WNTTLK (We Need To Talk)
Iman Nunez on Nearly Meeting Pusha T at Rolling Loud, Influences from The Lox, "Phases Volume 2," Rap Beefs, & Balancing School!
What happens when a rising star almost meets a hip-hop legend in an unexpected place? Iman Nunez kicks off our latest episode with a hilarious story about nearly bumping into Pusha T in a bathroom at Rolling Loud. From there, we journey through Iman's transformative path from athlete to rapper, inspired by icons like Bow Wow and Fab. With the mentorship of Yonkers legends The Lox and D-Block, Iman shares how these relationships have molded his music and relentless drive, including a standout moment freestyling over a beat by Kevin Durant.
Ever wondered how to juggle school and a music career? We tackle the balancing act Iman faces, including his thoughts on maybe returning to education part-time. Get an inside look at the creation of "Phases Volume 2," a mixtape hosted by Gabe from On the Radar, and the creative vision behind the On the Radar cipher featuring artists in suits. This chapter highlights the power of collaboration and the viral success that followed, exemplifying Iman's innovative spirit.
Rap beefs, personal growth, and astrology—this episode has it all. We dissect the intense rivalry between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, sharing our thoughts on their lyrical clashes. Iman opens up about the highs and lows of the music industry, reflecting on the importance of self-acceptance and resilience. We even dive into the quirks of zodiac signs and maintaining long-term relationships in the chaotic world of hip-hop. Don’t miss out on tips for connecting with fans on social media and the latest updates on "Phases Volume 2." Follow Iman Nunez @ImanNunez to stay in the loop!
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What happens when a rising star almost meets a hip-hop legend in an unexpected place? Iman Nunez kicks off our latest episode with a hilarious story about nearly bumping into Pusha T in a bathroom at Rolling Loud. From there, we journey through Iman's transformative path from athlete to rapper, inspired by icons like Bow Wow and Fab. With the mentorship of Yonkers legends The Lox and D-Block, Iman shares how these relationships have molded his music and relentless drive, including a standout moment freestyling over a beat by Kevin Durant.
Ever wondered how to juggle school and a music career? We tackle the balancing act Iman faces, including his thoughts on maybe returning to education part-time. Get an inside look at the creation of "Phases Volume 2," a mixtape hosted by Gabe from On the Radar, and the creative vision behind the On the Radar cipher featuring artists in suits. This chapter highlights the power of collaboration and the viral success that followed, exemplifying Iman's innovative spirit.
Rap beefs, personal growth, and astrology—this episode has it all. We dissect the intense rivalry between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, sharing our thoughts on their lyrical clashes. Iman opens up about the highs and lows of the music industry, reflecting on the importance of self-acceptance and resilience. We even dive into the quirks of zodiac signs and maintaining long-term relationships in the chaotic world of hip-hop. Don’t miss out on tips for connecting with fans on social media and the latest updates on "Phases Volume 2." Follow Iman Nunez @ImanNunez to stay in the loop!
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I got a Pusha T story soon of like that type of moment.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:I was at Rolling Loud one time. So you see the artist thing, how they got like the trailers as bathrooms and stuff. So I was in the trailer in the bathroom and there was a security guard that walked in. He's just like looking around and stuff. He's going like, are you good, I'm on a urinal so I'm not thinking about nothing. So then somebody comes in right next to me and I love Pusha T.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But in my head I'm just like this ain't the way I'm going to meet you, bro. Yeah, I know, this ain't it, this ain't it. We'll talk about this one day when I see you, but right now, this ain't it, we're not doing this right now.
Speaker 2:What up Al Simone here with another episode of we Need to Talk, and today I got a very special guest in the building. I got Iman Nunez in here.
Speaker 1:How are you what's up? I'm doing great. How are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm good man, yo. I can feel the good vibes and the good energy coming off you right now. Yeah, I'm happy, glad to see you in a good space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, everything is more relaxed, you so yeah.
Speaker 2:Man, you've been having a crazy year. It looks like online. I've been seeing your freestyles everywhere, your content everywhere, and I didn't even know about Rosedale. I guess we can get into that in a second, but just for those who aren't familiar, I want to do a background to how I got put onto Iman, which was through the record you featured on Nico's Project Hughes. And I'm like first of all, that project.
Speaker 2:I'm like damn alright, it's real rap, you know what I'm saying and it felt good because it reminded me of the blog era, like just listening to an artist and then getting put on to a new artist who can also spit. So I'm like who the fuck is Iman? Then I actually met you at Certified Vibe. Yes then, um, I actually met you at certified vibe. Yes and yeah, I was really happy to meet you because I'm just impressed, I don't know, I feel like rapping. I did feel like rapping was a dying sport yeah, but now I'm seeing a resurgence of that.
