Broke Boyz From Fresno
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Broke Boyz From Fresno
From Fresno to Fame: Blair the Captain's Creative Evolution
Blair the Captain joins us to discuss his upcoming performance at Dog Daze Festival and his musical journey from Fresno to building connections with established artists in the industry.
• Expressing concerns about school safety in Fresno and the changing youth culture
• The significance of Dog Daze Festival for Fresno's music scene and culture
• Blair's excitement about performing on the Hyphy Stage alongside major artists
• How his hit song "Still Hyphy" represents his sound and Bay Area influences
• Upcoming projects including "Misfit" EP with producer Willie G and "EMU (Emotionally Misunderstood)"
• The importance of versatility as an artist who can blend hyphy, mosh pit, and R&B elements
• Building connections with artists like SOB X RBE, Rio, and Desto Dubb
• Balancing confidence and humility while navigating the music industry
• Supporting local artists and creating opportunities within Fresno's music scene
• The entrepreneurial mindset of expanding beyond music into business ventures
Make sure to stream Blair's new album "Trapology 101" and look out for his upcoming singles "Misfit" and "Hands On Your Knees" dropping soon.
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Intro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)
Christmas Intro Song by Nico
That was crazy, bro.
Speaker 2:I have a strong intuition about that. My niece and my nephew, you know, they just started school. Yeah, and it's just not the same.
Speaker 1:It's not, bro. The energy is so weird bro.
Speaker 2:Like I don't really want my kids to go to school, like just right now I do want them to go. Experience that.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Go on and have friends, but it's a crazy fucking thing right now bro Anything could, friends, but it's a.
Speaker 1:It's a crazy thing right now. Anything could be. You can't predict it. And then, on top of that, you seen how they've been putting their.
Speaker 3:You wouldn't think like back back in the day, used to be like gang rivals. You would know the, the intentions, you would know why is happening.
Speaker 4:Yeah, today, you don't know what the is going to happen. To be honest, though, bro, you know what they saying though people putting shrines and on their they way so like everything, propaganda from everything, like everything outside, but when it comes down to a certain music and wave and frequency, certain niggas do practice not christianity or even believe in the god they put shrines on their music, which could lead to possession, depression.
Speaker 4:It's certain shit that like give you a down tone to make you how you is, but it's more or less like what you're more accepting to and what your faith is in, because demons and people that are like easily swayed. They get possessed by weakness, struggle or depression, or like just you know they pray, but they get praise on people Like I seen the movie. I was watching the movie Nigga, the Woman in the Yard.
Speaker 2:I was watching that movie and I was like I heard about that Brother it's I was watching a movie a one minute in the yard. I was watching that movie and I was like I heard about that brother hey, how you start this. I feel like that should be good.
Speaker 4:Oh, sorry, sorry but yeah, that's that. That's the whole thing, though I'm on some to where it's like, think about that, like somebody don't wake up and be like i'ma. Just some people do like. Some people have those thoughts. I've been in certain dark places to where I feel like it's the end and I'm like it. But no, it's not like. It's not like that, bro, it's like more or less like it's a mindset, it's perception nigga like if these kids are like getting neglected.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they are impressionable, but if you're getting neglected and then you're impressionable and you're looking at this shit and you're like my life fucking sucks, man, it's a cruel world that we live in.
Speaker 3:I mean you saw, you saw. I don't know you guys saw, but a couple days ago about that seven-month-old baby, just because the dude has I don't know anger issues or what, and just they found the baby's head or whatever.
Speaker 3:And they lied about the whole thing, saying that they kidnapped their child. They did it on live TV. But then, after a week goes by, they stopped cooperating with cops and then they started thinking like oh, it was the parents that did it. And, sure enough, little by little, like I think the other day they had told them like we're about to do with this massive search right here by the freeway. It's, it's just best for you just to confess, tell us where you buried the body or tell us where you dispose of it, right, and then dudes, just in handcuffs, just like somewhere around here, I don't know. It's like bro, what the fuck?
Speaker 4:That's it.
Speaker 3:It's just a crazy, it's a cruel world that we live in nowadays.
Speaker 1:And again I mean back on the topic of like wanting to bring your kids into school. I mean somebody was talking about how they put those phones in those cases now, and then they take them and you can't open it. Yeah brother, somebody was just talking about it, somebody was just talking about yesterday. Okay, with all the the upscale uh trend of school shootings and stuff like that, why would you take your child, somebody's child's phone away from them when you know?
Speaker 4:it's a possibility that that waves to like is they worried about the emergency or that, or are they worried about like, oh, you texting on your phone, like, that's that thin line between like, okay, well.
Speaker 1:But my safety yeah, and so it's like I don't.
Speaker 4:That's a pick, if you want your kid to go to a school. You could get texted your kid from inside the class know what's going on. Yeah, you got to raise them to where I can't contact them inside the school. So I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1:That shit is lame and it's all parenting style. Make sure your kids know, hey, during certain times, bro, put that phone away and lock in, do what you got to do. When you're on recess, whatever you can be on your phone, but whatever whenever you're in school, work, but it's, it's like it's so upsetting, bro. And then, after hearing what happened this morning, I'm like why are we allowing this to happen? So I mean, obviously nobody's. You can't parent somebody else's child, you can't parent somebody else's parent. That's the hardest part. Um, but fresno, bro, we got to do better on that y'all.
Speaker 3:Wilder man, that's just crazy. Like I the, what we grew up isn't going to be the same from what our kids are going to grow. Yeah, because we grew up around a lot of the gang violence, a lot of the retaliation, the rivals. You got people from this side. Don't cross this other side. I mean, you got the ogs that ran the whole block and that you respected and they would check all the youngins right now. You don't got that.
Speaker 4:You got none of that you got none, no guidance in these streets. These kids is out here running rampant.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy because I was asking a question how does a kid in elementary school get access to a gun, exactly who the parent for show had to have? It had like sitting around or showed their kid the gun, and it's like there's a certain age for all that. Bro, my dad didn't show me straps until I was like 16. I knew about it before video games.
Speaker 4:Obviously I grew up on other stuff, but I didn't need to know, where none of that was at at that age what am I going to do with that information? At the age of 12 years old, under the mental capacity of somebody like I don't know what dude was dealing with.
Speaker 4:He probably knew where his dad gun was for whatever other reason his, whatever they going through like because, like I think a lot did you learn gun safety and not gun safety but like how to shoot it, and shooting the gun at a young ass age, like my grandpa taught me that. So like I drunk, at a young guy say I drunk wine at a young guy says like my grandpa told me that, but it's more or less like it's generations, bro, that's a whole different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a different generation we lived, we lived.
Speaker 4:The trenches Watts is not safe, but we made it what it was. It was home. We had to defend our home, though, he told me that that's why it's like him. My grandpa was like a limping man. He didn't you know, but he still went hunting and shot guns and rabbits and shit. So it was like, okay, well, it's mental capacity, but my mental capacity since a young kid, was okay well damn, I see what's going on.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have to take care of my family right like, and then I understood like these are not nothing to play with.
Speaker 4:Right. This is life or death, right, if it come down to it. Yeah, it's time yeah, we not in a generation to where I feel like there's, I don't, I don't trust no kid in in the 2000s. It's crazy bro. And they be looking at us like oh, 98 or 90s or 8. Like that's old, like nah, y'all young as hell, y'all 2000 babies is dead bro.
Speaker 2:Born in 07 is crazy.
Speaker 1:It's crazy bro Born in 05 is crazy. I'm born in 2000. I'll admit it, but I'm sorry to youngins after 2004.
Speaker 4:Like I said, oh let me not diss you gang, nah, nah.
Speaker 1:Some of y'all 2000s.
Speaker 4:Is locked in. Y'all know, y'all understand it. Like you feel me, I'm a zillennial, though Like I'm in between the millennials and I'm 98, like it's like.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Google happened when I happened, you feel me Right. I grew up with that.
Speaker 3:It's crazy. I grew up around All the OGs that because now you're getting your ass beat by all of them. Yeah, are you?
