The TRUTH About Hate Comments: Industry Secrets Exposed! | Lit Reeezy DSH #598
Tune in now to the latest episode of Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! ποΈ This week, we're diving deep into the harsh realities of dealing with hate comments and the mental toll it takes on creators. π
Join us as we chat with Lit Reeezy, a multi-talented artist whoβs been through it allβfrom battling hate comments to navigating the competitive music scene in Vegas. Lit opens up about his mental health struggles, the power of manifestation, and the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. π
Don't miss out as he shares his journey from a promising basketball career to becoming a rising star in the music industry, influenced by his legendary Persian composer father. πΆ
Packed with valuable insights and real talk, this episode is a must-watch for anyone dealing with online negativity or chasing their dreams. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. πΊ Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! π
#DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #LitReeezy #HateComments #MentalHealth #MusicIndustry #Manifestation #VegasMusicScene
#MentalHealthStruggles #HipHopArtists #CelebrityPodcast #ManifestationPower #MentalHealthAwareness
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Early Life
02:15 - Team Lit Overview
06:05 - Listening Party Highlights
08:39 - Meeting Jay Banks
11:35 - Childhood Drive for Money
13:31 - Movie Experience in Turkey
14:14 - Regrets on Acting Role
17:20 - First Viral Song
18:33 - Creative Process Insights
20:40 - First Legal Battle
22:20 - Mental Health Discussion
23:10 - Anxiety Medication Insights
23:53 - Power of Words
24:53 - What's Next for Kid Quill
25:43 - Final Thoughts
APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application
BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com
GUEST: Lit Reeezy
https://www.instagram.com/litreeezy
https://www.instagram.com/litreeezy_management
SPONSORS:
Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly
LISTEN ON:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759
Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Listen and follow along
Transcript
Yeah.
You could just fall into this depression, honestly.
No, yeah, and it's not just really the views, it's just like even like hate comments.
I really personally, I don't care about hate comments, but I can see why when thousands of people are spamming a certain thing, you start believing in yourself.
And then,
and it's all about
all about how you feel about yourself and your mind and manifestation.
I mean, if you say like, read those comments, you reading it is giving it power in your mind.
So
wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe.
It helps a lot with the algorithm.
It helps us get bigger and better guests, and it helps us grow the team.
Truly means a lot.
Thank you guys for supporting.
And here's the episode.
All right, guys, we got Lit Reezy on.
Met him at a celebrity basketball game, and he could hoop.
Yeah.
You were nice, right?
Yeah.
Top 40 back in the day?
Yeah, that was a couple years ago, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the hoop every day.
So you really like that.
Did you play in high school, college?
I played in high school.
Okay.
Yeah.
You didn't want to play college?
I thought that's what I was going to do with my life, but I mean, music came into my life and that really stopped everything.
When did you get into music, heavy?
I've been doing it, I mean, my whole life, but really, like, taking it seriously when I was 16.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I know your, your dad was in the space, too, right?
Yeah, my dad was a big Persian composer and musician.
He played with everybody, everybody, all the legends in the Persian industry.
Wow.
So did he kind of want you to get in the space or did it happen naturally?
I mean,
when I was growing up, like, I was breeded to do this.
Like, growing up, two years old, he would bring me to the shows, have me meet everybody, play the piano and everything next, like, with me on his lap.
But, like, I really stopped.
Like, I didn't do, like, no music from the age of probably eight to 16 until I had, like, a rough patch in basketball.
And I really found myself through music, which I came back to it myself.
Wow, I love that.
Yeah, rough patch because all the kids started getting insanely tall, I bet, right?
Around 16.
Yeah, I mean, you know.
That's when you either make it or break it that freshman sophomore year because people start growing like six inches in a year.
Yeah.
How tall are you right now?
I'm about 5'11.
Ah, you didn't round up.
I love it.
Everyone 5'11 always says six.
No, that's corny.
I think it's better to be 5'11 than be just six flat.
Why?
I mean, shit.
I mean, at least I got 11 in there.
It makes it sound a little taller than just, oh, I'm six feet.
You own up to it.
I love it.
You just started a team out here in the Lifetime League, right?