Speaker 2:So, um, for those who aren't familiar with iman, who is he? How long has he been rapping? Where is he from?
Speaker 1:okay, uh, iman, iman is uh from Yonkers, new York.
Speaker 1:Uh, I've been rapping for damn, like professionally, maybe like the last eight years, but I've been, yeah, I've been doing it since I was like 18, okay, so like literally right after high school and going into college, and then I was like you know what, let me, just because I always used to have fun with like uh, well, like, I used to like write poems and stuff like that for, like for, uh, my now fiance, but like I was like I love that, so like I used to write like a bunch of poems and like help her with like, uh, anything that had to do with writing when it came to school and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:So I was like, yeah, I really enjoy this. Um, before I was an athlete, I was playing baseball a lot and, uh, I was playing baseball competitively and then I was like you know what, I don't think I love this as much. Let me go do. Uh, let me go, let me go make music, because when I was in kindergarten, the first thing I ever said I wanted to be was a rapper after seeing Bow Wow on TV.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I was like Bow Wow and Fab.
Speaker 1:Yo, that was like, oh, that's a thing, yo, this is cool. So I always wanted to do that. And then, yeah, I was blessed enough to be able to get brought in by D-Block, by the Lox and all of them. They saw me grow as an artist as much as possible, looked out for me as much, and Rondon, one of my producers, a lot, and, yeah, we've just been keeping it pushing as much as possible, looked out for me as much, and Rondon, one of my producers, a lot, and, yeah, we just been keeping it pushing as much as possible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you said you were from Yonkers, I'm like whew, big shoes to fill because some of the best spitters came out of.
Speaker 1:Yonkers, you know Absolutely.
Speaker 2:But to be embraced by them is super fire. Talk to me just about how they've helped and being around them.
Speaker 1:Like you know, iron, sharpened iron, yeah, absolutely. Uh, they have that mentality of, like you know, we want to kill everything, type of thing. So I, you know that that that's in me as well. Um, the person who got us in there, his name is poobs. Um, he's been there forever and shout out hunk, by the way. So like, yeah, we would be there all the time. And then he, years later, he told me I brought y'all in to you know, add some fuel to what. Like, put some fire in them. To be like yo, this is what the youngest is doing.
Speaker 1:I was writing to every single beat, like anything, even if I wasn't on it, just in case they'll be like yo, we want to hear something. And I was just, I was always prepared. I remember I was rapping to a kevin durant beat, like he makes beats. I did not know, yeah, kevin durant makes beats. I was rapping to a kevin durant beat one time and I'm just like, I'm just doing this just to do it, or anything like that. Um, and then there'll be these random moments and the styles. When he saw me, he was like yo, what you do, and then then that's when we got really cool. He bought my project and everything like right there at the spot, told me he was gonna hear it.
Speaker 1:He went to LA and on his flight he was listening to it. Then, randomly, I was upstate um and he took he put out a tweet saying yo go listen to blessed by Iman. This was like years ago and I had a project called blessed and he was like yo go listen to blessed by Iman. He's, he's next. I was like wait, what that's crazy. Yeah. So then, uh, we was always like from there I've gained the respect from all of them and stuff and I have records. Uh, I was on styles album called presence. It was a song called yes, lord. And then, uh, yeah, I've worked with sheik styles, I, me, and kiss, kiss, and I don't have a song yet, but we've talked about it before and all that. And just even growing up, even seeing JJuan, like me and JJuan were always there and stuff. So every time I see him tweet of like certain things, I was there to see these certain things. So like yeah.
Speaker 2:I was definitely going to bring up JJuan. Maybe not this soon, because he just be saying some controversial ass shit all the time. Love, j1. Love you, j1.
Speaker 1:Facts Love you, bro. That nigga is crazy. I love him. You see what you get Like that's how he is. He's so damn passionate. Facts.
Speaker 2:But sometimes he be loud and wrong though. Loud and wrong Like all right, all right, we get it. New York is great, relax, fuck, but no. But I like the fact that you guys are even tapped in and stuff like that yeah. Because it's cool to see New York just kind of have community, because, like we see LA going crazy now with the community and now I feel like we're starting to see that with New York now too.