Speaker 4:hunting or something like if you out hunting or but like that's the whole thing though, bro, how you gonna have a mental capacity as a kid like I'm gonna take this to school and do this, like if you know your kid is like kind of off, or you just know, like, okay, I'm not gonna show him where it is at. Yeah, you got to be on that, and if you're not a parent to be on that, you don't need to be around your kid with that.
Speaker 2:You need to have that somewhere.
Speaker 4:They're not around, yeah, but I did the kid the kid's good though, right like the kid's good.
Speaker 3:They, from what I read, they rested they disarmed him.
Speaker 1:They arrest him. Everybody was here.
Speaker 3:He just dropped the gun yeah, like he, he got scared and just dropped it, which I'm glad it ended that way, because the traumatic experiences those kids around him probably would.
Speaker 1:Oh my god anyways. Um, I'm just glad it went that way, but at the same time we got to do better. Uh, yeah, I would have figured, with our generation growing up and witnessing, obviously, what happened back in days with the very first trend of school shootings, we'd have been like nah, like that's unacceptable. It's's common sense. Don't put a gun where your kid has access to it at that, which is scary.
Speaker 3:Like you see school as a safe environment. Yeah, and you shouldn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 4:I felt hella safe at school. I swear, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:when I was in high school it was the only thing.
Speaker 3:Now, like it's the complete opposite Like my girlfriend, she works at an elementary school. Girlfriend, she works, she works at an elementary school. Yeah, and I'm just like I can't even imagine, like she tells us about the trainings that she has to go through and I can't really specify much about it, um, but some of those trainings are just intense, yes, and I can't even imagine having a teacher and just dealing with all that, that thought in the back of your head, bro.
Speaker 1:It's like teachers don't get paid enough. I'll tell you that much Exactly.
Speaker 3:They do not get paid enough for that, bro, exactly. Well, this is going to be such an enlightening episode for sure, my bad. We talk about Fresno, we're from Fresno, so this is a lot of the norm, I guess you could say, for us, but we're here for a very special event, very special occasion. My bad, this is a special occasion, yeah, so we're here to highlight dog days, so all right, my bad. So I'm here today with a special guest and with my boy, dj, of course. Welcome back, blair the Captain.
Speaker 4:Second interview ever. First interview was with the Broke Boys of Fresno. Second interview is with the Broke Boys of Fresno. Shout out to them. They understand. Wherever I pick up my other interview, I'm going to still shout them out. So just know that.
Speaker 3:A lot of people picked it up. Let me tell you a lot of people loved their episode.
Speaker 4:I loved it. You think you think other. You think other podcasts or like other interviewers, would look at my interview and be like I want to kind of talk to them too kind of interview them.
Speaker 1:Oh, hell, yeah, for sure, absolutely.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm trying to you know what I'm saying, brother. I want to be like okay, well, this is my first second interview with them, bro yeah, they found it that they found it player the Captain on the interview podcast level, because everybody else shit was like it was more for something else. Like this is more or less like the dog days and then, like my name is about, like it's attached to this, so I feel like okay.
Speaker 3:And that's the important thing, bro is like, for the platform is to show who you are as an individual, and I always made sure, like, hey, you got the platform, the floor is yours. It's not the other way around, where I'm coming here and I'm using you, or hey.
Speaker 2:Rob Markman. Exactly Rob Markman. No, it's the opposite.
Speaker 3:Talk your stories, talk about this, talk about X, y and Z, like we literally talking about Fresno, because you from.
Speaker 4:Fresno, yeah, yeah, it's a home. It's home, though, bro. I blew up out here. I'm walking on City Hall. I love Fresno, bro, so it's different, and I got generations like my cousin used to be out here when he was younger like from LA, like you know, like it's like it's a little, it's a little loop between LA and Fresno that people don't know it runs through your veins somewhere.
Speaker 3:No, I'm.
Speaker 4:Fags bro, I fuck with Fresno heavy. It's the first I feel like I got real recognition out here. But then I feel like it's more or less like the people in LA that I fuck with and my home base. They already know it's like damn once you accept it in different places and they see you the same way. That's when it click Like damn. That's him Like okay, we fuck with this. It's who we back, it's our dude or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I fuck with that. Yeah, I fuck with Fresno.
Speaker 4:Shout out Fresno man For real. Everybody out there, my peoples, everybody y'all know.
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Speaker 4:You feel me and it's, you know, chosen life shout out jsp, new brand chosen life. In core, he inquiring his studio with the brand, which makes it more like, yeah, I want to wear, that's like wearing, if I want to wear no jumper shit because it's no jumper yeah, and shout out jsp, bro, keep doing your thing. Chosen life. I'm gonna have to flick up in this and be on the lookout for JSP's new drop.
Speaker 1:Hey, we got some pretty hot shit coming out with JSP. I'm just giving you all the heads up. I'm not going to specify Not too much right now, not too much, but be on the lookout. Tapping with JSP on Instagram Definitely got some hot shit coming. But another, but yeah, another podcast with my boy blair. Bro, this is gonna be a good one. So we got dog days coming up, yeah, september six, bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So are you hyped for it, bro? What? What are your plans for the day I get in that?
Speaker 4:mold. I get in that mud. I don't hear nobody but myself with chicken piece. Yeah, free chicken people. I swear to god I'll be like bro. I'm canceling out all the noise. I lock in and say these are songs at home. With these I jump around in my own element and literally, bro.
Speaker 4:It's a process. I feel like I just like I be trying to cancel out shit to make the best out of it. I'm finna present myself. I want to be the best when I present myself. None the less you feel me Like I want to come rock that. Motherfucker bro. I'm used to lights. Thousands of people lights. I fuck with that. We know me and my whole group. I'm known for that, bro. We bring the lights and the energy. Bro. Car control, I got all that. I don't even have to really say that because I'm on the stage.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4:I got video evidence of all this. I fuck with the fact that a nigga really get this big stage to even. I appreciate Dog Days and Devin for doing this and recognizing me to be like, okay, you could be on this stage.
Speaker 1:Cool yeah, heck yeah and it's good seeing artists from fresno being able to be on that big stage bro chain smokers bro and smokers bro I want something just like no, that's that though, bro, for real, it's gonna be an exciting event. Um, main question, bro, I'm not gonna ask you what you're gonna perform. That's, that's the anticipation. We're going to want to see what you're going to perform there, but who are you excited to see there?
Speaker 4:To be honest, I'm excited to see Summer Rae. Okay, respectable.
Speaker 2:Shout out Summer Rae.
Speaker 4:I've been following her for a little minute. I'm excited to see. I want to meet P-Lo. I ain't never met P-Lo. He's buzzing so I want to connect with him. I feel like I could build a bridge with these Lil Bae artists off this, being on the same plateau and being like, look bro, I got this song, because I do got a song. That's like it's a Bae derived song but it's from out here. I made it. I'm a LA born dude and came with a Fresno dude and made a song called Still Hyphy Rob.
Speaker 4:Markman and now the beat go crazy, bro. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna get a remix on that mug and all types of. I want to do some, bro, so it's like I might be able to bridge some gas and and talk to maybe connect the network. I want to. I'm excited, I ain't gonna lie, though. I'm excited to see sob again too. Yeah, yeah, last time I seen them, we we sold out damn near with them, bro, like we had big concerts with slb before.
Speaker 1:So man, it's gonna be crazy for sure, yeah yeah, chain smokers, for sure, for sure, bro.
Speaker 4:Who else on that flyer? Oh, and you, I want to meet him. I want to meet bankroll. Hey, didn't see what they talking about yeah I remember, I remember them from way back to the like when they when they started, and shit too, they're dope some some names on there, bro.
Speaker 1:There's some names on there, bro, and seeing local artists implemented with the bigger artists. It's like Devin. I don't know how you did it, bro, but I'm glad you made it happen. This is what Fresno needed, and I know there's a lot of other people saying the same thing. Like this is exactly what Fresno needed.
