Transcript of Ep 580 - Skrilla (The 67 God)

The Wild Wild West.

Skrilla.

What's going on? That's it.

Thank you for coming to the podcast, bro.

What's your... So you? Matt. Matt. I'm Shane. Shane. Matt and Shane. All right, bet. Skrilla.

Yeah, Skrilla. It's nice to meet you, man.

Yeah, nice to meet you guys, too. Pumped you're on. You say, I'm on?

I'm pumped you're on, man. I'm pumped you're on the show.

Pump me on the show? No, I'm pumped.

Hell, no pause, bro. I'm pumped you're on the show. I'm excited. Don't say that.

No, dude. I don't know about pumping on the show.

I'm excited you're on the show.

You already know.

I wanted to get you on for a while.

Yeah, for sure. I remember when I first seen you all shit, though, probably like, you've been like a year, right? Yeah. I was watching the Kennington cameras. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

Dude, I was on a tour bus. I was on tour with Bert Kreischer, and we were just after the show hanging out. And I'm like, I think Big Jay Ogrison, he's a funny comedian. Yeah, he was like, Dude, check this out. And he put on the Kenzident cam. And I was like, That's Skrilla. I was like, What the fuck? And Yeah, we were watching. It looked sick up there, honestly. It looked fun.

Yeah, it was tough. I be out there all the time when I'm in the city.

Yeah, man. It was pretty cool. My second home. Yeah. So you grew up around there, right?

Yeah, I grew up in Kensington. Now where you've seen me at, though, that's not where I grew up. That's where all the cool people chill at that's from Kensington.

Yeah.

So I just chill over there. I'm from the heart, the middle of it, though. They ain't got no cameras right there. Yeah, true. There's the bad, bad sound in the middle of it, right there. When you see that's the outskirts. Where all the people, not to say it like that, though, but the fiends come to that side and just sit there and chill out. Because that's where the cops are. Everything is safe right there on that side. So that's the side.

The fiends seem Pretty chill.

Yeah, hell, yeah. They just like us.

Yeah, they seem all right.

Yeah, they're just like us. I just had a fucking show in Orlando. It was in Orlando, right? Where bro jumped off for the... This is my man. He from Philly, though. He's from Philly. He moved to Orlando, bro. He fucking jumped on. So when I got to the show, he already at the show. And when I seen him, he walked right up to me and grabbed me by, got my shoulder. Yo, bro, I just snuck inside your room. He told you to start. Yeah. And he got his fucking face painted as a clown. I'm going to show you a picture. He got his face painted as a clown. He got the red nose and everything. He's like, Bro, I fucking snuck in here, bro. You got to take me on stage with you. And I'm like, All right, I'm going to take you on stage. We get to the stage, we get to the stage, and I'm like, Yo, you could just come for probably one or two songs, and that's it, bro. Not too much. He get on stage. He's set there for the whole time, all every time. He's not leaving. Then he walked up to me and grabbed my shirt.

He said, Yo, bro, it's a trash. I got my setup, though. My setup is like, Kinsman. So I got the trash can. I got the tents. I got clothes. He tapped the trash can. He's like, Throw the trash in my face while I'm on the stage performing. So I'm like, damn, should I do this shit? I just did it. Bang. I hit him in the face with a trash can. He's like, Bro, now I need to do something else, bro. Just count off the three, count off the three, and I'm going to do something.

Is this while your show's going on? Yeah.

I'm before it. This guy rules. I'm rapping my songs, and he's whispering in my ear the whole time. Like, bro, count down the three, count down the three. So I'm like, all right, bet. We just going to count down the six, seven then. So I'm like, one, two, three. I 6, 7, he jumps off the trash can and jumps into the crowd, and the crowd didn't catch him. The crowd pushed him. He pushed him. He was trying to push him back on the stage. But when he jumped, he hit his face on the corner of the stage, and he fractured. He broke a bone in his skull. The air tunnels weren't going to his tunnels. The air tunnels that go to your brain. I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but he wasn't He had air, oxygen towards his brain.

Oh, shit. He got fucked up.

Yeah, he broke his entire eye socket, broke in his eye, whole entire. Right now, I can't even see that well. What's he doing now? He just ran away. He just ran out of the hospital. He escaped the hospital, too?

Yeah, he just ran out of the hospital. Facetime.

Facetime right now.

Also, I want to give you credit, you started the 6-7 A lot of people don't realize it. Yeah, for sure. It's sick.

Yeah, that shit's so global. Yo, my boy, what you doing? What's up, bro? Yo, I'm on a big podcast. I was just talking about-The boys. Is this 432? Yeah. Is this 432?

Hell, yeah. 432 hurts. Yeah, hell, yeah. That was the Hertz of the room.

Hey, I'm on a podcast, so I was just talking about you. Yo, what's good, bro.

What's up, dude?

How's your eye doing?

That's good. Tell him what you just did. Tell Matt, I was at the Funiest Affiliate when he won that shit.

Oh, nice. Hell, dude.

Hey, yo, tell him where you just ran out of the hospital, though.

Oh, Jesus, man.

I ran out the hospital because they wouldn't give me no pain meds.

It's fucking bullshit.