Speaker 1:Absolutely yeah which is really dope. You, nico, hd, I mean everybody you had on the damn tape. I feel like you know it's crazy. So everybody who was on the tape, what? Like, everybody who's on the cypher is on the tape yeah right, but there was two people who were supposed to be on the cypher as well that didn't show up, and one of them was jay one, oh, the other one was kai cash oh damn, that would have been yeah that would have been complete yo when I tell you that they cause Kai's on the Deluxe Project and J1 and I are figuring something out right now, but I wanted them on it because I wanted to represent this is yeah.
Speaker 1:So it didn't work out, but you know I we talked about it after the universal.
Speaker 2:Dugas thing. Yeah, you feel me Dang, yeah, but that's. That's a really good Gauge of what's New York rap. This is New York rap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel great about it. These are my guys and they're great at what they do, so Shout out to them for real.
Speaker 2:So you mentioned that. So shout out to them for real. So you mentioned that you started falling in love with writing, went to college. What school did you go to?
Speaker 1:I went to two different colleges but I never finished. I went to Westchester Community College, I got my associate's and then I went to Lehman College in the Bronx and I probably got like five classes left. But my career was getting a little too busy and school wasn't really that wasn't the priority to me. It was more to do it for my parents and I'm going to do it one day, just to get that out the way, just because I'm a man of my word. So I want to be able to just do that. But I was like things are too busy right now. I cannot spend this much time doing this. Yeah, and that's what I was, like things are too busy, right now I cannot spend this much time doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's what it was.
Speaker 2:So you got real life shit going on. Not that school is not real life shit.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes. And it was like to me. It was like damn, I'm going to sit in these classes for this many hours when I could go be doing this and stuff You're missing out on opportunities. Yeah, like look you opportunity, yeah like, look you know what time it is right now.
Speaker 2:Imagine I was in class yeah, just yeah you see what I'm saying that's why I even asked like could you do this time?
Speaker 1:and like that's what I'm saying, like, but I like, even when I was trying to balance everything out because I'm balancing a lot right now, so it's like that was one of those things that I was like, all right, let me just, I'll be a part-time student, I'll take probably one class a week or something, it was to that point. It just kept getting less and less and less. And then I was like I can't keep doing this right now, maybe in the future God allows it to.
Speaker 1:I'm just, you know, I'm gonna go back yeah, but like right now I can't yeah, five, you could do five yeah. I could do five hopefully they got online options.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's the way you got to go. Online would be the easiest thing for you right now.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:But all right. So on this tape, I'm hearing a lot of Gabe on here, which I think is cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Especially because, for me, the biggest thing that I noticed on the rollout was the on-the-radar cipher.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So having Gabe involved, I think was really dope.
Speaker 1:So just talk to me about like that concept. Yeah, so like, uh, I wanted to. So when we made phases volume two, the whole process of it was like you know what let's make? Let's treat this like a mixtape, because the previous project I dropped was called Rosedale and that launched this whole thing. But like really, yeah, that that we'll get to that though like okay so, so I wanted it to be like a mixtape.
Speaker 1:I wanted it to be hosted by someone and just have that feel, because the first project that ever dropped my introduction into the music industry was I was blessed enough to have DJ enough from High 97 host my first project ever, and Rondon was actually the one who made it happen.
Speaker 2:What a crazy. Yes, it was crazy in new york city.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so shout out to ron down for that, because he made that one happen. And then, uh, from there I was like I've been just dropping a bunch of music and then it was like, all right, cool, so I want somebody to host this again. But I feel like gabe will be great, because nobody has really used on the radar for that. I see that they do joint projects and stuff with people, but Gabe is not the host of like yo, let's have him on songs, let's have him do this whole hosting job of it. And he was up for it 100 percent.
Speaker 1:And then I asked him if we could do this cypher, because I had an idea and I wanted everybody who was featured on the project, which was Nico Brim, hd Been Dope, desi Banco, fergie Baby, life of Time and me, and then Tony E, who is an amazing artist, by the way Y'all will find out soon. But so we did the cypher and I just told everybody. Actually, no, I was in Audio Mac one day playing the project for my homie Cree and then she was like Shout out to Kree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but thank you, kree, Thank you. So she was like yo, this is so crazy that you and HD are wearing suits in the music video that y'all just did. I think y'all should all wear suits at the On the Radar thing. And I was like, damn, that's actually a good idea. Remind me of the good music cypher from back in the day, all the nostalgia aspect. Oh crap, alright, cool, let's do that.
