The TNT Podcast
The TNT Podcast
Celebrating Season Five: Nostalgia, Musical Adventures, and Greye Jaxson’s Inspiring Journey
Join DJ Turn Up, DJ Tanaka, and special guest Greye Jaxson (formerly Buckeye) for a festive celebration of season five of the TNT Podcast. Relive nostalgic moments like Greye's assistance at DJ Turn Up's debut gig and Tanaka's infamous eggnog hunt. Explore Gray's music career, from his band's unexpected rise to his surprise appearance in a Kai Cenat video that led to a Hellcat win. Together, we'll delve into our musical influences, share humorous anecdotes like mistaking Russ for Drake, and celebrate a decade of friendship and shared adventures.... & of course the segments you love for the 5 seasons!!
Join the conversation & follow us on Instagram
@the.tnt.podcast
@djtuurnuup
@djtanaka
Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. Well, no, we're not live, we're pre-recorded because this is dropping as a recording. It is not 2025 yet, but we are here at the TNT Podcast, dj Turn Up, dj Tanaka, and we have a special guest in the building.
Speaker 2:Hold up wait, this is season Five, season, five Season, five Season, five.
Speaker 1:Yes, Tanaka, just before we introduce our special guest. Did you think we'd make it this long? Why, or why not?
Speaker 2:I really had no expectations. You did yeah you know I'm saying right, you're kind of you feel me just riding away right to play happy and see where it go right. But yeah, but yeah. We five season rocking. Now, you know, going down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, big Oof. Yeah, it's been a long time coming, but, ladies and gentlemen, it really has been a long time coming because we got a special guest in the building. I've known this man for a very long time and it's crazy. It feels like I've, I feel like I haven't really known you for that long, but I've known you for a very long time. He formerly went as Buckeye, but now he goes as Gray Jackson. Gray Jackson, how are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 3:What's up turn up. Hey my brother. What's up Tanaka? Yeah, no man, I'm glad to be on here. I remember when you first began this joint, so, oh yeah, yeah, you already know showing love and, uh, watching it grow.
Speaker 1:she's dope yeah, appreciate you. Appreciate you rocking with us. Fun fact, tanaka what's down? My first, my first uh time going to um all american for my first time, djing there my car, my car wasn't working. He took me to my first gig. He took me for the first time, first time, first time, that's. That's how deep I don't even know, if you remember that, but it was a long time ago.
Speaker 2:That was like that to my first gig. He took me for the first time, first time, first ever time. That's how deep y'all are.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if you remember that, but it was a long time ago. That was my first time, Can we?
Speaker 2:put a year on it 2016.
Speaker 1:Oh 2016.
Speaker 2:Spring break 2016. I was going to say 2015, but 2016. That was 2016.
Speaker 3:Ah, because we met Faded Radio, yeah.
Speaker 1:Was that 2015 or was that 2014? Had to be 2015, bro.
Speaker 3:That's when I was with Alon at the time.
Speaker 1:So that's 2015, so hey, 2025, that's 10 years.
Speaker 2:Whole decade. Did a dime out of shit, man yeah.
Speaker 1:Tanaka, how you feeling man?
Speaker 2:It's DJ joining us. Yeah, I'm a little tired. This is not usual, normal operating hours like that. Nah, we cooled up, man. Um, yeah, man, just celebrating the holidays. You feel me?
Speaker 1:yeah, I feel that so how's the holidays been for you, sir?
Speaker 2:shoot, it's great, I finally got some eggnog. You like I got to tell y'all for I was sn Sanago was out here on a mission you hear me Like all these folks was sold out of eggnog. I'm like, damn, I'm trying to pull up with the deuce. You feel me Trying to mix that dick, but I couldn't even find no eggnog.
Speaker 1:It was sold out but I finally got me. You find it on Christmas. I feel like it's kind of impossible.
Speaker 2:It's old? I would think so. She had to hit that joint straight.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I would think that's damn near impossible. But, mr Jackson, how was your holidays?
Speaker 3:You know everything is good. Actually, you know, I recently don't celebrate pagan holidays anymore, but you know, so it's just another day, just spending time with you, know myself and those who love me.
Speaker 1:I ain't mad at it, but, mr Jackson, let's catch up.
Speaker 2:I feel like we have I'm a teacher, I need the full breakdown. So Faded Radio. He was a guest on there and that's how y'all so yeah, he was a guest.
Speaker 1:I was the DJ Shout out to faded radio, shout out chief and um. Who was the um? Who was the co-host at the time? Do you remember?
Speaker 3:yeah, it was a dude who smoked, weed a lot that could be anybody. That could have been anybody yeah, do you remember what he looked?
Speaker 1:like was he dark skin? Was he? Was he heavyset? Was he not heavyset?
Speaker 3:you know, wow, I just remember smoking with him, smoking Smoking with him. Okay, that could have been anybody, anywho. Yeah, shout out to Fader Radio, yeah.
Speaker 1:So he was one of the guests and I feel like a week or a month went by, or something like that, and he hit me up.
Speaker 3:He was like he's looking for a DJ, and I was there. I don't even know what it was, but he wasn't just a DJ. He was involved and I was just like oh snap. It would be nice to have a DJ on the team because I'm a rising artist. At the time I was just now releasing music and then I went to talk to him like hey, bro, how would you like to be on a team and DJ for me at shows?
Speaker 3:and stuff, and then we just began booking a whole bunch of shows together in Ohio.
Speaker 2:Had you had a DJ before, or was he the first one?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, he was my first DJ. Oh okay.
Speaker 2:And Turn Up. Was this your first artist you worked with for real?
Speaker 1:I feel I don't remember if Eddie shout out to Dead Fresh Eddie. I don't remember if he was before.
Speaker 3:He was after. I remember you met him after we had met, so it was Jim that was the host this guy Jim.
Speaker 2:Shout out to this guy Jim.
Speaker 1:I was trying to figure out if it was Eddie or if it was Jim, but you said smoking weed, so that could have been either one of them. So, yeah, so shout out to Eddie. Yeah, I feel like, because I don't remember working with anybody else Buck would probably be the first one.
Speaker 2:By the way, y'all going to hear me go back from Gray to. Mr Jackson to Buck, I'm talking about Gray Jackson, by the way.
Speaker 1:I'm just full disclosure. I still call him Buck. Yeah, I was just telling him.
Speaker 3:You're the only person that still calls me Buck or Buckeye, which you know I fucks with, though I'm like yo because you know, yeah, he was there. You know, hey, I mean every event we did with schools, with you know.
Speaker 1:and then merch, he probably still got some Buckeye wear. Yeah, I still got the shirts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So how many? If you were to estimate, how many shows have y'all done together?
Speaker 3:More than 10.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like definitely double digits.
Speaker 3:Oh dang, Definitely double digits.
Speaker 1:From schools to little, I mean to yeah festivals, we did like two festivals together In Charleston the Cooper River Bridge. Run, yeah the run.
Speaker 3:I forget.
Speaker 1:And then together um, in charleston, the uh, cooper river bridge, run the run, I forget. And then the sweet arbor music festival remember that where it was like, yeah, because that was my birthday in atlanta, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, I think y'all were 20 at the time and I uh got y'all that. Rumors shout out to rumors oh yeah, hey crazy.
Speaker 3:Oh good times that's crazy, but yeah that yeah that's so.
Speaker 2:how did the whole process go as far as figuring out the performance? Did you guys rehearse or go over track lists, track sets or stuff like that?
Speaker 3:So at first. See, that's why he always went above and beyond real shit. I would tell him what songs I want and he would, on his dj software, make a whole track list for me and set list and I'd be like, and with the mixing in it and shit.
Speaker 3:I'm like oh, shit, okay and then, yeah, we never used to rehearse, though we never used to have rehearsals until like 2022, when actually, when you know, I rebranded as gray jacks and that's when we actually began like rehearsing and, uh, having meetups and shit, but Jackson, that's when we actually began rehearsing and having meetups and shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that's when they had the band.
Speaker 3:Yep, that's when we got the band together.
Speaker 2:Play the band.
Speaker 1:So he actually had someone playing the guitar. He had a drummer. Oh, you had a live band, that's fire.
Speaker 3:She also played keys, and then it was me and Mo on the vocals Melodic, shout, melodic, shout out Melodic. Yep, shout out Melodic. And then DJ on the ones and twos and yeah, it was oh man, and we. I remember we opened up for Ears oh snap.
Speaker 2:You know on Eardrum Records and shit yeah, eardrum Records. So we actually what was that at?
Speaker 3:Was that at Kai's and Ko's?
Speaker 2:Kai's and Ko's.
Speaker 3:And yeah, it was a lounge like a newer lounge Was it Marietta.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was in Marietta actually. Oh damn, yeah, it was in.
Speaker 3:Marietta. Oh, actually it was Kai's and Ko's, I don't know, but it was a lounge in.
Speaker 2:Marietta.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and yeah, we actually, like you know, sold the most tickets of that show, so we stole the show as a headliner. And then, yeah, we were the only one that had a I vaguely remember.
Speaker 1:Okay, so wait, hold on. Is that the one? Is that the one where you like were like the first, you were like the first one or two performances and then like, as soon as you left, everybody actually, that was at a few of our shows. Yeah, that was a few of our shows upstairs and like you, like you were, I think you were performing downstairs, and then, like we were, then we went to that was Smith's cause, where we was didn't have an upstairs and downstairs.
Speaker 3:So different show, but yeah, no, but we, that's when we were all matching me. You melodic.
Speaker 1:Timmy and Isaiah had a love lace, had the matching red and I had the yellow and then, yeah, one with the band.
Speaker 3:We stole the show. But actually funny about it, ears showed some love and actually gave me a feature for the low after that night I still haven't released yet.