Yes, Team Lit.
We play every Wednesday, every other Wednesday, mostly.
I got to see you guys in action.
Yeah, we're good.
We're getting good now.
Now we got all our players and system and everybody's following the lead and shit.
Nice.
Why'd you choose Vegas?
I mean, my family moved out here when I was six, so I didn't really have a choice, but I fell in love with it.
Like, I would probably never leave this place.
Really?
Yeah.
Damn.
How's the music scene out here compared to other cities?
Honestly, in my opinion, for a local artist, it's 100 times harder because we're competing with like, I say this all the time, we're competing with all the biggest artists in the world every day.
They're all coming to Dre's, Blue Baby, Drake, The Weekend, everybody.
So we have to compete with that every day.
We don't really have somebody in Vegas that's the biggest which we can go to their show so it's more difficult that's true yeah drees has all the a-list uh hip-hop artists there yeah and all the clubs djs everything yeah you got the dj residency so you really don't have time to pop in there right yeah well i mean you have time to pop in there but like let's just say you're doing an event the weekend's doing an event bieber's doing an event post malone like unless you're a top artist it's hard to get to that level because you're always competing with somebody that's already there yeah so how do you even get gigs at at a smaller level right it's tough yeah it's tough, but it's doable.
You just got to grind.
Right.
What's the biggest crowd you've performed at so far?
I mean, I'm blessed.
Like, I got with some legends early and went on some big tours.
So I'm blessed.
I'm so far probably at 50,000.
Damn.
Yeah.
50,000?
Yeah, it was a show in LA.
It was a Persian festival.
It was a big legend.
His name is Dar Yu.
She was hosting it.
And like someone who's like a really like a mentor, like an older brother figure to me, Andy, brought me out to perform our song together that we made for the Persian community.
It was lit.
Dude, how nervous were you?
Not at all.
Like, that's one thing with me, like, like, that's why I feel like I'm truly meant to do this.
Like, I'll feel like right now, sitting in front of you doing a podcast, even though it's not recorded, it's recorded, it's not live, I feel super nervous.
But, like, going on stage, I never feel nervous.
Wow.
So, you're just in your element on stage.
That's like my piece.
Dude, I love that.
Did you realize it?
Did you know it would take off this quick, though?
Because you're super young still.
Yeah, I mean, I have a really great team around me that, and we really work hard so yeah you brought them here today man yeah
i like that because a lot of artists they surround themselves with with just uh not the right people you know oh yeah i try to definitely stay away from that yeah that leads to the downfall of a ton of them are there any artists you uh you really look up to i mean
i look up to everybody i'm like a sponge i could soak it in whatever anybody can think anything i can get from anybody like knowledge wise i like to listen to everybody and take a little bit of everything i feel that any genre you gravitate towards?
I really do it all.
Like, I'll listen to rock sometimes, country music sometimes, but obviously, like, my genre is really hip-hop and pop.
That's what I grew up on.
Yeah.
And is that what you want to stay in or do you want to branch off ever?
I mean, you never know.
Obviously, I want to do some Persian music too in the future, but hip-hop and pop is really, I'll say, my genre.
Yeah, it's cool because you're starting to see artists branch off, like Taylor Swift.
Yeah.
Do some new stuff.
Yeah.
But the rap stuff, man, that I feel like they, I don't know if it peaked, but when I was in high school, college, college that's all kids listen to dude oh yeah now too now i think it's in america for sure it's the leading um leading hip leading genre in is hip-hop and it's still number one right now yeah for sure damn i didn't know that for sure wow um any collabs that you want right now on your list i mean i got a couple collabs that i'm trying to get cleared right now that are cool collabs i can't really talk about it until they're cleared but i mean everybody says obviously the goats i mean drake i mean all these people i wish I wish I could have done a song with Michael Jackson.
That's probably my GOAT.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can't top that.
You just had a listening party, right?
Yeah, a couple days ago.
How'd that go?
Are you interested in coming on the digital social hour podcast as a guest?
Well, click the application link below in the description of this video.
We are always looking for cool stories, cool entrepreneurs to talk to about business and life.
Click the application link below, and here's the episode, guys.
