Broke Boyz From Fresno

From SoundCloud to Stage: Nando, Loss, and the Making of a Fresno Sound

• Martin M • Season 3 • Episode 21

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We post up at MIA Nightclub with Nando and the crew for a raw talk on loss, legacy, and the drive that keeps their circle tight. From SoundCloud heat to stage control, we push on what Fresno sounds like when family and ambition lead.

• origins in Lil’ Yase influence and switching from writing to punching in
• first shows, SoundCloud growth and building confidence from crowds
• current projects, Lost Souls album and new EP plans
• Fresno roots, moving schools and learning to adapt fast
• hoop dreams to studio life and choosing artistry on purpose
• honoring Millie and Domo, Fallen Soldiers as tribute
• support at home vs outside numbers and why both matter
• does Fresno have a sound, Central Valley lingo and identity
• ignoring trolls, choosing discipline and the studio as home base
• goals ahead, New York ambitions and repping the 559

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Christmas Intro Song by Nico

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You should be holding these bitches. Yeah, this. Alright.

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You'll see how clear it is once you put on the headset and everything. Okay. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's clear, loud and clear. That that, that that. That's that. Alright. Welcome back to another episode of the Broke Boys. I'm Marin. I'm DJ.

SPEAKER_05:

Man, it's OT. I'm up in this bitch, man.

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Y'all already know. We got a special guest, a huge rapper coming up right now here in Fresno. We got his own boys too. They're about to come back in. Yes, sir. But before we continue and rap and start this interview, we're gonna go ahead and let's roll that intro.

SPEAKER_06:

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00:

We done broke boys from the hood. We on the mission's understood. Won't catch us like we that good. We always winning like we should. We flyin' high, we butterfly up to the sky. No way you catching us goodbye.

SPEAKER_04:

Alright, Nando, you ready for your episode, bro?

SPEAKER_05:

Come on now. Being ready.

SPEAKER_04:

Since we first met you, man, we were just so busy with dog days. It's a blessing that we got you today.

SPEAKER_05:

Not for sure.

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And you you you've seen where we at.

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You see where we at. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04:

Shout out to Lewis for uh giving us the spot to showcase uh artists out here at MIA Nightclub.

SPEAKER_06:

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Much love, Lewis, man. This is an amazing building. We are in MIA right now. This is one of the hottest spots in Tower District right now as far as the nightclub scene goes. And it's amazing, brother. It's amazing. He's uh allowed us to get into this spot and bring Nando in here and get it popping. So it's been crazy. It's gonna get crazy.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh no, some real fresh no shit. Oh god, oh god. Yeah. Oh man. They're trying to come in?

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Yeah.

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See. Oh yeah. Here I got.

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All right. Make sure to clarify so that way I don't.

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Hell yeah. It's better, butter right here. Hey, shout out BG now. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah. Well, shout out for you guys pulling up. I appreciate you guys. Uh, it's gonna be a dope episode. And uh uh we also got your boy in here. Please introduce him.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, Faye Threezy, man. See how Peter Bros. You know what I'm saying? Free the hummies, man. Y'all know what it is. The three-way. We we tapped in, nigga. Shout out OTM.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Shout out Buck Boys, you feel me? Yeah, shout out Buck Boys.

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You feel me? Hey, that's my nigga Mac right here. Yeah, it's M A C and this bitch, Mac McCoy. You feel me? Uh shout out the brand. You already know. Appreciate you. We rockin' it all day.

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Yeah, all day for sure.

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SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah, huge shout out. So let's go ahead and let's dive into this one, bro. What got you into music?

SPEAKER_05:

Shit. Uh I'm I'm be real. My favorite, one of my favorites at the time is Lil' Ye's. Okay. RP, you feel me? RP? Yeah, bro. Really had me like, bro, really had me thinking I'm him. I'm like, you know what I'm saying? I was doing some little Ye shit.

SPEAKER_06:

That's right. So you start off doing like freestyles and stuff?

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, see, in the beginning, I only wrote. Okay because I thought I didn't want to sound everything. That's real. That's real. Wrong word. You feel me? Can't get canceled at that.

SPEAKER_07:

You just want to make sure he sounds fluent.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, for sure. But uh I only wrote. I only wrote just not to sound dumb or whatever. And then over time, I can't write no more. That's your ass. So it's all off the dark. It's more natural. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

Right. I think that's better when it's more authentic. It rolls off the tongue a little bit easier because I I tried rapping and writing it out and shit, and it just feels like it's forced sometimes. Like it just don't feel right. So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_05:

It sounds like it's forced. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good title. Swap punch in for sure.