Speaker 2:That's dope, though Damn, that's fire man yeah it's a lot of history, man. For sure, a lot of history that's so.
Speaker 1:But let's because I saw something and I just I wanted to get you, I wanted to get like the backstory, if we can I don't know if you signed on NDAs or nothing like that, but the Kai, the Kai thing, what was that about the Kai?
Speaker 3:Oh, kai Sinat, the kai. Uh, oh, kaisa, not, yeah, yeah. So actually I did post a um a reaction video on my youtube gray jackson at gray jackson. But um, yeah, so honestly, bro, like um, you know, I got three kids. My oldest was in disney at the time and I was watching my two youngest just me and them at the crib.
Speaker 3:I was in my drawers one day, actually just chilling, you know they run around playing and then all of a sudden, I see a molly world shout out, the molly world cast. And she I'm at the crib. I was in my drawers one day, actually just chilling, you know, running around playing, and then all of a sudden, I see Molly World Shout out to Molly World casting. She made a casting post last minute rush call. We need two males and a chance to win with a major YouTuber and a chance to win a car. It didn't have who it was or what car, and this is right. After I had sold my Honda my 2014 Honda Civic to catch up on my mortgage. I was falling behind on my mortgage, on my crib and shit, and I sold my Honda and was riding my bike all around the city to work and shit.
Speaker 3:And then you know, I'm like oh, a free car Shit, I don't even care if it's a Prius Like let's go. And then I get there on set and then everybody's like oh, you know, it's Kai Sanat, kai Sanat. I'm like, oh, shit.
Speaker 1:I didn't know, and they interview him. So let me ask you this bud, did you know who that was? Because, I'm not going to lie, I didn't know who that was until my little brother told me who it was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't watch him, but I knew of him. He tag-teamed with Mr Beast, so he had Mr Beast's credit card on him. Actually he was showing us they went half on the Hellcats, wow. But yeah, and we get there and then they're interviewing us like, oh, tell us why you want to win a Hellcat. I'm like, oh, a Hellcat.
Speaker 1:Right, it's not a Prius.
Speaker 3:Right, but yeah, and then you know we get to playing which hey, the whole video is on his channel too. It's a competition of 20 of us, 20 of us competing and squid game type, shit, musical chairs, like you know, blindfold game. Yeah, craig, did you actually watch the video so?
Speaker 1:I didn't watch the video, but the fact that I'm not going to do a spoiler I'm going gonna let you finish it but the fact that you like went far enough that it's like, I'm like wow like he's really doing this shit. But yeah, no, I I haven't had a chance to watch it, but and it wasn't scripted, like you know, because I keep it real.
Speaker 3:If it was scripted that shit was not scripted. We was on set for seven hours, that you know, but it was not scripted um and you know yeah um, when I won and shit, he was like you know, I'll pay for the taxes and everything, and and that's when it's like, oh, okay. So it's like a real gift.
Speaker 3:And then see me the other guy who won there was uh, they gave away two hellcats. The other guy, he never drove off the lot with it me. I took it home and I drove it for two weeks. I was enjoying it for two weeks and mine was the Red Eye Hellcat, the wide body, it had 797 horses on it. So yeah, the Red Key was Red Key, mode 797. I mean, you know, get whiplash from hitting the gas. You know what I'm saying. This shit was awesome and you know I was just telling I binge watched the Fast and Furious movies. Then I never got into, like yo, that shit got me into cars, bro. You know I went into cars. I mean I had a Honda.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. And I, yeah, exactly. But getting that Hellcat, I'm like, oh shit, like that shit, damn, that's crazy. So you won, oh yeah, no, and I won the whole thing. That's what I said. I didn't want to give the spoiler, I wanted him to tell the that's crazy, the whole thing. Like I couldn't, even if I wanted to avoid instagram. I couldn't, because I just kept seeing oh, how the fuck did he even get on this? And so, yeah, that was, that was dope. I was like, wow, that's crazy I ain't this.
Speaker 1:I even told my little brother I even told my little brother, because my little brother watches the uh the kai joint.
Speaker 3:I was like you remember that artist I used to work with? He was like yeah, he was like yeah, he won this kai's wait.
Speaker 1:He was with kai and I was like yeah, he's with kai, oh, yeah, he does the videos youtube I'm like'm like oh okay, cool, I guess so you still got him with.
Speaker 3:No see, yeah, that's actually I didn't drop my part two yet, but I'm going to.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's no spoilers necessary.
Speaker 3:But yeah, no, I did trade it in, but I got two cars for the price of one. Trade in then and then you know a little bit so, but I traded it in, for I got a 2010. Nissan Altima. It's a two-door coupe with the red interior, white, you know it's got the 3.5 liter V6.
Speaker 1:And then I had a 1990 Corvette. Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:But I just sold that too recently because you know, yeah, but see, and I sold it more than what I bought it for.
Speaker 1:So it's like you know, oh, you good yeah but everything worked out with it though for real, yeah, that's dope. That's hard, that's cool. Yeah, out of nowhere.
Speaker 3:Hey, just from you know, like that's why I tell people like yo never give up, because the day you give up, the next day you're going to break through.
Speaker 1:Like you know.
Speaker 3:That's why you know pressure, but sitting in my drawers with my kids I'm like no worries. And then that shit came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nah for sure. And especially once you said Molly, I was like, oh yeah, molly. Actually I don't know if you remember her Back at a show in 2016,.
Speaker 3:I was wearing a green shirt when we performed with Freako that day. It was a show we did with Freako, oh, and she was there, and that's the first time I ever met her, so it's like small world For real.
Speaker 1:It was actually crazy about that small world that was the she had did the show with. She had did the Faded show for us the day I quit, the day I quit the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 2:Oh damn, so I remember her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, her and somebody else. So yeah, she definitely. I remember Molly all the time because I remember I'd see her. She would do like call casting for like models and stuff and I'm like whoa, and these are like for like major artists. Yeah, legit, yeah, yeah, like hey we need like girls for Pee Wee Longway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Whoa Like okay.
Speaker 1:Right, so For sure she's still. Well, obviously she's still doing it, cause yeah?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I got a couple Opportunities with her too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shout out to Molly.
Speaker 2:So I gotta ask man, when you were at that Hellcat, you like you hit that Triple digit on that, on that.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was flexing, you know, you got to man For sure For sure the very first night. I took it home. I took it home, I took it home on a Friday night and literally me, mo and Chris went out and yo, we raced this Maserati the first night. The Maserati tried me right and then you know, and then me coming from behind, I'm like hold on, hold on, what the fuck am I in right?
Speaker 1:now. I'm in a Hellcat right now, right.
Speaker 3:And then, oh yeah, I went about 126 and it took off on the Maserati.
Speaker 1:And you said Chris was with you. So I know Chris is a little hell demon.
Speaker 3:Anyway they were more lit than me. A Moe over there, like that's how you're supposed to drive, that's how you know they hyping me up and shit.
Speaker 1:I done rode with Chris a couple times and he done pushed his car. So, yeah, I can only imagine he was in there like what, what Do something.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I can only imagine.
Speaker 1:But yeah that's dope, man, that's dope. All right, I guess. One more thing before we move on, let's talk about it Tanaka, nice and slow. Nice and slow, nice and slow Number four. Nice and slow how did you feel about it, man?
Speaker 2:um, I enjoyed it. You did. Uh, I was having, I was having to see everybody something for hey got dressed up and everything. Um, you know I, I know that you know I had to check the temperature on the streets. You did. It's a little, it's a little, it's a little mixed, mixed reviews, but it's all love, though, like I, you know, I don't take no offense to it and I mean I take a lot of factors into consideration.
Speaker 1:You got to Because out of context it just sounds crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, like I don't take too much to heart, but also you know, be aware of, like, what they talking about, Right.
Speaker 1:I feel that. So the thing about that is like, when it comes to because I've heard your feedback, yeah, when it comes to certain stuff like that, I kind of feel like it's out of our that's out of our hands. We can't really do nothing about that. Especially when it comes to stuff like everybody was kind of just mid, like everybody was kind of like folks weren't really doing nothing, like we gave you an opportunity to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:If y'all don't want to do nothing, hey, that's what.
Speaker 2:Y'all don't want to do, nothing, but but that's like you know, because, like they even said that it was more just like chill, like it was cool. You know what I'm saying. So I mean I'm not opposed to that you did so, okay.
Speaker 1:So they weren't saying that that was an issue. They said that that was like they were cool with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, like it was just. I mean, I guess, compared to the other ones, you know, maybe it just wasn't as hype, you know, or whatever. But um, like you said, that's not really in our control. You know we, we set the stage for y'all folk.
Speaker 1:You can't just be like hey, get free, like what, like that's fucking weird, like, but not exactly.
Speaker 3:But yeah y'all should throw me on the next one though, because them shits be looking fun oh, yeah, yeah, I got some idea. I remember you hit me up when y'all was doing the very first one. You know about the After party Joining the old like you know retro joints that I got and I've been making A whole bunch of retro Like you know, r&b, love type shit Lately too.
Speaker 1:So Let me know, man, we still, we still, I know you still Sitting on after party.
Speaker 3:Now, so but yeah, yeah, hey, who knows, though buckeye coming back? Hey, let me know, shit, let me know I'm still playing.
Speaker 1:You know it's crazy. I'm still playing, money falling and I think I can tell you right now it is still like, out of the thousands of songs that I play, it is number. Let's see, hold on. I think I can tell you, out of all the thousands of songs, if, if I can find oh, there we go, here we go. You play at the strip club right Yep. Out of all the songs. Okay, I can tell you 7,299 songs. It is number three. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:The third most played.
Speaker 1:Third most played.