Speaker 3:Everybody agrees with it, for sure.
Speaker 1:The Hyphy stage, the Latin stage, the EDM Bro, the EDM is about to go crazy we have a few people that we're interviewing the day of yes, because they gotta be, they fly in to Fresno yes, the day of okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a great event, man, and seeing that, seeing artists like you being showcased for this, it's a big, big inspiration.
Speaker 4:I feel like I fit this you know what I'm saying like I feel like I fit this, bro. Like when I get on that stage and rage yes, it wasn't fit for no club, because they don't. I could got club music, though, and I got like that, but I feel like this is meant for like, like bro I want to turn.
Speaker 3:It comes full circle. Do you feel like it comes full circle from everything that you've been through?
Speaker 4:yeah, bro, and I feel like rather hard work, talent, whatever put a person in what they do is more or less like dedication to what you do. That do give you that full circle element. Damn, I have been doing this for a minute. It's my first festival. Oh, this is my first interview. It's my say oh, I'm barely, I'm barely getting started. Let's take over and let me turn it up, let me do me and show them what it is, because I usually do me, me low key, so I do need to implement certain shit. I feel like we in a whole different age, bro, it's a social media age, bro, 2016.
Speaker 4:I'm doing shows at the Novo Famous X. I'm late to the show. I'm missing shows. Nigga, those are big events. I'm just like man.
Speaker 2:Rob Markman, the Famous Dax.
Speaker 4:I'm backstage still, though different and shit like that. It's like damn, bro, like I'm trying to get to a point to where it's like okay, this is what I'm getting roses because they like damn, he has been putting that work in. Let's see what he like. You know it take time to do this, but people think it's easy. You'll be go broke, stupid and in all types of shit before you even reach what you want to do. And it's like damn bro, like this is real, it's levels to it. So I respect all the hustle and everything I put the hustle in. I'm going to still put the hustle in. People perceive shit how they want to, but it's there, it's all there.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to put it together and it's definitely there. It's showcasing the amount of hard work that you're doing. I can't even imagine what it feels like to be on the flyer.
Speaker 4:How do you feel being on the flyer? See, if my name on that flyer was like what was gonna make this whole thing like make sense for me. Like okay, it's gonna push me to be like all right, bro. Like I want to come out with quality and be big with this shit, not no?
Speaker 3:like little like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:It gives you a drive of like one day I'm gonna be the main one on the whole flyer no facts, though, because it's like's like, damn bro, I've been in predicaments to where we getting paid a band, we getting paid this, but it's not like, okay, I'm at a festival, I'm at Rolling Loud, like I didn't get booked for that yet this might be a door to I'm trying to do another festival. They like, oh, we seen how you rocked that festival, bro. People was running from that stage to see him. I bring elements To that stage too that, like Everybody can't bring. Everybody don't bring A mosh pit sound, a mosh pit element. I bring a hyphy, mosh pit, I'm raging, I sing to you, and then we go Break it down with Thank you, y'all know this song, and they go hear a song From back in the day, like you was a part of that.
Speaker 3:Oh my god.
Speaker 4:That's why I'm not trying to even dick ride shit that happened in the past, because I don't need to. It's just like I'm about trying to make a name, like you said my name on that flyer. I'm trying to make my name.
Speaker 3:And it's remembering. It's like this is where I'm rooted from. It's my moment, bro.
Speaker 4:I feel like this is going to be my moment to showcase certain shit that people ain't really seen.
Speaker 1:Put that.
Speaker 4:Listen to my new album Trapology 101 out now. Shout out JSP and I'm dropping a new video in a couple days. I got two new singles coming out. Hell yeah, I swear, bro.
Speaker 4:It's a whole different wave. I'm on that wave that nobody touched because they wasn't even there. You can't do certain shit and you wasn't there, but certain shit you can pick up. You can't do certain shit and you wasn't there, but certain shit you can pick up. But if you wasn't, in 2016, on the SoundCloud with the X, I had the first free X shirt. Rip him, bro. I was a big fan of him.
Speaker 4:So it's like that element of that big bounce on the stage. I got that because I'm from that and I'm from a whole different other cloth that I don't even really. I just be me. So it's like, bro, I want to just implement all that Show everybody. Just watch LA Fresno mixed up in a whole little. Yeah me. I'm from the underground too. It's crazy, bro, and my cousins was part of the underground before. Even my Fresno family out here, like he seen them, and Freshy and Jeronim they family's part of an underground out here before I even, and my peoples is a part of something. It's just this legacy nigga going to keep going and then it's going to be history at a point towards LA and whatever. I'm trying to make this shit big bro. This shit going to be big. Shout out my cousin Eugene yeah, everybody know him too. He be working with Mike and Keys. He work with the late Nipsey RP. Nipsey bro, real legend from LA. That's why I'm like it is some notable. I'm tapped in with the you know, it's just like it'll make sense.
Speaker 4:It's coming back full circle. When I get on, It'll make sense. When I get on, they'll be like damn okay.
Speaker 1:But that's what I was, to be in an environment. So it's just like, brother, your time is coming. You've already been a staple in Fresno. That's why I said, when he mentioned it, when I seen Kesey and he mentioned your name, I said you know Blair the Captain? He's like yeah, I was just with another bro.
Speaker 2:If I, if it wasn't for him, we would not be doing this. Yes, if it wasn't for Blair Introducing me to Devin, we would not be doing this.
Speaker 4:Shout out Kesey. Shout out Devin Bro.
Speaker 2:Shout out everybody.
Speaker 3:In this room right now. Shout out Martin.
Speaker 4:Cause it's just crazy how full circle.
Speaker 3:This works man. I wouldn't have known that you were Working with him at a lorica.
Speaker 4:Bro, we him at a lorica bro, we were friends at that time and we used to blow in the car and his car was clean as fuck I was there when we went to go trade his car yeah, it was clean. That's why I mentioned it in the first episode, bro, I miss it.
Speaker 1:I'm glad this is my first podcast episode.
Speaker 4:Second, because now, like it's like this shit, organic too.
Speaker 1:So people know, bro, like, yeah, you know like it ain't scripted, this ain't no fake bond, this ain't something that we just been like, oh let's, let's do this for the camp, like no, this is something that is organic, straight from fresno, straight from like mutual homies that we've met from years ago and have come back and seen the progress. We have seen how far they've come. Bro, when I was training him and I heard he was a rapper, I was like this dude's a rapper and then I started looking into. I was like bro, this is crazy.
Speaker 4:I was splashing back then, bro he was in his prime time back, blue hair, all types of crazy that was the craziest part.
Speaker 1:And then coming back years later on, bro, like oh my god. So I mean it's great to see you on the stage, it's great seeing you on that lineup. I'm like I'm excited to see you. It's like it's great seeing you on that lineup. I'm like I'm excited to see you. It's like a bittersweet moment just being like damn bro.
Speaker 4:I just want to put this out there too, bro, like I used to dance on my granny porch in LA and watch to Soulja Boy off my iPod.
Speaker 2:I used to dance bro to all.
Speaker 4:Like walk or flock Like bro. Walk of like walk, a flock like bro.
Speaker 4:I'm influenced from before I started music to where it's like bro, like I got, like certain turn up elements in me that I wasn't rooted when I was like turning up been I've been turned up too like like you know what I'm saying, but like on some different stuff, some music for real, like I was understanding music young, I feel like I really feel that, like I feel music you saying that brought a lot of nostalgia back to me, bro, the early videos of bro.
Speaker 1:I remember I got a video my brother recorded of me breakdancing in the driveway, bro, embarrassing moment because I didn't know how to breakdance.
Speaker 4:But I'm just saying, like you were having your Chris Brown moment, that's what I'm saying, bro, like a nigga being on, like trying to be on big, like feel like it'm too cool to dance. Now it's more or less like bro, I'm growing this here, I'm trying to think of some real big hits and music to where it make my shit make sense, like, okay, he is true to this and what he's saying. Then I got some shit, bro, I got a singing record. I'm about to drop too, like R&B straight. I'm about to do the fool with the all white, with the roses, and it's not no romantic shit, it's more love. Yeah, give me some claps for that man.