You know what happens. Did they see the video? No, I didn't see the video. I just was explaining it to him, though.

Story's pretty good.

Show him the video. Don't understand, bro. Don't know, I'm a little Philly rat. It's nice to meet you, boy.

Nice to meet you, man.

All right, love, bro. I'll call you in a little bit. Yeah, there he is. Yeah, thank you. All right, I'll call you in a little bit.

That's awesome.

I didn't think he knew who you all were. Yeah, he's from Philly, though.

How the hell the show has been, man.

I'm going on to my third tour show, my third show on tour. It was going great. I just had my last show, so My first two shows was in Miami and Orlando. Out of the roof. It was crazy.

When were you in Orlando? No, when were you? I was just there.

Like, literally three, four days ago. Okay.

Three days ago. Damn, you just missed each other.

Yeah, just missed it.

That show was a movie, too. But I just had a show in... This Houston? All right, so I just had a show in Houston. Yeah? Yeah. How was that? I don't know. It probably was because I didn't promote it a lot though, but it was probably only 100 people there. But the venue only carry 200 though. That's fine. It was like half full though.

What venue was it? Yeah, we've all performed there. That's awesome.

When it don't be at I'm going to be a lot of people, and I'll be able to feed off a lot of energy. I get a little nervous. Of course. Yeah. You know how it is, though. When you perform it and everybody's not... But it still was a great show, though. I'm not saying it was a bad show. It was a great show, though. I was I was expecting, Marcia. You know how the nervous shows are when you leave off of the show. It's like, Did you do good or did you not do good? You just in your head.

Yeah, it's hard to tell.

Are you getting young kids coming now because it's 6, 7?

Yeah, hell, yeah.

Every single... So any sporting event I go to, any time a camera is on a kid, every single time, they go, 6, 7.

No, that shit is crazy, though. That shit is crazy. I never expected no shit like that for over that song. She's crazy. Kim Kardashian even doing it.

Who were you just on stage with? The lady who sings, what's that song?

Yeah, Natashia Benefield. That's awesome. That's my baby girl. I love her. Yeah, she's great. I love her. We're about to do a remix. We just doing a remix, 67. We actually doing a song. I forgot what it's called, though. It's a song called... I know you guys know it, though. It's called Xime. It's like a country song. She wanted to do it. Damn. Let me see.

Can I ask you something real quick? Do you still have your pet Alligator?

Yeah, I just texted my mom earlier the day to go over to my house and feed it.

How long have you had it?

Probably about a year.

How big is he getting?

He's probably getting fucking big.

He's like, I had him for probably about a year and some change.

You got an Alligator in Kensington?

That's where I bought it. It's crazy.

How did you get that?

It's crazy because I bought it in Kensington. I bought the Alligator in Kensington. It was a fiend walking around.

Had some alligators?

It was a fiend walking around with an Alligator. Crazy to say. Just walking around. I was shooting a video, and I just happened to see somebody walking by with an Alligator walking by. And I'm like, Yo, what you want for it? I'll buy it off of you right now. He's like, No, this is my baby. And I'm like, Bro, I'll give you whatever you want. I'm like, What do you want? He's like, $50. He fucked up. Yeah, I'm like, Yeah, let me get it for sure.

Not the best negotiation. How much would you have paid for the Alligator?

He couldn't even buy Madden. He could have told me whatever.

He was one Alligator away from getting the Deluxe John Madden video game.

He could have told me whatever I would have paid.

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So the Alligator, how do you take care of an Alligator?

Yeah. So I got a cousin. I got a cousin. I don't know how she's not scared to grab the Alligator the way she is, though. She just goes in there, grabs it. I'm scared, though. So when I want to play around with it, I'll call my cousin. Like, Yo, you're coming to my house, bro. What you doing? You bored? Come to my house. She'll come over and she'll just pick it up. But when I feed it, I just get little tonsils and drop the mouse in there. What do you feed?

Oh, you feed it mice?

Yeah, I feed them mice. I feed them rats.

Where does it live from? Does it live in a tank or ?

Yeah, I got I got a balcony in my complex. I got a balcony, and the tank is probably about the size of this part of the car. That's awesome. Yeah. So he's just in the tank. I got to feed... No, I said feet. I got to clean it out. I'll be scared to take it out and clean it. So it's like a dirty tank right now. It's swampy right now.

But your mom's handling the alligator right now?

Yeah, she about to. I just texted her this morning. She should have probably went over there and fed them already. Damn. Yeah.

Yeah. Has it bit you yet?

No, but it tried. When I first got it, I didn't have a tank for it.

I saw it in your shower. There's a video where it was just an alligator in the shower.

You were the first rapper to get bit by an alligator.

When I first got it, I didn't have nowhere to put it. And it never caused my mind to put it in the shower. So I had it running around the entire house for two days.

They mostly stay still, right?

Every day while I'm sleep.

Because you're running around.

Yeah. In my house, I don't got a bed set up. I got a bed, but I don't got the What is it called? The frame? Yeah. I don't got a bed. I just got a bed, and the bed's on the floor. I just bought a king-size bed and just threw them on the floor. Just imagine, just threw it on the floor.

You're Alligator range.

