Life to the Max Podcast
The Journey of Becoming an Artist Ft Jack Murfee
Dive even further into the world of music and fame with Jack Murfee, a young musician on the cusp of professional success. We explore his fears and struggles, the relentless determination required to succeed, and the tricky navigation of fame. Also, don't miss out on our freestyle session! This episode is an open door into the world of music, fame, and personal grit, a must-listen for anyone seeking an inside peek into this electrifying industry.
Dive even further into the world of music and fame with Jack Murfee, a young musician on the cusp of professional success. We explore his fears and struggles, the relentless determination required to succeed, and the tricky navigation of fame. Also, don't miss out on our freestyle session! This episode is an open door into the world of music, fame, and personal grit, a must-listen for anyone seeking an inside peek into this electrifying industry.
Is that your song?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it says oh, live to the max, cause you don't live it twice. I said that in the chorus. I said that in the chorus. Just a couple of punks, I'll try to get by. Just a couple of teens, I'll try to survive. Live to the max, cause you don't live it twice. A couple green thumbs are high as a kite.
Speaker 1:Let's go, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm here with Max and Erattic, living to the max.
Speaker 4:Alright, alright, alright. What up world? Welcome back to another episode of life, to the max, to the max. This is boy Erattic, the main host, Max Gross, aka the quad father. Look at him with his feet up, chilling like a villain on his own podcast. He's the don. Hey, he said leave the gun, take the cannoli, and we got a guest coming on for the second time Murphy.
Speaker 2:Yo, yo, yo, yo yo. It's Murphy the Kim, just Murphy, full name Jack Murphy, glad to be back dealing with Max and Eric living life to the max. So let's get this shit.
Speaker 4:Murphy has an unreleased podcast with us. He came before he did all the shows, before he released all his songs, before he even graduated high school. But he came back on evolved the new Murphy Before.
Speaker 2:I went Hollywood before I went locally.
Speaker 3:Murphy's law.
Speaker 1:Hey guys, I sure you think happened to me. I got a car accident when I was in the army. I was a disabled veteran, but you know that doesn't stop me. It doesn't stop so, paralyzed from the neck down, breathing through a machine, but that doesn't stop me from following my dreams and doing what I love to do. I don't got any excuse, and neither should you. Let's get into this episode.
Speaker 4:Yo, but yo tell me about your experiences doing your first shows.
Speaker 2:My first show. That night was insane. I had about I think I sold 15 tickets because I was I went, I was going up to like Chicago and stuff trying to sell these tickets. I mean nobody from Chicago came, but like they checked out my music and stuff. But the night that I went on I was anxious as hell, like remember just leg shaking and stuff and the club the WC.
Speaker 4:Yo, my first show. I took like four pisses before.
Speaker 2:I got on stage. No, I had to pee, Get a little closer to the mic. My bad, I was like these. These motherfuckers must think I'm doing like coke in the bathroom. There's no way in hell I have to piss this much. I was hitting the fuck out of like some niggas.
Speaker 1:I was stressing and these weeks bulbs are sweaty. Yeah, exactly, Bro, I'm on his t-shirt.
Speaker 4:already I was sitting there.
Speaker 1:I was sitting like backstage.
Speaker 4:He's nervous.
Speaker 2:I was nervous bro.
Speaker 4:He's calm and ready, but then with his new balances on new bands.
Speaker 2:Actually, I had my pair of white vans I like drew on them. I like drew on one side. On one shoe it says keep inspiring, and on the other one it says new generations. Like, keep, that's my record label. King. Did you meet Dre On Tondra? Yeah, did he say what's up to you? Yeah, we're actually. He's a for my next show June 22nd. He's going to be there. He's actually the next act after me.
Speaker 4:Very nice. Did he say anything to you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we talked Like we worked.
Speaker 4:I told him to approach you and be like yo, life to the max. He didn't say. He was on the show a couple times. Really, yeah, I'm not sure what the episode is going to be.
Speaker 2:I'm most definitely Cause, that's two artists from St Charles, you know.
Speaker 4:Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:And he said it's dope. Has he given you the sticker?
Speaker 1:The uh the dollar, yeah the dollar, yeah the dollar. Oh yeah, look, we have all these albums.
Speaker 4:It was up there. We have all these. It was up there, but we got his CDs right in the middle, if you see it.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, that's him.
Speaker 1:Yeah those are the wrong CDs.
Speaker 4:Not the picture, but you see the CDs the water drop and the yellow one, and yeah, that's all his CDs.