SPEAKER_04:

It's a huge prop. I give everybody huge props. I could do the rap game and all that. I'm super illiterate and I stutter like a motherfucker. Yeah, me too. I look dumb and people like, ah, he choking.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh god. Oh yeah. Man, that's crazy. And then um, I mean, on top of that, like when did you start? When did you first start rapping?

SPEAKER_05:

Uh I started rapping probably like like what, like 18? Yeah, probably 18 for me. Okay. And then I wrote when I was writing, I made a song that's like 200k quick. Okay. So then that's when I was like, oh, I'm finna do this. Yeah, you got it. He said, Oh, I got it. I'm that dude right there.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah. So that's crazy. So Lil' Ye's really was a staple in you in regards to the rap scenes. Nah, for sure.

SPEAKER_05:

What's one of your favorite songs from Lil' Yeah's? Um what that shit called Uber. I fuck with Uber. Okay. Okay. I mean, Demon, Demon Heart, Demon Heart, but see, them the little newer songs. You feel me? Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_06:

Okay, respectable. You got any uh artists that you want to collab with or anybody that you have collabed with that you want to shout out?

SPEAKER_05:

Uh yeah. Hey man, I'm just shouting out us, you know what I'm saying? That's right. That's right. Hey man, shout out my nigga, fade three. Yeah, my nigga MAC. We all doing numbers, man. Yep. Y'all just gotta come tap in, Millie Gang. No cows. These guys just gotta tap in. You know what I'm saying? We really, hey man, music speaks for itself.

SPEAKER_06:

Hell yeah, hell yeah. And then on top of that, like did you first start off? Like, did you do like venue performances? Was it mainly just like SoundCloud? What was it?

SPEAKER_05:

All right, so I started SoundCloud, uh-huh, but that's when it was popping though. Yeah, you feel me? Like sometime it was like, hey, SoundCloud. Boom. Yeah. So I was, you feel me? Boom. Did my shit there. Then we had like back to back to back just shows nonstop.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah.

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Shows non-stop. The blue face, when blue face just started popping. Right. Like, you feel me? Who else we had? We had shit, uh Mike Sherm when he was coming.

SPEAKER_02:

You feel me?

SPEAKER_05:

Mike Sherm, Mike Sherm. And we had that bitch live. We had that shit live. Shoreline? Yeah, Shoreline before they broke up. Not the makeup. It wasn't the makeup, it was the breakup.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh shorty shorty.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, the shorty shorty.

SPEAKER_02:

You was there? Okay, for real, for real. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

See, we had we had shows and we turned them bitches up. Right, right, right. Feel me? No one even knew the music. We had people who knew the music, but everyone was gigging. It didn't even matter. So we got videos.

SPEAKER_06:

Was you nervous in your first performance? Was you like, damn, I don't know if I got it in me? Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05:

Some on stage, easy money for me. Okay, where stage is easy money for me. You're gonna vibe. Yeah, because you get the energy, right? You feeling it, you're like, you know, I'm in the energy. You feel me? It's the energy. Like, bro, if I go on the stage and I'm just right. You feel me? Right. They're gonna be like, what is this full eyes? You feel me? Right, you gotta talk about it. I gotta get up in there. Hey, you feel me?

SPEAKER_06:

Like, we're getting down. Shit. You got any upcoming projects that's about to drop?

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What is this shit called P?

SPEAKER_06:

Hey, when you got so much motion, bro. You gotta hear this shit. You gotta see shit, yeah. Sometimes you got a lot on your mind. I don't blame me, bro. Nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_05:

No, no cap. Shit with your big call.

SPEAKER_04:

You always get confused. We get confused all the time.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, that's just hey, fuck all that. My bad. Hey, shout out Lost Souls. I got that, you feel me, album out right now, too. I got uh new upcoming music coming out, new EP on the way.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay, word, word.

SPEAKER_05:

Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah. Okay. So if you don't mind me asking, what's your story, bro? You were born and raised here in the 559.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Born and raised here, man. You feel me? A lot of child's tribulations type shit, but we here. We you feel me? We're doing that.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay. How was it like growing up, bro?