So when I'm laying down, I'm laying down right this low. So when I first got it and put it in the house, I couldn't even go to sleep because I lost them. The friend had lost them and I couldn't find them, so I just couldn't go to sleep for two days straight.

There's an Alligator in the fucking house. I can't sleep if I saw a spider. If I saw a spider before I turned the lights out, I'm... That fucker's in here. You got a gator going down there.

That's so terrifying. Yeah, I couldn't sleep. If there was a gator on the loose, Yeah. So even a baby gator bite would fucking hurt, wouldn't it? Yeah, they're like, hell. Damn.

Yeah, and they do like a death twirl. When they latch on to their jaw, their jaw is really strong. Their jaw is strong on their nose. And when they bite, when they get bigger, though, they'll just spin their body. They just keep spinning. It's called a death twirl.

They can spin like that. Yeah. That'd be a terrible way to wake up. You're saying a death twirl? Yeah.

Got your foot ripped off. God damn.

So what are you going to do when it gets... I guess, are I know iguanas only grow so big as their tank. What are you going to do when the thing gets...

It's the same thing with the alligators, though, too, though. But they're always going to outgrow the tank. They're not like iguanas, though. They grow. They're still going to grow, but the process of their growth is slower, though, while they're in the smaller tank.

Got you.

Just put them out on Kentican. Just put them out on Kentican. Don't take care of it. Somebody will get it.

When they get older, I'll probably just move them back to the top. Yeah.

Yeah, now you have no choice. You got to get the big mansions. You can get an alligator. You can put them in a moat outside your house. That'd be tight.

That's my whole plan, though. That's what I was going to say. Get a moat? Yeah, because he grew up with me. He got it out of the mud with me.

What's his name? Does he have a name? Yeah, Trink. Trink?

Oh, my God.

Yeah, I was so excited to have you on. I saw you do No Jumper the first time. Yeah. And you're off the Galaxy Gas now?

Yeah. That shit's bad, dude. I didn't even know what it was when I was doing it. Yeah. I just went in the smoke shop, and I saw it, and I'm like, What is it? And he told me, it's like hippie crack. I'm like, Fuck it. Let me try it. And it just went with my image, though. It just went with my image. I didn't even know what it was. I thought it was just nitrous? Yeah.

It looks cool as shit, though. The box looks cool. It says Galaxy Gas.

It's like a picture I remember that time I was playing poker. It was in North Philly. Yeah. Literally everybody else was just doing nitrous. I was like, I'm going to win. In between the hands.

Call a better call.

Well, apparently, if you do it, you can do it every now and again. If you go to the dentist or whatever, if you do even a little bit every day, your body stops producing like the vitamin B12. That's why people's legs go numb and shit. Did you get any of that or you were just like, I'm taking this shit too Yeah, exactly. You'll get shit legs pretty much forever. Look, I get it every now and again. What shit legs? Yeah. Looking at your phone on the toilet. Yeah.

Not luckily, though. No problem. That's good. Yeah. No health problems. That's good. Yeah. Thank God.

That's good.

I didn't even know what I was doing. So if I got health problems, I would have been questioning God, why do you do this to me? And I did it to myself.

I mean, it is crazy. They don't warn you. You're like, Yeah, you can do that.

Yeah, I didn't know.

It does make your voice sound cool as shit, though. Yeah.

I was doing it, and I was thinking it was cool. And then I got a lot of other people doing it, making it... So many people see me doing it. They're like, Oh, what's this girl doing? We're doing that, too. And then I actually Start really understanding what it is. And then I'm like, Fuck, man, I got so many people on this shit, and now I can't take it back from it. So it was like, I just completely stopped. Now let It had to be known, though. Let it be known. That shit is no good.

Yeah. Did you have an experience that turned you off from it, where you were like, no more?

No, I didn't really have any experience, though. I just got informed. Nice.

Who told you? Who pulled you aside? We're like, bro.

Instagram.

Trank. Trank. Trank one night.

He was like, Yo, cut that up. I'm high. I'm high as shit.

No, I don't know. But people land for me on Instagram. Instagram and shit like that. I might go through my comments, then other people, Yo, leave that shit on. And then what the fuck I was about to say? Oh, my memory. I would be thinking it's just me, naturally, though. But I don't know if it was that or just me. But my memory was gone a little bit. I'll be like, I'm going to go. I order Uber Eats, McDonald's, and forget. And remember, three days later, damn, where did I fuck my McDonald's at? And I go down to shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Somebody took the fries off. Oh, fuck. Now, that happens. My memory was short though. I had a very short, short memory.

I get that from booze. I'll fucking up, grub up something, fall asleep. Next day at fucking 1: 00 PM, I open the door, I go, Oh, fuck. Fuck. Fuck, I could have had a water burger. That would have been great last night.

Yeah, but my memory was I had no memory.

So what's the regimen now? I know you hit the vape all the time. It's just the vape.

No, I don't even really hit the vape. I just wanted to hit it right now.

Got you.

I hit the vape just once in a blue. I got something Where... I'm going to just say, I got a thing where drugs help me communicate. They help me communicate and be myself a little more. Without the shit, I'm more real quiet, chill, not really communicative. You know what I mean? I'm just more than myself. But it just helps me a lot with A lot of things, though. A lot of the things that come with my lifestyle, though. Making music and shit. A lot of shit. I just sign up for it, and that's just like...