It was great.
It was a good turnout.
Had all the people that I wanted there.
I mean, a lot of the true, true people in Vegas showed up.
A bunch of labels and stuff.
So it was real nice.
What goes down at those?
I've never been to one, but I've been invited to a few.
This one was different.
I mean, it wasn't just like a regular listening party.
I performed with my full band and everything.
We did a couple songs on the album and just made it like a full show experience for like family and friends.
Sick.
I love that.
Was your family there, your mom, dad, and everything?
Everybody.
Everybody.
Grandmas, uncles, aunts, J Banks, Pete Chizzle, Dr.
Ken, JD, everybody.
Shout out to the squad.
Yeah.
I love that.
And your mom was a psychologist, right?
Yeah, my mom was a psychotherapist.
So that it still is.
She still practices.
She only has a couple clients here and there, but she stays loyal to them.
So, and she's also my full-time manager.
Damn.
But like growing up with my mom being a psychologist and all that, like, that's why I'm so big on mental health and really try to push that.
And that's a powerful message, especially for people our age that are dealing with it.
It's at all-time highs right now.
Anxiety, depression, all of that.
For sure.
I'd had my fair share of battles, and I'm sure you did too, right?
Yeah, for sure.
And especially the industry we're in.
I mean, it's hard yeah because you feel like there's a lot of pressure in your industry right trying to get numbers trying to get eyeballs and hit songs i mean pretty much like until you get to that level where you got so much money or not just money like you just don't care no more like our life is based off of what other people think so it's hard not to like really fall down that path when you're you're playing your life based off of people's approval that's really what it is for sure because you could be so talented but if you're not getting the views you think you should be getting on Instagram, yeah, you could just fall into depression, honestly.
No, yeah, and it's not just really the views, it's just like even like hate comments.
I really personally don't care about hate comments, but I can see why when thousands of people are spamming a certain thing, you start believing in yourself.
And then, yeah, and it's all about
all about how you feel about yourself and your mind and manifestation.
I mean, if you say, like, read those comments, you reading is giving it power in your mind.
So,
wow, yeah, I used to, I used to let them get to me a little bit years ago, but now I look at it, I'm like, dude, I click on the profile.
It's like, this guy isn't dreaming as big as us.
You're doing great, man.
I remember meeting you about a year and a half ago.
We were at the game,
and then you were doing great, Danny.
You're just elevating
every couple months.
I tap in and I see what you're doing.
You're doing great, man.
Appreciate that.
No, I really do.
Because, yeah, you were there before the pot even started.
Yeah.
And I was doing great then financially, but I wasn't impacting the world like I am now.
So now I'm bringing on people like you, share your story, and it's even more powerful in my opinion.
Yeah.
You know, these messages that are getting out there are crazy, dude.
Yeah.
Literally changing lives.
And I feel like you're doing similar stuff with your music.
Yeah, and I love that.
It's cool.
We're on a similar journey, man.
Yeah, for sure.
I love it.
And how old are you?
I'm 19.
I'm turning 20 this year.
God damn, dude.
That's crazy.
You're super mature for your age.
I mean,
I was raised right by the right people.
You must have trouble finding friends your age.
Actually, that's why I really don't have that many friends my age.
I have like my brother and maybe two or three people around me.
Other than that, all my friends are like 30 and up.
Some people look at me like it's a weird thing.
Like, yo, why are you always hanging out with older guys?
But it's really because, I mean, I'm trying to get knowledge.
Like,
what is anybody my age going to tell me that I don't already know?
I'm the same, dude.
All my friends are like 30, 35, 40, some of them 50s.
Like, that's just what it is, man.
I'd rather get that life experience as quick as I can.
I feel like when I was in school, people were dragging me down.
It sounds arrogant, but like I just wasn't learning that much.
Yeah, facts.
We got like Jay Banks over here.
He's 72 years old, but he done did everything in the world, man.
He's been
an outlaw, attorney.
I mean, everything, man.
This guy's a legend.
And like, just hanging around with people like that, man, you could just soak up the knowledge, man.
It's just, it's all beneficial.
Absolutely.
How'd you two get connected?
I met him at the gym, actually, a different gym.