Speaker 3:And see, I recorded that song in 2016. Oh damn. And I recorded it as Buckeye, but yeah, it's released as Gray Jackson, but that one wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, I remember when he first let me hear the song, I was like this is the one.
Speaker 2:This is the one, this is the one, this is the one, this is the one.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. But yeah, man, I think that's about it.
Speaker 2:We gonna move on to the uh question. How did you feel about night slow?
Speaker 1:how did I feel about it? Oh I, I felt great. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie. The only thing I'd have an issue with is, like every five seconds I was gonna tap on my shoulder as I was trying to lock into the dj, but other than that, it was great.
Speaker 2:Nah, yeah so yeah, it was great, it was cool yeah, anything else before we uh move on? I think that's it.
Speaker 1:All right, so what we got for the question of the day?
Speaker 2:The question of the day as far as new artists, how do you determine what factors you look for as far as whether this person's legit? You're going to check them out and all that.
Speaker 1:Gray, you want to?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I would say originality, Like you know, not trying to sound like somebody else and just being original with. You know your story and your image. You know Wordplay, you know not talking about the same things like about ops, and you know flipping the birds and shit.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I feel that.
Speaker 2:Because, you know, in this day and age it's like I don't know. I feel like it's different discovering artists. You know It'd be like TikTok, youtube and all that. So it's like a real brief glimpse, like you might scroll some and see some. You feel me Like what's going to make you check that artist out, as opposed to you just kidding and pushing and check the whole song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, I would say I don't know. I still like, I feel like I'm still pretty old school when it comes to stuff like that. Like I feel like I don't know and we, we play music so much that it's like I don't know. I feel like we do it differently. But I feel like if I hear a song, if I hear a song, I'm like whoa, okay, hold on, who is that guy?
Speaker 1:right and then I'll like check, I like check out the person's joint, like I'll probably say the furthest back, the furthest back I could think of as being an old head and thinking like, okay, like these new folks is like kind of like just whatever. I remember this was probably like six or seven years ago and I had heard they played king they played king von in the um in the strip club, and I was like I don't know who this is, but this, this little storytelling thing he's doing, is actually pretty dope.
Speaker 1:I might have to, I might have to check him out. Um, and then um, and then it was actually funny. Uh, buck actually put me on to uh Russ, oh, I think it was around the same time and he was yeah, let me hear it, do it myself Too many. And it was, um, what they want, what they want which is actually crazy Cause.
Speaker 1:that's like a song of the day from like, I think like season four, season three, I don't remember. But, um, yeah, a song of the day from like being like this is season four, season three, I don't remember. But um, yeah, and so like that's what made me give him a try, because I was like it's three songs like hit, like all three are hitters like I, with all three of the songs, so like stuff like that I it was just, I don't know, I feel like it's just songs like so more recently, nice and slow, I was doing research for nice and slow. The guy, uh, I asked about I forget his name Tone Tone, somebody.
Speaker 2:He was an R&B artist, tone Stith.
Speaker 1:Tone Stith. Yeah, I heard a song he had called Smokin' in the Parking Lot. I was smokin' in the park or something like that, and I was like, okay, I'm about to check him out. So yeah for me.
Speaker 2:I feel like it dope, I'll be like all right, let's get, let's get another shot, let's give it another shot, got you? Yeah, that type of so if the song is dope, but they don't have like a lot of followers and that doesn't.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't care, because I know some people be looking for like the blue check and all that. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:I don't want to reel it out too much, but I ain't gonna lie the, the what's the, because I feel like we talked about this off air the, um, the. What's the word I'm looking for? Like the blue check doesn't really mean anything anymore like you could buy a blue check now, like you can't even earn it anymore, like you have to buy it. So like the I forgot what word I used, but like it's gone down, like the blue checks, I don't care.
Speaker 3:Or the value of it.
Speaker 1:Value. There you go. That's why you hear gray. The value of blue checks have gone down drastically, very much so If you have a good song, I don't care if you're doing stadiums or doing karaoke. If it's a dope song, it's a dope song.
Speaker 2:Definitely For sure.
Speaker 3:Definitely feel that, what about you?
Speaker 2:Pretty much the same way I recently. I'm a big Light Jennings fan so he had posted one of these young artists and he was like I don't usually do this like that, but you could tell that bruh speaking that real, you know what I mean. I listened to the song. I'm like damn Homes, actually hard for real. I rap with him.
Speaker 1:And who is this? Do you remember the?
Speaker 2:name. His name is like Chino, chino something. Yeah, I got to look it up, but his name is Chino though.
Speaker 1:Is he a rapper or a?
Speaker 2:He kind of blended. You know what I'm saying? I ain't going to lie to that I mean, it was a singing song, though, that he had made.
Speaker 1:So if you could compare him to anybody if you could who would you compare him to? Like the closest, he ain't got to be exactly like. But if you were to mesh a whole bunch of artists together, who would you compare this person to?
Speaker 2:Damn, that's a good question. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. He got kind of a. That's why he stuck out, Because I was like damn yeah, like he don't, he wasn't like. Because I was like damn yeah, Like he don't, he wasn't. He wasn't like cause he was talking about some real stuff. That's why I feel like you know what I'm saying, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Also, the big point he made is one of the artists that he really likes posted about him. So that credibility and that's why I like yo when you do make it the big artists. It is important to show love to the other artists because your following is going to, you know, fuck with them and give them a chance just because they like you.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that's what's up, no, that's hard.
Speaker 1:Are there any new artists that you're listening to?
Speaker 3:Well, not new, but see, I recently got on to Tory Lanez from the Alone at Prom album. That's like one of my favorite albums ever right now which is like he made it in, like 1987. Like it takes place.
Speaker 1:Is that the one we got the?
Speaker 2:wig on yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole character.
Speaker 3:It was storyline crazy. He dropped a deluxe version with 12 more songs or 10. But yeah, no, I just recently got on to him and then I started listening to his old shit. I'm like, oh shit, I never really listened to him, but now it's like, you know, I fucks with him and I didn't realize how many hits was actually him. I'm like, oh, I didn't know that was him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah right, you know, but as far as like new up and coming, I mean with like, uh, tyler davis, shout out, tyler davis, he's um up and coming and man, he, you know, one of the hardest rappers out right now as far as you know wordplay.
Speaker 1:What was his? Um? What was his artist name? The um, the dark skin guy. I forget his name. I remember he had a song called blue collar. Do you remember his name?
Speaker 3:he performed with him at the um, oh yeah, moon, moon, moon, yeah. J list really everybody that did shows with us ray rockman j list. Like you know, they're all uh and they're all different genres.
Speaker 1:You know right, yeah, moon is dope, he, he definitely gives me isaiah rashad vibes, definitely. But um yeah, speaking of rap, we we got anything else to talk about before we move on I'm just why, yeah, let's talk about it no, I just curious, you know.
Speaker 2:Uh well, great jackson, what. What's some of the influence that that you listened to? You know I'm saying growing up, or just music wise and all that, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I mean growing up you know my dad, you know um, best of both worlds being interracial, I got to listen to. You know all types of shit rock on my mom's side. My dad really raised me on the like old school r&b, hip-hop, so like a lot of uh, new edition boys demand stuff like that. But then he also liked uh, hip-hop and being in ohio they listened to a lot of west coast. So like my dad, listened to more West Coast over East Coast. So you know Tupac and you know Snoop Warren G, all that back then.
Speaker 1:And you know.
Speaker 3:Bone Thugs sounded like West Coast type vibe, but they, you know, from Ohio too. And then, like you know, a lot of rock Like soft rock was my shit Like Three Do too, but um, and then, like you know, a lot of rock like soft rock was my shit like three doors down green day, um, you know, um, blink 182, stuff like that and then like me, I kind of just like to merge them all, like you know, and and then, like my favorite artist all times, k cuddy.
Speaker 2:So you know he's like okay, word, you know, has his own genre. Like you know what's your favorite cuddy project, would you say oh man on the moon, one easy hands down, yeah you had to ask.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. Hands down, man on the moon one but that whole trilogy is yeah, it's lit and you know, um, definitely a huge inspiration. And then michael jackson with the short films and shit like that. So you know I got a lot that I'm working on this, uh, you know, but a lot of inspiration from, you know, kid Cudi, michael Jackson, and then what I grew up on, the old school R&B, the old school shit Like you know I feel that what inspires you to pick up the mic, and you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Start like making music for yourself.
Speaker 3:That's like my, one of my biggest forms of expression. You know what I'm saying. So like literally um, and and then like through storyline. I always like movies and acting shit too, so real creative with my wordplay, and you know I put everything in a story and um, sometimes I dramatize it, sometimes I may, you know, it's just like whatever I want in the form of expression. And, yeah, it definitely helps me. Just, you know um, it helps manage stress and it helps, like you know, just with more inspiration too.
Speaker 3:So, how old were you when you first started? See, that's funny, because I knew I could rap my whole life Like I've always been musically inclined. I always just heard beats and shit different.
Speaker 1:Like, I remember like.
Speaker 3:LL Cool J back when I was uh, you know uh living in ohio, my dad used to take me to the library with him and I used to just listen to the youtube launch. It wasn't even like it was like a launch and it was like you know, like with the big ass block computers and shit, with the headphones that come yeah so but, um, yeah, like you know, ll koojay and 50 cent, I really like young, but yeah, I was always just rapping along with that and rapping.
Speaker 3:And you know, yeah, it all began rapping. I couldn't sing for shit at first, right, like the voice was cracking my little brother could sing and he used to make me mad because it was like, oh okay, but I can rap though, like you know, so, yeah, I started off rapping. You know, I didn't know how to use my voice. Yeah, I feel that.
Speaker 1:So what made you make the verge into singing?