Speaker 1:So then we asked everybody to get some suits. Joe could vouch for this. Meet. Joe and I were literally on the phone going like yo, I'm going to Marshalls right now, I get some ties. Like yo, everybody, we gotta get some jackets. Yo go to Zara, go to h&m, whatever, like you just figure it out. Yeah, to make sure everybody was good and all this stuff. So we, we literally had everybody wear a suit. Um, the cypher. I just needed everybody to trust in the vision of it. And they all did, yeah, uh, down to the order of how we had it and everything. And it worked out to the way that it did, because even like, even fergie's going viral the way that it is, he has like a million views all around, I think, off of that cypher. That's insane.
Speaker 2:And then like I see it on my timeline. Like three times a day.
Speaker 1:You feel me like that, and that's that's what makes me happy, yeah, the fact that it was just like, damn, we really got to do something special off of an idea of something.
Speaker 2:And because the on the radar thing is already popular, but just aesthetically.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How you went into it brought like a whole new life to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's the thing that I love so much about it. So it was like even talking about it with Nico and we were just like yo, this was like an impactful moment. Like people like even if people, some people may not be saying anything, there's always there's people watching. I was getting a bunch of random followers of like people that I know and all this type of stuff, but never met them or anything like that, Like other artists and stuff, and I'm just like, oh okay, so this is they tapping in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I see what's happening right now.
Speaker 2:You know it's so crazy because you've had cosigns from legends and you know like heavy hitters within this industry Talk to me just about like the process, because I feel like you know you think once you get certain cosigns and certain stamps, that shit is just up, and then you get in it and it's like, oh wait, it's not up yet.
Speaker 2:I still gotta um so just talk to me about that. Was there like a moment where you were like you think this is it and then you realize, oh, this is really just the beginning yes, yo, there was a time before covid, I thought I was out of here.
Speaker 1:I thought, like yo, we just did a show at sob, sold it out. Uh, we did a. Before knitting factory stopped doing shows in brooklyn, we sold out another headlining show there.
Speaker 2:Dang.
Speaker 1:I miss Knitting Factory At the time I signed, I partnered up with the Orchard to do like my independent thing with them and I was like yo, everything is great, I got the locks on my project.
Speaker 2:Everything is sold.
Speaker 1:I was on cloud nine thinking that, yo, it's finally about to happen. And then the whole world shut down. And then I have to think of new ways of like let's find another way to be more active on social media, let's do all this. So then that's where the first phases came from. It started as a I'm going to rap from home.
Speaker 1:It was a thing called quarantine flows, and every Monday I was dropping a freestyle for like three months and I was recording it from my phone, editing it, all that type of stuff, recording the like, literally writing down the rhyme using pro tools in my house, all of that just trying to be self-efficient as much as possible. So then we rebranded it because it was still covid, and then I was like all right, cool, let's. Uh, let's call this phases and I we did really good one minute music videos. I had my boy Danny. He literally just shot a bunch of videos for me and we did 10 of them. The four most popular ones. We made it into a little EP called Phases, volume 1. And then we added the friends on there too, because at that time it was Oswin, benjamin, damn Oswin.
Speaker 2:Another phenomenal. That's one of my brotherswin, benjamin Damn Oswin. Yeah, that's another phenomenal. Yes, yeah, phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Incredible. I was just on the phone with him yesterday too. He said what up, by the way, Love you, Oswin. So it was Oswin, Benjamin Sav the Genius, J Soulja and Nate Joel.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, yeah, yo nah your ear is good.
Speaker 1:You tapped in, so that's that's how that happened. And then it was like we dropped a couple more projects and it was like oh, I feel like we're at phases two right now and it's just non-stop hard-hitting stuff and let's add some new friends into this and let's have some fun so oh, and that was actually going to be one of my questions was the production process, because you said you played this for korean.
Speaker 2:That's when y'all came up with the On the Radar concept. But when you came up with the concept for Phases 2, were these projects created like a full session with everybody or was it kind of like one-offs it? Was one-offs or was it like you recorded? And okay, okay.
Speaker 1:For sure one-offs. So it would actually be mixtures and stuff too. Some of them was I there for every feature. I was there for most of the people recording they songs. I was with HD, I was with Tom Kai. I wasn't with Nico. Nico had, suze was with Nico. Y'all had a different session and then he was recording. He was just writing to that beat when I sent it to him and stuff. I wasn't with Dizzy either or Ferg. So, yeah, but even the Dizzy and Ferg record, that one happened. Dizzy wasn't originally on that record because we submitted that song for Street Fighter. They were doing an album and then it was just Fergie and I and I thought they were going to take that song but they didn't. So I changed the hook and added Dizzy and that's what happened. But that would be dope if it was a collective thing. Yeah, but we were all in the studio last week, like all of us together.
