FTO Sett Talks 20 Versus 1 Dating Show, Memphis Music Scene, Greek Life, Personal Growth, & So Much More!
Jun 29, 2024
Nyla Symone
Curious about the candid quirks of FTO Sett? Join us as Nyla Symone hosts a rollercoaster of a conversation with Set himself, where he humorously airs his grievances about the bustling life of New York City. You'll hear about his newfound practicality symbolized by a fresh haircut and get the inside scoop on his time on the dating show "20 Versus 1." Sett doesn't hold back as he discusses his motivations for joining the show and candidly shares his thoughts on the contestants. Plus, don't miss out as Set opens up about the challenges and thrills of his budding music career, fueled by the influence of Pooh Shiesty.
But that's not all. Sett paints a vivid picture of the Memphis music scene, shedding light on the unique sense of community and support that sets the city's artists apart. The conversation takes a deeper turn as Set reflects on personal growth, the importance of respecting others, and the surprising twists in his own life, including his college experience and Greek life affiliations. Whether you're a fan of Sett or fascinated by the dynamics of the Memphis music scene, this episode is packed with insights and revelations you won't want to miss!
Curious about the candid quirks of FTO Sett? Join us as Nyla Symone hosts a rollercoaster of a conversation with Set himself, where he humorously airs his grievances about the bustling life of New York City. You'll hear about his newfound practicality symbolized by a fresh haircut and get the inside scoop on his time on the dating show "20 Versus 1." Sett doesn't hold back as he discusses his motivations for joining the show and candidly shares his thoughts on the contestants. Plus, don't miss out as Set opens up about the challenges and thrills of his budding music career, fueled by the influence of Pooh Shiesty.
But that's not all. Sett paints a vivid picture of the Memphis music scene, shedding light on the unique sense of community and support that sets the city's artists apart. The conversation takes a deeper turn as Set reflects on personal growth, the importance of respecting others, and the surprising twists in his own life, including his college experience and Greek life affiliations. Whether you're a fan of Sett or fascinated by the dynamics of the Memphis music scene, this episode is packed with insights and revelations you won't want to miss!
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Speaker 1:
I wish I knew a little bit more about Blink.
Speaker 2:
You.
Speaker 1:
Me. Yeah what you wanna know.
Speaker 2:
A lot.
Speaker 1:
Like.
Speaker 2:
I can say this shit on camera.
Speaker 1:
What.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, this the face right there. You got the face right there. This the gen right there. This the face right there. I like how you zoomed this right there and that there right there. Yeah, keep it right, there'll go viral this week.
Speaker 1:
Oh my.
Speaker 2:
God, I know we're one big FTO, everybody talking about EP from the drop on the 15th Kane Crook. What's up, Nylah? We need to talk.
Speaker 1:
What's going on, guys? Nylah Simone here with another interview with a very special guest. All right, we got FTO set in the building. How are you?
Speaker 2:
Big FTO, big LTO. I'm good. I'm good how you doing.
Speaker 1:
Can't complain. Happy to see you, glad you could make it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you know, I have to make it this time for sure, for sure. It's the last one. It's the last one I had to show my fake car.
Speaker 1:
How are you enjoying New York City?
Speaker 2:
I know how I feel about New York. No disrespect, I hate New York, I just spit. I hate New York. What it's the biggest city there? I just hate it. Too much New York, too much going on.
Speaker 1:
It is a lot going on.
Speaker 2:
Can't sleep. This is a city that don't sleep.
Speaker 1:
That's true, but ain't no reason to hate it I ain't gonna see it like that.
Speaker 2:
I thought you'd hear me. Every time I come I hear you got a candle there. Smoke might come from over there. I'd be ready to go home.
Speaker 1:
It's a lot going on.
Speaker 2:
I'd be ready to go home.
Speaker 1:
Wait. First of all, why are you hiding this cut?
Speaker 2:
My haircut. Yes, I'm going to release the gun on your job. Yay, why are you hiding the haircut?
Speaker 1:
Yes.
Speaker 2:
What made you want to cut the locks off? Too much going on? I promise to. Yeah, how'd I say? There's a summer, my hair keeps on the fire.
Speaker 1:
Okay, my hair be catching on fire it really be.
Speaker 2:
How'd I say my hair keeps on the fire.
Speaker 1:
Well, it looks nice. Thank you yeah, it looks good. Now, something I just want to know, because I love watching 20 Versus 1, just because I be in shock that people actually sign up. I be shocked just that the women are willing to like throw themselves at the men. So before I even ask what I really want to ask, I just want to know did you always want to go on that show or did you just do it because you were just like fuck it, it's just something to do.