Speaker 2:That's the shit. Nah, he's dope. But I went on that stage and, like something, all the fear kind of left my body in a way, like I just realized. I was like I've been working two years in the basement, you know, just for this, like not even two years more than that, three years, because I've been producing since 2020. And, um, to think that my I think my first show it was the 12th of April, I think, or no, my first show was on 420. Actually, it was on 420? Yeah, it was on 420. And it was crazy to think that, like within one month, I had my first show, you know. So I went up there, I killed it like choreography wise, but breath control on stage.
Speaker 4:I noticed that just from watching the stories that you posted. Yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to I don't know, I don't know how to um not sing the whole song. I always want to sing the whole song sometimes and I feel like that just takes a lot out of me. So I'm kind of like working on it. I got better with it on my last couple of shows, like I've been able to spit faster and stuff.
Speaker 4:When you write your music. You should literally plan your breaths when you write your lyrics.
Speaker 2:I remember when I was learning how to mix, I saw a video that was like you should cut out the breaths and stuff. But I never liked that idea. I liked the breath.
Speaker 4:Sometimes it has an organic vibe.
Speaker 2:Yeah it just has like this natural, like real, just spin, yeah, like one take kind of vibe, you know, and that's respect. But the show was amazing. I actually brought some of my t-shirts, some of my merchandise I don't have any more, but I gave it all in that show and this girl came up to me who was really digging my show Like she was like at the edge of the stage like you know, arm banging, flashlight on itself, and I was like, do you want this shirt that I'm wearing? Cause she was begging me for a shirt and I had a wife beater on under it. So I got to give a girl the shirt that I was wearing and I felt though Very nice, that was your first show.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was my first show. Sounds like you had a good first experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a great first experience. I networked with everybody after and then after I just went outside and I smoked with the adults on the porch.
Speaker 1:Not like the porch but the patio.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like the front entrance yeah. You ever?
Speaker 2:been to the WC.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know where it is, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:The owner is actually in a wheelchair too, yeah.
Speaker 2:Chris, yeah.
Speaker 4:I got his contact information. I've been trying to get him on the schedule. I've been doing social clubs cool and since the owner's paralyzed ways down, I wanted to bring Max and that bitch. Imagine being on stage and I'm like yo everybody. Look to the left, look at the quad father over there, and then he's going to be like, just like this, and I'll be like, look at that smile.
Speaker 1:And I'll be like yo raise your hands. I can't raise my hands. It's going to get funny. Put your hands in the air.
Speaker 4:Make some noise. I can't wait to get Max in the crowd or even on stage one day. I don't want to get on stage at the WC Social club unless we literally carry him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I don't think they have weights.
Speaker 4:He start pacing. Max will have you crowdsurfing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, pacing might help You're right.
Speaker 4:He has a. He has a diaphragmatic pacer surgically placed on his lungs to where we can electrically make his lungs active. Right.
Speaker 2:Really yeah, but it's only temporary and it takes training. Really.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so one day we're going to put those batteries in his back and we're going to get him paced.
Speaker 1:It's basically like stimulation throughout your diaphragm and it just moves like to where you take breaths. But I haven't been using it, so my diaphragm is probably weak.
Speaker 4:So we're going to get back at it. Then we won't have to drag this big machine around, and I'm going to put him in the front seat of a Ferrari that we rent and I'm going to go joyriding.
Speaker 2:What is that I'm going to be able to, like, move, no, no, just breathe.
Speaker 1:Just think of it.
Speaker 4:Think of it more like portability.
Speaker 1:It's not like the same for breathing. It's not the same breathing, but it's like it is breathing, but it's not the same. It's not like you can control your breath, Like you are Like. When you guys were talking about controlling your breath, I was kind of like thinking like damn, I can't do that because I can't inhale. So I can't really like there's no way to do that. So I was just like I was just like thinking like okay, I mean, I kind of understand, but it's been seven years and I totally forgot how that feels.
Speaker 4:So yeah, yeah, but Max be rapping his ass off sometimes. I remember the last he don't got to worry about his breath. That machine's doing it for him.
Speaker 2:I remember the last podcast. He helped on that last verse and he was killing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. That's tough too, cause I can't like stay in rhythm because, like, I can't like hold the note. I'm a singer, so I can't like hold.
Speaker 4:He'll be rapping, exhaling, but then the machine just inhales while he's rapping. But you still get the motherfucking job done, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I tried.
Speaker 4:That machine don't hold you back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real. No, I tried yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, but yo, what's your support? Like you got any biggest fans you want to shout out.
Speaker 2:My grandma, yeah, yeah, like.
Speaker 4:Dude, I had both my grandmas at my show last time, yeah she's, she's my girl.
Speaker 2:Like she told me, she plays my stuff every morning when she wakes up.