Speaker 2:What is going on?
Speaker 1:Something special. Okay, yeah, we got something that we're doing right now, but we was all in the studio the other day and we knocked out like two records.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, I like to see this. Actually it's refreshing, refreshing as hell. Especially, you know I can say it, but I'm not like a fan of drill, like I just love rap, I love neo soul, I love R&B, like those are my bags.
Speaker 2:So this is like just refreshing to see, because I'm excited you know what I mean, like I feel like we were in a weird space for a while and like I wasn't really looking forward to anything, I started dabbling into afro beats and all other type of genres, but it feels good to be back at like the root of what I love.
Speaker 1:It feels like what we were talking about earlier the blog area.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it feels like the blog area again and it's it's dope man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I miss that so much. So, like the fact that it that's what I feel like we're in right now, it's like all right, cool, we gotta, we gotta keep going with this.
Speaker 2:We can't waste this moment like, let it be, it's here, so let's do it uh, yes, and, that being said, I had told nico that too, I'm like man, I I feel like I don't. I don't want to put jinx us or anything like that, but that's what it really, what it feels like. And, with that being said, we've just watched titan's battle for the crown of rap. Um, that came from the blog era yeah what is your? What is your take on it? How do you feel?
Speaker 1:I know this is let's do it all right. So I'm gonna start off by saying uh, I don't have a biased thing towards this, because my guy bowed out.
Speaker 2:I know Yo same, yo literally same.
Speaker 1:I got my own thought on that. I love you, Cole, but I ain't going to do that here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:But I thought it was great for the culture. I think so too. It is my favorite rap beef I have seen. Yeah, because I love how they were just going back and forth rap beef I've seen because I love how they were just going back and forth. I do wish Drake was a little bit more strategic with how he did certain things. But I love Family Matters. I thought that was a great record. I thought Euphoria was great. My order is Euphoria Family Matters Not Like Us. But Not Like Us is starting to creep even more because it's like, damn, this record is on the nine, it's going. It's going like that's, that's where I'm at with it. But, um, I love, I love both of them. They're both incredible artists. Um, I, god willing, I'll be able to work with the both of them one day hell yeah, they.
Speaker 1:I think it was great for the culture because, on top of that, people wanted to rap more now yes you couldn't. You couldn't shy away from that. Nobody was like these guys were rapping at a high level yeah, there wasn't bars wasted like these guys are really rapping. So and it felt like again. It felt like that time people were deciphering lyrics on twitter.
Speaker 2:I know, I know I'm, I'm here for all of it, like to me personally. Again my guy bowed out so I kind of was just like, all right, well, let's just see where it goes. But once Kendrick dropped Euphoria I was like, oh nah, this is another level. Only because when I first listened to it I was just laughing the whole time Because I don't even think people were picking up how funny he was being. It was all straight jokes, Crody. Yeah, the accent was nuts.
Speaker 2:The two bad bitches Like everything was just super funny, but I do think that Drake did like, as far as the MC, that nigga did not back down. That shit was phenomenal too.
Speaker 1:Drake was rapping.
Speaker 2:I do think his approach, like his tactics, were just not strong enough compared to Kendrick's.
Speaker 1:And I was expecting him to be. I was expecting it to just be a strategy game A little longer, right? Yeah, like I thought it was going to be like oh no, who's going to out-strategize the other?
Speaker 2:And then it was like oh damn, no, Kendrick had the big fucking joker. No, honestly, he hit us with the small joker and then we're like, alright, drake might come with the big joker. And then Kendrick said, nope, I got that one too.
Speaker 1:And then dropped Not.
Speaker 2:Like Us.
Speaker 1:It was so fast too it was. I was tight when Not Like Us came out Because I was at Andrew Schultz's show in the MSG Cause. That's like my favorite comedian. You love Schultz, I love Schultz. Him and Chappelle those are my favorites Schultz is good. So seeing Schultz like all those years, I was just like I got to be here for Madison Square Garden to see this. I feel like an emotional attachment to this while I'm there.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and I'm just like I got the freaking, I got my phone like in my ear walking around before. I'm like, not right now, kendrick, not right now bro.
Speaker 2:I was just telling him like not right now, because I got to pop out and show you the show, because I stayed. I'm like not right now, bro, let's, I forgot about that. Are you a Brilliant Idiots fan?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Yes yes, yeah yeah, yeah, I seen you on Brilliant Idiots before and all that stuff. We actually met a long time ago in passing.