SPEAKER_05:

Which side did you grow up in? So I grew up on the east side. Feel me? But hey, man, I went bouncing to I bounce around everywhere. So I went to like, so boom, in high school here, I probably went, I went to uh like six different schools, seven different schools. So you feel me? So I was just bouncing around everywhere. Right. That must have been hard in the beginning, right? Nah, for sure. But that's how I knew I was that guy. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie, because everywhere I go, same shit. Everywhere I go, same shit. And see how we is right now? Posted doing what we need we want to do.

SPEAKER_06:

Right.

SPEAKER_05:

I'll go to the next city, bro, and then just give me like give me two months. They're gonna know it's you and I know.

SPEAKER_06:

That's respectable right there, bro. Okay. It's it's I feel humbly, humbly. Humbly, humbly. That ain't easy neither, bro. It's it's hard. Going to another city, going to another state. You feel like, damn, don't nobody know me in this world.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

But having the power to change that is everything. Nah, for sure, man. Respectful, man. Respect it.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah. So what was one of the hardest things you you had to face growing up? Like, what's something that you feel like kind of hindered you from getting into the rap game?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, well, that's the thing. Like, I never really I didn't want to be a rapper. Okay. Okay. But hey, bro, I'm I'm an artist. Right. Mandatory. Right. But um I didn't want to be a rapper. I was hella good at basketball. Respect. All valley elite. You know what I'm saying? Did my shit. Then I just moved. And then so I just started doing dumb shit. I ain't gonna count.

SPEAKER_06:

Right. That's real. So that's crazy. So you didn't even that wasn't even your intention. You just ended up.

SPEAKER_05:

So when you're I was always in the I was always in like in the hood type shit. Right. Right, right, right. You grow up where you grow up. You know what I'm saying? You don't get to choose. You feel me? But at the end of the day, I still didn't gang bang, still did all my shit, and I respect everywhere I go. Right. Right. That's real. Like real real childhood.

SPEAKER_04:

You feel me?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Oh god.

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah, man. So what's your dream out of everything? What's the goal?

SPEAKER_05:

The goal is to be like better than well off. Right. That's the goal. It's about money. Hell yeah. So I can have the respect, but I need the money. I do have the money. But you feel me?

SPEAKER_04:

What's something that keeps you motivated during the whole thing? Are there times that you feel like, you know what, man, maybe this ain't for me. Maybe, you know. What keeps you motivated, bro?

SPEAKER_05:

Alright. Never is there ever a time where I think it's never gonna be me. I'm thinking, this is what I'm doing, this is what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_06:

The confidence, bro.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm gonna go 100%. You feel me?

SPEAKER_06:

Just the confidence, bro.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, and it's like it's the reactions as well, though. You know what I'm saying? You get a good reaction out of like a hundred people you didn't know. Now you're like, oh, now we on that. What we chillin', like view show. You know what I'm saying? The view show.

SPEAKER_06:

So when you first started doing like your projects and stuff on SoundCloud and you started seeing the numbers go up, I mean, that had to be a boost in confidence. Like, I got this shit on lock.

SPEAKER_05:

Like, niggas is really fucking with me. Nah, yeah. Soundcloud really happy. Yeah. I thought I was already gonna blow. Yeah. No cap. I hit like 500,000 quick, like with like three songs. Like, that's two songs. So that's 250, 250. Damn. But he was on a lot of my old music too, as well. Right, right. You feel me? We got a tape coming out too in the works.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. If you want to shout that out. Yeah. Yeah, we got uh Bloodworks in the works, you feel me? Okay.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

Finna go crazy. Finna go crazy. So my question is, is like, how did y'all meet? How did all y'all meet?

SPEAKER_02:

R.I.P. Millie, man.

SPEAKER_05:

R.I.P. Millie, man.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah. Basically, uh all of our homie, our close homie, you know? Yeah. Our close homie uh passing brought all of us together. Like, I mean, we all got close uh friends and shit together, you know what I mean? I've known brother brothers for uh a minute now, you know what I'm saying? He's been knowing Faye. Yeah, I've been knowing Faye, Faye's better, better. Millie's brother to me. We all know. All genuine, all genuine. You know what I'm saying? You feel me? It's family over here, you feel me? It is family. Okay, it is. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_07:

Yeah, we tied in, man. I love Millie, you feel me? YBBMG. Shit, that's what bring, that's what bring everybody closer. You feel me? It's people that he knew that I didn't know, but bro, knew that he knew me and they knew he knew me, type thing. So now it just all connected. Now it's a story, you feel me? And we just pushing bro legacy. So I'm saying it's it's all through through Millie for sure, for sure.