Speaker 2:Very nice Like that just means the world to me, you know, and there's a lot of kids in my school that I mean I don't go there anymore, but I were at my school that like they respect to me and they told me that they respected what I did and that I inspired them. And that was inspiring to me. Like there was this one kid Shout out, Jamie Hauser. Because that kid came out to me and he was like I just want to say I see what you're doing on your Instagram and I wanted to say thank you because you inspire me. And like for the rest of the day that just stayed in my head and I was like damn, like yeah, it's really official now. Like this isn't, this isn't some, I'm just rapping for a hobby Shit. This is like kids see the action I take and they see the raps that I make and they think it's dope and that's dope. You know, oh yeah, and you know, of course, my brothers, Liam and Chris.
Speaker 2:I was actually thinking about getting my boy, Liam, on this podcast, but he didn't make it into town in time. He could always come back on in the future. Yeah, you know how it is. He lives in a neighborhood we met in St Charles, but he just grown up, he moved. You said he makes music too, I know, but he helps me produce sometimes, Like he knows how to use that for a studio, but he doesn't own a studio.
Speaker 1:I think we all gravitate towards people with inspiration and motivation. We gravitate Like we have that gravitational pulse where, like you feel the energy of that person and that really helps. It helps like the mind, yeah, really really think and be like, ok, like I, just by listening to this kid or looking at this kid or looking at this guy or, you know, talking to this person, like that could change the whole atmosphere of someone's life. Yeah, just just by making one encounter. So I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've had conversations with a bunch of people that have that changed my life Like, and they don't even have to be doing anything to like impact the way that I live, if that makes sense. Like there was this girl I'll just say her name was like and there is this girl and I knew and I met her and we only, like, we only talk, like we only saw each other two days basically, and but she was a good girl when I met her. Now she's now. How the fuck? Now she's like somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the US at a rehab center for doing coke. She got kicked out, like doesn't talk to her family anymore and what's the moral?
Speaker 4:of the story. How does this I?
Speaker 1:mean that's, that's. That's always like that be happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's just. How did you hear? Oh, I met her at a rehab program.
Speaker 4:So you met her at a rehab program when she was a good girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it wasn't like a rehab, but she was there for like nicotine and depression, kind of Okay. So I was like I was there for just drinking, but like it's just crazy to think.
Speaker 4:Like damn how fast life can turn for someone.
Speaker 2:How, how somebody like and she, she grew up rich too. You know like she was living like Beverly Hills kind of lifestyle and it's just crazy to think like even Silver Spoon people like that. You know their life just, their life just.
Speaker 4:I honestly think that people with money have higher probabilities and higher chances of being depressed and being mentally sick? Yeah, because I'm just going to throw wild ass examples out there, like I'll be fucking a billionaire with a phobia of pigeons, thinking pigeons are going to eat my eyes out every time I see a pigeon get close to me. But like the person living in poverty, yeah, who fucking knows about what? He has to worry about is surviving is his next meal.
Speaker 4:Okay, he's not worried about a fucking bird. You know like once you get that comfortability our brain likes to create. You know the problems, the fear, the anxiety to keep pushing us forward, for us to grow to, for us to evolve, you know. So if you're financially so stable that you could do whatever you want and you're safe in your castle, you know, and you could do whatever you want to snap your fingers, your brain's going to make a problem that you can't control money.
Speaker 1:I feel like you just get bored. I mean, like the yacht if you have a yacht, you know you board. Really okay, been to Monaco. Yeah, yeah, fucking Spain, thanks, you know, like whatever it moves you to school.
Speaker 4:Next thing you know, you end up standing at the edge of a cliff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why. That's why people like Elon Musk keep, keep going, because they want to leave a legacy behind. They don't care that they've already made it. Yeah, I mean it's kind of like Jay-Z and Beyonce. They keep going because, like they want to leave a legacy behind. They already got the money. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:So that's I mean, that's my opinion, Hell yeah, when, when I asked you who your biggest supporter was, you mentioned a certain certain female and you reminded me about a time when I was opening up from Montana 300 and the DJ was not working with me. I basically had my phone set on the stage and I had to hit next every single time and the crowd just wasn't feeling it, you know. So I wasn't feeling it and I remember like wow, I was in front of this crowd and everyone just looked disappointed. I remember seeing one of my ex-girlfriends and she was looking like you know like it was painful to watch.