Speaker 3:Well, I learned how to sing. You know, I taught myself how to sing and it's like I just began and then again like, as I'm growing and evolving, my music's growing and evolving, so you know I'm. And then I began to like the retro shit more than the newer music made. So I'm like listening to that again. I'm like yo. I used to think some of this was boring when my dad played. I'm like yo. This, the shit right here and then you know they talking. All you know love and positivity and shit too.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. You said I literally had the same type of situation that way because my dad used to play all that old school, like you know, saying I'm like damn, I used to. You know, when you young you are trying to hear like the hot shit, yeah. But then I like I've revisited the auto old museum, like down this really that yeah, that's crazy anyway, that I just had to check in with that. You know, just see the background.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying yeah, for sure, just talk about that when did you come to the A?
Speaker 3:I moved in 04. I was turning 9 when I moved here so yeah, I was in Ohio first parts of my life. Like you know, akron area. I actually lived by LeBron at one point when he had the white Hummer and shit. But yeah, so you know he's in ohio, moved here, been here ever since, but ready to leave now for sure. Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 1:So where's your next move?
Speaker 3:um, maybe somewhere out of the country, but who knows?
Speaker 2:what was? What would you say like stylistic, how's the different, like in ohio, compared to like or just like, the environment, the field? Well, definitely the weather, the weather.
Speaker 3:Oh, very much. So. The weather, oh yeah, you remember that.
Speaker 2:What's up, turnover and everything is hella close, like you can literally walk everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 1:you don't need to drive Like if they say, it's five minutes away. It's five minutes away here, like oh yeah it's five minutes, it's like 20 minutes when you say five minutes there, you mean like five minutes, what's up, what's up. You know. When you say five minutes there, you mean like five steps, like literally. It's like right up the street, like you can look at it at the house, like from the house. Everything is close, close and weather. That's what I would say.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but see in Ohio and me being from there, it's like we don depressing. You know I'm saying so, um, and I noticed that the more and more I visited and you know, go back home, every time everybody's, all you know, gloomy and shit and I'm like, oh my gosh, like you know what's going on. And then, yeah, there's not a lot of sunshine and yeah, the weather, yeah, it snows a lot. You know, you got to go um, salt your driveways and scrape your windshields in the morning before work and shit, wake up an hour early to do that, I'm good.
Speaker 2:I hear that Last one, what's three spots food-wise that we had to if we ever go to Ohio, that we got to check out.
Speaker 3:Well, okay, and I'm going to go off of before. I became vegan. Yeah, but in Ohioio, goodness, all right. So I would say it's, uh, this place called, or, where I'm from, small town called saboro's. It's like a hole in wall like, yeah, uh, chicken and jojo spot. I don't even know, you know uh, people down south don't call them jojos, they call them potato wedges.
Speaker 1:But you know up north, jojos, you know me, but uh, yeah that.
Speaker 3:And then, uh, swenson's, they're like the, the northern, in and out burgers type shit, but it's like different, you know, with more onions and shit, but it, you know, it tasted good right, you know it's been like four years since I ate it and then um three, oh man, I don't know. The pizza is way better out there. So any like real hole in the wall pizza spot is way better than, you know, georgia pizza for sure.
Speaker 2:I feel that what inspired the vegan move?
Speaker 3:Just you know growing spirituality and also like meat, just wasn't sitting right with me and you know, I just, and one step at a time, um, you know, had a little community. I was uh following that, uh did the same thing and then also becoming a personal trainer and nutritionist as well, just learning more, connecting more with my body, you know, prioritizing my health so you felt like a difference once you made that, once you made the change to being vegan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely, like you know, for me, a lot of mental clarity with it. A lot of you know like no more, like bloating less mucus in the body, things like that. And you know, healing myself, like I'm, you know, I tore my own meniscus. Healed that naturally through diet and just movements and a good workout regimen. But yeah, and being holistic, I don't like the doctors.
Speaker 2:If it's so, Nah, it's real man.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. Both of y'all can relate to that.
Speaker 2:Are you holistic too, man? Yeah, I mean, I just be trying to have the natural, you know remedy as opposed to. It's weird because I went to the doctor you know about something and then they gave me some pills and then like I got even more sick Exactly you know what I'm saying. So I was like, all right, bro, I ain't need. It's like a waste of money. Like I lost money spending you know buying this, and then like, going to see the doctor and y'all ain't really tapping and tapping. Y'all just, you know, got a protocol that y'all following. So I just like you know what it's all a business.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Let me just handle it on my own and do some research for real.
Speaker 1:I was going to say you can always finesse that. Hey, they tell you what's wrong, you figure it out yourself yeah that's how I do it, but teach us on. But um, yeah, so we uh ready to move to the next segment.
Speaker 1:All right, ladies, gentlemen, we're gonna move on to the uh next segment, which is, uh, guess, the bars. So what we do? If you don't know that your first time listening, if this is your first time listening, that's crazy, it's fifth season you're not listening. But, um, ladies, gentlemen, what we do is we have some bars that we read out to y'all and um, try to figure out who it is. And then, once we're done reading it, we rate it on the f scale, which is from five to one fire, ferocious, flat, flat, frisbee, fecal, easy for me to say. And, yeah, we try to figure out who it is. If we know who it is, we try to uh, well, we let us let y'all know who to um, when the first time we heard said song um, how you want to uh do this, tanaka, are we? Um, oh, we all do three as well. So, yeah, but how you wanna, we won't start. I'll start it off. Let's see if we can find, see if we can find also book. So you guys would just pull from here. I got, I got all the information, but okay, let's see.
Speaker 1:All right, first one look nigga, what you think this is. You treat me like a, like a random chick you you done forgot who introduced you to rocks and popping, all that christian shit, who let you hit it from the back any way you like, and any debts I can pay the price. I thought I was a chick. You uh would make your wife and now a bitch can't even stay the night. Um, it's trina, trina. What's the name of that song? Here we go, is that it? Yeah, okay, cool bet. Um, it was cool. Uh, I can, I can catch the vibe. Um, it was I. I give it a, I give it a, I give it a flat, I give it a flat. But I can also note that the song is not for me, but I give it a flat. 3.1. Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1:The first time I heard this I don't remember the first time I heard this. I don't remember the first time I heard this song, but I do remember when I heard this, I was like, oh damn, trina still makes music. Like that's, that was. That was my thing. I was like, oh shit, that's what's up. Trina still make music and it's still relevant. Like I remember this song. Like all the girls sing here we go, here we go again.
Speaker 1:Now you're yeah, all the girls are singing it and all that. So yeah, it was cool, it was alright, but um Bet Alright cool. So Tanaka here.
Speaker 2:Boy done. Read up for real Right.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to Welcome back to box. Alright, let's see what we got.
Speaker 2:And Jordy on Pirelli, Make a movie. Out the getty With my ring and my confetti. I'm Kobe Bryant, ready Pink rose and chronic smell. While I'm stumbling out the telly, I'm so fly, I'm so fairy, and the way I flow is very Gin. Sewer machete where my pencil move is deadly. Platinum band, platinum bezzy. Make a straight girl out of lezzy Magazine. Mac Benz keep my windows like the Prezzy. That's a lot of ezies, A lot of ezies. Yeah, this is cool. I don't know who this is, though I ain't gonna count. It's entertaining. I get a flat Ferocious. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:You have. You have like a Shot in the dark, half court, full court shot. I guess we could be.
Speaker 2:Nah, I ain't got no. Sound like some like.
Speaker 3:French Montana shit. If I had to just Throw a wild guess, yeah I don't think french montana is as he.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'm not gonna, I don't think he has the ability to do that. But that's just me personally.
Speaker 2:I don't think so, but yeah I'm gonna just say 90s artists, 90s artists.
Speaker 1:okay, well, I'll, I'll give, I'll give buck, like a quarter of a point, because they're from the same state, it's actually Lloyd Banks.
Speaker 3:That was Beamer, benz and Bentley.
Speaker 1:Have you ever heard of that song? Oh, yeah, duh. I guess I just come from there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean nobody thinks about the song. So it's like Right, yeah. So that shows you, just keep your mind to whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 2:What was the first time you?
Speaker 1:heard. That's so crazy, like that was his like comeback. And that's crazy that you picked trina and you pick lloyd, and I picked trina, you pick lloyd banks. Because I thought the exact same thing. For that I was like, oh damn, yeah lloyd banks still makes music and it's relevant.
Speaker 3:Okay, because we were, we weren't up there beamer benzin bentley, beamer benzin bentley. So yeah, because when heit Exactly Wait was he still in G-Unit?
Speaker 1:Wait for this. Yeah, he was, yeah, but he was just so out there that it was like I didn't even know he was still in G-Unit. I thought he was independent. I don't think anybody in G-Unit was even in the video. It seemed like it was more like Dipset video, vaguely.
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm going off of memory, I'm not gonna lie, I don't remember now, that was crazy, though that was correct, because I was in new york like when when he dropped it.
Speaker 3:So all right, all right, look what we got all right facts, whole game hitting up my phone because my hooks beats and my raps only reason I pick up because my family need the cash. I just stumbled on my ex's page. That ass is getting fat Dreams. I used to chase, stopped running, so now y'all are getting lapped. I don't know why I want to say Drake, but I know I heard this line before. Goddamn. But I mean wow. I could actually relate to the lyrics though, especially like with the. You know the family, the. You know, yeah, ex shit man. But I would say, yeah, x shit man. But I would say, yeah, I wouldn't give it a full ferocious, I'd say like a 3.5. 3.5. Yeah, a 3.5. But yeah like man.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I want to say some Drake shit right now. So no, you're wrong, not going to lie Buck, I'm kind of disappointed in you. So no, you're wrong, not going to lie Buck, I'm kind of disappointed in you. That was Russ, that was doing myself. Oh no, wow, that's funny. Oh, dang.