Yeah. How long you been making music for? Eight years. Eight years? Yeah. Not bad.

Yeah. And that's been my big thing to go to on and make music.

I saw a clip of you where you were wondering if you were achieving unk status. I think you're far from an unk, dude. Say it again. I saw a clip of you. You were worried. You're like, I've been doing music for eight years. I don't know if I'm becoming an unk. And it was like, I was watching it like, dude, you're not an unk. These guys are unks, dude. That's unk, dude. You're still...

How old are you? I be hanging around a lot of people that's younger than me, my age and younger, though. A lot of my friends are my age and younger. So when I'm with them, I'm an unk, though. Right now, you all unks, though. I'm definitely not right now. That's true.

It does. Because you're 26, right? Yeah. You're not unk. You got to be at least 30 to be unk.

We're almost aging out of onk, dude.

What is after onk? Is there even anything after that? O-g? I can't wait to be an O-G, dude.

I think we're close.

We are close, actually. We're close. I'll be 40 this year.

45 is. You're an O. G. Your whole head is grand. What more do you want? You're right.

I have kids. I'm grand. I'm an O. G. Now, you're right. Thank you.

No, that's good. That's a blessing. A lot of people don't even make it past 21.

Yeah.

Definitely where I'll come from, they're not making it past 21 at all.

It's got to be crazy. Yeah. Now you're definitely ticking upward, man. What's the master plan? What are you trying to do?

I'm working on a master plan right now, though, but I'm knocking a lot of my little checkboxes off the board, though. A lot of things that I want to do with myself, though. One thing I'm working on is, well, I'm finally on a tour right now. Finally got a good song. I wouldn't say a hit, but I would say a hit. The 6-7 song. Finally got a hit song out right now. That shit been six, seven months ago, literally. And it's just now taken out six, seven months later.

Damn. What do you make of that? Yeah.

Because at first it was taken off, though, but now it's like everybody.

It stayed on SportsCenter. It said on During games.

Yeah, it just needed some time to soak in, though. But I got that out of the way. I'm working on my album. I want a couple of features that I don't got yet. I'm working on getting the rest of my body tethered. I'm getting my whole body tethered as a skeleton.

Just in time for Halloween.

I'm getting my whole entire body, and I'm going to start coming out with just a pair of draws on and some slots.

That's sick.

Skeleton body, skeleton mask.

I'm wearing this mask with my whole body tether as a skeleton.

I mean, that is the fucking master plan. That's awesome.

Yeah, that's cool.

Hell, yeah.

That's cool. Hopefully, I'm not wearing a suit So everybody dressed up as me for Halloween.

Dude, one of our friends' daughter's dressed up as you for Halloween. Big Jay's daughter. Oh, really? Dressed up as you for Halloween last year.

What the hell? She dressed up like what she do.

She's a blackfish.

No, she just wore... I don't know. I got to see the pictures again. But she just wore something you would wear. You know what it was? It was the big flowy pants. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Yeah, that's tough.

That's awesome. Yeah, you're capturing the minds of a lot of people, dude. It's pretty tight.

Yeah, it's tough. It's a blessing.

Who do you want to feature with? Natasha Benningfield.

Did that already?

Yeah.

But definitely, yeah.

If it could be anybody.

All right. Natasha. You haven't heard of Tierra Weck? Yeah. Tierra Weck? Search for Tierra Weck. We're not going to get a change. She's from Philly. She's from Kinsman, too. Really? Yeah, she's from Kinsman. You can definitely pull her You might see her walk around next time, too. No, I'm joking. But she's from Kensington. She's from Kensington, though. Tierra Weck. Search out Tierra Wack.

Who else? I feel like you could do that.

I feel like you definitely-Yeah, I just wanted to put her name in it. I just wanted to see her name. All right. I'm going to think. Let me think. All right, my number one. Tata the Creator.

Nice.

Tata the Creator and Kanye. Yeah, nice. Yeah, for sure.

That'd be pretty sick, actually.

Yeah, for sure. I look up to Kanye. He like the goat of rap. He's like, God of rap.

I think he is. He's pretty awesome. We've had this argument a lot, and We've all agreed consensus.

Yeah, I'm feeling Kanye. Yeah, he's a beast. I wonder what he's up to right now. Rained into some trouble.

Got himself into some trouble. Got a bit of a pickle with the Jews.

He'll give a fuck. That's what I like about him.

He does not give a fuck.

Yeah, I fuck with Kanye.

Yeah, that'd be cool. I think you could do it. I don't know. It could happen.

Who you all listen to? What's your taste of music?

I listen to a lot of it. I'm trying to think. I listen to everything, man. I listen to old folk music. I listen to some rap. I listen to pretty much everything, honestly.

What type of rap we listen to? You look like you take vacations. You got your shit packed up, the boots on top of the car. You might be good. Yeah, he does. He looks like he goes crazy. You look like the father off of Ozark. You're like the dad off of Ozark.

Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. No, who would be-Mine mostly is Drake and Kanye. Yeah, he's Drake and Kanye. Yeah, Drake. Out of my favorite rapper, besides you, obviously, Style. I like Style. I was I'm a big Style's P guy.