Speaker 2:Where.
Speaker 1:We met online at the KOD listening party in Gramercy Theater. Yes, a long time ago, but it was quick. Oh, there's somebody else.
Speaker 2:I met there too, a producer, ronda Ramsey Theater. Yes, a long time ago.
Speaker 1:But it was like, quick but like.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's somebody else. I met there too, a producer.
Speaker 1:Ronda.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:That was that long ago so.
Speaker 2:Damn J Cole fans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was just about to say that the J Cole thing is just like I already know, like with that, yeah, yeah see, but that that's what.
Speaker 2:Only in New York can you get shit like this. I'm an implant, sorry, but you know like being able to, because at the time I was working at the radio station for Angie. I was Angie's assistant and then I'm J Cole tweeted that and I said look, ange, I gotta go. I gotta go, since I showed her a screenshot. She goes on air and was like my assistant is leaving me. Because JCole tweeted out and I'm like, yeah, I am Ran over there, you got to respect it yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I met people. But it's crazy because we're all working yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Like it's just I love that more than anything because it's like years later and it's like you just see. Like whoa, that's crazy. Yeah so it's like I love those moments. I got to push a T story soon of like that type of moment.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was at Rolling Loud one time and then, like you see in the, you've been to Rolling Loud before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. So you see the artist thing, how they got like the trailers as bathrooms and stuff. So I was in the trailer in the bathroom and there's a security guard that walked in. He's just like looking around and stuff. He's going like, are you good, I'm on a urinal so I'm not thinking about nothing. So then I'm just minding my business. So then somebody comes in right next to me and I'm just there, I go wash my hands. I'm not thinking about nothing. He goes to wash his hands. I look up in the mirror. It's Pusha T right next to me, and I love Pusha T.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But in my head I'm just like this ain't the way I'm gonna meet you bro. Yeah, I know, this ain't it, this ain't it. I'm like we'll talk about this one day when I see you, but right now, this ain't it. We're not doing this.
Speaker 2:Right now, I feel you personal setting right now, not the bathroom, not here, not today not happening, so one day when I, when I meet him yeah, pushes the goal and pushes dropping new music. This year, well, um clips is dropping new music that's gonna be incredible. I know I'm excited yeah, but nah, it's a good year for rap, um, and you're part of it now too, so yes, yes, and I'm grateful.
Speaker 1:I love, I love this. I really really love um being able to. I love creating dope stuff, so that's, that's more than anything. I don't I'm not big on the rapper lifestyle or this type of shit. Like I'm cool, like I'll be the, I'll be the one. Let me just do my job and get out of there.
Speaker 2:You love that, yeah, but like that's why I love cole so much because it's like what's your intention, not everybody's in it for the same intention.
Speaker 1:I don't give a damn about none of this shit. I can have all of it. It's cool. Yeah, y'all have fun. Go do that. I'm gonna be inside, but I'm gonna do my job. I love performing and I love making music and doing all that stuff.
Speaker 2:I love, you know, connecting with people and everything see, now I'm mad at myself because I wasn't hip to you prior to Hughes, because you know, I've been seeing all the people who are actually on your project where a lot of them progressively get better throughout the years. So I'm like damn if you was already getting cosigns from KD so early now. I gotta go back now. I gotta hear the catalog.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm gonna tell you right now I definitely, definitely, definitely got way better. I can't listen to it I can't listen to like super old stuff really I can't pandemic.
Speaker 2:Can you do phases?
Speaker 1:one I could do. I could do phases one. Okay the project with enough. I can't listen to it really I can't. I'm like I I understand what that project did for me. I love you e yeah, everything. I can't listen to it.
Speaker 2:It makes me cringe for. So, for those who are new to Iman, what is like the starter pack, like these three records?
Speaker 1:you got in here, go listen to my project Everything is Everything. If you want to start knowing who Iman is, okay, and then you get into the other stuff.
Speaker 2:But what's the three records like the?
Speaker 1:three records. I got a record called Damn, damn, damn damn World in my Hands. There's a record I got called At this Moment. And there's a record I got called Nothing Left to Say. That's On Phases 2. And that's produced by Dizzy Banko Fire. Those are the records, and these are just talking records. These ain't the other type of records, these are just me just talking. So I would say those, yeah, and actually on the new record too, I'll say the outro, the outro. I'm talking a lot because there's a little surprise in that beat and then I start really talking about certain things.