Speaker 4:my hype men were just standing there snapchatting, not even moving. You know trash Max. It was a terrible performance. But then I remember, as I was scanning the crowd, I seen this one girl that I had a crush on, the biggest crush on. She knows who she is and she was singing word for word. Everything that I was saying and all I got to say is all the negative reinforcement that I was getting from like the 250 people in the crowd. Yeah, I seen her just lip-sing and that shit. That was all the drive I needed. I'm like cool, decent.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to be completely honest I don't understand shows. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't even know if the music isn't something that's resonating with me. I still hype the hell out of them because I respect them for doing what they're doing, because I know people in the audience the drunk fuckers in the audience don't have the balls to go up there and do that shit. You know, like that's confidence, like even if I wouldn't listen to it I can still respect it. You know, like that trap, like I wouldn't say I make like trap music or stuff.
Speaker 4:And even if you're not a fan of the artists on the stage, you came out to have a good time. So, fucking turn up with the fucking artists.
Speaker 2:Turn up, take a couple of talks, be chill, just appreciate the art Like yeah, all right Like just appreciate the fact that there's art you know there's someone attempting to express themselves.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, one of the guitarists fucking jumped off stage and dislocated his knee, or something. Fucking hurt himself in front of everybody and I fucking dragged him to the side of the VIP section, I got him some ice, you know, and I was like where's your people at, you know? Like you just fell off stage and nobody's fucking helping you. And like later on they all came and and they sent me a message the next day like yo, thanks for looking out for me, you know, really appreciate it.
Speaker 4:And I'm like you just caught me at a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the WC, I'll. It had that VIP area like right on the side. Yeah, it's so, bougie, I feel like it's bougie because you got so much space over there. Yeah, yeah, Nice, it's nice. I don't. I don't know. I would never jump off the stage like that, unless it was he didn't mean to.
Speaker 4:He was getting his shit like it was the end of the act.
Speaker 4:The next casky and all his people were coming and he was like grabbing his shit and he went to go jump off the stage to like get out of the way and he fucking Like he was just holding his knee, you know. I was like, oh fuck, I was like cheering this guy on the whole fucking time. I was like I gotta help him out and like me and Dre were the only people in that room, in that VIP room, so I fucking drug him in there. I was like yo get out of the crowd. You're like, you're distracted the crowd.
Speaker 4:You know you're making a scene, yeah, and then I fucking yeah, so I basically helped him out, do what I did. Good, good karma for the night.
Speaker 1:Yeah for your first show. How many people were there?
Speaker 2:Uh, that night I'd say like Eight, maybe like anywhere between 60 and 80. I think, uh, this one guy had like hella bitches like it. It was like damn like, like it looked like he bought them online.
Speaker 4:Like.
Speaker 2:Yes, bro, bro bought him by a dozen bakers, doesn't bro? But it doesn't yes it was a bo go deal.
Speaker 4:I won't get one by six, get six, yeah real.
Speaker 2:No, it was. It was this guy with like all his bitches, and then my family, a lot of drunk people and then all my homies who came. I had, like I had 15 homies who came out to see me. Like I said, I saw 15 tickets, so I had 15 homies who came out to see me and, um, it was just a good night. Like that was probably the most confident I've ever felt on stage, just because the people at the edge of the stage Were my best friends. Nice, the people that have seen me, you know, like while we're smoking, like they, they have seen you rap these songs while we're smoking.
Speaker 2:You know, like the amount of times I've smoked in freestyle with these kids, like the confidence I have seeing, like when I see their eyes, I just I feel I see comfortability, you know.
Speaker 4:I opened up for afro man.
Speaker 2:You're reminded?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I opened up for afro man and I had all my people in the front and at the end, you know, all my people were chanting on core, on core. So then everyone around was screaming on core, you know, and I just had a fucking give another song. But anyways, the next week was my DMX show that I mentioned earlier. So I literally went from Um and on core. You know, the crowd didn't let me leave the stage to getting boot off stage the next week. Yeah, because again, dmx didn't show up. They actually like booed you, dude, they were throwing cups. Yeah, bro, I barely got to perform and it wasn't my performance that affected that, it was the fact that they were fucking fed up. They waited like an hour, yeah, and, and you, know you ever show up.
Speaker 4:He never showed up.
Speaker 1:So Before he died, so let's talk about your progression, right? So you said you started really getting serious 2020?.
Speaker 2:Uh yeah, no 2021, 2020 is when I started, like when I just I had fl studio, I was producing, dicking around, making beats, but I they were mostly just drum beats, like they weren't like no melodies or anything, and I started melodies, had no idea about music theory. Then there was this one night where I just spent an all nighter studying the basics of music theory. Like I don't have the journal anymore, but it was a journal full of just like Chords, how to use fl studio, studios, piano roll, like stuff like that. And that was the first beat I ever made officially was called interstellar and some of the keys were still off because, like I was, you know, I just learned it that night. But, um, that was, that was when I started, so it was like it was like June 2021.
Speaker 1:So do you still produce your own beats?