Speaker 2:
Nah, like I seen a couple people do it, it wasn't because I seen nobody do it. I'm the type of nigga that I don't really care for all that. There's a couple people offer me some money to do it, but I just did it. It's 20 versus one because I had a showdown there.
Speaker 1:
Damn you know the other hand, I'm going to put it on me the other hand, so that's what got me on there. Okay, so I'm like to put it on me, the other hand.
Speaker 2:
So that's what got me on there. Okay, so I'm like all right, bitch, I can dig it. I see what it's really about, even though in the gym week I done had real touch. I done made them feel like my cut. He don't need to post this. I'm going to pay you, I'm going to give you your money back. Don't need to post, I done went two on 20 person one.
Speaker 1:
What.
Speaker 2:
I don't got on real hand one.
Speaker 1:
So did you. Are you talking to anybody from the actual show? Have you talked to anybody? Maybe it didn't work out, but do you find something you're interested in when you actually go on?
Speaker 2:
At 20 person. Yeah, all the girls. All the girls are so gonna be interested. It's just, I don't think I'm putting it my way. I don't think that they gonna fuck Sid. Everybody can fuck Sid. Sid ain't gonna fuck everybody. I might not even fuck nobody.
Speaker 1:
He said I might, I might not fuck nobody.
Speaker 2:
I don't want no person. Self person. I ain't too much Self person. Damn, I know me. I might get an Airbnb. I'll be like a person Damn I know me. I'm like at the Airbnb. I be like 20% off. All 20 girls come Gonna leave me at the Airbnb with some guy. I'm gone, you ain't gonna see me, you gonna be leaving me. I ain't never coming. What was the point of it? Nah, after 20% off, you ain't gonna see me no more.
Speaker 1:
Oh, okay, just for the day.
Speaker 2:
Airband beat at the pot or something. Got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1:
Okay Dang, all right, so you enjoyed yourself nonetheless, it was cool it was something slight.
Speaker 2:
It was something slight.
Speaker 1:
All right, so let me just backtrack for those who aren't familiar with set.
Speaker 2:
How long have you been making music and what are some of your inspirations In the industry? I'm a year in the industry right now. Cool, I like it, I like it, I like it, you do, I like it. It's a lifestyle, but there's a lot going with it. You know what I'm saying. It's still coming behind music and another image. I be focusing on my other image. Music is going to put a big picture in the way. It's going to put a big picture in the way. So I got to make sure everything outside of music look good. It's all right, it could have been good inspiration though.
Speaker 1:
Good, Glad you know that. What is the what artists are like. Were you listening to that, you would say helped develop your sound.
Speaker 2:
Free. Pooh, shastri, pooh, shastri Pooh. Yeah, then we got Baby Lil Baby for sure, lil Baby for sure. You got a nigga like Gucci Big Walk. You got Walk. We're going to say all the 10-7-10. We're going to put our whole roster on. We're going to put our whole roster, the whole 10-7-10. Yes, then we're going to go. That's how they do it. We're going to be like Broadway Kodak. A lot of folks been in the industry before. Shit, like the 21st century, they got plenty of people.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
They're plenty of people, but people like that IH was like punk. They like baby Sharks and shit.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no way. No, those are great ones. And talk to me about just your name. What's FTO? Where's Set come from?
Speaker 2:
FTO.
Speaker 1:
Not the deep breath.
Speaker 2:
FTO man, we speak like FTO, fto, just crazy.
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
FTO, just crazy. I don't sit, though I don't sit like I got to sit, like from the move, like sit it out. I used to do so much stuff back then like I ain't never hesitate or nothing, I'm just going to go with it, so sit it out.
Speaker 1:
That's why they give you set.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'm like man, I couldn't just sit like I'm sitting in the rickety-skirt. The what Fucked up. I was crazy. Oh yeah, that's that I made on some money shit. I be thinking of other ideas for FTL. I just It'll come Fucked up crazy. I just outstand, I just outstand, I just outstand the term right there.
Speaker 1:
I just outstand.
Speaker 2:
Okay, all right, and you grew up in Miami, right In Miami? Uh-uh, I'm in South Vegas. What South Vegas? I'm in Memphis.
Speaker 1:
No, where did I get that from?
Speaker 2:
Miami Mine Palm tree.
Speaker 1:
Oh, you know what? No, this is just a photo of you in Miami. That's where I fucked up. Okay, I'm sorry. So you from Memphis Damn, Memphis is actually going crazy right now. How does it feel? Because this is like a renaissance for music in Memphis.
Speaker 2:
On my hand. They harassing me in my city.