Speaker 4:I'm really branching out different shit, Like you feel me Get my step up too on, probably In the rain with a white open. He said with the rain, you know like bro, like I'm going to do some R&B and it's like it's a low shimmy remix too, so I feel like once this come out, it's going to go stupid bro.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, shout out my nigga, skyda Wolf from Visalia. He made the beat too. I'm tapping with producers from Mexico, everywhere, ukraine, russia. Like bro, I'm an element in music. That's what I was saying. I'm a certain little missing puzzle to shit. It's like I'm missing. Whoever don't need it. It's like people don't understand it. That would fuck with me. That need this like real game too. I be giving game to the young. Ask any nigga that's under me. You could.
Speaker 4:I'll bring some niggas to dark days when I'm getting interviewed again and they be like bro, this nigga playing tubi, he talking da, da, da, da. Like and I'm not to brag on this more or less Like I'd be telling you I be giving game and it's like people. People would charge you to make your first song and show you how to do certain shit. People would charge you to learn how to do the game. Bro, this shit pay to play and I'm getting used to like damn nigga, I've been paying for a long time. I'm trying to get paid and I've been getting paid too. So it's like trying to keep a certain element Like okay this nigga is a little.
Speaker 4:I'm a star, bro, I don't know how to put it, bro, I promise you and it's not like, I'm like oh. I'm trying to be not humble, but like I was telling my other homie, like you gotta believe it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but my homie been in this shit 20 years In rooms with Fat Joe. I was telling him he owned this Central Valley. My nigga shot off Fly Y I got a project. Come is like people don't be getting their recognition because they low-key, be humble, nigga be having shit, nigga don't know, nigga be really. That's that dude like okay, but it's not like it's not up to like me to decide that. It's the fans to decide.
Speaker 2:But like I just gotta let you know who I am, so you know, like confident bro, we got like that, like for real yeah, music, all that shit.
Speaker 3:I just gave volleyball difference between being all cocky and everything yeah the difference between self-confidence and believing in yourself yeah and manifesting it for sure speaking into existence, regardless if somebody doesn't believe in it, as long as you believe in it, fuck anybody else else.
Speaker 1:Exactly bro shit wise words, wise words. So, on the terms of dog days, bro, um, is there any artists that you wish would pull up to Dog Days that you could maybe collab with in the future?
Speaker 4:Lil Boi Da Fuck. Yeah, I wish Lil Boi to pull up Rob Markman. I've been fucking with Yachty Lil Boi Da. Lil Boi Da. Lil Boi Da Rob Markman since high school too. Lil Boi Da.
Speaker 2:Lil.
Speaker 4:Boi Da Lil, boi Da Lil Boi, da like never stopped. So like uh, it's other dudes too, like um, it's local dudes dude, I'll with uh what's her name, brother. Uh, I with uh blue free blue face. Bro, I with blue face like for real like yeah, local la like it's just that'll be hard. Like it's just certain elements of like turned up ratchetness that you do need, like sob is one of them. Moments and people that fan base was like our era, like a friend like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:And they got the era, the new era, and everybody knows like.
Speaker 4:So it's like this is gonna be big bro. Uh, who else big artists listen. A lot of dudes fool. I listen I. I got a feature from certified trapper and pablo skywalking. I wasn't gonna say that that's big, though. Gang like those two big names like initiative too, and I'll be.
Speaker 4:You know I'll be fucking with their music. So if they came out here that'd be dope. I fuck with tron. Baby tron, hard too. Sob, brought little fun fact. Little little real fun fact. Sob, we performing. You remember this kisi, the old manager, you remember this sob SOB was performing this.
Speaker 4:That day, I think we talked To the manager Okay, they brought the shitty boys, baby Tron and them. Bro, we didn't, nobody was knowing who Baby Tron and like the shitty boys. And I was like, okay, I didn't know. And then, funny story, I swear bro, they got off the stage, we sitting in the little things, the Azteca, like in the back, waiting for SLB to perform, and they walked down the middle aisle and just laughed damn near and then walk off. But bro, come on. Bro, it's Baby Tron. Like nigga, you don't know. Like now I'm like, okay, that's why, like I didn't want to flick up, or like I would have not Like nigga, I didn't know who Bret was. I shout out Baby Tron, he hard. I fuck with all Detroit too. I fuck with a lot of artists too, a lot of shit too. I fuck with a lot of different shit too. You know different type of music R&B Bryson Tiller. I fuck with Brent Fies, sonder and them.
Speaker 4:Schmino all that Rob Markman.
Speaker 1:I got a question. This one's off topic. You brought up Detroit. You know who Lilo is. Lilo, he light skin, yeah, no.
Speaker 4:No, not really, not really I'm going to have to put you on the hit. You might fuck with his music. It should go crazy. Oh yeah, but yeah man, I got fans in Detroit. Shout out Detroit, I swear.
Speaker 2:Shout out Detroit.
Speaker 4:Shout out Is my phone finna die. I can't just keep saying stuff.
Speaker 1:And then not prove it. He's up for the show, y'all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, cause, like it's facts, bro, fans, there are fans in Detroit that do fuck with Blair the Captain music I don't flodge or nothing. Like I don't have Nothing to lie about. Like that's why I be like Bro. I want people to hear what I got to say for.
Speaker 1:And I think the craziest part is.
Speaker 4:Seven days, you know seven streams, but that's light, that's light. Look, they fuck with me in Detroit, you know Damn.
Speaker 1:I got some streams out there. You know what I'm saying Up and down Cali, detroit, bro, that's Hell yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4:But look at all, look 788, though that's on, there you go. Can the camera see that? Just don't the Detroit in there. Put Detroit in there. Man, Shout out Detroit, they listening. Let me see man For real. Shout out Rio. I met Rio too in LA, in Desto Dub. Shout out them, they cool individuals.
Speaker 1:You know what's so crazy is? I heard Desto Dub on a song called I think it was called Turnaround Way back. I'm talking like 2017, 2018 type shit. And I didn't know who Desto Dubb was back then. But then, like after you brought him up, I was like bro, I know Desto, where do I know him from? And then I found out about a whole lot of cough syrup and I was like brother after all these years. This is why you don't sleep on artists, bro.
Speaker 4:His brother or whatever. Shout out Pimp C, pimp E. They from Watts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's home, man, I'm from there bro.
Speaker 4:That's why I'm like they're cool people I didn't ever remember. That's why I'm like bro, cool, yeah, and he give me leadership game vibes of. In the game, people will be needed. Remember we were saying we don't got no structure in the streets and shit. There's a blueprint through these people that are store owners, shop owners, rappers, whatever Entrepreneurs they showing these rappers. Now in LA, in out of town, you can build a storefront rap, do this, this and that, bro, it's all possible. So that's what we need more in the town. I want to be that I do. I want to, like you said in the last episode, like I do want to be like For me, a funnel, because bruh.
Speaker 4:I want a store, I want a couple of stores. I want to do collaborations with big brands like Vans. I want to do cause collaborations. So I just feel like shit, it might all come full circle for me. If I keep grinding, I'm going to keep grinding. I got some big records coming out. Shout out, willie G, the producer. Shout out, turn Riley and JSP bro, listen to my new album, trapology 101, for real man. My new shit coming out, misfit For real and Hands On your Knees. That's for the females, me and three. Shout out, bro.
Speaker 1:When I heard Still Hypey bro, let me tell you something. You posted it on your story one time and I looked and I said okay, Okay, this shit needs to blow up.
Speaker 4:That's my number one stream song.
Speaker 1:That shit is hard bro. I'm not even going front for y'all this is how I genuinely feel that song goes fucking hard.
Speaker 1:If you ain't heard Still High for you yet, you better go to this man's page, go play that motherfucker and tell me you don't fuck with it. I mean, maybe I'm a little biased because my family's from the bay area, very, very bay area rooted. Shout out east oakland, shout out richmond, california. Uh, but I mean, brother, that that was like a no-brainer for me. The visuals on that, the lowriders, just bro, the strip bro.
