, in case
35:39
>> What's your Instagram, Monroe? I didn't
35:41
see it. What's your Instagram?
35:44
>> He He is on Tik Tok right now live.
35:47
>> He is HMBBL.
35:49
Uh I want to say Yazzy.
35:54
>> Hm. [clears throat]
35:55
>> I believe is his name. But yeah, but
35:58
like I said, he's trying to uh raise
36:00
money for a faith-based uh school that
36:02
he's trying to get built out in Philly.
36:06
>> Oh, I see him. It's H M B L Z A Y,
36:10
>> I think.
36:12
>> Yes.
36:13
>> Okay.
36:13
>> Walk from Philly to Cali. Watch my
36:15
six-month journey now live.
36:17
>> Yeah. Yep. Yep.
36:18
>> I've been following him. Uh Monroe and
36:20
um I've watched him get pulled over. All
36:22
sorts of stuff. Yeah. And keep going. I
36:24
mean, hopefully if he comes to LA, we
36:26
could have him on the show. I know tor I
36:28
know Torch will look out for him and see
36:30
if we could connect to him.
36:32
>> U But man, we appreciate you, Mom. You a
36:34
super citizen.
36:35
>> That's way in the morning. Keep calling.
36:37
>> Hey, before we go, man, uh my brother
36:39
heard you was on the mic and said, man,
36:42
he had to call in and just to give his
36:44
respects and say what's up to you.
36:47
>> And um and he's one of the most
36:49
celebrated artists to ever come on the
36:51
West Coast. He's actually going to be
36:52
performing with us August 22nd. I want
36:54
to invite y'all down to see this, too.
36:56
We're going to be honoring Cypress Hill
36:58
on Black Thought from the Roots. Uh
37:00
we're going to be honoring Frell Munch
37:02
from Organized Confusion. We're gonna be
37:04
honoring uh DJ Cash Money from Philly
37:07
and we're gonna be honoring this man
37:09
right here for his contributions to the
37:11
culture. The one and only exhibit
37:13
exhibit X to the Z is on the line
37:19
right now. What up X?
37:21
>> What it do? What it do?
37:23
>> What it do?
37:24
>> Hey X man, thanks for calling in man. Um
37:27
and I know you got some big things
37:29
you're doing tomorrow and I'm coming
37:30
through. I'm coming through Chazworth
37:32
tomorrow just to let you know and I want
37:33
to talk about that. But Exhibit is a
37:36
artist who would come up on our show,
37:39
King Tech and my show, the Wake Up Show
37:41
almost every single week, man. And we
37:43
got footage of this dude when when he
37:45
was your age looking like a a barracuda
37:49
ready to get on the mic, right? And X, I
37:53
know you heard Yada Band, you know, he's
37:55
from the East Bay. He's from the Bay
37:56
Area. young man got a new new album
37:59
coming out next week called One and the
38:00
Same. Man,
38:02
>> you know, he's very emotionally
38:03
intelligent. You know, his sound is
38:04
different. It's universal.
38:06
>> He's speaking to women. He ain't he
38:08
don't sound like he hate them like a lot
38:09
of rappers sound like they just
38:11
[laughter]
38:12
[ __ ] hate women, bro. I don't get it,
38:14
man. But anything you want to say to
38:16
this young man, yada b.
38:18
>> Yo, yada bands, man, I appreciate a
38:21
lyricist. I I I understand when people
38:24
are really serious about the culture.
38:26
Uh, I I appreciate what you're doing.
38:28
Um, especially coming from the Bay, it
38:31
it reminds me of the powerful way that
38:33
Simba represents himself and and you
38:36
guys are are pushing the culture,
38:37
pushing it forward and sounding
38:39
different. It's something different
38:41
about a artist that doesn't want to
38:43
follow a trend, but set one. So, keep
38:45
going, man. Keep keep pushing and I'mma
38:47
support you 100%. It's that W and that's
38:50
how we get down,
38:51
>> man. Thank you so much. I appreciate
38:53
that. I know you ain't wake up and think
38:54
this was going to happen today.
38:56
[laughter]
38:57
>> Oh my god.
38:58
>> Crazy. Crazy, right?
39:00
>> Appreciate that. For real. For real.
39:02
>> Y'all in town tomorrow. Y'all go back to
39:03
the bay. When y'all going to stay
39:06
>> We trying to stay extra day out to the
39:08
tonight, but we trying to stay extra
39:09
day.
39:10
>> You should invite them to the event
39:11
tomorrow, man. Tell them what you got
39:13
going on,
39:13
>> man. Come on down. I know y'all burn.
39:16
[laughter]
39:22
Let them know what you're doing. Next.