You listen to my music, though.

Yeah, dude. What are you talking about? For real? Yeah. Are you kidding me? I talk about your stuff all the time. I watch every video that comes out. I get genuinely excited for it.

Dude, that's tough. Yeah. You say me and who?

I like Style's P. Style. Yeah. From the locks. Remember JD Kitz? He's an old guy. I'm a fucking O. G. I listen to it.

I knew. I heard his name though.

There was another... Who was I just thinking about the other day? I was like, damn, I love them, too.

Codex up there. Codexcodak Black.

You've done stuff with Codak Black.

Yeah, Codak. That's my brother. I just wanted to film him yesterday. He having a Halloween party. He want me to be at the Halloween party. It's going to be so tight.

To be in Florida?

Yeah, in Tampa.

You should probably do that. Yeah, hell, yeah. That'll be fucking awesome.

Yeah, for sure. I'm going to go for sure.

What's your favorite city besides Philadelphia, obviously?

Florida.

You like Florida?

Florida, my number one city. I like it out here, though, too. I like it out here. I like it out here.

How do you like Chicago?

I love Chicago. Chicago is actually my number one. Is it really? But no, Florida is my number one.

Favorite state?

I like Florida, though, but I like Chicago more. I can't choose out of Chicago and Florida. It's like battle of the bands, for real. So Chicago and Florida is my number one.

What do you like about Chicago?

My family lives there. Oh, nice. Yeah, my family lives there. And I just like... I don't know. I just like it.

I see what you like about Florida. I could tell. Florida is crazy. They're fun.

Florida fucking rules. I love Florida. I like Florida and Chicago as well. They're both really good. Chicago is crazy because I didn't go there for the first time until I was in my 30s. It's amazing. I never even thought about it. My wife's from Chicago, and I went there for the first... She always be like, Chicago is so cool. And I'm like, Fuck Chicago. And then I went there, and I'm like, damn, this place actually rules. Chicago is super nice. Do you ever go in the beach, the beach and everything in Chicago? I never have. Dude, it's fucking awesome. She would always be like, Oh, it's a great lake. I'm like, It's not an ocean, man. It's bullshit. You go there, there's like real waves.

Yeah, it's fucking gigantic.

Massive. It's awesome. Chicago definitely rules.

Yeah, I like Chicago, though. My family's from out there. So when I'm there, I met my grandma. They raised me to my grandma's house all day. I got my own room over there. That's cool. In her house, I just go around, I just maneuver.

How's your family How do you feel about your success right now?

It's regular. They don't really care too much. I mean, unless you're talking about the younger ones.

Yeah, they're excited.

They're like, Yeah, six out of seven. The older one, my grandma, aunt, and mother, it's just like, Yeah, congratulations. I'm still the same person as always.

Are they ever on your ass being like, Bro, you better stop fucking around or anything like that?

What? Telling me to make music?

No, not with the music. Just with the-What shit I be doing?

Yeah. They've always been on my ass. My mom and father have been on my ass all my life, where it got to a point where it's just like him. Let him do his thing. There's nothing we could do.

He's going to get an allocated. There's nothing we can do about this. He's headed straight to getting an allocated.

What was school like for you? What was school like? Were Were you good in school?

I was good. I wasn't bad. I wasn't bad in school. I was a good kid. I wasn't going there, fighting I was just going to school and just not do nothing. That's the most I would do. I just would just go there and just hang around. I was like, Cool kid. Just chill, regular. Go to one of my friends' crib. I just Basically, you didn't do nothing for them. Nice. Yeah, I didn't do nothing. But I passed, though. I still passed. Everybody I hung with was smart. Everybody gave me the... I just passed off getting by. But other than that, though, I was going to school, going to my neighborhood, selling drugs, and going home doing the same thing. So I really had to... You had a nice routine. I was on house arrest from my entire high school. Were you, really? I was on house arrest from 10th grade I graduated.

Damn.

Yeah. From 10th grade to I graduated, I was in a house arrest. I was in drug and alcohol programs. I was in probation programs. So after school, I would have to go to program. I was Really on a real strict time and schedule. Then I had to be in the house right after program, and I would try to sneak and go do something before I go in and then go end up getting in trouble.

What'd you get in trouble for originally?

Selling drugs. They got you. Yeah, that was my big thing. That's the only thing that I had a problem with growing up. I just sold it. I just sold drugs. I got fucking dope tatted on my face.

It's a dead giveaway.

Son of a bitch.

Here in the police lineup, it's like, I'm pretty sure it's him.

That's him, officer.

How are Philly cops to you? Because I'm sure some of them definitely know you.

Yeah, growing up, though, they hated me, though. Growing up, I was just... I was John. I just didn't care. Yeah. Yeah. Growing up, though. But now, not till right now. Probably starting about a couple of years ago, I'm 26. Starting about five years ago, maybe four, a lot of the cops grew up with me. So now they know me from when I was 16 to now. Now when they look at me, they tilt their head to me. They're walking to me and shaking their hand. Yo, you doing it? They're happy for me.

That's cool.