Speaker 2:Yeah, all my beats. I like to. I like to think of my beats as Just a musical voice. Like my beats can carry and speak an idea themselves. Like Before I put a beat on an album, before I have a beat, like go on an album, I'll write it down in my journal what I want this beat to be about, what I want this song to be about. Like I like to Plan out my beats before I make them. Like there are times where, like yeah, I'm just trying to warm up, I'll just, you know, open up a random vst and make a beat, but I like to plan my beats out so, from like the start, did you start having support?
Speaker 1:Did you ever feel like you know, fuck this, I'm done?
Speaker 2:Oh no, I felt like fuck this. I'm done so many times I still can feel like that, you know, but that's what it's like to be an artist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for real, it's that just. You know, sitting in my room Like I've had, I had people. I still have people tell me my shit is hot garbage. But then I like I look at them now and I just laugh because like If my shit wasn't as good, if my shit was bad, things wouldn't be playing out. If they're playing out, you know, like I'm so confident in myself and my music, you know, and nothing can take that away from me, like just because I believe in myself, because I know I put in that work Mm-hmm, I see you, it's like fast forward from 2021 to 2023 and you really start focusing on your music.
Speaker 1:Now you're graduating. What's the grind? Do you have a job and then you work on the music?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm gonna start working for the city of St Charles. I'm gonna be like a general labor. I'll be out and about like changing traffic lights when they go out, doing some landscape inches real dirty work, you know, but it's that grind and then just keep rocking out these venues and these shows at night. You know, keep getting offers, making music, going out to Chicago spreading the good word, you know, showing people what's up. I plan, like I kind of plan for my 20s to suck like just because of how hard I'm gonna grind.
Speaker 1:You know, my 20s sucked as soon as I turned 20, I fucking got paralyzed. So my 20s are real hard.
Speaker 4:What are you talking about, bro? In your 20s, you got a podcast going. You're sitting in a fucking 8000 square foot house. This is still the 20s, baby. You're about to build a fucking ranch.
Speaker 1:I got three years left. But I'm saying like my 20s was not what I thought it was going to be. So even your 20s is probably going to be grinding and working and then like maybe you'll make it, maybe you won't, but you'll always have that spirit inside of you to like make music because makes you happy. But it's not about. It's not about the money, it's about the journey.
Speaker 2:Exactly Like it's only been two months in my life has changed so much. You know, like I walk around town and I get mad, like respect, like I was at a party all about Montgomery. I live in St Charles in Montgomery, it's like 40 minutes away and there were random ass people that knew me there and I was like damn, like that's impacts right there, you know I had. I was walking into work one time, car full of bitches windows down and like oh my God, is that Jack Murphy? And then they screened out Murphy. I felt like the man, that entire shit.
Speaker 4:You're a noodle, is a company like I'm?
Speaker 2:not a quiz. Yeah, I was like I didn't really need this job. You know, I'm kind of already Hollywood as is, so you feel like a taste of fame. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't want to variety. Yeah, like I. Just I don't want to do it to be famous, I just want to be. I want as many people as possible to hear what I got to say.
Speaker 1:But it felt good, so I mean it's fine. So let's, let's talk about what comes with fame. People change when they get famous right, they get vanity, you know, and they change their ways of thinking. Do you think that you'll change when you get famous? If you do get famous, or do you think that you'll stay the same? And don't tell me that you will stay the same because you do not know that. What if someone hands you check for $2 million to go to inner scope right now?
Speaker 4:Are you going to ask the question Yo? Are you going to change or do you think you'll stay the same?
Speaker 3:And don't tell me you'll stay the same. I'm thinking of a way to work around.
Speaker 1:You're going to change a little bit. You want me like like you're probably going to buy some new clothes. I don't know Like.
Speaker 4:you know like you're going to drive the same new balances.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's going to buy himself a 2023 vehicle, still driving with the same new balances.
Speaker 1:If I was inner scope and I said, hey, I'm going to give you $2 million right now to sign with us, obviously you would say, yes, right, and then what happens when? What happens? When that happens and the money hits your big toe.
Speaker 2:When the money is turning the fuck up. He's finding those, those car full of girls, and he's like hey, return of the Mac, return of the jack he's got to go to his boss at noodles and company like hey, chill out, take me off the schedule.
Speaker 4:My name is Jack Murphy. Go, stream my shit on all platforms. Not a fact. I'm taking tortellini to go.
Speaker 2:My manager. Is my manager? Is the goat low key. If I had to give a shout out to somebody, it'd be her. Like she supports my show, Like she. She's like probably top five women of all time.
Speaker 4:Yo, but answer your. Answer your question what would you do if you got a $2 million deal?