Speaker 4:I was like, yeah, this, this one gonna go up what if I tell you I'm gonna keep doing visuals for that. Bro, do it. People already got people. Do that. They do from the block performances with different records and shit, bro, that's the record I'm going to go keep doing each year and they're going to be like I get it. This is the one I'm going to get on radio with that. Quote me, it's cool, I'm going to get on the radio. I got different plugs. It was on the radio. That song is crazy, bro. I think that shit's crazy, though I never expected it to do that without me trying, but I want to try to make that a big record, because that's my big record, yeah, sonically, and just how I was splashing on it. I'm performing that at Dog Days too. So Right.
Speaker 1:Do you ever get discouraged? Sometimes, whenever you put a lot of effort into a song and it doesn't really blow as much as you want it to, but then you put a little bit of effort into something and it just blows up, does that ever trip you out sometimes?
Speaker 4:Does it discourage you? It do mentally fuck me up. But then the process is trial and error. So I'm like let me see what is going to hit and what is not going to hit. I do get down about certain shit because I fuck with certain shit, but then I'm on to no-transcript. But then I'm on to the next song, trying to make a bigger song, right. So I'm like all right, let me elevate from here that goes from everybody.
Speaker 4:Music though like, because I think some of Cardi early shit is the hardest shit. Still, man, niggas might like my newer shit when I can start. And then they be like okay, you was in your back in the day. I got people that vary between like okay, we fuck with this, and that I'll be making the music all I like. From when you say I sucked, or if I didn't suck, or if I was good, or from now I'm good, I liked all that shit I was splashing for. Or if I was freestyling, I was freestyling, I could freestyle on the spot. All that shit I do. All that. That's why I'm like.
Speaker 4:I'm really inclined with that shit, bro. I really think of bars. I could do some shit. I don't know how you do it bro.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've tried like freestyling, like I hear a beat sometimes. Sometimes I got it in me. Some mornings I'm like, bro, where did this come from? Some days you ask me to freestyle on a beat.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, I'm either stuttering, I'm getting in the brain fog, something like we gotta do something. I'm telling you right now I can't freestyle for shit my dumbass can't bro, and I started. I started talking. No, there I go.
Speaker 1:I started talking normally, but I can't even imagine bro I'm telling you, we were up at that it's crazy because it's just like growing up I was into poetry too, like that's something I haven't really even spoke of. I was really big on poetry back when I was younger, just like I used to study the dictionary, bro, I used to just look into it and read a lot of words Like I was grounded all the time. I was always getting in trouble. Fuck. No TV, no phones, no nothing bro. So I'm just looking at Reading through books, shout out.
Speaker 3:Miss Fisher For real, yeah, shout out.
Speaker 1:Mom Shout my stuff, bro shout out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she's up there, but it's crazy. No, no, like, and I was shouting out your stuttering. Like, bro, we have run like. If you're rapping and you stuttering, we just run past it like fuck it like I know I can't even rap man, but it's crazy because it's just like growing up and listening to, like different forms of music and I know that's something that you've done because obviously you're getting into r&b stuff.
Speaker 1:Uh, I got a question you ever see yourself Doing like punk, rap, type shit, like what you mean, like what's punk rap. Punk rap would be Something like Like Suicide.
Speaker 4:Boys.
Speaker 1:Like X or Suicide Boys. That's sort of Punk rap, sort of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's coming, and I feel like If you mean punk as in like screaming- Not necessarily Just like.
Speaker 1:Aggressive, aggressive. Yeah, out of the norm, aggressive, that's coming.
Speaker 4:And that's on Dog Days too. So the same producer that produced for X and Ski Mask, currently he just produced For Ski Mask's album, willie G I just shouted out he's platinum. He's platinum With Lil Peep too. So I'm tight ending that. So I'm dropping it for Dog Days and the cover, like it was in my photo gallery gang and I was like I looked at all the shit Willie G did on iTunes. I'm like okay, like I don't match no, all black, like distorted cover, punk vibes with the idea of my cover because I wasn't looking at everybody's shit. But it fit the element of I'm looking over at the elevator at Chick-fil-A on the cover of Misfit and it's like I got an album finna come out called Misfit an EP called Misfit, too is finna come out.
Speaker 4:But yeah, bro, like on the cover of the single is I'm just looking over to Chansey from the elevator where I took the photo at. So it's like I'm gonna rock that motherfucker with that song and it just all fit to, and I do my own little shit when it comes to certain things I don't want to copy or try to fit in with nobody.
Speaker 1:I do, me, yeah, and I think it's acceptable to be able to stick to an era. Some people will be like, oh, he's copying a sound, but it's different when you came from that era of sound. If you were deeply rooted in it before it became popular, then you're not copying, you're reliving it. You're bringing it back Because You're living it. You're bringing it back because that's what, bro? The amount of love X had even after you passed away.
Speaker 1:People, bro, I know so many people that still bump X's music. Bro, when they just dropped the collaboration of Ski Mask and X just last month, brother, I was like I'm bumping every song on this album. I don't care what it is, I don't care if X on it or not, I'm bumping this. And it was just an era that I was so deeply rooted. In 2016, 2015 era was just different, like you had to be there and I mean I feel like, for an artist, I love that beat, I love that. I love that beat, bro.
Speaker 1:Anyways, anyways, I got distracted. That's my ADHD, my fault. Anyways, anyways, I got distracted. That's my ADHD, my fault. He says, bro, but in regards to Dog Days Festival man, I'm just excited to see you perform. I'm excited to see all the talent that's out there, that's from Fresno, really putting on for the city and what this holds for the future of Larry the Captain. Because, at the end of the day, bro, I mean you've been here for years, years, you've been locking it in for years, tno, I mean collabing with sob, bro, like I'm just like tied in with all these other yeah, you're tied in with bro when I seen real to young og I said what?
Speaker 4:and that's. That's just off. Pure interaction too. Like a picture. I'm just like I fuck with you. I've been listening to you before you got locked. All right, bro, you are. So it's like I did want to meet bro, see what he was talking about, you know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sad the show got canceled. I know, bro. And then, on top of that, I was like Real to Young OG is really big on TikTok for his sounds. I've used one of his sound remixes on Instagram because he's big in the car industry right now. So, seeing that, it's like bro, seeing you. Bro, I'm telling you, if you and Real the Young OG come up with a song and collab, I'll use that motherfucker on a car reel. I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 4:Bro, that'll come. That's far. I want a feature from him for sure, please, bro.
Speaker 1:Real the Young. Og If you seeing this, bro, put my boy on.
Speaker 4:I'm trying to Real the Young OG.
Speaker 1:I want you on this podcast Matter of fact, damn near should have been signed.
Speaker 4:He got a little record label called Money's Not Everything. I got a song coming out too. It's not on a Detroit beat either, it's just called Money's Not Everything, because it's the only thing. When you don't got it you'll feel insane and shit.
Speaker 2:I relate, I feel it I ain't go live, bro.
Speaker 4:I got EP and another project coming out. And another project coming out. Be on the lookout. I'm about to drop it. Like bro, I'm dropping One. Go be through Empire with my nigga Fly Y again Two standing up business. Two it's coming again For me. I want to do some shit, bro. I want to go up, so I'm going to put some work in.
Speaker 3:More work.
Speaker 4:It. It's only up from here.
Speaker 3:I mean it's only up from here, bro, facts. You're doing the work, everything's working, everything's falling into place, bro.
Speaker 4:I want to do it while the eye's on me too. Like okay, I'm about to show y'all. Like okay, it's the demonstration. I dropped this this. I'm going to just do this.