No way.
Yeah, I met him at a gym out here, and I was like, yo, I'm a troll, so like, it's bad.
Like, I troll a lot of people just in public no cameras just for fun but he was he trolled me actually i just his personality is so cool and he's an og man so ever since then we've been kicking it it's been like five months we're going strong i love that it's cool to see you put yourself out there and just be willing to network wherever you are oh yeah for sure i'm the same way i've met some uh some dope people in the lifetime sauna actually oh yeah for sure that's lifetime is where it's at right now yeah dude because when you pay like a lot for a gym most people don't want to do that but you're not realizing it leads to business opportunities It's not just networking.
Yeah, it's not just the gym part.
I mean, even people in our league, dude, there's guys in that league making 10 million dollars a year doing real estate.
There's some really cool people in that league.
Yeah, some gyms in LA that are like even up to like two or three grand a month.
And people are like, and it's a regular gym, nothing special about it.
And people are like, why would anybody go there?
And that's exactly why, because the networking, if anybody, everybody there is paying two or three grand a month just for a gym membership, you know, they're doing something successful.
So you can get something from everybody in there.
It's kind of like that's how the rich keep the rich rich.
And that's, that's what the world is.
That's the game.
So you got to try to play by the rules.
Yeah, you're paying for access.
Did you have a drive for making a lot of money when you were a kid?
With me, man, honest to God, like for me, if I wasn't doing this, making music and trying to live the lifestyle that I can, honestly, money isn't.
And everybody says this, but money for me isn't important.
It's about being able to live my lifestyle comfortable and take care of the people I want to.
And that's what takes money.
So that's what drives me, really.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
For me, it was money yeah i'm just being honest like you're doing good so no but it's shifted over time like i don't think i had an importance on family as much as you did growing up yeah because i grew up in a single parent household and i don't have any siblings and i didn't really talk to my cousins or aunts and uncles so it wasn't important but now that i'm in a deep relationship and i met her family i actually value family heavy yeah so my my it's shifted for sure Money's still very important though.
Because you need that.
You really need it to change and inspire.
It's tough to do that when you're broke.
100%.
Yeah, so it's a balance you got to play.
Do you go out to LA a lot?
I really like, I'm going to just hate for this, but I really don't like going to LA.
I'm the same way.
Yeah.
I like Vegas, man.
I don't like it for like long periods, in and out.
Yeah.
And just something with me, just even the weather being out there, man, I get sick and stuff.
Really?
I can only do three or four days out there.
I got to come straight back.
Damn, you like that dry heat, man.
Yeah.
You're probably so used to it.
I'm so used to it.
And I grew up here.
Yeah.
What about Miami?
Actually, I haven't been to Miami in a while.
I need to start going more often.
A lot of people try to get me to go out there for different stuff, and I just, I'm not a flight person, really.
Yeah.
Do you drive everywhere?
I mean, I flew.
Like, I had to go.
I did a movie in Turkey this summer, and that was a 17-hour flight there and back.
And I go to New York a lot, but I just don't like it.
So if I don't have to go for work or something, I don't like to.
I think it's, what is it, DJ Khaled?
He buses everywhere?
Or is that someone else?
Forget who it is.
I don't know.
Some rapper, but what was that movie about in Turkey?
It was a horror movie that I got the opportunity to play, and it's a big horror movie, Hollywood movie that's coming out later this year.
It's called The Final Party.
They're going to drop the trailer sometime soon within the next month, for sure.
That's dope.
Did you ever want to get into acting or just happened?
No, it was random.
I mean, this amazing lady, her name is Lita.
She hit me up on Instagram where she hit the management page up.
And then she was like, oh, we really want Reezy in this movie.
And at the time, I was like, man, a movie.
Like, I was super busy with stuff.
It was right before my last EP, before this came out.
But then I was like, you know what?
I'm going to do it.
Why not?
What's the worst that could happen?
And it was the best experience.
Like, I definitely want to do that again.
It was really hard, but it was a great experience.
And I want to definitely get into not only acting, but directing.
I turned down an acting role.
I kind of regret it, dude, to be honest.
There's always time, though.
You're young.