A lot of them happy for me in their own type of way, though. They'll see me and they'll make jokes. Remember this? Remember you fucking asshole, dude? I'm not supposed to talk about it no more. All right, fuck it. I really didn't shoot him. I really didn't shoot him in his face though. I thought it was an accident. He just lied about it.

What a pussy.

You got to shout the water gun? He lied about it. I just was shooting the army gun towards their way, and they made something out of it that it didn't happen to be like, they just started It wasn't even all of them. It was just that one cop. He just started overreacting. I really didn't even mean it that way.

How old were you?

Like, huh? How old was he?

How old were you?

It just happened. Oh, all right.

What color was the water gun?

It was like two months ago.

Yeah, they arrested.

I guess if it's an adult man doing it to you. What color was the water gun? I thought you were a kid. I was going to be like, That sucks. Now, if an adult man shoots you with a water gun, you got to fight, dude. You got to fight.

How How much? Was it a Super Soaker? Was it a little Dollar Store water gun?

It was like the little Dollar Store, white and orange. It was like, I could shoot you in there, and you just going to laugh. I was just trying to be not their friend, but I was trying to be cool. Yeah, here he goes. What the fuck is he doing? If somebody shit you in the water guy, you're going to probably...

Yeah, if somebody shoots you with a water gun. You're going to find that. Yeah. If it was one of the ones with a backpack, it was like a Super Soaker 5,000, I could see him get a little bit miff. True.

Dollar store. There's ones on Instagram, they're like, electronic.

Yeah. No.

How far away from them were you?

From here, they're out of the door.

That's got some range on it. It's powerful water gun.

It didn't hit them.

It sounds like a Super Soaker.

It didn't hit them.

It didn't hit them.

I shot towards them, it didn't hit them.

Were they trying to claim It didn't seem like they thought it was a real gun?

They said something about it. I was on the news and everything about it. The shit was...

Was it a bright green water gun?

Or was it like-It was white and orange. Yeah. White and orange. It was just something taken out of the... I don't know how to say the big word for it.

Context?

I guess, context.

That's bullshit, man. But how long were you just locked up overnight?

I was in the district for a day and a half. I was sitting in the district for a day and a half. Day and a half for? Yeah. Springling? I was mad as shit. When I was doing it, he was locking me up. Their cops was all super mad at me, and they're exaggerating the situation. I tried to go in my cell, and I'm like, Can I take my hoodie? I had a tank top under my hoodie. So I'm like, Can I take my hoodie? Because it's cold inside the district. Can I take my hoodie? And they're like, No. So I'm in there with a tank top on.

He's like, Dude, I'm soaking wet. I've been playing with a water gun all the way.

And I'm cool as shit. They give me a fucking cell where it's fucking throw up. The district, the Kinsman district is where all the fiends go. And they've been going through withdraw. So it's like, Shit, where? Throw up everywhere, piss everywhere. So I'm in the set. So they actually put me in.

Could have used a super soaker in there. Clean it up a little.

They put me in a cell with multiple people. There was about five people. And While I was in the cell, everybody was running up to me like, Yo, bro, what you in here for?

It's a nightmare.

Yeah. And then I'm looking at the officer like, You're going to do this to me? I'm in it with a whole bunch of random people, and they're all like, Raining my face trying to talk to me. And I'm like, damn, can you at least put me by myself? And I'm looking at them. I didn't even say nothing, though. It was like after a minute left, they hear the people screaming, still talking to me. And I'm just sitting there talking back with a mad though. And they take me like, come on. They pulled me out. They took me to my own cell, but decided to put me in this throw up. This throw up in the corner. It's something like shit. It's like all this pee on the floor. So I had to I'm sitting there and lay on a certain part of the den. I'm sitting there with the coldest shit standing right here the whole time for a whole day and a half. And then I'm asking them for tissue. They didn't give me no tissue. They didn't give me no water, no food. I just was in there like a dog. Damn. Yeah.

But it was only a day and a half, though.

What did they actually charge you with?

A lot. Simplest, aggravated, saw a police officer, aggravated, symbolized, saw a police officer. Symbolus up police officer. And control. I forgot. It's called reep. It's like control of everybody. They're listening to me. Inciting, yeah.

Yeah, not supposed to be.

That's a whole bunch of different charges. They just threw the book at me. Damn.

They thought you were going to incite a water balloon. Yeah, a water balloon fight.

A water balloon fight. Damn. So, yeah, that sucks. You got to fight all that stuff because that's like jail time, isn't it? Assaulting an-I don't know. I don't think so. I don't want to sour the mood. My bad.

Yeah, I don't know. Hopefully not. We'll see, though.

Damn. There you go.

Yeah, we'll see.

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Nice. And while you're in Las Vegas, I'll be in the East Coast form of Las Vegas, which is Buffalo, New York. I'll be in Buffalo, New York at the Helium Comedy Club, 1017, 1018. I believe Off the Hook Comedy Club, Naples, Florida, 117, 118. Comedy on State, Madison, Wisconsin. The Blue Room Comedy Club, Springfield, Missouri. And Funny Bone Comedy in Syracuse, New York, 1219. Also, I believe one of them is getting canceled. I don't know if it's Bricktown or if it's the Blue Room.

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Please.