39:25
>> Okay. So, um I I I I have some uh
39:28
endeavors that we started, but we got a
39:30
strong group, man. I I've started uh
39:32
some dispensaries out there. Um and and
39:34
this Exhibits West Coast Cannabis. We
39:37
have three locations open currently. Um
39:39
two more on the way. One is in Bair.
39:42
That's our flagship store. The other
39:44
store is in Marina Delray. We just
39:46
opened that one. And our two-year
39:47
anniversary for Exhibits West Coast
39:49
Cannabis in Chadzsworth is tomorrow. So,
39:52
it's going to be a really, really dope
39:53
event. We got a lot of people showing
39:55
up. It's it's it's really a big
39:57
celebration of what we've been able to
39:59
do in a very short time. So, Exhibits
40:01
West Coast Cannabis, something I'm very
40:03
proud of. Um, you know, I I started in
40:05
cannabis like, you know, a year, a
40:08
decade ago. I've started with brands,
40:10
but I felt like retail was our best our
40:12
strongest avenue. You know, let
40:14
everybody else jump through, you know,
40:16
the fiery hoops and then retail stores.
40:20
You know what I'm saying? So, it's been
40:21
really dope. Um, it's our 2-year
40:23
anniversary. Um, it's it's a lot a lot
40:26
of support from the community. We do a
40:27
lot of outreach. So, it's going to be a
40:29
good celebration, man. We want to invite
40:31
everybody down the chat. Um, just look
40:34
up if you're on IG, just look up XWC and
40:37
you'll see all three uh stores
40:39
happening. What's exciting is that we're
40:41
expanding really fast and so we got two
40:43
more locations open. Uh there's one on
40:45
Krenshaw King. Uh and then there's one
40:48
in P on Pico in Latiaga that we're
40:50
opening. So there'll be five locations
40:52
um by the end of next year. And this is
40:55
going to be something really really
40:56
exciting for everybody.
40:58
>> That's amazing.
40:59
>> Wow. Congratulations. Yeah.
41:01
>> Can I work for you? Yeah. [laughter] For
41:03
him. What am I doing, bro?
41:06
>> Doing radio for 30 plus years, man.
41:09
>> Yo, I built it out so we could broadcast
41:11
from there, man. So if you ever want to
41:13
come down and broadcast way in the
41:14
morning,
41:17
we can do a wake and bake series. SWAY
41:19
AND KILL EACH.
41:20
>> YO, LET'S [laughter] DO IT.
41:22
>> IN THE MORNING, wake up.
41:24
>> Wake series.
41:26
>> I like that. Hey, you going to have a
41:28
mic? I want I'm Hey, I'mma come give
41:30
away some tickets for uh August 22nd
41:32
when we do the Ford Culture 3, too.
41:34
That's good,
41:35
>> dude. Dude, dude, I'm so excited for
41:37
that night, man. And I want to say thank
41:39
you in advance
41:40
>> for for for giving flowers to to our our
41:43
elite our elite artists, the people that
41:45
you know
41:46
>> um that that have been dedicated to this
41:49
culture for so long, man. And it's not
41:51
just about me. I I I I'm really excited
41:53
to see Black Thought. I'm really excited
41:55
to see Cypress and everybody get their
41:57
flowers. And I'm really excited to see
41:59
y'all, man. You know, we don't get to
42:00
cross paths and really um celebrate each
42:03
other that often. So, this is a great
42:05
great avenue. You guys are always good
42:06
about that. and you got a heart of gold,
42:09
man. So, thank you for for showing love
42:10
and giving flowers to us and and the
42:13
people around us that work so hard on
42:14
this thing for the culture.
42:16
>> Absolutely, man. For the culture, man.
42:18
Y'all go, if you want to uh get tickets,
42:20
go to sktetwork.tv.
42:22
Do it now. sktwork.tv
42:25
while you can. X, I'mma see you
42:26
tomorrow. Listen, the line starts at
42:29
6:00 a.m. for this thing tomorrow.
42:31
>> Man, because Hey, man. Everybody loves
42:33
free [ __ ] Hey [laughter] man,
42:37
ain't
42:37
>> lying.
42:37
>> But but but but homie, I ain't going to
42:39
be there at 6:00 a.m. You know,
42:41
[laughter]
42:41
>> say that [ __ ]
42:43
>> Yo, X, me neither. Put me a gift bag
42:45
together and give it to Sway. I'm good
42:47
for it.
42:48
>> I'll put it to the side, man. It's good.
42:49
>> Thanks, bro. Love you. [laughter] Hey,
42:52
man. Love you.
42:53
>> Much love, man. Hey, have a beautiful
42:54
day. We'll see you tomorrow, man. All
42:56
right. All right.