Yeah, yeah.
But it was, dude, it was a main role.
I've never acted before.
They sent me the script.
It was 160 pages.
I had to memorize it.
I'm like, dude.
And it was only 25 grand for six weeks.
weeks.
My script, my script was like, um,
my script was 75 pages.
Just my parts were 75 pages out of this whole script.
And I did not read it until the night before the
table read.
Are you serious?
Yeah, the night before the table read.
I'm in Turkey with my cousins and my team, and we're all trying to read and practice my lines.
And I probably didn't learn my lines until the days that I was shooting.
I was just being in my, in my van, just practicing the lines and then going and do it.
Oh, I thought you had to memorize all of it like months in advance.
Well, every day you're shooting a different scene, so they tell you what scenes you shoot that day.
So you'll practice like your 15 20 lines and thank god it was a horror movie so it wasn't too much talking it was more like running away crazy shit no i was one of the bad guys so oh you were yeah that's funny you were a little killer yeah damn yeah acting i think it can open a lot of doors but i feel like these days a-list actors aren't even like people don't value their opinions as much as like just regular people it's lost its appeal almost No, for sure.
Because I used to look up to those actors, but now it's like you don't even know their personalities.
Well, I mean, you look at everything with like podcasts and streamers and even artists are falling down to do the streamers.
I mean streamers they're killing it right now.
And you get to watch them for like
eight hours or 12 hours a day versus seeing eight seconds of an artist story post.
So like people are falling in love with their lifestyle and falling in love with their personalities.
Whereas, yeah, they still it's two sides to it because really when you don't see an artist that much, that's what sells tickets.
Like the mysterious artists, like the people you don't barely see that have social medias, their shows are always sold out versus the artists that are everywhere.
Their shows are a little bit less because you just see them everywhere I feel that two sides to it yeah the mysterious artists like uh Frank Ocean I'd say maybe even Kanye they you just never know what's gonna happen yeah but the the bad thing is when like smaller artists and I deal with this myself upcoming artists try to act like that like that's Kanye he can do that he can delete his Instagram he doesn't need that anymore like if we don't post on Instagram for two months we fall off like we need to keep it consistent every day facts there's that pressure of always I'm like that too though if I if I don't post enough I feel like I'm people are losing interest because everyone's attention span is just so quick these days.
They'll forget you.
Because social media is so big.
Yeah, and I feel like you need a hit song at least once a year, right?
Just to stay relevant in the space.
Oh, yeah.
Or you just got to have a really core, like, really core fan base.
Like, people that have a really core fan base, you only really need 10,000 real core fans that buy your merch, show up to your shows, buy the tickets.
And with that, you can literally survive for the rest of your life being an artist.
But it helps to have more, but if it's really 10,000 core fans that'll buy every single month all that you can be an artist for the rest of your life Damn, I didn't know that That's pretty achievable.
I feel like
I mean those 10,000 artists are buying probably
Let's say each each shirt you're selling is $80.
They'll buy a shirt a month.
They'll buy your album buy a ticket to your show and whatever they'll they'll buy to subscribe to your Instagram.
That's like 200 from each you're making like almost 80 grand like a month just off of that.
But still, how old were you when the your first song went viral?
16.
Run them down was my first song that hit a couple million and everything.
It started going lit in the city.
That was Run Em Down.
16, bro.
That's super young.
Did you know that one was going to pop off?
I mean, I was actually really upset because with that song, I used a YouTube beat.
And then an amazing producer named Pyro had to come and remake the beat.
And him and my dad remade the beat.
And I was upset.
And I was like, you know what?
Let's just put it out.
And that song started going crazy.
Wait, why were you upset, though?
Because I wanted the original beat.
I fall in love.
The problem with me is I'm so impatient when producers don't hit me up or nothing or
I don't like the the beats they send, I'll just go find the beat that I want on YouTube.
And that's the worst thing because then you got to go through getting it.
And most YouTubers, like most YouTube producers have all these clauses, like you can only sell a thousand streams or 10,000 streams.
So you can never use the beat.
Then you got to change it.
And then it's a whole different song.
Wow.
So all the money went to that guy that made the beat, basically?