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I appreciate it. That'll be awesome. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Nice, man. You got to perform in ACL tonight, right?

Yeah, ACL.

Yeah, Austin. You all call it ACL?

Yeah, Austin City Limits. Yeah. Acl. Austin City Limits. All right.

You got Bone, and you call it ACL, too, right? Yeah. Yeah, ACL. I got a show tonight in a couple of hours at the festival.

Yeah.

Yeah. So I might go there right after I leave.

Where are you at next?

San Antonio. Oh, sick. Nice. San Antonio. And then I go to Chicago. I don't know the order, though, but I'm definitely going to Chicago. My family liveI live out here, too. Nice. Yeah. They live in Texas. Yeah, my family live in Texas. You know I'm Mexican.

Yeah.

So my mom, my family all lives out here. My mom's family lives out here in Chicago. That's where my family lives. My mom might come out here. She might meet me in Chicago, though, to meet the family.

Yeah. So I checked out your Wikipedia before this. Yeah. Saw the Mexican and then deep practiced Santa Maria.

Yeah, Paulo.

What's going on with that? I I'd know nothing about that.

Yeah. Not any going on like regular. That's my religion. Yeah. Yeah. Regular.

Pretty regular stuff? Yeah. Nice. Is there levels to it or you can't even talk about?

No, it is levels, though. Really? There's levels, yeah. You got it. They get ceremony. Yeah, you go to this different. It's different levels, and it's different branches of it, though, too, though. It's a lot of different. You have to really look into it. Look into it, yeah. Yeah. It's not nothing that I can- Isn't it like a combination of Catholicism, like Spanish Catholicism, and native religions?

Could be. That's what I always assume. Yeah. Do they-I was like...

I think so.

Yeah, it's like, I don't know what cathedology means, though.

Just Christianity, like a cross. Yeah. Jesus. Yeah.

I feel like every religion is like cathology.

Yeah.

I feel like every religion is like cathology. Yeah. You look in. I mean, Jesus is pretty chill looking at him. Yeah.

You said Jesus is pretty chill looking at him.

You could look into that, too.

Do you think Jesus looks like the impression everybody shows?

No, he was Jewish.

He was Yeah, he looks-Aramaic.

He's Aramaic, yeah. So I think he looks like a-You say he's Aramey?

He was Aramaic. What's that? That's where he was from, the Arameya.

It's like the desert, basically.

Yeah, like Palestine, Israel, where that is right now.

So which all are?

Catholic. Catholic? Yeah.

I went to a Catholic school, though, too. Nice. How did it go? Yeah, great. I went to a Catholic school. It was great. But it was just a good school, for real. Yeah. Yeah. And they got like, yeah. I always used to go to the Catholic Church in school. Growing up to school, growing up to school. It was like a real good school. It's boring, huh?

Yeah.

No, it was actually fun.

Oh, nice. Do you like Catholic Church?

Yeah. The church was right next to the school. Yeah.

Yeah, we both went to Catholic school. Yeah, we went there.

You all went together?

No, just different ones.

Yeah, I'm from Harrisburg.

Harrisburg. You're close to the crib? Yeah. Harrisburg, three hours?

Yeah, two. Two? Outside of Philly, yeah.

Where are you from?

Delaware County, right outside of Philly.

How the fuck you all get out here?

Just some doing comedy.

Yeah, we met in Philly, did stand up there and then moved down here. Yeah, I got you. Yeah. And then he's Lancaster, Jersey, and he's Redding.

You look like a football player. Thank you so much. I had lived in Delaware for a little bit, too.

Where?

Yeah, I don't even know. Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know. I got an apartment complex. I got kids, so I always tried to live on the outskirts of Philly, though. Always since they were born. I just started. I moved Straight out of Philly. I always stayed on the outskirts. But I lived in Delaware. I'm not sure exactly where in Delaware. I live on the outskirts right now, too. Is it Norristown or Delaware?

No, Norristown is right outside of Philly. Delaware is like, yeah, you go down south.

I come to Philly a lot, though.

Yeah. Was there this week.

Yeah, I know you did tell me that.

Yeah. I love Philly.

Yeah, I love Philly, too.

It's the best. As soon as I got back, I was like, Oh, It does rule. I want to move back.

You like Philly better than out here?

I don't know. It just depends where I'm at. I always want to be somewhere else.

It depends on what you're doing.

I like here. I like because it's warm all the time. It's nice. Here, I have little kids, and it's safer, obviously, out here. Philly is crazy, man. I had my kids for the first couple of years in Philly, and it was just like... It was fine, but there was just shit happening. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it was like car jacking, just shit. It was It's just annoying. Yeah. But yeah, my wife moved from Chicago, and she was on Gerard Ave. And day three of living there, some guy, two doors down from her got shot in his house, and it was just like, shit gets old after a while. Yeah, it gets scary. Yeah. So she When you have little kids, you're like, Yeah, fuck that, man.

Yeah, for sure.

Nice, man. I don't want to keep you from your show.

You got your show, bro.

It was a blessing coming up here, though.

Bro, thanks for coming.

I appreciate it. I never thought I would make it up here before, ever. It's I love coming up here.

Yeah. Hell, yeah. It's a lot of traffic. You guys are in a battle of traffic getting back down to the festival.