Speaker 2:But yeah, Alright, I like that. And then, while we're on the subject of music, outside of your personal collection, what would you say is a certified sleeper that people are sleeping on right now? How is nobody talking about this record? It could be old, it could be new.
Speaker 1:It's weird because right now I'm in this place where I'm listening to because I listen to a lot more R&B music than hip-hop. That's just me, I ain't mad at it. Yeah, that's just a thing and I have an obsession with who was I saying in the car, that's who I want to work with really bad, Coco Jones Thames. And who was the third?
Speaker 2:Iris Starr, my girls and uh, who's the?
Speaker 1:third, an iris star, but like, but yeah, but like, uh, coco jones, I feel like she's going to be like the next, like big r&b star, and I can't wait to see that. But right now, that's all. I'm just listening to them right now.
Speaker 2:That's it because and I, it's hard to say, slept on though, because it's like people know people know, but like I still I'm expecting, I don because it's like People know, people know, but like I'm expecting People don't, I don't know. Yeah, if you tapped in, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So it's like I can't wait to see what happens with them, because Coco Jones had me in a chokehold for like, and it's like you singing Yo, like I'm singing my heart out everything. I'm like yo. I feel this like this is yeah, like coco jones is is incredible. Thames is incredible I love her voice, yeah, and ira star that's another one that I'm just like that girl.
Speaker 2:You name all the girls right now. So I'm here for it. I feel like aria. I have like this playlist that I listen to.
Speaker 1:How do you pronounce her name? Is aria or ira?
Speaker 2:I don't get me to line.
Speaker 1:I have no idea okay, cool, we love you anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we love you regardless, but I have a playlist of positive affirmations that I listen to to get my mind right for the week. But Aria Bloody Samaritan does it for me Because it's religious, but then it's also just real life. I like that combination.
Speaker 1:Incredible and is also just real life. I like that combination Incredible and somebody I really want to work with that. She don't really make music like that, no more. So I guess we'll say Sleeper, now I would love to work with Sade Like I would love to work with Sade what, hell yeah what. That would be incredible, legend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be, you know what, in with Salam Remy, because you know he be working with her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have the same publicist, so we've met, we've met, we've talked.
Speaker 2:I'm saying he got the plug on that. I feel like y'all could make that happen. Um, but all right, I want to talk about Rosedale a little bit, because I didn't even know you had a merch line.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Damn, I'm learning a lot about you, but okay, so talk to me about Rosedale and the merch is fire. Actually, let me pull something out. Pull out a little piece I got available now. Actually, it's sold out.
Speaker 1:It's sold out. It's sold out.
Speaker 2:Great problem If you're like me, you know you could get a little exclusive, so we got Rosedale.
Speaker 1:Yes, Rosedale. So Rosedale stemmed from. I always wanted to give people a piece of home to me. Rosedale is where I grew up. I'm not going to say where exactly. Y'all know where I be from.
Speaker 2:I assumed it was yeah.
Speaker 1:I ain't going to say like where, everything, but like Rosedale, we relate that to home. Yeah, and I wanted to give a piece of home to other people Because you know that's important to me. I want people to feel like they're closer, you know, to what we do and stuff. Yeah, and I realized that there's Rosedales everywhere. There's one in Queens. Everybody keeps thinking it's Queens and so like, I'm fake from Queens, so you feel me.
Speaker 2:So I was like yeah.
Speaker 1:So now, when people ask me, they'll be like yo, this from Rosedale, this from Queens, this from the Bronx, this from upstate. I'm like yeah. I say yeah every time, because I'm not. Who am I to say no, there is a Rosedale there. I'm not from that Rosedale, but there's a.
Speaker 2:Rosedale, everywhere. So how the hell are you managing a clothing line that sells out all the time?
Speaker 1:a music career, getting married like a a career getting married like a student like you got a lot going on. God, that's all I say. I feel that I I'll tweet. I'm not tweeted. I put up a post the other day. I was just like there's days that I feel like I don't have anything in me anymore and there's days that I feel like I just want to just shut everything out. Yeah, but as long as god keep allowing me to have the strength to keep pushing, then that's when I'm gonna. You know, I'm gonna just keep going. It's not gonna stop, but till that's gone, yeah, everybody gonna get sick of me.
Speaker 2:I just gotta keep it pushing iman much respect honestly thank you um, okay, so we play a game called questions that need answers okay all you have to do is fill in the blank are you ready?
Speaker 1:this should be fun. Let's go, I'm ready all right.
Speaker 2:The older I get, the less I I don't be.