If I would have put it out, that's why we had to change the beat.
And I had my producer that I had is like one of the best in the world.
Like he's Kanye Bieber, everybody.
My guy, Pyro, shout out to Pyro.
He came and remade the beat amazing, which made it 100 times better.
But I was just stuck in my head at that time.
What's your creative process?
I just had 24K Golden on last week, and he was saying he picks the beat first, and then he writes lyrics.
Sure, you have to.
I mean, you can't write to something you don't know.
The beat's the vibe.
The beat is everything.
You go off the beat.
Interesting.
In my head, I thought artists just wrote it down and then picked a beat, but.
Oh.
Now, you might write down a bar that you like.
You might be, that shit sounds crazy.
I'll write it down.
Maybe use it later if something comes to you.
But like, you can't match a flow to a beat.
You gotta match your, you can't match a beat to a flow.
You gotta match a flow to the beat.
So you, you picked a beat, and then from there, go to the studio and you're just freestyling and see what sticks.
Yeah, now I freestyle everything.
A lot of artists, some artists do write, but that's the new wave is like kind of like freestyling in the studio, which isn't really me sitting down and freestyling the whole song.
It's bar by bar.
Like I'll say,
okay, next line, mumbling until you get a bar to come out.
Damn.
Yeah.
That is so cool.
Yeah, the days of just writing songs are gone, man, I guess.
Yeah, but it's still writing.
It's just a different way of writing.
Everybody, I think almost probably 98% of everybody in the industry uses that style now.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
Lil Wayne doesn't write down shit.
No, that's the way he records.
Just like
everybody.
Tori Lane's.
I mean, I imagine literally everybody now, that's how they record.
Tori Lane, isn't he in jail?
That was a weird example.
Yeah, but I mean, he makes great music.
He can't get on the music.
Oh, dude, he's got some bangers.
I was upset.
I don't know how many years he got, but hopefully when he gets out, he gets straight back to it.
We'll see it's one of the that was a big inspiration for me musically yeah tori yeah music he's out in vegas he was out in vegas a lot so you probably got to meet him too oh yeah i was supposed to go on tour with him damn right before everything happened and that's crazy yeah that must have been kind of a low moment for you then because you thought you were gonna blow up on tour with him and then i had some personal stuff going on anyway so you know what it's literally like that's why i say like give all glory to god like that was meant to be like with his stuff that happened and his stuff that went on and literally if if it would have happened i had my own difficulties in my my life and legal battles that I went through that it's not really public, that it literally would have prevented me from going on that tour as well.
So crazy.
Same time.
Legal battles at your age, man?
God damn.
You were growing up quick.
Yeah, I had to grow up quick.
Yeah, my first legal battle I thought I was early was at 21.
And I, dude, I got agoraphobia.
You know what that is?
What is that?
Fear of leaving your house.
For real?
So I was getting sued.
And if it went to court, I would have lost everything and went bankrupt.
So everything was on the line.
How'd you get through that?
Ended up settling.
I had to get a dog.
No, through the fear.
Oh, through the fear, yeah.
So, well, after I settled, it helped.
Yeah.
So once I settled, I got a dog and I would try to take it on walks.
But at first, if I walked, so say my house was right here and I took a right, I could walk about 10 steps without having a panic attack.
If I went left, I would collapse on the floor.
That's what agoraphobia is.
It's the fear of leaving your house.
Yeah, I'm proud of you for getting through that, man.
That stuff is serious.
Like a mental health, oh, this stuff is serious.
Like, I didn't go through nothing similar to that, but I mean, probably a year and a half ago, right when my music started going amazing, like, not amazing, started, like, taking off.
Like, I had this mental health struggle, which was a month long, which was not the same thing, but my home and my bed was my safe place.
And every time I was anywhere else, I felt like I was like about to pass out lightheaded and I had to rush home.
Like, I couldn't, like, I would go to the gym for an hour and have to come home right away.
It was too much.
Dude, that might have been agoraphobia.