It's a good podcast. You all could be interviewing the president and shit like that.

We said no to that. We said no I'm good of that.

Much rather talk to you, honestly.

We don't want politics on you.

Yeah. Sorry, Pete Buttaje, but you can't get on the podcast.

Kamala was begging to get on. No way. Kamala still wants on us. No, Kamala.

But no, man. Dude, I'm telling you, I've been talking about getting you on forever. I'm pumped.

Every time I come on here, though, I'll jump in. All right. Hell, yeah. I'm going to fuck with out here, though.

For sure. Dude, you skateboard, too. We can go to the skate park.

Skate park is out here?

Yeah, there's one right near my place.

I just started to skateboard. I always skate where it's as a kid, but now I'm just not trying to get good.

We'll go. There's a real skate park. They have ramps and everything. It's pretty fun. All right, man.

What you all doing the rest of the day?

Chilling. I got to go home, watch my kids.

You're an O. G. For real. Ogie.

My wife's going to a church group, a church group, and I'm going to watch my kids. I'm an O. G, man. Yeah. She's going to like, women's night at the church. I might roll up while she's there. See if it's good.

Check it on the women's group.

Check on the women's group.

Present them with some sin.

Lust. You don't got no dates coming up in Philly, though?

No. No, man. I just did Helium when I was home. If I'm home, I just do Helium. It's cool.

You do us in a blue. Yeah.

I'm still putting my whole thing together for the year, so I'm going to try to make it down there for sure, because I just did Atlantic City, and I feel like a lot of people from Philly went down there, so I don't want to give them the same material.

You all come see Kensington.

Dude, that'd be sick. With me.

That'd be fun.

That would be actually a blast. I tried to shoot for my first comedy special. I did an intro where I was just on Rollerblades around the city, and my idea was to go down in Kensington Ave, and it was just so crowded that day, and we were filming, and I'm on Rollerblades, which people didn't... No one bothered me. I was on the blades, but we had a camera guy in a trunk with a big camera, and that started getting a lot of attention. And then everyone was getting like, I don't know.

Oh, yeah. You don't want to be on camera.

But we did. You see it, I'm up there, and I'm on Rollerblades, and a guy just walks out and goes, boom, like that to me. And I was like, Jesus.

I was pretty.

It was right in Kansas and Allegheny, and I cut right through the intersection.

You don't play the PlayStation or nothing?

Yeah, we had the Xbox. Xbox.

Xbox, I see. You don't play the PlayStation.

That's probably what I'm doing. No, I just got an Xbox. No PlayStation.

You don't like the Xbox?

No, I did, but I got on a PlayStation. Playstation better. I play granddad photo. I got a big group. That game's so fucking fun. My PlayStation person is just like me. He got a skeleton face. He got a suit on right now.

Oh, hell, yeah.

He drive the same car I got. That makes me like,.

Yeah, When I go back home, I go back to my right of life.

You guys are pretty similar.

Never get a break from it.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, GTA rules, man.

Yeah, that's my shit. I wait for GTA 6 to come out.

Yeah, they've been waiting. It's been a decade.

And they're going to have 6-7 on there, too. It's going to be Florida.

Sick. Isn't it Florida?

6-7 on there.

Oh, 6-7s on it? Fuck, yeah.

That's awesome.

That's going to be cool.

Definitely going to be me and my own person on there. Playing my own music. Yeah.

Got to get an Alligator. You got to talk to Rockstar. Get your character and an Alligator. Yeah. You got to get a twerk in the game.

Do you keep it pretty chill on GTA, or are you going nuts and running people over and shit?

I'm killing.

So you're the reason I can't play. I try to get on. Someone just-I get the notification.

I get the notification, and it's like, come. It's It was like something calm down. Yeah, they're trying to take you out.

I just had my show.

I just had my show.

You have your set list?

No, I just had a show. Who brought me out? Nba Youngboy brought me out. Oh, nice. I just had a show. Nba Youngboy brought me out. I pulled up. I bought a 1946 Lincoln. I just see 1967, Lincoln. Continental.

Continental. Continental.

Continental. Yeah, and I wear the suit. Yeah, I had a drop-top. I'm not going to show you.

Damn.

Yeah, this shit was just tough.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I had a drop-top. Lincoln, Continental with the- That's fucking sick, dude. With the mask and the suit on. Yeah, that was tough. Polo started in 1967, so all the Polo stuff started in 1967.

So all the polo stuff. Oh, shit. That's tight.

Polo a lot lately.

Nice.

6, 7 stuff.

That is wild. I kept seeing that, then I was like, I had to go back and I'm like, I sound so I was familiar, and I was like, Oh, shit. That's from your song. Yeah. Because some people don't know. Some people think it's from- Most people don't.

Yeah. I feel like most people don't.

So I'm trying to raise awareness to the internet, give you cred for starting the global trend.

That's tough, though. It's a blessing. Just Even hearing people screaming the words. It came out of my mouth anyway. Yeah. Yeah. 6, 7.

All right. Well, dude, thank you, man.

That's it.

On three, we got to do 6, 7. Yeah. One, two, three.

6, 7.

Bro. Thank you. Nice to meet you, man.

You're great, man.

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