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah, bro. Yeah, that misses mean a lot, bro, because I know I know what that what that feeling is of losing somebody that's so close to you. And it's just like that that level of energy of them bringing, they got that ability, that power to bring everybody else united. Right.

SPEAKER_05:

It's a different feeling. Nah, for sure. Nah, for sure. We lost uh long live my boy Domo. We done lost two people in like you feel me in spent like a month. My condolences, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how we do it.

SPEAKER_06:

Damo, man. It's crazy because I remember meeting Domo before, it was a few months before he at passed, because obviously with uh shout out O'Shea. Shout out O'Shea. I know you're gonna be able to do it, Leo, bro. Shout out Leo. It was just it was wild because I'm in the car scene, so I met O'Shea because he's tapped in with my boy Christian and Mark. Yeah, yeah. And I'm pulling up to this backyard, they're like, hey, we're having a barbecue come through, come chill with us. And I'm meeting all these familiar, like these new faces, and I don't know who none of nobody is, bro, other than my boys. And so it's just crazy seeing them, and then obviously the unfortunate news, man. RIP, man.

SPEAKER_05:

Man, RIP, man.

SPEAKER_06:

And I mean, it's it's amazing seeing everybody come together. Um, it's a blessing, you know what I'm saying? I'm glad it's building y'all a little bit stronger, keeping y'all closed. Yes, sure, yes, sure. Um in regards to that situation, um how do you feel about moving forward in the ma in the rap game, right? So obviously it's hard to continue doing stuff that you're passionate about. You know, losing your folks from the streets, right?

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

So how do you continue to push yourself to continue doing that?

SPEAKER_05:

Man, just keep hitting studio, man. Studio rat. Mm-hmm. Neither. That's where I live. You know what I'm saying? Just right. Hey man, keep pushing. You know what I'm saying? Just keep pushing for it. That's what you want to do, it's what you want to do, you can't. One foot in, one foot out. You can't do that. You ain't gonna make it if you you wanna, you ain't gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04:

That's respect, man. Out of all the songs that you've made and that you've wrote, which one was the toughest one that you felt like I can't get this one going or something, I'm missing something. Which one was the hardest one that you had?

SPEAKER_05:

Uh um, what that shit called. What's the one? Cipellino right? Needed at the shop and attacking that.

SPEAKER_01:

I would say, what is it? First world problems or what's that one?

SPEAKER_05:

First world problems.

SPEAKER_01:

First world problems. I like first world problems.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, first world problems. That's that's that's you say, hey, say the question again. Which one was the hardest for you to write? Oh, see? Nah, I don't write nothing.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't write basically like what was the hardest one for you.

SPEAKER_05:

Like, which one was the hardest one for you to create? Okay. Um probably the one with Millie. Okay. Fallen soldiers. Fallen soldiers. Okay. Okay. It's it's I did a whole video like at his uh funeral, all that, you know what I'm saying? That one's probably the one right there. That one gets emotional. Okay, that one gets you feel me?

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah. But it's an amazing feeling after the fact, like no one, like it was a tribute, you know what I'm saying? Something that came from the heart, and it's just like it's gonna live on forever. It's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_05:

As long as we push that shit too, though. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Ain't no fake love over here.

SPEAKER_06:

I got a question. Being from Fresno, a lot of people say they don't get the support from their own hometown, but they get a lot of support from outside. Do you feel that way?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, I do feel that way. But I also I ain't gonna lie. Nah, I get support here too, though. Right. I get support here for sure. For sure, for sure. Ain't no way I get support here. Yeah, but you feel me? But the numbers do show outside of the, you feel me, outside the cities where I get the most nervous.

SPEAKER_02:

Like a lot of artists, you know, they gotta get up out of their cities.

SPEAKER_05:

I mean, yeah, yeah. That's what I hear a lot of the times, too. You gotta get up out your city to really feel me. You know what I'm saying? So, hey, man. Nah, but I'm always gonna stay in Friday, too, though. Respect it, respect it. Rappers are friends, man.

SPEAKER_07:

They need to let the people be fans, man.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Oh God. Shit. Hey, man. Not everybody's a rapper. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you guys that much. I'm gonna tell you guys that much.

SPEAKER_04:

That is real, brother. That is real. So you're speaking about rappers, and you were saying going out out of out of state or even out of town. What's a place that you want to go and perform at?

SPEAKER_05:

I'm gonna say I'm gonna say New York.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay. Amen.

SPEAKER_05:

You feel me? That was traveling too? Nah, to uh to perform New York New York, feel me? Say you sell that bitch out? Oh, you sell that shit out?