42:57
>> That's so dope he's doing that. That's
42:59
crazy. And I'm so happy for you because,
43:03
>> you know, a lot of things have happened
43:05
here on this show, but to to watch an
43:07
artist, you know, who's been doing it
43:09
like X for so long and been able to be
43:12
in movies, television, you know, and and
43:14
and do music and to see you coming up
43:18
and do everything that you've done and
43:19
to hear him, you know, just kind of pass
43:22
a baton to you, so to speak, it has to
43:24
feel so good. And that's the
43:26
confirmation that I was talking about
43:28
earlier. Like sometimes God will just
43:30
give you these little pieces along the
43:32
way to say keep going, keep going, you
43:35
know, and um congratulations for that to
43:37
my like my heart feels good for you,
43:39
man. That that's dope. Glad you got that
43:41
today.
43:41
>> I was not like you said the last thing I
43:44
was thinking about [laughter]
43:46
exhibit. I'm like, wow.
43:47
>> What? Yeah, that's crazy. You never
43:49
know.
43:49
>> And it's our 15 year anniversary. You
43:51
came up. You only
43:53
>> Congratulations on that, too.
43:55
We we didn't want to work today
43:56
>> at all, [laughter]
43:57
>> but I was like, "Nah, that's y from the
43:59
bay."
44:00
>> Hayward, we got to put him on. And I got
44:02
to meet your dad, man. And man, yo, bro,
44:05
I really salute you, man. Because
44:07
>> appreciate you.
44:08
>> You know, we get a bad rap. Sometimes
44:10
the narrative around fathers, especially
44:12
black fathers, um, can be horrendous.
44:14
That [ __ ] ain't true. Every black father
44:17
I know stands up for their kids. Ain't
44:20
no dead be black. Don't put that on
44:22
black fathers. If it's an individual
44:24
who's a dead beat who happens to be
44:26
melanated, that's on him.
44:28
>> That ain't us. But it be ones who ain't
44:30
melanated
44:32
as as abundant as the ones who are. A
44:35
lot of white kids don't know.
44:36
>> A lot of kids don't know their dads, you
44:38
know, and u but the ones who are
44:39
stepping up, we are pro dad on this
44:42
show. So salute to you, Nuke.
44:44
>> Daddy Bans in the building.
44:46
>> Daddy Bans in the building. [laughter]
44:49
>> Get your shirt,
44:51
>> man. Get the merch going, man. Let's go.
44:54
Daddy, [laughter] man, man.
44:55
>> Wow.
44:58
Man, get it popping, young man. Proud of
45:00
you, brother. Call me Uncle Sway, man.
45:02
If that's I'm cool, I'm Uncle Sway, man.
45:05
I'm Uncle Sway.
45:07
>> Um, and
45:08
>> we got work to do.
45:10
>> Definitely.
45:10
>> Album out next week. What song y'all
45:12
pushing right now? Out of Time, Memory
45:15
Lane.
45:16
>> Definitely Out of Time, but Friends is
45:17
probably like probably like one of my
45:18
favorites.
45:19
>> I was going to say Friends. I got the
45:20
album early.
45:21
>> Okay. Are we gonna play Friends before?
45:23
>> Uh, let me get their permission first.
45:25
>> Okay. Sorry.
45:26
>> We can we can play Friends. That's how
45:28
we gonna end the show. We're gonna end
45:29
the show with Friends. Mike Muse, how
45:31
can people reach you?
45:32
>> Yo, hit me up at I am Mike Muse Mu SNME
45:34
E Twitter, Instagram threads, and my
45:36
YouTube page. I am Mike Muse. And tune
45:38
in to the Mike Muse show this Saturday,
45:40
tomorrow, 400 p.m. Eastern Standard
45:41
Time, channel 126 Urban View. And
45:43
Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
45:45
channel 126 Urban View.
45:48
My
45:49
trigger
45:50
>> love you citizens. Hit me up at Tracy G.
45:52
I t S T R A C Y G. Lonnie Light.
45:56
>> Yo yo on the gram the number five A L A
45:58
N I. Big up Torch.
46:00
>> I'm at Torch and that's Torch I N G T O
46:02
N.
46:03
>> Everything at is really DB. Also rest in
46:05
peace Guru. Today's his birthday.
46:07
>> All right. Okay man. DJ Cutso. How can
46:10
they reach
46:12
>> South Bay finest?
46:13
>> Cutso all across the boards baby.
46:15
>> Okay. Damn. You just went sexy on us,
46:17
[laughter]
46:18
bro.
46:19
>> Cut up. We see you Sunday at Sunday
46:21
school.
46:22
>> Yeah, I'll see y'all there.
46:23
>> What?
46:24
>> I mean, my [laughter] bad. My bad.
46:25
>> Give me your real voice, bro. The [ __ ]
46:27
>> I'll see y'all at Sunday school.