Speaker 1:
They harassing you. That's a good thing, though.
Speaker 2:
Nah, that's not good.
Speaker 1:
No, mm-mm, take care of my community and my people.
Speaker 2:
They harassing you. That's a good thing, though. Nah, that's not good. No, mm-mm. Oh, I just take care of my community and my people.
Speaker 1:
Make sure they ain't go right over there.
Speaker 2:
They harassing me in my neighborhood and my community. So I'm not going to look bad, but that's how it is. I'm the prince of Memphis, for sure, king Krupp, my rap.
Speaker 1:
Oh my God, you know I will say it's really dope to see how people from Memphis really take care or care about their city, Because you don't see that all the time.
Speaker 2:
I know Like there's a lot of niggas that take care of the city though, like in Memphis, like God they thought over, they're like Shiesty again.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Or that big third and them and shit. Like a lot of young folks they're actually getting money, they're actually taking care of their community and their people around me, but it's a lot of problems around me too, Like it's a whole lot of problems. Nobody get along.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it comes with the territory, right. Why do you guys or what is it that you guys all want to pour back into the city, like what you mean by that? Like why do you guys do it? I love that y'all do it, but I don't see that happening in other cities. You know, like New York artists don't be pouring back into other New York artists, but all of Memphis take care of Memphis. What do you think that is? Why is y'all community so strong?
Speaker 2:
Because I feel like some of them feel like they got to give certain niggas their props and flowers. But certain niggas really be dick riding, Screw them all. I like some niggas be dick riding.
Speaker 1:
That's everywhere though.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they everywhere. But like that Memphis nigga on their bag, like if one Memphis nigga don't like one Memphis nigga, it gonna be six other Memphis niggas that will deal with these Memphis niggas. Gonna go with these Memphis niggas. Now, y'all like them n that shit. Kick it or nothing.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Because that's just petty. Nah, you just need to like me, anyway, me and my nigga them like we don't get money. She wasn't trying to be your bud. I don't want to see you with no money in my life, Like you just here, Because if I see you with some money, your shit can go to my nigga them. You know what, If my nigga at zero, you finna be at zero now they gonna bring my nigga shit now. I ain't got no buddy, friend, friend, nothing Understood I ain't got nobody for that?
Speaker 1:
Okay, and we're about to play a game. It's called questions that need answers, so all you got to do is fill in the blank. All right, bitch, all right. My personality trait is blank.
Speaker 2:
What you mean. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It's too fast.
Speaker 1:
What it's too fast. One word Describe your personality trait.
Speaker 2:
What you mean by that? Like, hey, my personality. Yeah, ah, damn, all right, it's a little. All right, my personality.
Speaker 1:
Say loving, you're loving. Why you don't want to commit to loving? Ain't nothing wrong with being loving.
Speaker 2:
I ain't going to say I'm just loving. Personally, I ain't going to make it like I'm just too, too sweet Because I got a mode. I got a mode, I got real deal mode. I got turn on, turn off mode.
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
So I ain't going to say I'm just too sweet. She just think that. She think that I take that, she think that I take that.
Speaker 1:
But I'm chill and loving.
Speaker 2:
I'm going to take that Chill and loving.
Speaker 1:
All right, those are good ones. The older I get, the less I blink.
Speaker 2:
That's how I wear it.
Speaker 1:
Good.
Speaker 2:
All right, that's how I wear it. More I cheat.
Speaker 1:
Why do you think you worry less now that you're older?
Speaker 2:
Because I feel like I lost you on my mind. Now it's a young lady, damn.
Speaker 1:
Because I feel like I lost it on my mind Just different priorities.
Speaker 2:
It's different priorities. They're like you got to learn and shit. You got to learn and got to be. A lot of people don't know priorities in the man, yeah, the use and the muscle of this shit. You know what? I'm saying it's a muscle son Shit, it's got to happen when it comes to priorities.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no priorities. As a man, I feel like at what age do you even learn that? Because some niggas never learn you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:
At my moment, I'm a teacher. I'm not bringing them this shit. I'm on my 10th kid 10? I see them boys through the rest of me. Like me, I'm learning this shit. I was already coming up at the age of 14, 12 and shit.
Speaker 1:
Where are you at in the 10?
Speaker 2:
I'm a baby boy, I'm a little child. What I'm with my sister.
Speaker 1:
Wow.
Speaker 2:
I was probably like 15, 14 type of shit. I was a bit advanced though. I got other partners and shit there. I don't have anything any ass about certain shit. I already doing shit Old nigga was doing. I was doing old nigga shit as young nigga, young nigga shit. I was an old nigga.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Like man, I still do young nigga shit, but I know when to do it and when to look. Be free.