Speaker 3:Buck, that's funny as hell.
Speaker 1:Dang Buck, and that's crazy.
Speaker 3:You picked it. I know we talked about it. It literally was just talking about random too. Yeah, wild that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I ain't gonna.
Speaker 3:I'm disappointed wow, I mean, I haven't heard that song, you know, I know it used to be my favorite yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this so when? How did you discover russ?
Speaker 3:um, from the, I don't need her, I don't need him fuck it up, but but it was like, uh, like I seen a snippet of it somewhere or something, and then like yeah, it caught my ear, and then I just went and found the video on youtube and then, and then I just listened to more more yeah, yeah and, yeah, his voice, and you know like, yeah, he was like rapping and singing at the same time, which? You know, yeah, I fuck some shit like that right, I feel.
Speaker 1:I feel that, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, when you told me about the deal with myself, I was like, wow, yeah, I actually fuck with him. Hopefully he can actually make something out of this. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, that is right there for you. All right, let's see Round two Truthfully it. All right, let's see round two truthfully.
Speaker 1:It's family. It's family till it can't. It can't be gang till it. Ain't twins but it depends brothers until something is uncovered. Dogs until the lifting of the fog. I always got you turns into. Well, I never thought you. Years, years of the camaraderie suddenly disappears. Also, like you never were here. Unconditional love, very conditioned when push come to shove, all that talk of talking bullets suddenly feel foolish bullets. With him, turn to ad campaigns. You gotta pull it. That was interesting. Um, I don't know who this is. I'm gonna get this. Uh, yeah, this is another flat, ferocious. Um, I would. I want to say dmx. It sounds like some dmx. I feel like. I feel like it's dmx because, just because of all the the gun talk and he says dogs. But then again, I don't. I don't think dmx is spelling dogs d-a-w-g. I don't know.
Speaker 1:That just doesn't sit right with me. So if it ain't DMX, it's somebody from the south, just because of the dogs, the dog spelling, so Tanaka who we got.
Speaker 2:This is Jack Harlow Gang, gang, gang.
Speaker 1:Ah, yeah, I think I know that. Yeah, I don't think I know that. Yeah, I don't think I know that. Yeah, I don't think I know that. Um, yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of that. What's your thoughts on Gang gang, gang Tanaka? I actually haven't heard, I was just picking random shit, speaking random Beautiful.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I haven't heard it either.
Speaker 1:You listen to Jack Harlow Um.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know, sometimes Like I DJ, sometimes too, and we're going to talk about that too. But I play him because.
Speaker 1:I see a lot of people like him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel that up and zip it, stand over stove, soup it up and whip it. I'm a chef that cook up ways to make me rich. Clothing line recipe. I make it rich. Then why test, make a hustle? Nervous, got a problem? Don't call me, I ain't customer service. Okay, okay, um, I could f with it, man, I could F with it, man, I could F with it. Yeah, I'm gonna give another Flat, ferocious man can we like?
Speaker 1:can we get worse or better? Flat, ferocious, any guesses I?
Speaker 2:could do the flow. That's why I stand over Stole soup. Nah, I ain't got no guesses, none. Don't know who this is.
Speaker 1:This is Fabulous. This is a song called Hustler's Poster Child. Have you ever heard of that song?
Speaker 2:Nah, I haven't Haven't heard of Hustler's Poster Child't. I haven't heard of Us Live's Posted Show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me neither. So I guess we both picking random shit, alright.
Speaker 3:I got the homies. They could only mean the world to me. And they ain't coming back home. They in the cemetery. I wish I made this up. It was a fairy tale. I know the kingpin's on the name is legendary. They smoke crack right now. This ain't a Tyler Perry. This real rap, real life. It's very necessary, all right. So I mean you've got to be a trap artist.
Speaker 3:In my opinion, but I like I mean, if we're talking like, yeah, I would say I'll say another three5 because it's like you know, it's like I could almost just feel what they're talking about for real, and you know it's not the basic wordplay. You know a little, something, something, but when it comes to who it is, man dang, I don't know what y'all be choosing.
Speaker 2:That's why I leave it up to y'all. That's why I leave it up to y'all.
Speaker 1:That's why I leave it up to y'all.
Speaker 3:But actually it does sound like an early 2000s line or something like that.
Speaker 1:Excuse me y'all, I'm still trying to find it. Where the fuck are you?
Speaker 3:And again, if you mention Tyler Perry, it's got to be after 2010 or something, huh?
Speaker 1:Yeah, true, true. I would think I don't know. Honestly, I don't know, because when did he make his first movie?
Speaker 3:Or the first one that went popular Was it Madea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Diary of a Black Woman, or something.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, yeah, I don't even know what year that came from.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know anything about that. Let's see. Oh, there you go, all right, so this is well. You were right. This trap rapper is Future. He's off a song called Permanent Scars. Are you familiar with Permanent Scars? Rapper is Future. He's off a song called Permanent Scars. Are you familiar with Permanent Scars?
Speaker 3:Never heard it. Yeah me neither. I feel like Future has a lot of songs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just he's one of those artists that's kind of like Youngboy. He just puts out music. It's not quality over quantity, it's quantity over quality. He's just putting out shit Just non-stop. Especially with that. But the thing about future is very interesting, like he'll have like his audience saying the dumbest shit ever and like it's like like that plutoski, like can you imagine thousands and putting thousands of coachella people? Like that's crazy to me, that's very crazy to me. But yeah, well, all right, cool, let's wrap this up. Number three Last one Straight up. Shit is real and any day could be your last in the jungle. Get murdered on a humble Guns will blast, niggas tumble. The corner is a hot spot full of made criminals. Who cares guzzling beers? We all stare out of towners. They better break north before we get four pounders and take their face off. The streets is filled with undercovers, homicide chasing brothers, the D's on the roof trying to watch us and knock us, and the killers coppers, even come in helicopters this sound like another Up North rapper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this sounds like another Up North rapper. Yeah, I guess a flat. It just kind of was what it was, just street talk. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to say somebody from the LOS, because he said the Ds, or he's from Detroit, so somebody from Detroit, or one of the locks, somebody from D block, I don't know who. We got Tanaka.
Speaker 2:Nas represent.
Speaker 1:Nas is one of those artists that I mean, I know is lyrical. I just I'm very, very minimal on my Nas knowledge. I'm not gonna lie very minimal on my Nas knowledge. I'm not going to lie Very minimal on my Nas knowledge. There you go, sir. Alright, let's wrap this up.
Speaker 2:Big slow on prescription meds. I just pulled up with the Christian years, told the bitch to get the new Hermes. I don't know nobody. I'm stressed Four months. I was on the X. If you don't know about it, don't guess. Sounds really depressing. Yeah, this is going to be a frisbee flat. Frisbee flat. He asked for it to move. It's moving. All right, let's see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is going to be a frisbee flat. Frisbee flat. He asked for it to move. It's moving.
Speaker 2:All right, let's see Big on the.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know who this is man, but yeah, if you had to take an educated, if you were to take a half-court shot, guess who are we going with? Who does it sound like? Who's in that studio making that, making that lyric right there? Future definitely sounds like a future bar. Definitely sounds like uh, uh, oh. So, tanaka, this is actually your favorite rapper, yeet Narcotics. Are you familiar with Narcotics by Yeet?
Speaker 2:No, I've only heard maybe two or three Yeet songs, so I don't know too much about Yeet. My roommate swear he like.
Speaker 1:The greatest of all time. Yeah, I ain't going to lie, he's rocking stadiums. I'm not going to lie, I don't know how, but I mean I never knock anybody making their money, buck. What are your thoughts on Yeet? Never heard of him Really, really, like really. You've never heard any music or anything.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean see, with people like that, who I don't know, by name.
Speaker 1:I mean, unless they got a super popular song everybody knows, which is odd, because he does like really big shows, but I can't tell you not one song. Okay, he had a song on the drake album. The last drake album called I don't give a fuck. That's like the only, that's like the only like song I could think of. But I feel like, if you're not like I don't know, 25 or younger, maybe like 24 or younger, I feel like you really don't, because, yeah, I'm very minimal on my own and then I feel like he is like a cult kind of.
Speaker 1:He's like a Playboi Carti.
Speaker 2:He's like a Playboi.
Speaker 1:Carti Ken Carson, like those kind of rappers, Like really distorted beats and just it's. Yeah, I don't know, Not for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that makes sense, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:last but not least, Hopefully it's something I know.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, alright. Last but not least, hopefully it's something I know Right, well, we gave you something you wouldn't know.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, I know right, alright, alright, I got two for two. Come get a Kawhi Leonard Bitch, real trap. Nigga, true corner bender, big money spender, 50k and a sprinter. I'm a big baller like I play for the clippers. Gucci mixed with prada, red marnie slippers. Fell in love with designer. I stay in neiman marcus, 13 footer. Yeah, come get a james harden, you know it's funny, funny.
Speaker 1:Okay, obviously I'm looking at who it is, but as soon as you said the last part, I would have been like oh yeah, I know exactly who this is, as soon as you said that last part, because he does that shit all the time.
Speaker 3:Oh gosh, if I had the flow it'd be yeah, but yeah, I'll give it a frisbee, um, but I don't know why it looks like some future shit again. But yeah, trap, okay, yeah, the trap stuff. Yeah, uh, uh, but okay, well, based off of that, it's not future. So, uh, yeah, I don't know, I don't listen to trap music like that man.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, well, that was actually um, boss man d low was interesting about boss man d low. He's like one of the first trap rappers that I know about. I don't know, maybe y'all can tell me differently, but he's one of the first trap rappers that doesn't really talk about murder. Like, he doesn't really. He's like a lot, he's like flex talk. If you listen to a lot of his music, it's just flex talk. It's just money and girls and just it's very interesting how he's able to avoid like like I just find it interesting. I feel like somebody was talking about that.