Speaker 2:If I got a $2 million deal. You know human nature. Right now I don't even know if I want to blow up. Yet right now, like I don't know if that's what I want right now, because I don't want to blow up fast, because if you blow up fast by signing to a label, you go as quick as you came. You know like I want my work to be. I want it to be a breakthrough of sorts. I want, like you look at J Cole, you look at someone like him, someone who was grinding his ass off with all these mix tapes you know like that's what I want to be seen as. I don't want to be seen as somebody like one hit wonder, yeah, like Lil Mosey or whatever. What was that? My fucking name?
Speaker 4:I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know I'm talking about that blueberry Fagos song. It's like one bad bitch didn't do what I say. So yeah yeah, it's like people like him. They just, they just came and went. You know, I don't want to come and go, I want to come and stay.
Speaker 4:But I think it's just because they didn't take advantage of that one hit wonder. Yeah, they kind of rode the wave of that one hit wonder instead of capitalizing on the wave for the one who wonder those like the type of artists that just like release singles on singles and they just get respected for their one single.
Speaker 2:You know out like I wanted to release an album first because I want them. I wanted my album to be heard first. I want people to know that I had a right, this is a single culture. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you would turn it down.
Speaker 2:I think I would, I think I would know you wouldn't.
Speaker 1:If there was two million dollars cash on the fucking table right now, you would not turn it down.
Speaker 2:I would definitely do some debating, because I do with impulse.
Speaker 1:You're 18, right, you would take that money to run.
Speaker 2:But like record labels, like you don't get to keep all your money. No, I know you don't know.
Speaker 1:It depends. What if they say two million is yours.
Speaker 4:You still got creative control?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh I still have creative control.
Speaker 4:Yeah, artists have element deal.
Speaker 2:And hell yeah If you say the only time I wouldn't sign is if my control was taken from me, if I was told to be like, if I was told like I make a song like this, you know, then I would say no, because that's not what I enjoy doing. You can't tell me to make like people are always like, you know, like those joke like make a song like this, but then I try to write about it and it's an.
Speaker 2:It's an experience that isn't mine, and I find it harder to rap about experiences that aren't mine, you know like or people tell you hey, bro, you got to make a song like this and that. Like people try to.
Speaker 4:This is what you need to blow up.
Speaker 2:People tell me, like make like some trap shit like with some 808s and like some rap about like you know that's about shit. That isn't true to you. Fuck that shit.
Speaker 4:Like I don't know about that life, you know every time I put on a beat, the lyrics kind of come from the heart. Yeah, exactly. And that's why it's like because, like, as an artist, you're expressing yourself, right, but if you're signing a deal, then your artist, you're turning your, your, your art into work. Yeah, you know, but if you love what you do, then there's nothing wrong with that. You know, there's some deals out there that you're met, that you're talking ill about, that are actually super beneficial.
Speaker 4:Word you know. But it's just like a job, like you need to grind, you know, changing light bulbs and in landscaping the city. Wouldn't you rather grind with, like, a two year deal where you don't have control? Wouldn't you rather do your music? Do music that's not technically your music, you know? Like you see what I'm saying, Am I making?
Speaker 2:sense.
Speaker 4:I mean it's good practice, Definitely Like it's good to get, because that would experience that would throw me into the game.
Speaker 1:Or, if that makes sense, like that would just like head first.
Speaker 2:you know like it would delve me in deeper into the music world. Yeah, I got off.
Speaker 1:One second, so I'll tell you something. So the reason why I said a question is because I'm scared of getting famous. I'm scared of being looked at as a dollar sign. I'm scared of being looked at as this puppet or taking advantage of, like that house model kid or whatever that's all over. Like, I'm scared of being that guy and I want to be the same and I also want my mind set to be the same. But I know it's not going to be the same because, like, you have to use social media to grow your shed and you fall into temptation with, like, all these other things and you're like, okay, I want to do this and I want to fuck that, I want to do this, I want to do that. I'm the fucking boss now, you know, because I'm famous and this and that, and I, or like you have to watch what you say because you can like, fucking offend, like groups or people you know.
Speaker 1:So I mean, I'm terrified, but I want to be famous, but I want to be famous because I want to spread the word to gospel, you know of what I'm trying to engrave into people's minds, which is, you know, live life in a matrix, even though that you, even though something bad happened or something catastrophic happened, and not even that, like you had to deal with emotional shit you had to deal with, you know, pain and suffering still still, but we keep in your mind that you're still a person. Don't wake up. You got the people around you. You got the support. Live your life to the max. That's why we started this podcast.