Speaker 1:
Turn it on, turn it off as need be. No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:
You would never believe me if I told you blank. Nah, I don't want to say that. I mean, I don't know if you believe me if I said I went to college.
Speaker 1:
What school you went to.
Speaker 2:
See, that's why I don't want to say it.
Speaker 1:
What school.
Speaker 2:
You go to FTL Cameruna College.
Speaker 1:
Yo stop playing.
Speaker 2:
For real. I went to my old school.
Speaker 1:
FTL Cameruna College. What? Why are you not giving up the T? I'm giving it up. No, you're not. You're talking about FTTO College. No, I'm talking about FTO.
Speaker 2:
Commercial College. All I can say is I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:
What? And your brother's a Kappa? You didn't want to be a Kappa.
Speaker 2:
I'm an Alpha, oh an Alpha I ain't want to be. I ain't no lot of bruise and meat. Yo, it's only for like a month.
Speaker 1:
It's like a month. It's just the hazing process.
Speaker 2:
A month, crazy. You haven't put your hand on me neither. I don't even put my hand on me, neither.
Speaker 1:
You know they can only go so far, so it's not like.
Speaker 2:
I do the elimination. Alright alright Overdue. I ain't put my hand on me.
Speaker 1:
Alright, so why did you drop out of college?
Speaker 2:
Me.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
I just walked out that year. It wasn't a job, but I just walked out.
Speaker 1:
Why? Because I didn't feel it. You wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 2:
I had two more going on. I was taking four shit. I was doing all types of shit in school.
Speaker 1:
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:
I was never going to class.
Speaker 1:
So you was in school to be social. You wasn't even in school to be in school.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, like I just felt like this shit wasn't going to teach me. I can learn this shit on the street, I mean you're not really lying, so I get it At the age of that this shit was weak.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, taking loans out, putting yourself in debt, I'm fucking over it. Let me see what else. Oh, I wish I knew a little bit more about Blink.
Speaker 2:
You.
Speaker 1:
Me. Yeah what you want to know.
Speaker 2:
A lot.
Speaker 1:
Like.
Speaker 2:
I can say this shit on camera what? Yeah, this the face right there. You got that face right there. This the face right there. This the face right there. I like how you zoomed this out of the air. Like that right there. Keep it out there. We're going to kill these things.
Speaker 1:
Oh Lord, oh my God, we, oh my God.
Speaker 2:
We'll go viral these days. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:
You not going to tell me?
Speaker 2:
All right, nah, I'll tell you what the camera told me.
Speaker 1:
Fine, all right. Sometimes I look back at my life and blink. I'm really him, period Okay.
Speaker 2:
From time to time it's good to do blink. Stay by yourself.
Speaker 1:
You said stay by yourself, time for yourself. Yeah, now that's real. How often do you do that?
Speaker 2:
Every day.
Speaker 1:
I feel like that's hard to do as an artist. You got a team, you got peers.
Speaker 2:
And when I move and when nobody will move. When I move, when I call. I might wake up at 5 o'clock and they take me out, break my teeth, wipe my face, take a shower. So now I'm sitting in the autopsy. I come outside at 8 o'clock playing with me.
Speaker 1:
So you take your time. You got a little morning ritual.
Speaker 2:
There be people in the house and shit. They just know, damn, stir y'all ears. What's stirring my shit? I ain't got time to turn her out If they don't get you loud, I'm dipping on the air. I'm gone, okay, I'm deep in on the air. I'm calm. Okay, now that makes sense. I'm secure as hell. Oh, all, right, now you're wildin' relax. I'm glad I'm alive before nothing else.
Speaker 1:
I'm secure and all that type of shit, what? Okay, all right, let's talk about. Well, actually there's a few things. First, I wanna talk about this new single Push Ups. What was the inspo behind this? To?
Speaker 2:
help some. Look, it really wasn't nothing. I was just telling them over. Like you say you want it, I push up on them. Show them like you gotta show them. I push up on them. There's a lot of folks be trying to be bullies. There's a lot of shit be going on around them town. I just remember I be able to see this shit for myself. For me to believe the media. I ain't doing the media. I ain't doing a lot of people go about the media, so push up on me, put up on tape something.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I feel like with social media and you know it's just easy for people to pretend and say say anything. So it's like show. Show that, yeah, All right. Let's like show that, yeah, Alright. So Push Up's out now, Are you?
Speaker 2:
working on a new tape? Yeah, I'm working on my EP right now. It's gonna drop June 15th my EP drop June 15th.