I went to every single doc, like, psych like my mom's a psychologist i did that but they were like first you got to go to everything make sure you have to get out of your own head because i'm thinking every day oh i'm dying like i have cancer something's wrong with me like i have a brain tumor like i have heart problems so i went to a heart doctor brain doc neurologist everything like did literally everything so i had to get myself out of it and then work on meditation and literally look at other people that dealt with this and got through it wow dude that's so relatable yeah i went to therapist i went to a heart doctor too i thought i was having a heart attack and it all came back negative.
And I'm like, wait, this is all mental.
You know, I have no health problems.
So that's when I'm like, all right, let me get that fixed.
Because, yeah, meditation and just therapy helped a lot.
Yeah.
It's crazy, though, man, how much your mind can do to your body.
Your mind is the, I think human brains is the most powerful thing on this planet.
Like, because anything that we're inventing is from the human brain.
So this is, this has, this invents almost anything.
Besides the natural stuff, that obviously you have to give all glory to God.
And still your brain, you got to give glory to God.
But like the human brain like literally like you think of all the best biggest technology in the world a brain invented that that's true even AI was invented by the brain exactly um did they try putting you on Xanax and all that stuff too I didn't go that deep because my mom I looked at different stuff and I told my mom like I don't want to be on nothing so I was on the very little like the very little anxiety pill like maybe like it was less than an allergy pill that they used as an anxiety pill.
And I think for me, what it was was really me inside my own head.
So that taking that every day would make me think, okay, now I'm going to be good.
So now I'm thinking good thoughts and now I'm more positive.
Yeah, you become reliant on it.
Not really reliant, but like it helps you.
It's the mindset of like, if I tell you right now, you're going to drink this and you're going to feel amazing, but you feel like shit right now, and you really believe that and you drink it, your mind's going to make your body feel better than you are right now.
So it's really the mental process of it.
Yeah, words are super powerful, man.
That's actually why I'm super picky what music I listen to now because it influences your subconscious thoughts.
Yeah, for sure.
So, I used to listen to like all sorts of shit, like talking about killing people, taking drugs, like just bad shit, man.
And I look back at it, I was in a bad state of mind back then.
Yeah.
And it was partially, not entirely, but I think to do with music.
Yeah.
But it's cool to see you with like inspiring messaging in your songs.
Yeah, and I'm guilty, like everybody else, of making party music and lit music, which has bad messages in it.
But I try to like,
I'm trying with my new music really like
to be more honest and be more real and be more relatable.
And it's hard because people want that party stuff, that's what gets abused, so you got to play that game, and it's like that with social media, too.
I got to have on certain guests just to get eyeballs, even though you know what I mean?
Yeah, for sure.
Certain adult actresses and whatever.
Topics I don't really care about, but it gets eyeballs, and you got to sprinkle them in there.
Yeah.
Dude, what's next for you?
What's next is I'm dropping like crazy this year.
I mean, I went a whole year without dropping, dealing with some personal matters and the movie and everything, but I'm dropping like crazy this year, and I'm going to get on a crazy tour.
I have two or three options right now that
are in the works.
I don't know.
It's just a matter of me deciding which one's right for me.
I'm going to go on a big artist tour and do that.
You dropping an album this year?
Yeah, I just dropped this one.
And my goal, honestly, is to drop at least two more this year.
Damn, three albums in one year?
Yeah.
That's hella.
Yeah, well, you got to.
I mean, got to get to where I want to be at.
Nice.
You got a favorite song on this album that just dropped?
This one.
First five songs.
All the first five songs were crazy.
Probably a link up is probably the best one.
I'll bump it out on the way home.
Is it on Spotify?
Yeah, it's on all platforms.
All right, dope.
I'll check it out, man.
I'll text you which one I like the most.
For sure.
Anything you want to close off with?
Nothing, just stay, I'm staying blessed and
just stay around the right people, man.
That's the biggest thing.
And manifestation is also the biggest thing.
Like, speak stuff into existence.
And whatever you say to yourself and say out loud, JD and me were talking about this earlier today.
That's that's gonna come true.
Like, if you tell yourself, I can't do this, then you're never gonna be able to do something.
Absolutely.
Thanks for coming on, man.
Of course, man.
Thanks for having me.
Absolutely.
Thanks for watching, guys.
See you next time.