Speaker 3:What about like the Texas rap, like Paul Wall, mike Jones and them, like they trap but not really like A bunch of murder shit like that?
Speaker 1:I don't really see them as trap, though. I don't know. How do you feel about that? I guess I never thought about that, but I don't know. I don't see. I just see them as I don't know. Wait, where's Boss man D-Lo from? Is he from Texas? Because if that's the case, then that would make sense. I guess no, he's not from Texas. He's not from Texas. Is he from here? I want to say he's from. Florida. Now that's very interesting because they straight to talk about murder.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's from, like tallahassee port salamo.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying like trick daddy, plies like rick ross, gunplay, like all them. I feel like they were like straight talk about murder, but it's, I don't know. I just find that interesting, find that very interesting, but, um, cool, yeah, that was, guess the bars. We're gonna move on to, um, what we got next, the hall of fame. Right, hall of fame, all right, y'all. So the Hall of Fame. For the people that don't know, we all picked something different and we have it. Go on the Instagram page Y'all, go vote, shout out to everybody that participated.
Speaker 1:The last one was nice and slow. You had I don't even remember what you had. What did you have? I don't remember. I just remember Drip had that thing that looked like karina, I guess, whatever that shit was, and, surprisingly enough, that shit won. So drip is now three. And oh, congratulations, dj drip, you are now three. And oh, in the hall of fame. So, um, for the people that don't know what the hall of fame is like, I said you just pick whatever you want and we gonna nominate it and put it on the Hall of Fame nominee list. But here's some stuff to give you an idea of what the Hall of Fame is. You can literally just pick anything you want.
Speaker 3:It's not a list on what we're choosing from no, no, no, you can pick whatever you want, those are Hall of Famers.
Speaker 1:The TNT Podcast Hall of Famers. It's just different. Just give you an idea. I'm telling you. It's random, you can pick yourself if you want to, if you want to. But um Tanaka, you started off, I guess, since you can't even remember your fucking nomination. Um.
Speaker 3:It's literally just random shit, but yeah, ow, that's all it's literally some lame shit.
Speaker 2:But yeah ow oh damn. Let me see I'm trying to think what we said I'm. Let me see I'm gonna nominate um comedian. There's a mixtape inside. I'm going to nominate Community Nerds, mixtape Messiah series.
Speaker 1:You said what one.
Speaker 2:Mixtape Messiah.
Speaker 1:Mixtape Messiah yeah, okay, then why are we nominating that?
Speaker 2:That was kind of the real first mixtape joint I kind of even ventured into you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So, okay, let me ask you this For the Chameleonare mixtape did you already know who he was at the time? Oh, okay. So this wasn't like oh, who was the new artist? Oh, it was Chameleonare. Let's check it out, okay.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't know, I know riding blew up and all that, but I was on him before riding.
Speaker 1:You were on him when Lil Flip turned it up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I actually really fucked with Kamenier actually.
Speaker 1:He was always dope to me. He's a smart businessman to say the least.
Speaker 2:I used to be a clown. All my partners was not effing with Killeen. They felt like he was corny, so they was rocking with Slim Thug. But the mixtape Messiah Series, that was just him rapping over different beats. Oh, so like his drought yeah.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. So like what would you say is like some standout songs that you remember from off that mixtape, that and what was it?
Speaker 2:was just interesting. Well, he has nine of them. You know I'm saying nine, yeah, but um, it was just interesting how? Uh, because you know, chameleon was kind of like melodic too, like he could also have that.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, so he used to incorporate that over like beats as well, you know so. But I do remember he had made like a. He had made a record where he basically just impersonated like a whole bunch of rappers, so like he would copy, like like their style and all that just to like basically rap how they will rap. You know what I'm saying. So I just thought it was creative because I was like damn, like he over here, just and what year would you say this was?
Speaker 3:yeah, I was gonna say before hip-hop police or after hip-hop police if you probably were on the same song.
Speaker 1:Okay, I did fuck with hip-hop yeah, that was so creative, yeah yeah, the fact that he was able to bring out slick, rick and all god, I was like damn he brought yeah, slick rick, but then doing the voices in the song of the the detective and the news reporter.
Speaker 3:But yeah, see, like, yeah, I fuck with shit like that yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I fuck with A comedian there and even as a person Like that Before we, I don't want to Reel it out too much, but yeah, so, yeah. So I'm gonna go Completely left with it and I'm gonna go with A show that I actually Put you on and now it's like your favorite, your favorite adult Cartoon show. So, without all that being said, my nominee for the TNT Podcast Hall of Fame is Aqua Teen Hunger Force. That was probably like my favorite show growing up. I don't know if you guys have ever seen this show, but it's a show about a fry, a shake and, I think, like a meatball or something like that, and it's the dumbest show ever. Have you ever heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
Speaker 1:I'm not sure he's like the way he said I'm not sure he's like, I'm concerned, are you okay? Do we need?
Speaker 3:that like it's not no happy tree friends type shit, is it?
Speaker 1:oh, whoa boy, talk about a bro, please. Why did you bring? I forgot about that show, bro. Okay, I don't want to reel it out too much, but there is one episode of Happy Tree Friends that I remember and it was I think it was the moose. The moose had the tree fall on his legs and then so like he was trying to scoot out, but then all he had was a spoon and he was just like going on his legs. I'm like yo and I'm like yo and he's like bleeding. I was like, yeah, no, that's it for me. That's pretty great, that's it for me.
Speaker 3:But anyway yeah.
Speaker 1:So I Continue. Hunger Force is about some fries, a shake and a meatball and they move across the street from this guy and then it's just a whole bunch of just random shit. If you know, you know, that's probably one of the longest. I'd probably say, besides Robot Chicken, it's probably one of the longest-reigning shows on Adult Swim. That's what I'm going to go with. I'll continue Hunger Force. If you know, you know. If you don't, I recommend you go find out. I'll continue Hunger Force. That's my nominee for the Podcast Hall of Fame Gray Jackson. What do we got?
Speaker 3:I'm going to nominate the indigo blue, red-eyed, wide-body Hellcat. You know what I'm saying and I got it pinned on my first picture pinned on Instagram. So yeah, I'm going to nominate that man. You know Need for Speed got me in the cars. It, you know, flexed on a lot of broke, a couple necks you know, I can only imagine and it's like yeah you know it's relevant, kaisa, and I just had a birthday not too long ago, so happy birthday, yeah and um, yeah, it was a real dope experience.
Speaker 3:I'm like, hey, I'm gonna nominate that that's yeah, that's, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Would you ever imagine in a million years that you would have that car?
Speaker 3:Not at all.
Speaker 1:I would have never guessed.
Speaker 3:I don't predict shit, but it's like yo. I could see a whole bunch of ways it could have happened, and that's not one of them.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's real. I'm glad you told us about the whole. Like he even said that he would cover the taxes I'm glad you told us about the whole. He even said that he would cover the taxes. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:It was like for real, for real, it was a real deal.
Speaker 2:It wasn't no.
Speaker 1:Hidden fees. You got this, but hey, we need like 10,000.
Speaker 3:It was real smooth process. It didn't require Too much Personal stuff. He he covered it, gifted it and it was Just smooth.
Speaker 2:That's hard, that's dope, that's hard. Well, shout out to Kai. Shout out to Kai For sure.
Speaker 1:Seems, really Seems, like a pretty, pretty smooth, authentic guy.
Speaker 3:Shout out to him. He really acts like Kevin Hart in person.
Speaker 1:Does he really?
Speaker 3:They're very similar yeah.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. That's crazy. We've got to meet Kai, Well cool. Well, that wraps it up. So I forgot what you oh, what was the name of it? Again, I forgot the mixtape joint you called it oh.
Speaker 2:Mixtape Messiah.
Speaker 1:Mixtape Messiah. So we're going to put Mixtape Messiah versus the Hellcat, versus the AquaZine Hunger Force. We're going to put it on the Instagram page. Y'all go vote for that. See who the first inductee class of 2025. You got to put Red.
Speaker 3:Eye Hellcat, I'm going to get all that information from you.
Speaker 1:I'm not a car person, so I was going to get a picture. I was going to ask you what the, as a matter of fact, I was going to ask to send me the picture of you with the because is going to be a song from 2016. I'm not 2016, actually 2013. There's a song by 2 Chainz called Fork Tanaka are you familiar with? Are you familiar with that song? Fork, fork, oh yeah yeah, that's off the based on a true story, to the chains, yeah, the chains, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think of the record, though.
Speaker 1:I'ma get to that. Gray are you familiar with? Are you familiar with? I guess that would be 2013, that would be Wait. Well, let me back up. Are you familiar with 2 Chainz? I mean, obviously you're familiar with 2 Chainz, everybody knows 2 Chainz, but do you listen to 2 Chainz?
Speaker 3:Like I definitely like a lot of his songs. Actually, is that the same? That the birthday song was on the album, that the birthday song?
Speaker 1:No, I think that was or Used To.
Speaker 3:Used To with. T-pain or is T-Pain on?
Speaker 1:it no, no, no. Used To, I think, is the New Orleans one, that's with Drake and Wayne. Oh, no, no, no, my bad, my bad. That's the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's doing the Hot Boys.
Speaker 2:I still like that. Yeah, he's doing the New Orleans vibe.
Speaker 1:No, I think Me Time was, I think Fed's Watching, Fed's Watching and something else.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but no, that era I'm different Fed's Watching. Yeah, Was that the?
Speaker 1:same. Come on, no, that was definitely I mean, but me, me and I mean, uh, based on a true story. One and two Basically came out Like year, like year after each other, but yeah.