Speaker 4:So I'll just do it all in a row. And you, I do got a new album too. Man, listen again, I keep plugging it. I'm just Trapology 101. Yeah, yeah, this is the Trapology 101. Y'all, it's the blueprint of how y'all doing it too. Bro, it's all like a part of y'all shit. It's different ways to make it. It's different ways to trap it out. Right, you got to keep doing it. I got to stay consistent with myself. So I'd be telling myself that shit too, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And I think it's crazy seeing Us all bounce off of each other's energies, bro, like it didn't happen until recently, where, like I, started looking around, like Bro, there's a million different ways To really make it in this world bro Like.
Speaker 1:And it all depends on what your Definition of success is, obviously. But I'm like I was just talking to Audacious about it. I'm like I was just talking to Audacious about it. I was like I don't just like. I started from doing car reels and stuff. I was doing car stuff. I know how to work on cars. I modify my own stuff, helping the homies out, got a group Bro. I even had so many different jobs. I was working for American Airlines in Bakersfield. I done worked at Amazon. I done worked at AutoZone or Schwab Bro. I I done worked at AutoZone or Schwab bro. I'm a leasing agent for an apartment complex, like I've worked at LeJar too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:And then, on top of that, just being around now doing the podcast and on top of that, like let's see what happens next If I get into rapping bro, like if this dude inspire me to really start rapping off that free verse we was talking about, I mean maybe, maybe. I mean maybe, maybe I got you, you never know, fresno got another one man, I'm just saying because if it happens, Fresno's finest woe day.
Speaker 3:Hey, hold on, hold on. Oh God, hold on.
Speaker 1:If it end up happening.
Speaker 3:All the highness on your fierro homie. Oh man, oh hell.
Speaker 1:No Tacos de pito, anyways.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Anyways. So I mean We'll see what happens In the future. But it's amazing Because now I'm able To recognize like Bro, you don't gotta Just stick to one thing, you can really jump around and like dip your toes In every different aspect, like my next biggest thing Is starting a business. I want to start A towing business. Now Anybody who hears this and all of a sudden Want to start a towing business, I'm watching you love the fans, bro, I got I got so many people who've already done it, bro, I'm telling you I there's some fans over here.
Speaker 3:They're trying to be truck drivers. I didn't had homies.
Speaker 1:I didn't told hey, I'm finna, I'm finna, pay my car this color. And all of a sudden, oh, I want to pay my car to turn.
Speaker 3:I'm like bro, I just told you that two months ago, like you're not slick anyways you just, you just see that you are in a big position and people are like, oh, let me do this MITATION is the closest thing to flattery.
Speaker 4:So if they, can't tell you they like it, they go, do it and I tell them they go like I'm going to do that. I like that. Y'all got to normalize that. Like I like certain sounds, I'm going to do that. I like certain shit I'm gonna do that like no, that's normal, but like other.
Speaker 4:I remember, bro, I dyed my hair like my id is pink and blue still like one outside pink, one side blue, like I seen somebody walking down the street like damn nearby state and they had the same exact color and then I seen another do it. But I never seen nobody with pink and blue hair before I did it so it was like okay, well, like wait a minute hold on.
Speaker 4:I don't even know y'all like y'all just I've never seen y'all I've never seen y'all in public, never seen your face again. I've seen you walking down the street like and you got the same color here as me on the same side. It's crazy. That's crazy, bro.
Speaker 3:So it's like say yeah, hey, shout out blair the captain please tag me recognize, like blair, where the captain inspired like come on, but then I don't even.
Speaker 4:But nah, it's like I don't even.
Speaker 2:I don't know copyrights or no hair dye, so it's like that's you, do you like?
Speaker 4:you wanna do it? Like me, do it too. That's hard.
Speaker 3:Do it, do it better it goes back to the thing that me and DJ have talked about too is like people see what we do, or they try to mimic, or they try to do the same thing that I'm doing. You just gotta be flattered.
Speaker 2:What I've always said I'm doing being an impact in the world, and I'm so impactful, to the point that people are like oh, let me do this, oh, let me check that shit.
Speaker 3:Oh, I like how he does his reels.
Speaker 1:Let me do the same thing. Who do you inspire people to do? Yeah? And I think it's kind of crazy too, because it's all about the mindset that you have, the perception that you view it in. I already done and I'm just like bro, you are not slick, like shout out bro boys, oh god, please, oh. But it's just crazy because it's just like you can have that mindset. You can just be like damn, I inspired him to do that. Like that takes a lot of energy, like yeah, because it's, it's.
Speaker 3:It's takes more energy to hate something than to than to be like whatever, not sure about it.
Speaker 3:That's how I see it, because very early on I did see, like, why are they jockeying? The same thing that I'm doing, like, why are they like, why don't you create your own style, right? But then I thought about it later on is like no, I've always said I want to be an impact in this world, no matter how big, no matter how small. Yeah, start seeing it from a different perspective. That's real and that's just how it how it comes out. I mean, there's times that we've talked about it and be like damn, we love people that are fans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we, yeah, multiple episodes, we've talked about that, but, but for all the right reasons, of course, exactly, um, we're just throwing shade. Yeah, we just be. We have our moments. Sometimes you gotta throw a little bit of shade out there, we got to, uh. But I do think that it is essential that if you, as an artist, as a creator, um, as a creative mind, like you, have to remember, you might not be the first to do something and somebody might be like hey, I did that, like three years ago, and you might not even notice it, you know sometimes it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 1:So you know, it's good to stay humble, it's good to remember to. You know, stand your own land and be genuine with what you create.
Speaker 3:But and then being you will take you a long way. Yeah, yeah absolutely no matter how long it takes, just continue being you. Yeah, because at the end of the day, hey, I was gonna it. It's all in god's timing, real yeah, god ain't gonna just serve you the plate and be like, here you go, yeah you're gonna work for your meal.
Speaker 1:That's real, though absolutely that's real though, creates a chase, it creates a hunger. You know what I'm saying, like?
Speaker 3:yeah, like I've. I've always been grateful for the opportunity that keece has given me. Yes, um, the opportunity that devin's giving me the opportunity to meeting you and and all these other amazing people like I would. I've waited for it. I've always asked for it that one day we'll be there. We'll get to that point, yeah, and we're blessed to even be here now. Yes, it's just like hey, man, it's crazy. Season three has evolved.
Speaker 2:And I've said that from the beginning.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It just started. We're barely what seven episodes in. It's growing up and it's like again. Kesey brother done, blessed us in so many different ways and it's so crazy because we manifested it After the first episode that we did with Kesey. We were literally standing outside.
Speaker 3:We were just like bro, like this is going to be the next step, and I will never forget what he said on the driveway. He was just like. I have a feeling about you guys. Yes, he was like and I don't normally say that about anybody no, so when he said that, I was like what the heck? And you know what, bro? We looked at the clock it was 11-11. It was bro.
Speaker 1:It was indeed, bro. There was a lot of numerology going on that day too, I'm telling you, bro.
Speaker 4:He got good intuition too, bro. You see the potential, bro. You know Y'all already there putting in major work already. Now it's like you, finna, capitalize off that. Now you gonna just branch off to different stuff, bro.
Speaker 3:You finna go up.
Speaker 4:It's just up to you, andmokers, bro, that shit is big. Yes, nobody really understand, like nobody from the hood ever. I'm not going to disrespect they probably could get on a little festival with Chainsmokers, but it's like, bro, I'm from Watts. I ain't never seen nobody from Watts or Fresno, besides who. The people that's on it get on it, but you doing it, maybe Coachella, because those, maybe Coachella, those are huge. There are people, yeah, because Green don't do everything too, though. So there are people from Watts, see but those are all the major ones.
Speaker 3:This is dog days and that represents a higher expectation. For sure, regardless of what it is, this is going to be the next Coachella. This is going to be the next solidification for Fresno, for the 5-5-9. And who knows, blair the Captain might be the next Coachella. This is going to be the next solidification for Fresno, for the 559. And who knows, blair the Captain might be the next headliner. Remember that, for real bro.
Speaker 1:Remember that. Mark these words, bro.