SPEAKER_07:

That's what I'm saying. You feel me?

SPEAKER_05:

You know, like making it out there, you see yourself in the big apple, you know. That's come on, bro. Come on, that'd be savage. That'd be savage. And coming out of Fresno, doing some shit like that, man. Come on, bro. That's what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_06:

You feel like you've been isolated, low-key being in Fresno. Like, I I feel like a lot of artists that are in Fresno, they feel like it's just them. Obviously, you got your circle, but you feel like damn, like who else out here really doing it? Do you feel like that, or do you feel like it's too much? Like it's oversaturated.

SPEAKER_05:

Alright, see, for me, anybody could rap and get numbers. Okay, that's facts. Right. You know what I'm saying? Anyone could rap and get numbers, that shit could be charged. Right. But the video was hard. See what I'm saying? There's other facts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Promotion. But a broach promoting like crazy. Trying to pay the win type shit.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm like, uh say the question again, bro. I was saying like a high as hell.

SPEAKER_06:

Do you feel like the rap game is oversaturated here in Fresno, or do you feel like it's just you in it? Like you and your circle, it's just y'all in it. Representing that.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, I'm not gonna say it's just us, but I ain't gonna lie. My my people, like the our rappers, yeah, our artists. No one could hold us. I feel like we're the top. Okay. Like Fresno sound. Right. Me, I don't even sound like real Fresno if you really listen to my shit. You know what I'm saying? I I'm all around. I'm all around going crazy. Right. Melodic, you know what I'm saying? Anything. And a lot of like I'm saying bars to knowing how to use auto-tune, to, you know what I'm saying? Anything we put on the track, man. Right. I feel like we I go, I'll take my guys over anybody. Okay. Respect it. Respect. Damn, bro. Nah, that's facts though. I ain't gonna lie. I be like, this is what's popping. Hell no. Right, nah. I'm like, we about to go to this studio right now.

SPEAKER_06:

And I think it's even wilder because a lot of people have been saying that Fresno doesn't, like Fresno has its own style, right? But we tend to grab things from up north, down south, Texas, other places, and we bring the sound here and we kind of twist it into our own.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

And I think that's what we're most known for. Do you think Fresno has a sound though? You think we got a distinct sound?

SPEAKER_05:

Nah. Nah. Until someone really makes it like that, right? That's gonna be the sound. Gotcha. You feel me? Gotcha. Gotcha. Until someone really makes it like that, they're gonna be like, oh no, that's the Fresno sound.

SPEAKER_04:

Right. Right. And who knows? Maybe that's gonna be you guys. It could be.

SPEAKER_05:

That is gonna be us. Manifest it.

SPEAKER_06:

Manifest it. Manifest it.

SPEAKER_04:

Words, brother. It does wonders, trust me.

SPEAKER_06:

Nah, for sure. The biggest little city. And it's it's it's it's hard to figure out like what is gonna be the sound. What is it? And again, we got everybody know a Bay Area beat. Everybody knows an LA beat. Everybody, you know what I'm saying? A Texas style rap. Like something from Fresno. What do Fresno sound like?

SPEAKER_04:

It's gonna be represented in the Central Valley. Central, yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like a central thing. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. I feel like all Cali really like be similar though. Like if you really look at it, it's just Lingo, you know what I mean? But Lingo going up north, down south.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And then Fresno right in the middle. So that's why we got so much of up north sound, down south sound. Really, you ask anybody, they uncles or grandparents, wherever are from up north or from down south, from LA. Everybody from up, you know what I mean? From Fresno. So it's just like I feel like Fresno is never really gonna have its own sound. It's just gonna always be up north and down south, right? Just because like there's no middle different sound in Arizona, or you know what I mean? Or Texans, even though Cali big, yeah, you know what I'm saying? It's it's still all gonna have that same Cali sound, right? Just different lingos in different areas. Central Valley for show got its own lingo from Stockton down to Bakersfield, right? If that's what you want it, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06:

Damn, that's for real, though. That is true. Because I ain't never heard no no fucking Arizona sound before. That's for damn sure. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02:

Like everybody is different, but state something sounds like West, South, you know what I mean? The South got a dish. But people always try to look at a city like it's just one specific place, yeah. And I feel like that's kind of like outdated almost.

SPEAKER_06:

Okay, word respect, respect. You know what I mean? Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_02:

Fresno got a lot of everything, right? And people know that people tell you, you know, right. So you could find really anything in Fresno, you know?