Speaker 3:Me time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you're right. Used to, used to and Fez watched.
Speaker 3:Okay, so yeah, no, when he said the chains on the album I pictured that Cause it's on my, on my shit, but uh, I don't think I know that song specifically but I definitely like it.
Speaker 1:So have you heard the album?
Speaker 3:Songs off of it. Yeah, but not the whole thing, Not like all the way through the tight joint.
Speaker 1:Okay, after that, well, all right. Well, this song is actually the intro. So when the song came out, I was probably I think I was a year into the Boys and Girls Club and I was a year into DJing no-transcript. You know both boston and all that talk. So that type of talk. Someone came out when this album came out, september 10, 2013, when the album came out, and that's when I first heard the song. It was released under def jam. His song song, according to Rap Genius, is OD to the Trap, with him talking about how he had a dream that rap didn't work and he basically had to do what he had to do to make it end in something. The music video looks like he's in a trap house wearing two thousand outfits, with a lavish, flashy-style outfit and wearing a white beater. P-nasty, mike Will, are the producers. Before I go any further, tanaka, do you know any? We obviously know who Mike Will is, but do you know PNasty?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's one of the. He's one of the, I think, in-house producers at Ear Drum.
Speaker 1:That's actually crazy that we were just talking about Ear Drum. That's actually crazy that we were just talking about uh ears um um fork by two chains who had uh, generally received positive reviews from music critics. The critics often praise two chains lyrical development uh, hello, he's going to say delivery. Nothing uh of his witty word play, punchy word line, boastful style mike will made it is. Production is frequently praised for his hard-hitting beats and infectious energy. The song's memorable hook is often cited as a contributing factor to his success. While some critics may point out, the song's lyrical content primarily focuses on material possesses, possessions and extravagant displays of wealth. It is generally acknowledged as a fun and entertaining track that showcased 2 Chainz's signature style, one of the like forefathers of 2010s trap music. I'd highly recommend you hear Fork.
Speaker 2:That's Turn Up's album of the day is gonna be g herbo. Uh, humble beast. Um, this was his debut debut project. He has like mixtapes before and stuff like that, but this was like his official album. Um, it was a solid project. I don't know if if it's necessarily his best work, but it definitely had its moments. Just as far as blending the street stuff with the, I don't know, I feel like out of that whole Chicago movement at the time that had blew up, I feel like he was my favorite just because he had that storytelling aspect and it wasn't just all drill.
Speaker 2:Drill music, you know Right.
Speaker 1:And this is when he was. I feel like it's a stupid question because you said his name.
Speaker 2:But is this?
Speaker 1:when he was G Herbo. Or is this when he was Lil Herb.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's when he made the change. Oh gotcha, that's when he made the change. Oh gotcha, that's when he made the change with the name. But yeah, he had the single called red snow and that joint was like that was the single off the album yeah, that was, that was the lead single.
Speaker 2:he had two other singles, everything with little oozy, and I like, um, I'm not sure how I felt about those records. I think one of them I effed with, but the other one not so much, just because it was a little more commercial. But I mean I understood why he did it. But really the album cuts like Malcolm and Crown with Bump J and then Four Minutes of Hell, part 5, like I don't know he be, he be going in like when he wants to, you know, what I'm saying Red Snow, though I feel like is the is the banger, though, like I remember, I had put that song in the mix that I recorded, like at the time.
Speaker 2:So but, yeah, I always appreciated G Herbo, especially on this project, for being able to balance the street stuff with just like storytelling, you know. And so, yeah, he kept it. He kept it for the most part mainly Chicago producers, you know DJ L C-Sick, luca Vialli, yeah, so, but yeah, man, if you guys want a good street Chicago street rap, you know, definitely check it out. Yes, album of the day, man. So let me ask you this have you?
Speaker 1:have you heard all those G Herbal's albums and you already know what.
Speaker 2:I'm going to ask you I wouldn't say I heard all of them. I've heard a good handful of them.
Speaker 3:Uh, because he's had a lot of like collaborative product projects recently you know, what I'm saying wait.
Speaker 2:Well, who um south side?
Speaker 1:okay yeah, so so from the ones you have heard what would you, where would you put? Where would this be?
Speaker 2:oh, it's a solid project. I'd probably you know middle to upper.
Speaker 2:You know, what I'm saying. He definitely switched up his style more recently. I feel, just as far as I don't know, kind of more to like a trap sound and I don't know how I feel about it, just because when he came in the game he had kind of like a street soul sound. You know, I'm saying like, did he really? Yeah, like some of the, some of the production, like it was like I mean, of course, the beat hit, but it was like it had some soulfulness to it, you know, and he was like he was good with the storytelling, so interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I kind of skipped over. Uh, little herb to g herbo um, honestly and truthfully, the only little herb song that I knew and I wouldn't even really count that was um shy rack, and anything else after that I just kind of, yeah, skipped over yeah, I feel it shout out G Herbo.
Speaker 2:Shout out to G Herbo.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to get into this. So we got two more segments, so great. This is what we usually do when we have guests. We have this joint called Open Topic, where the topic's on you. If you have a topic, anything you want to talk about, anything you want to promote Anything. You want to Anything, anything you want to talk about you want to be controversial. You don't want to be controversial, you know. Whatever you want to talk about, the floor is yours.
Speaker 3:Hmm, you know what I mean. You know, since we've been talking about originality and different genres and you know, soulful, yeah, like I do have a single I'm I'm getting ready to release um and it's called reassurance and um, there's actually a short film with it too. So, um, you know, again, I told you at the beginning, michael jackson was one of my, you know, with the short films and shit, he had so many and um, so, which already got the script written and we're, you know, just gotta film it now.
Speaker 3:But, um, yeah, it's a lot of retro, like like inspiration on it too, but this one is like a, like a very up-tempo, um, I would say like a mixture of like five different genres soul, r&b, hip-hop, um, like a pop and like a, you know, with rock melodies too, because, you know I love rock too and just like those uh, punk like melodies in certain parts and um, just all mixed into one, blended into one, and then you know being different with the short film and uh like that, just to give a storyline and tell a story, but also about something important reassurance, which is good for communication and relationships, and even with yourself, really internally, to give yourself reassurance and love on yourself. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Right, okay. So let me ask you this so this short film, is it just that one song in that short film, or is it like a collective of other songs that you just haven't, you just don't want to talk about yet?
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, this is actually going to be a standalone short film all by itself, no project which we'll alone short film all by itself, no project, um, which will just set up. You know how I wrote. It's gonna set it up, for you know, I mean I could continue it, I could, uh, you know, backstory it, whatever okay, that's dope, that's dope.
Speaker 1:So do you have a uh, guesstimated time that you're gonna release this?
Speaker 3:um, honestly, like I would like to release the song within the next I'd say three to four weeks. We're going to begin filming the short film first thing in January. Get the song going, get some content behind it and build it up. It's different. It's even different than what Gray Jackson has out right now. It's another growth spurt, for real, just a different sound.
Speaker 1:I feel that If you need any actors, you can hit up your boy Tanaka. He's getting into his acting bag.
Speaker 3:You too, what you mean. I've been seeing you. I don't know about me, you've always been in there too.
Speaker 2:What you mean, I've been seeing you. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I was about to say what you saying. I don't know about me. You always been in there too.
Speaker 2:I'm retired, oh whatever, I was going to ask you what inspired Gray Jackson? How'd you come up with the name?
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow, that's actually like a lot. Of you know, I put a lot of thought into it because, like with Buckeye, I didn't really come up with that name. Like you know, this other guy was in a first group where he came up with it. He didn't really fuck with me like that, but he came up with it and it made sense at the time and I fucked with it. But when I thought of Gray Jackson, yeah, like I was rebranded and you know I wanted something that was just original, just me.
Speaker 3:And you know, all my kids' names are color, so it's like and then it's like I knew if I had a son. I didn't have a son at the time, but I knew if I had a son I'd want to name him Gray, like the color Gray, right, which his name actually is Gray, but the color G-R-E-Y. And you know, mine, I spell it different Gotcha, g-r-e-y-e. I didn his name and shit, right, but at the same time, like when I think of gray spelled that way, I just, you know, I feel like it's very um, like, uh, like I think a gray mist, gray fog, like you know, it's very adaptable.
Speaker 3:You can you know you could disappear like a ghost. You can come out of nowhere. You can, you know uh you know, change it up, um, and then you know, jackson, it's like Jackson, it's like yeah, again, like it's not like all from Michael Jackson. But obviously I wanted it to be spelled different and, honestly, sons of Anarchy is a TV show I love.
Speaker 2:I've heard.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Super dope though.
Speaker 3:But the main character, his name is Jackson Teller and he spelled it J-A-X. Character, his name is a jackson teller and he spelled it j-a-x. So you know like that's where. And then I put it together and I should look hard, sound hard. I remember in miami one day this you know, and this guy asked me I was networking. He said what's your name? I'm like gray jackson.
Speaker 1:He said oh shit, that should sound famous.
Speaker 3:I'm like oh shit, it does it does so it just man, and then it just fit, it flows, and I love it.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? That's hard, that's hard, that's hard. Well, y'all be on the lookout for that man. When you drop it, we'll post it on our page. Y'all got to show love, oh yeah, for sure, we making movies now man. So yeah, that's making movies. I ain't mad at it. Well, while we're moving on, we actually. This next one is actually gonna be about you too, so we're gonna talk about a little bit gray. So you became a dj. Where did that come from?
Speaker 3:you know it came from not wanting to really work a nine to five.
Speaker 1:Amen to that. I'm glad you bought it. Come on in, man, the water's fine, that's what I'm talking about and because I'm a music lover. So I'm like yo.