Speaker 4:I remember watching artists from nothing too. Like this is how it started. I remember watching artists from Nathan Nathaniel man and then I seen niggas like at Rainbow and I'm like, oh, I see you in person. Now it's like, okay, well, you got more stardom than I even understood. Now it's like damn, these people fuck with you too. Like it's going to evolve you know, yeah, might be evolved to a monster. People got cult fan bases. So like if you're getting listens each time like this and this and that like that means people are going to keep listening. So you know, like it's not no formula for real, it's not.
Speaker 2:You got to just drop and just do it. Every person from this generation go, because I'm the same age.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Playboy Party Audium they all used to go to Texas before when it was Awful Records.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:The father. Yeah, I used to listen to the father too, the other the girl. You know, Audium Playboy Party was supposed to be signed to Awful Records, but he always had his own whatever like he was just going to do whatever. Kendrick was going to be here at the same time it was like there was not no Kendrick or. Barhyde. Yes, yes bro and Post Malone Kehlani. Those two really changed.
Speaker 1:They did it.
Speaker 2:Kehlani got the number one R&B song right now yes, post Malone is Post Malone. Nobody knew this, nigga.
Speaker 4:And it was at South by yes Post Malone used to troll too.
Speaker 2:He started anywhere.
Speaker 4:If you got some music and you can get on stage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think Post Malone is one of those artists that showcases that. I went from R&B to country and I'm still on top. Yes, and you can do anything. You can accomplish it Because he's soulful.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's what he meant when he said I don't make rap music, but people took it offensive. It's because he bled it out, though.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:By him bleeding it out, like that, the media was able to manipulate it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Spin it like oh I don't do.
Speaker 2:He know he's a rap genre, hip hop based artist.
Speaker 1:But he didn't want to be sectioned off, to just boxed off. Yeah yeah, there's not many artists that are better With carriage.
Speaker 2:His first promo run was waiting DJ carriage, either here or I sell, yeah, and it was only like 15 people in the crowd. K rich always post that video and then they say they don't despise small begins and they show them at astroworld that's just far crazy.
Speaker 1:I never knew that far I'm telling you, the central valley be kick-starting some people careers. People sleep on the central valley but yeah so don't sleep on blair the captain.
Speaker 3:Yeah, don't sleep on. Blair, the Captain, don't sleep on me, wake up, don't sleep on Dog.
Speaker 4:Days. I'm just waiting. It's perfect timing.
Speaker 3:Huge shout out to the creative director of Dog Days, man KC bro, Shout out my boy Q man.
Speaker 4:He's been putting in a lot of work since managing our group TNO A whole bunch of other shit with his movie. Shout out, bro. I'm trying to do the same.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to do a lot too, bro.
Speaker 4:Everything is inspirational. How you saying, bro, I'm telling you. Well, back to the dog days.
Speaker 3:Man, yeah, we a little off track, but good topics, good topics.
Speaker 1:So I mean, in regards to Dog Days, I mean September 6 y'all better be there. If you miss this show, I mean I'll FOMO.
Speaker 3:You're gonna be mad don't show up just for the headline and show up for the local artists, because they're gonna be them. I say this, I'll say this is that the local artists are gonna be the most important ones out of everybody. That's there. Other people ones out of everybody that's there, other people already got their names established, but pay attention to the local people, pay attention to the people that are representing Fresno. Yes, because those are the people that are going to be the next biggest things here in the Central Valley.
Speaker 3:Yes, and those are going to be the most important ones, true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel like we need to change that stigma of like the people in my own city don't even love me. You know, the people in my own city don't even clap for me, but people outside the country do Change that stigma. Let's be here for the people coming up. Let's really collaborate. You see what they do in Atlanta. You go to Atlanta. They are ready for you, Opportunities are ready to go.
Speaker 4:That's Atlanta.
Speaker 1:They need tribute out there, yeah, but at the same time, it's like we have what it takes to do that. Here we have what it takes to really root something and bring our artists together and do something. I mean, thankfully ArtHop is back, Thankfully we're creating the festival events like this. Thank God, Devin, Thank you for this one. Galactic Garden's coming up on Sunday Shout out Dev for real.
Speaker 1:Shout out Dev. Shout out Clip C. Shout out bro. Shout out K. Shout out Keecey Digimeds, bro. I'm telling you it's a lot of creative minds coming back with the same goal and we've got four days this upcoming week to really show y'all we are serious.
Speaker 3:I'll let you guys know right now Brokeboy is going to be there for all four days.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. We are working for this shit.
Speaker 4:Keecey is going to be there with us working for this shit.
Speaker 3:Good content for real we want to show up for the city. At the end of the day, I want to do it for the city. Fuck everybody else.
Speaker 3:It's for the city, it's for the people here, it's for the 559 and I want everybody to know that this platform, broke Boys from Fresno, will always be Fresno based, so any Fresno artist or anybody that wants to start up something hit me up in the DMs. I already know there's a few of you that already have and I'm working on getting some dates for you guys, because I got so many people that really want to get on ASAP. But keep hitting me up on the DMs. That doesn't change. I want you guys to know that this right here, this platform, is to solidify and help out everybody, no matter if you already got a platform or if you don't, or you're just starting, or even if you want to do it as a passion project. I'm here to help out everybody. I ain't doing this shit for the fuck of it or just nah. You got to have a profile before you come to me.
Speaker 2:Don't see me.
Speaker 3:Come see DJ. My manager Don't speak to me. Get away to me. Yeah, don't see me. Come see DJ. My manager Don't speak to me. We don't do no scouting. Get away from me.
Speaker 1:We don't do no scouting, we don't really judge nobody. Man, it's really just you from Fresno that you want to put on. You want to use the platform to get that outreach and then show love to the community. Do that, yeah, exactly At the end, charge you anything to be on here. No, no bro we I ain't charged them either. Yeah, it's, it's all love, it's local love. Around here we we see talent, we see people that are trying to make something out of themselves.
Speaker 4:Let's collaborate, let's do something trying to really tell a story, so yeah, I mean stories to be told, like I got the hell of stories to be told. That's why I'm like bro. Podcasts and interviews are important, bro, like even my childhood, like it it is. It's so. It'll sculpt who you see, who you dealing with, like okay, well, damn Okay.
Speaker 4:You know what I'm saying I've been through hell of shit fool, From being shot at as a kid to being shot at at parties, we throwing at packed out mansions and shit. There's just certain shit. You got trauma from, certain shit you learn from and then you get older and be like I'm not doing whatever that's going to do that again you know what I'm saying, like you just you just grow and then you heal, or when you try, you feel me. So it's like man you gotta there's more to blair the captain it's facts, bro.
Speaker 3:I just you know, yeah, and brother, if you come on on another one, we need to dive into those stories yeah, we all real deep stories we all gone through yeah, we'll have a free open mic session.
Speaker 1:Uh, shortly after dog days. We definitely ought to bring a lot of people on for that one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we got a lot. I'm trying to fuck with y'all at dog day.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be hella high, we're gonna be there trust me, there's gonna be hella high energy.
Speaker 4:Yes, I'm excited bro I'm gonna be turnt up at that, motherfucking bro. I'm telling you, bro, I'm on the, I'm conserving my energy, I'm on my little shit.
Speaker 3:Let the people know what stage you gonna be at.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna be at the Hyphy stage. Tap in my boy Def said he might throw me on the Lob on some other stage. We gonna see what it is. We gonna see. Might be Aladdin stage.
Speaker 2:Who knows?
Speaker 4:r b or him, we'll go see I'm gonna talk to him. I'm trying to bro I'm trying to go up, though like the hyphy stage will be turned, I'm telling you, that's where everybody damn near going to be for all the rap crazy, it's going to be turned.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, the main stage for show to all the edm ravers too, but I know a lot of them listen to rap too. There's a lot of people listen to everything yeah, yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's loved Over all platforms. Yes, sir, it's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, don't forget to buy your tickets. They're only $50. Get your tickets and be there, yes sir, and see Blair, the Captain, on stage.
Speaker 4:Be there, it's four to Five to one, just be there or be square. You feel me? I'm on that. I'm tripping at that, motherfucker bro I'm telling you, we go, go up if you staying home that whole week.