Speaker 1:That's why we started this podcast. But I that is, one of my biggest fears is fame, because being used, losing my freedom of speech, you know, and mostly, mostly those two things. It's a. It's a. It's a really terrifying feeling, but it's a really like, you know, like there's a lot of adrenaline too, you know. So I mean like, and then you have to learn how to live like these people. You're on a different level now. You know what I mean, so you have to learn what to say. Like the fucking Kardashians, like they probably are, like, told what to say, everything impulsive, logan Paul he's probably told what to say you cannot say this, you can't say that, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Like so it's scary, because you're going to be controlled no matter what, because someone's always going to be above you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's always a bigger fit. I always tell my homies there's always a bigger fish, there's always a better bitch, you know, it's like there's always something more than. There's always somebody stronger than me, like there's always somebody better than me, you know, and who's going to have that control over my music and stuff? Like I'm not going to be able to be like the fucking president of the world. I'll still be getting bitched around by cops and shit, but you know.
Speaker 1:But you're still. The thing is, though, murphy, you're still going to have haters. Oh yeah, like you're not going to be loved by everybody, it's just not. It's not possible. There's going to be haters, there's going to be people who are jealous of you. There's going to be people that just don't like your music. I could say you're trash, you know. I mean, like I don't like some of the music Eric plays, you know, but he likes it and I'm sure that artist has a huge following, you know so it's just different strokes for different folks.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, there's definitely people that definitely fake people with this stuff, like there's so many fake people Like there's this one kid who I overheard from Shots Out, ethan McMillan.
Speaker 2:He was like one of the first kids I ever started sending my beats to and when I released the album he told me that this kid I was calling Joe, he was shit talking my album like with all his homies at this table saying it was trash. And then I saw Joe like later and he was, you know, coming up to me asking about when's your next show and stuff. Like oh yeah, I want to come out and see you. It's like what changed. You know, like, do you just want to see me or do you just want to like dick ride me for the buzz? You know, like that I got. No, he won't talk.
Speaker 4:Like that to your face? Yeah, no he's not.
Speaker 2:he's not going to tell me that much it's trash, because he sees the shit that I'm doing and Haters don't always hate with insults.
Speaker 4:Haters can hate with love. Yeah, they also motivate you, no 100%.
Speaker 2:Like I love that feeling of just proving people wrong. I love that. I love that feeling of telling people I'll make music and then I love seeing that look in the right like oh God. And then I play it and they're like oh shit, it's pretty good. Oh, wait a second. This boy's hot. You know it's like. I know I've been hot I know I've been hot.
Speaker 4:Do you got a freestyle you can show to the people before your episode ends? Yes, I do.
Speaker 2:Play that it's called Drop Instrumental by the Farsight. I was listening on the way here, you were listening to it on the way here. Yeah, it's the Farsight. They're like my top three right now. I'd say my top three inspirations Logic, kendrick in the far side right now, far side, what's it called? Drop its pH. A R, c, y, d girl West Coast.
Speaker 5:Feel me, feel me, feel me. Yo, it's Murphy life to the max.
Speaker 1:Tray facts straight facts.
Speaker 2:Tray facts, always kicking back, always focus on my rap. So he's working on my craft. I've been in the lab. I've been cooking the kitchen. I said I'm whipping like penicillin inside of my veins. I am crazy, I am going in the rage. Can I contain me? Godzilla with the flows know that. I'm spraying with my tongue like a gun for a clip a can I'm spraying. I bring this, I bring the game to Satan. I got the shit I'm saying she to sat in. I know your bitch Sitting on my dick what she sat at, motherfucker like me. Jack, with a rap set. Hey, pass the mic to my boy, eat, cuz I'm thinking of a new word.
Speaker 4:Well, we freestyling Freestyle. Meanwhile, kick it with max on life to the max podcast. Meanwhile I freestyle, I gotta get some weed. And me now the freestyle. Damn, I can't lose track of the rhymes I got. I can't spit off the motherfucking top. I'm trying to give it all that I got. But max got all of my guap. Spend it on guitars for Elias. Shout out to his birthday. He spent my money in the worst way. He bought a blue guitar. That shit was like a thousand dollars and he said he paid me back. But I ain't seen that money yet. I'm like goddamn max, with a fucking ad. I say it on a podcast. I'm gonna call you out. I need that money back. I need that money back. Go ahead, free spit a free style, right back oh you crazy motherfucker.
Speaker 1:You think I check, you check my big cow. You Check my big cow. You get that cash in a flash. Fuck, you go for a dash Little bitch ass. Yeah, you know my feet all fucking day. Jackie Rob said I'm my jersey right, that 42 Number. That's a fame. We don't want that. We don't shame Fuck yeah, yeah, yo.