Speaker 3:How would that shit not be fun for a music lover, and especially me knowing all genres too? So, like I DJ at the white crowds, I DJ at the black crowd, oh yo, even like Bollywood Indian joints, even like bollywood indian joints, I've done you know quinceañeras and stuff like you know um. So, yeah, loving music. And then also, like, I had an interview with the corporate dj company and yeah, that's where, like um, I was just like yo. Okay, let me make this jump. I know you know watching turn up and everything. I'm like because I always thought you know turn up, turn Up and everything I'm like because I always thought you know Turn Up. I'm like yo, yeah, he stands out more than any DJ I've witnessed.
Speaker 3:Like reading the crowd and you know what I'm saying, but yeah, I was just like yo I love music and this is more fun. Let me do something that's more fun for me Facts Facts, facts, wait.
Speaker 2:So what's the DJ name?
Speaker 1:DJ Light Eyes.
Speaker 3:Wow, that's dope. You got any um.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what I'm gonna hold that. So, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna get into a DJ talk. So we got four seasons worth of questions. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna throw some of these old questions at dj light eyes and we're gonna see we got five of them. So we're gonna see, uh, what your question, what your answers is to some of these so for dj talk um turn up.
Speaker 2:It's a real simple, you know question Do you think we should? You're in trouble, I love it, let's do it. I don't even know what to put you up. As. Do you think we should create DJ tags that say DJ Turnup does not take requests? Please do not approach DJ Turnup.
Speaker 1:Just dancing is highly suggested so, dj light eyes, there was a, there was a video he had saw. Well, it was going around and it was a guy that had a um, uh, a drop like a sample that when people would come, he would just play it. This dj is not taking requests. Please go or do something. It was something like that. Would you get the drop like that? Why or why not?
Speaker 3:That's hilarious. No, I wouldn't, but I don't even know. Yeah, no, he learned something new every day. That's funny. I would have never even guessed that that was a thing. But no, me personally mean, I could, like I can understand now, especially djing. Now it's like yo, you know, like early on my early dj phase I was like, oh yeah, cool, okay. Now I'm like, yeah, but you know, uh, I already got a set yep, but if they come, you know, money talks too oh no, for sure but, but yeah, that, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't do that all right.
Speaker 1:Question number two DJ. A little DJ talk. It's probably going to be pretty brief. Got a question for you, tanaka. What's that? It's on the sync button. You with it or are you against it? So Light Eyes, the sync button. Are you with it or are you against it?
Speaker 3:Oh, I love using that, especially if it's like within 6 BPM with each other, yeah. Now, hey, you know, yeah, if it's over like 6 to 8 BPM, I don't fuck with it.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 3:I find different ways to mix it in, but when it's close BPM, yeah, I fucks with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know that's probably some new DJ shit, but love it okay, dang bro you like to you?
Speaker 2:do you sync button bro?
Speaker 1:outrageous, beautiful, all right, number three we're gonna move on dj talk, dj talk might be uh short. This time it's really gonna fall into the dj etiquette side, and then even we're gonna get even granular. This is gonna do not even we're going to get even granular this is going to.
Speaker 2:Do not say that you're about to leave and expect me to push up your record.
Speaker 1:Okay, so DJ Light Eyes. So here's the situation, right? Well, as a matter of fact, tanaka, I'll let you get because you went on a whole rant that episode. I love it Because man, the situation right?
Speaker 2:Well, as a matter of fact, tanaka, I'll let you get because you went on a whole rant.
Speaker 1:that episode I love it.
Speaker 2:I don't F with that, bro. They be asking, so they'll ask you for a request and then they'll come back and they'll be like yo, I'm about to leave, can you play my song? I don't know, that joint just iris-ed me already because, like bro, I'm not.
Speaker 1:Have you ever had a situation like that?
Speaker 3:Are you talking about with an up-and-coming artist?
Speaker 1:No, okay, so quick scenario so you're DJing and somebody comes to you asking for a request, and so you're like okay, I'll get to it.
Speaker 3:Probably like five, ten minutes later. Hey, that song I requested. Can you play it now? I'm about to leave, look at me. Yeah, no, I mean, unless they're like hey, yo, here's a 20 or a 40, can you play it now?
Speaker 1:No, no money. Yeah, they're just coming up to you. Hey, I'm about to leave, can you play it now?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, no, like that, nah, nah, it don't revolve around you, like you know. That's what I'm saying especially if you leaving, like you're leaving, so I'm gonna keep them happy real quick, yeah, as you're leaving right like what.
Speaker 1:Like, yeah, I ain't gonna lie. Yeah, he went on a whole run good man, it's gonna be blowing my.
Speaker 2:I feel, you cause they be.
Speaker 3:They be using all these like manipulative techniques to try and get their song played, yeah, but I ain't seen it a lot yet.
Speaker 1:So I'm sure that I'm aware of it. Now it's coming. It's coming. Here we go. All right, number four. We're going to move on to DJ talk. So so, breezy, I got a question for you. Mm-hmm, customer comes up to you and says, hey, can you play this song, but can you mix it in with this song and then mix it in with this song, and then mix it in with this song? How do you feel about that? How do you feel about a customer requesting how you mix the music? How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3:dj light eyes yeah, doing too much too much right?
Speaker 1:no, there are people that do that, like there have been people. I'm not gonna say whom the dj is or who the person was, leave names out but there are people that have sent lists of songs to mix with each other. That's immediate no for me. Wow, like immediate, like that's like that's like multiple requests yeah, it's like hey, can you do this? But then mix it in with I'm like oh yeah, I'm. I'm not gonna lie, I'm already iffy with song requests.
Speaker 1:Tell me how to mix right it's like, yeah, I feel you oh, that's like you're bound to get slapped. I'm not gonna lie like that shit like that shit is uh, yeah, definitely all right, last one, just keep moving.
Speaker 3:Uh, dj talk, so tanaka I got a question for you what's about me?
Speaker 1:it's probably gonna be brief, but how did you come up with your logo? So Light Eyes? Well, I mean, I guess I don't. Do you have a logo for your Light Eyes?
Speaker 3:Actually, you know, like Light Eyes was just born, like a couple months ago, so like no.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I guess you could tell us how you came up with your logo for Buckeye and if you have a great Jackson, my personal training business, yeah, all my businesses, cause I have multiple businesses. So, logos.
Speaker 3:They just, you know, like honestly, they just come to me. Like you know, now with great Jackson, it's like see this butterfly on my arm. I actually my butterfly gray Jackson, uh logo is. I sent them this tattoo on my arm and they literally made my logo off of that. So it's, like you know, a lot of it has meaning and sentimental meaning and, like you know, different, like inspiration things, so like with DJ Light Eyes. It hadn't came to me yet but like you know, yeah, I got hazel eyes.
Speaker 3:I want to do something, like you know, obviously, with that, but it'll come to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like you can do something with the eyes or something. I feel like you can do something with the eyes or something. Yeah, I feel like that would be dope, but so yeah. So, basically, so, with all your different logos, they just all kind of did the same thing. They just all came to you and you were like there you go, go ahead and make it For sure.
Speaker 1:Dope. That's dope, dope, dope, dope. All right, well, schedule. Um, if you want to know my schedule, you can follow me on instagram. Uh, my schedule should be up at this time. At the time I'm recording it is not up because it's not 2025 yet, but if you follow me on instagram, dj turn up with two u's on both of the turn in the up, you follow me and my schedule will be up. Uh, dj light eyes. You got any uh gigs coming up? Um, by the way, this is posted january 1st, so anything after that right actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, we're um just in the works right now a book of some shows for, um, you know, 2025, um, you know, got a few venues. I'm talking to things like that, private events but yeah, uh, nothing announced yet nothing announced yet.
Speaker 2:All right, knock what we got, what we got coming up uh 19th and 26 gonna be, uh, so sunday, a chat fever on the left.
Speaker 1:I think it's the 11th and whatever the second saturday is, y'all should know about that. Y'all should know that about.
Speaker 3:Yeah but actually since, um you know, if y'all like uh karaoke, y'all can uh, you know, uh, come see me every Monday at Parma for karaoke, there you go Karaoke.
Speaker 1:There you go, man Right, hey, anything there you go, go ahead, let them know.
Speaker 2:What is it? Parma, what is it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a tavern in Beaufort, Parma.
Speaker 2:Tavern Okay, okay.
Speaker 3:Got you, got you to go to on Monday. That's the spot. Beaufort, not too far.
Speaker 1:There it is.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:Cascade Sunday on the 5th. Back on Cascade Back by popular demand.
Speaker 2:Then Metro Diner Friday. I got to get you plugged into.
Speaker 1:Metro Diner too. Yeah, I'm going to get you in there Into Metro Diner too. Yeah, I got to get you in there, Especially now that I know you do karaoke. So how long have you been doing karaoke, sir?
Speaker 3:Like six months now, six months yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel that. Yeah, I feel like you'd be a good mix for Metro.
Speaker 3:You know I'm natural on the mic too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, of course. That's what made DJing easier, too Easier, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing though, yeah, and that makes it easier for you to get more gigs, because there's a lot of DJs that DJ but don't like to talk on the mic, so that makes it easier for you too, because you're coming with that For sure, because you're coming with that for sure thanks. Yeah, that's dope, that's dope. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that sounds like it is a wrap. Tnt podcast gray jackson, aka buckeye, aka everything else. Appreciate you for having us, gray hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3:It's good to see y'all growth and, like yo, y'all really on your shit. Man got to. You know, uh, it's like I'm learning as I'm, you know, learning about music with y'all, because, yeah, yeah, I know y'all real music lovers and shit too.
Speaker 1:So, um, oh, yeah, man, we got to collab again, absolutely, absolutely all right, y'all tnt podcast, we are out, thank you. Outro Music.