Speaker 1:Don't ask me for nothing. I'm telling you right now, if you, if you do, hit us up on the dms during those days bro, we're gonna be stressed the fuck we're gonna be there for four days. Do not hit me up about some. Hey, you want to go out and go to that brother?
Speaker 4:you missed it yeah, it's really nothing to do like you might as well come to a festival in the city, you know in the city's fresno, so like if I find I'm here, I'm like fuck it I'm better not here.
Speaker 1:Nothing about, no, fresno, don't got nothing. Did you go to dog days or you had galactic gardens get a year hard hop.
Speaker 4:You ain't pulled to none of those in four days we're gonna be turned when I make sure you have my stage I'm going. Now it's when I'm performing day of. I'm gonna have a little flyer made, show what. Like day before, day of or whenever. I'm gonna just let you know my set time. I'm gonna post it. I'm gonna promote it.
Speaker 1:I want people at my stage, so that's why I I'm going to turn it up. You know what I'm saying. Yes, yes, it's going to go up. I can't wait to see the next dog days, bro. I can't wait to see what the lineup is going to be next time. This shit is already about to. This shit is going to be crazy already. The next one is going to be wild.
Speaker 4:I told Devin I got to go to the next one too. Yes, just so y'all know, I told him too, let's go to LA, we go do some different.
Speaker 1:Let's do something different Like bro, imagine doing Dog Days Like it's you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:Different days, different places, yeah, different stage, yeah, come on, bro. That's the whole goal too. Bro, you a damn near put your. That's how you put yourself on your shitty. Bro, where's Rolling Loud originated from? You know?
Speaker 3:what I'm saying, yeah, la right, yeah, they're in miami japan so yeah that's tight.
Speaker 4:Yeah, if I am, that's what it was not everywhere now, though, and then everybody want to go to that festival. So if they couldn't go to miami, they're like we're going to japan, we're going to la, so, but maybe we bring dog days somewhere else. And you know, you see multiple of the same artists every time down there, but you see big artists every time and it's like, yeah, I do want to see these people. Different cities want to see people. I know some fans out there want to see how I perform. I really get down. I just be jumping and tripping. I'm telling you, you'll see it. I be really rapping too on the mic.
Speaker 1:It's the same thing, like what K to fucking India that they really fucking with. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:For real. I got some Indian homies. They fuck with my shit. Circle Six, the store in Fresno. They let me shoot a music video inside. I think they gave me bottles of Ace of Spades, all type of shit.
Speaker 4:Stream that video. Been through that rain? Stream my newest video, bitch. If you're my newest video bitch, don't kill my vibe. That's my how do I say my highest? It's not my highest view video, I'm talking about, it's my like fastest one day.
Speaker 4:Viewing on my channel. My channel's new, but we got a TNO channel that's been booming 7,000 subscribers, millions of views. So I just feel like now I want to start some shit to where it's like Blair the Captain at 7,000 subscribers, millions of views. So now I'm just doing that. Now you know what I'm saying. So it's like you go get there, bro. I literally had a journey without having, like I didn't have the structure that I have now. I didn't have my own platform to drive videos or music because it was a group. So, right, yeah, my whole solo career damn near went into my group. Now it's like bro, this is my big break, it's my moment. I'm gonna show people like I do yeah, I got, I do got some different. Look off of my projects. Come in with willie g, misfit ep. I'm a misfit, pants up bad, sick, fit and I got one in my car. You feel me like? Nah, look, and I got my other project coming emu mostly misunderstood, not the animal.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, okay yeah, for real.
Speaker 4:Like I'm really emotionally misunderstood and I'm not emo, I'm emu, cause I do wear bright colors, I do be on some poppy shit Sometimes too. So like you know what I'm saying, like I'm not Emo, I'm just emu.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, it's a new thing.
Speaker 4:I'm not, I'm not doing no shit, rob Markman.
Speaker 1:He's starting his own shit. Yeah, you respect it, rob Markman.
Speaker 4:All the niggas that understand and feel that way, they'll be like damn, I'm emu, bro. It's a new thing. Now Blair the Captain started it. Should I do the dictionary? I'm stamping it right here, but y'all already know the definition of emu is an animal. I'm changing the other definition to slang. Industry dictionary to emotionally misunderstood. Dictionary To Emotionally Misunderstood. You heard it here first. That's my my album coming out too With Turn Riley.
Speaker 1:From the Pleasure Pack, from Fresno Shout out.
Speaker 4:He work with hella niggas too In the underground, like bruh, like come on, we been doing that, we been doing this you know what. I mean so Hell yeah, be on the lookout Hell yeah. Subscribe.
Speaker 3:Stay tuned for Blair, blair the.
Speaker 4:He's the captain.
Speaker 3:And again check out Dog Days. It's going to be a good one.
Speaker 4:You know, Shout out. Broke Boys Appreciate you, bro, and I, Blair, appreciate you bro, Appreciate you. Dj. You already know. Yeah, yeah, you already know, it's love.
Speaker 1:We're going to go up fool For real. Great episode. Lots of good topics, Lots of great topics.
Speaker 3:Again, genuine connections, genuine conversations.
Speaker 4:And Fresno based. You already know Well, blair, if you have any closing thoughts or even inspirations for anybody that wants to start this journey or any artist that wants to hop on, what is something that you would want to tell them. Bro, that's crazy for me to be giving advice at this point, because I'm trying to get on.
Speaker 3:But, at the same time, this is a pivotal moment, because you can be an inspiration to anybody that's listening, literally.
Speaker 4:So I'm going to take it. I'm going to take the floor and look, I'm going to say if you do something, keep doing it, put effort into what you do. I mean, if you feel a way you got to stand on it. You know, I feel like with music you got to stand on it. You know, I feel like with music you got to stand on your brand stamp and what you is and how you is, let people know who you is.
Speaker 4:And I feel like in life, like things go happen, so it is a fight through it, no matter what you do. So it's hard and it's hard to give advice when you're at a certain point. But I feel like the point I'm at, in my journey too with music, is a hunger for more and riches and to get more of what I do. Like you know, like everybody want to be entrepreneur and do something right, or people want to work or go to school Like it's all good. It's more or less like be you and be what you want to do for real and always be that, don't like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:I always wanted to do music. Since I figured out how to do it. Now I want to do it forever. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 4:I want to be a real staple in this. So, yeah, my advice is yeah, turn up and do you, bro, let's do it, man. I ain't going to lie bro, I am really, I'm really hype. I'm my fault. That's my closing shit bro. I feel like this shit finna be big. I feel like my career finna be big too.
Speaker 2:This shit got to be documented.
Speaker 4:It's only the second interview with me, bro, I feel like I'm going to be Rob Markman. Do you imagine all the other ones you know?
Speaker 2:what I'm saying, rob Markman, I'm telling you who's next?
Speaker 4:I might go to no Jumper next. I don't know that. I'm with them, I ain't going to lie, but I do want to do some more interviews. So this is the beginning of my story.
Speaker 4:So if anybody wants to be a part of it. I'll do podcasts. Just reach out to me. I'll do features. I'll wear your brand, hit me up. I'll wear your brand on stage. Just let me know, hit me, I'm doing all that. Features promo. You want to meet somebody that I know? I know a lot of people. Whatever, we'll line it up. You want to show, we'll figure it out, let's do it.
Speaker 1:Hell, yeah, hell yeah, I'm going from a 5'5", 9" Come on now. I try to stay humble and I just do want to pop my shit.
Speaker 4:Like ah, I gotta get an element, cause I do got that. I am on that. I pop my shit on the music. I do feel like my music is underrated.
Speaker 1:You gotta bring that shit to the stage, bro, I'd rather be underrated than overrated.
Speaker 4:Go listen to my song Can't Fuck With Me, new single too, I'm telling you.
Speaker 3:It's on there. I said that in there. Y'all already know guys Go ahead and check it out. Link is gonna be in the description and in the bio. Much love Y'all. Have a good one, peace, peace.