Speaker 2:Jack is back. I said I'm locked in. Failure. Never was a option typing all these motherfuckers like a cherry on a Sunday. No, the money come in and I'm gonna see it one day. Wait you patiently working on my grind, taking time, taking was mine, making mine, mine and more over. So I got the flows and these soda for these holes. So they just doing soda in the bathroom, not no Pepsi checking on my phone. Girlfriend Just text me gonna give a sex tips. Bake that bitch like a name. Is Alexis what you're saying? I'm driving me a Lexus.
Speaker 2:I said I'm playing with my turn, but I already said that. I said I'm missing again. Been the man, the rap three-star Michelin. I said I got the flow. Rastafarian in the bones, jamaican Jack is making all these beats. I'm saying I got the heat on repeat. I said it's playing. Yeah, I am winning every day and all right, yeah, you gotta take the mic cuz I wrap all my raps for tonight. That is on my raps. Ruffy out, it's been a real pleasure. This has been Murphy. Doesn't get much better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me say one thing. My father say one thing a I need you look at the lens, a Look in the lens, for your friends told that Max, no, that's right, keep a like back. Say like that.
Speaker 4:Look in the life to the max. Say your first name. Say you not a lame. And so the people at home living life to the max to the max.
Speaker 1:I totally forgot something. I got a present for you, bro. I think they're on the table right there.
Speaker 4:No, I think you've seen that coming.
Speaker 2:I actually you guys trick my ass. Are you dead ass? Hopefully they fit.
Speaker 4:If they fit, they're yours.
Speaker 1:Don't so, so I appreciate it. Yeah, for real.
Speaker 2:I appreciate breaking out the old ass nobunces. I've hop so many fences in these.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 2:Appreciate this. Oh, like this is love. This is love, right here. I hope you guys enjoyed the raps.
Speaker 4:I guess you know shit. Say thank you for the shoes. Say what your name is, my. Say you live in life to the max.
Speaker 2:Say thank you to the quad father.
Speaker 3:However, you want to do it in that order. I shout out to the quad father. Shout out to my boy this is life to the max with Murphy. That's M you are.
Speaker 2:F? E on all platforms, and if you guys want to hear a new, fresh sound, then come check the boy out, murphy out.
Speaker 3:Well then my hands like it's no thing. Jacket same, cut, less smoke stains. Pray to God that I never grow old, but also pray to God that I grow wings Right around the block with my dope boys. And word on the street you got dope boy. No, you love the beast cuz they dope boy, but please don't copy my flow, boy, nope.
Speaker 5:What if I've been doing same, all same, I'm kicking back.
Speaker 3:Living life, living right. Only got one shot going farther your dreams. And when the haters come attack you gotta buy, believe, gotta hit on where it hurts, like Muhammad Ali. You got a torch on the way, cuz time to leave set a party's never end. I'm, we ain't got to leave, cuz the night still young, just enjoy the breeze down, can't lie. Today was a good day. Fell flat, new cool kicks in the kick-ass ride and I can't go with my dogs. We just trying to get by just a couple of puns, all trying to get by just a couple of teams. I'll try to survive. Live to the max, cuz you don't live it twice. Couple green thumbs, all eyes, whether getting warmer, getting close to the summer, damn, I don't want to grow up. What a bummer word To my mother. We only going up, we ain't never going under. I told the bros I ain't really worried about a sucker say that life is a bitch making yours and going fucker. Hope you understand. Especially nights don't last forever why we still young. Let's enjoy the night together.
Speaker 3:Real world creeping up on me like Boo, seems like my days. If you throw almost all, consume them. It's all being used, cuz I gotta grow up when I'm done with school. Simpler times, but my simpler minds, pride. Thought about them damn near a million times, but that was back before I had like a billion rhymes. I guess that life's still good, it's just a different vibe.
Speaker 3:Just a couple of puns all trying to get by. Just a couple of teams. I'll try to survive. Live to the max, cuz you don't live it twice. Couple green thumbs, all eyes. Okay, just a couple of puns all trying to get by. Just a couple of teams all trying to survive. Live to the max, cuz you don't live it twice. Couple green thumbs, all eyes. Okay, I can't my action. Hold the bullshit. Kind of baggy, looking wavy like the ocean. Keep it in a jar, cuz you know the smell of Poe. Every really driven to my best to stay focused. I try to keep it cool. Are you lame, stupid, bogus? I hit on a strip looking out for the locus a month and so it's trying to top my ponies. Am I the next best thing? Well, I think I'm the closest.
Speaker 5:All right word, that's everything. I think you trying to go outside now, though. All right, let me put on my shoes. Oh yeah, shout out to my cousin Cole and my grandma We'll be able to do without.