46:28
>> There you go. [laughter] This guy right
46:30
here, PB.
46:31
>> Where's that thing? I like
46:33
visuals bypor.
46:37
>> Big horse. Vernon Bully. Yes. Sunday
46:39
school is definitely [music] going down
46:40
this Sunday. And um tomorrow I'm going
46:43
DJ Spinner. He has Wonderland going
46:45
down. So that's a big thing going on
46:46
too.
46:47
>> Y'all should go to that too.
46:48
>> I'm going to be there.
46:49
>> You going to be there? Uh uh John Z
46:51
>> over at John Matthews.
46:53
>> Heather B.
46:53
>> I'm at the Happy Hour WHB. We going to
46:56
be lit this weekend. Follow me on the
46:58
gram again at the Happy Hour WHB. I'm
47:00
going to Wonderland. Um Exhibit going to
47:03
give me a package and then Sunday I'm
47:05
going to be at Sunday school. I'm lit
47:07
all weekend.
47:07
>> Exhibit's giving me the package
47:09
[laughter]
47:10
>> for me. Don't do me like that cuz you
47:14
know why?
47:15
That go back around.
47:16
>> It go back around cuz [laughter] you
47:18
know when I'm bringing food on Sunday to
47:20
Sunday school I'm cooking. He going to
47:21
be hungry. So I already know I'm going
47:23
to get my pack going down.
47:25
>> A little something.
47:26
>> Okay. Okay man.
47:28
>> Hey man.
47:30
>> I was going to say I was like she for
47:31
sure going crazy.
47:33
>> Yo, let me tell Heather B has traveled
47:35
to Italy to be trained in the culinary
47:39
by an expert who only handpicks who they
47:42
train.
47:43
>> What you mean little something? What?
47:46
>> No, I'm not a chef. I'm a home cook.
47:48
>> Yeah.
47:48
>> So, I don't you know, but
47:49
>> or cooking is cooking to me. [laughter]
47:51
Like if it's
47:52
>> No, but I love it. You know how you're
47:54
passionate about music and you That's
47:56
like That's my my thing. If I love you,
47:59
I'mma cook for you.
47:59
>> Oh, that's beautiful. Yeah, man. That's
48:01
what's up.
48:01
>> That's my thing.
48:02
>> Nuke, good to meet you, brother.
48:04
Continue success and right. Absolutely.
48:06
Yada, great to meet you.
48:07
>> Yes. Yes.
48:08
>> You got we got you got a network in us.
48:10
So, whenever y'all doing whatever, I'll
48:12
give y'all my info. Let me know. Make
48:14
sure we playing your music and
48:16
supporting your movement. All right. And
48:18
we got to see you perform, too.
48:20
>> Yes. All right. Can I say one thing?
48:22
>> Absolutely.
48:22
>> Love you, mama.
48:24
>> A mama band. Mama B.
48:28
>> Mama.
48:29
>> Beautiful man. Can't forget.
48:31
>> You here with us this year.
48:32
>> Yeah. Right. Okay. Mama bands. Get the
48:35
merch going. Um,
48:37
>> bands family.
48:38
>> Thank you to all our supporters. 15
48:40
years we've done this on Sirius XM. A
48:42
lot of people, a lot of young folks grew
48:45
up listening to us. Now they in college,
48:47
now they're making music on their own.
48:49
>> Um,
48:50
>> they remember watching us on YouTube.
48:52
>> They remember watching the YouTube, the
48:53
Five Fingers, you know, all of the
48:55
different things, the freestyles,
48:57
>> like I'm going to get on sway one day.
48:59
I'm going get that boy, man. Only a few
49:03
have pride, [laughter]
49:04
>> but only a few remain standing, right?
49:07
Uh, but no, it's been a great runway as
49:10
we continue. Thank you, Heather. Thank
49:12
you to the team. Thank you to the
49:14
citizens that tune in.
49:15
>> Thank y'all too.
49:16
>> Thank you, man. We got and we got more
49:18
to do. Citizens, listen to
49:20
>> believe in yourself. Don't Don't worry
49:22
about that outside noise.
49:24
>> Amen.
49:24
>> Focus in. You'll find your joy and
49:26
happiness between your ears and in your
49:28
heart. Amen.
49:29
>> From the inside out. Everything you
49:31
think is possible,
49:33
>> know it's possible and it will become
49:35
possible. Okay. God be with you. Stay on
49:37
the right side of positivity. We going
49:39
to celebrate this weekend. This is Yada
49:42
Band's song called Friends is featured
49:44
on the album One and the Same.
49:47
>> Okay. And it's your first time hearing
49:49
it because I GOT THE ALBUM [laughter]
49:51
LIT. And on that note, we have nothing
49:55
left to say.
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