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah. Damn, bro. But throughout this whole thing, you guys' whole journey, how do you guys experience hate?

SPEAKER_05:

Man, I ain't gonna lie, that's one thing I had to learn. Right. Not to trip up. Right, right. Feel me?

SPEAKER_04:

That's hard, huh?

SPEAKER_05:

I don't let no, they would never tell me like that. You feel me? So I'm like, well, we're gonna just internet, we're gonna twiddle finger in, nigga. That's crazy. Right, right. Can't do that. They're gonna nah, I don't do that. I don't do that, bro. That's so wild.

SPEAKER_04:

Those internet trolls, leave them. Yeah, they be trolling. They be trolling. The trolls real. No, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_05:

The trolls real.

SPEAKER_04:

I'll be like, what? It's just crazy because it's just like you ain't got nothing else to do in your life. Like you just gonna hate.

SPEAKER_07:

They got a career off trolling now.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah for though, for real.

SPEAKER_07:

Hey, they got people waking up every day just trying to find some new kind of controller.

SPEAKER_06:

No, no car, no car. On some lame shit, bro. That's crazy, bro. It's true though. It's true. Honestly, I feel like I asked everything I could really think of at this point. We got the background on Nando. We were able to talk about, you know, what inspires you.

SPEAKER_05:

Nah, yeah, we could get deeper. You know what I'm saying? We're gonna get deeper into it, but you know what I'm saying? That's and more to come. More to come. What I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, we definitely. I feel like we definitely got to showcase who you are as an artist, as a rapper, and especially introduce yourself to the 559. And it's a beautiful scenery where we're at. We're at a nightclub showcasing some of the most upcoming artists right here. And you guys deserve more of the spotlight, especially out here in Fresno. That's one thing that I will always say that I hate that people don't support one another. People don't give that helping hand. It's just like, nah, well, it's what they see.

SPEAKER_05:

Feel me? If they see a certain thing, like me, I don't bang. Feel me? But I'm just respecting it and I do what I do type shit. Right. But if they see what they see, they only make their own assumptions about you. You feel me? They don't even know nothing. Like, it's weird.

SPEAKER_04:

No, it's for sure. Like when you reached out to me, I saw you and I see your potential. Yeah, I could have been like, you know what? Like, nah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I ain't that type of person. I told DJ that too, especially like we're out here, we're representing the 559. We're representing and I want I want to make sure that everybody gets the spotlight. That's why we went to Dog Days. That's why we went at Chicago Park. That's why we made history. Nobody can say that they fucking did that out there. Nah, for sure. For sure. That's the whole point of what.

SPEAKER_05:

We up at MIA, man. Come on, man. I see it. And in an hour, it's gonna be popping. In an hour, it's about to be real popping, man. Come on now. It's about to get real nasty. I mean, you let me.

SPEAKER_04:

Hey, well, Nando, thank you for coming out here, man. Anything that you want to say to the to the listeners, to the viewers, anything that you would love to tell us.

SPEAKER_06:

Hey, man. Oh TM.

SPEAKER_04:

That's it. That's all you gotta say, brother. Respect it. Respect it. Respect it, man. Yeah, well, go ahead and go follow my boy.

SPEAKER_05:

Nando underscore underscore. Yeah. Go ahead and click that follow button. You wanna plug in your socials? Feel me? Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_07:

You can follow my new Instagram. You know, they took the main page, man. They hating on the kid. This is the second time. But you know, 300 Black Boy number three, H U N N I T B L K B R Y, man. Faye300. Tap in.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. It's Mac McCoy. You can give me a straight Mac McCoy. Two underscores after that. You feel me? We're gonna keep it straight, solid like that. Tap in with me. Go check out a new music. Shout out to my money. Popping in an hour.

SPEAKER_05:

Hey, I'm looking around. Come back. I'm looking around. I'm seeing real hey, I see him, I'm seeing potential. I'm seeing potential right here. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06:

I'm seeing real potential. Of course, of course. Shout out never trusted, bro. Sponsor boys going to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_05:

I ain't gonna lie. These hats on point, though. I ain't gonna lie. They're on point. Come on now. Some got that bro, the green sway. The green sway one. Come on now, bro. Y'all gonna dummy with it. Y'all gonna dummy with it.

SPEAKER_04:

Y'all have a good one. Blessed one. Appreciate y'all for speaking.

SPEAKER_05:

We up out of here, man.

SPEAKER_04:

Peace, please.

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