Speaker 1:
Oh shoot, that's around the corner, yeah like four days.
Speaker 2:
Like four days, alright, I mean it's cool, I'm gonna focus on my album though. Okay, I'm gonna focus on my album, ep or something just to get a fan something to drop At least two, because they say I am.
Speaker 1:
Especially for the summer. We need something.
Speaker 2:
We can go on tour. They're going to be my lead guitar, my album. We're going.
Speaker 1:
Oh, do you have a concept already for your album? Yeah, Something got? Are we reaching territories we shouldn't be Go?
Speaker 2:
ahead and tell them your comments. Come on, it's too much, let's just check Woo, alright.
Speaker 1:
Well, is there a concept behind the EP, or are you just giving them signals for the summer?
Speaker 2:
I'm just giving them some like I gotta let them know who I am, like they gotta know what going on. They gotta know what going on my original face and everything. So I really feel like I be too chill. I be too chill Like I ain't chill, like I'm into music. I love music. I'm seeing like I aint been doing what I got going on. I'm duty right here to get this shit out of it. Got to get it out the way, to get out the way you find them. Are you gonna be, I feel, the EP channel?
Speaker 2:
for the album.
Speaker 1:
Any features. So when we get in the album, is it coming this year? Cuz the way you teasing, it is like my Turn.
Speaker 2:
My abs are gonna be us, my EP tears, my EP tears on some young turntables. My abs are going to be on some Like Wapsie him, hell Rock, regular dime riding on regular she's regular about it, I'm not regular about it, I'm fine. So I feel like there'll be some bullshit on my tape, on my album, for sure.
Speaker 1:
I'm definitely looking forward to hearing it Now. Talk to me. So talk to me about your relationship with Gucci. You said he heard the tape already.
Speaker 2:
You know, I for sure fully figured out with it, he going, oh yeah, like uncle, for what's it do?
Speaker 1:
It's this, that stuff, that shit this what was it like when you finally met him?
Speaker 2:
Who what?
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
My dad was a big fan of that nigga. My dad was a big fan of that nigga on the Lemonade Time Freak. He ride there 24-7 in the Cadillac back then.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Man. I never speak to him. He ain't nothing like him, god. He's a nigga known my cousin Shai still ride that nigga. So I really understand he come get nigga, known like my cousin Shai Starrad and that nigga. So I really understand he come get me real, like and we had more conversations about being real in life than music, like why I gonna keep it real and tell a nigga about life than music. You know he gone put this shit down. You know what I fuck with him? The Adelaide shit it big, that shit big. I ain't gonna lie, that shit big. I got a lot of relationship big. You don't want to talk about it, but I have shit big. When we see each other, that's fire Face to face. Like you happy fuck to see shit. I'm like who in the world want to sit in that motherfucker's seat? She gone up.
Speaker 1:
That's fire. I'm glad y'all have a relationship in real life, beyond music. Yeah, yeah, no, that's important.
Speaker 2:
I want to do more. I want to do more. This is my nigga. I want to get that into my nigga. I know I could save my life.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. But, no, that's good. That's who you want to work with. You know that's the type of energy you should want. All right, so album on the way. Ep dropping what this Friday? Yeah, ep album 15. Excited for that. Anything else you got in the works this year.
Speaker 2:
We got a lot of shit going for us. Something that we booked up for our show is at Lemna Our Lemna show. We ain't never worried about.
Speaker 1:
Do you be nervous for these shows Because it be big ass crowds? How do you prepare for that?
Speaker 2:
I'd really be awesome, I'd really be hyping really for this. Like where I'm from, we ain't never been in no shows or going to be at crowds, nothing like that. And I heard, I heard that 500 something. There's 500 people out there, damn Right on our day. Damn Right on our block.
Speaker 1:
Wow.
Speaker 2:
So I know like when we go to shows and shit this shit, it might block like a show.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
So when they see me this shit like, I just like a show. So when we go to shows and shit, I bring the whole hood.
Speaker 1:
So you know, get used to it. Yeah, yeah, you got to be good, it be fun.
Speaker 2:
It be fun, it really be the flair, like it be seeing 4B, paying attention and listening and watching. So it make it like, damn, you can't utter love outside of it's true love outside of this shit. Damn, motherfucker, you see it every day.
Speaker 1:
Mm-hmm, that's what's up. I love that All right. Well, thank you for stopping by and chopping it up with me. Shout out to Graham. Let everybody know where they can follow you if they don't already.
Speaker 2:
I only got to follow me on all social media. Mtsc BigFuckedUpCredits 10710.