Speaker 1:You know, the less I try to go outside not try to go outside. Look I try to. I do what I gotta do, like I'm at events yo. If I got like four events in one day, or three events or two, 30 minutes at this place, 30 minutes at the next, all All this stuff.
Speaker 2:He did that on Juneteenth. I saw you for five minutes.
Speaker 1:And I had to go do the next thing.
Speaker 2:But I was like but I appreciate you Like I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Like. My biggest thing is about showing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like be there and show up, and the other thing I would probably say is not caring, I'm caring less and about stuff that's just up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's hard, but like it is hard, it's. It's happening more and more. How did you get there? I needed for my own sanity.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I think my whole life I cared too much what people think, like way too much. And then that's where insecurity came of, like wanting to feel like I wanted to be a part of things and wanting to feel like that I'm not dope enough or anything like that. So, as time will go on, I started realizing that I was just like yo people who rock with you, they're going to rock with you for who you are and everybody has an opinion. There's people like I was excited when the cypher came out. I was like yo, I can't wait to see the YouTube comments, to see who's about to just talk crazy shit right now of like who's this? But there's always something for everybody and I know there's people who rock with me.
Speaker 2:Did you see people talk shit?
Speaker 1:Nah, crazy enough, and I was waiting for it. Yeah, I was so ready for it. I was telling HD I'm like yo, I want a SoundCloud rapper to say something so I can go listen to their song and go to and shit on them. Nah, not even I'll go in the comment.
Speaker 2:I'll be like yo this song is hard.
Speaker 1:Keep going bro. I'll just do some shit like that. I love that.
Speaker 2:Kill the kindness yeah, so I was just like yeah, I be trying not to look at comments. Actually, I gotta learn. I gotta learn to not. And sometimes when I just do the you know YouTube studio, you do the refresher automatically shows you like the four newest ones, that's the only time, and then I'll see one, but it sucks because you'll see so many positive and then that one and you're like, oh fuck, they're right, I should have did it, but I'm like. I have embraced imperfections as you should.
Speaker 1:It is what it is.
Speaker 2:This is where I'm at right now. This is all I got to give you.
Speaker 1:I think each one of us are perfect the way we are. You got to just like yes, we all have our imperfections and stuff, but people don't rock with you for being you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. So, I like that. I like that. Okay, I can't believe. I actually when I was younger.
Speaker 1:Okay, I got a story my mom was telling me. She tells me this one all the time. Okay, so we was at IHOP one time and I was obsessed with the Nutty Professor when I was younger. So we was at IHOP. I was like three or four, I think I forgot, but it was a Sunday and it was after church and there was a family that was just like like just coming out of church or something like that, and I'm laughing at my mom the whole time. I'm like being a kid, like laughing, looking at them and laughing, laughing. She's like what's up? I'm like that's the clumps and then I'm just like saying that, like just saying that right, but they didn't hear that right?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, it gets worse.
Speaker 1:So then my mom is going like don't don't Shut the hell up. She's like shut up, don't do it. And then I'm just like like, of course I'm a kid, so I was just like, excuse me to the people I'm like are you the clumps and yo?
Speaker 2:did they know who you're like, what you were referencing?
Speaker 1:yes, they did, they did, they were cracking up apparently. Oh shit, I thought it was the cutest thing ever. But my parents Were embarrassed. And I'm kind of embarrassed, like I felt like a fool. I'm like damn, I shouldn't. Well, they took it well. Yeah, they took. Thank God they took it well. But like I'm like Damn, so I'll go with that one.
Speaker 2:That's funny. I enjoy that story. I did something similar when Big Mama came out.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not going to say it went the best, but I'll leave it at that. But I would say I was young, you know, you can't help it, you can't help it, have it. All right, I'm a little embarrassed by the fact that I know so little about.
Speaker 1:I'll say I'll go with politics for this one. Yeah, I feel you and I think it's more of like I, I tend to not want to like it's weird, like I should be knowing more about it, but also I don't, I, I kind of don't want to. Yeah, but then what? That's weird, I don't know, it's a lot going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a lot going on um, okay, sometimes I look back at my life and sometimes I look back at my life and I just sit there and be thankful, really, because I can't explain the beautiful things that has happened in my life and there's a lot of things I'm grateful for that. Growing up in Yonkers, when I started rapping and stuff, there was people that were doing it longer than me and all that. And there will be a lot of moments. They think I didn't hear these things, but I would hear certain things of like why is it happening to him and not me? Or why is this, this, this? And it's just more like I'm blessed, I don't know. I'm grateful, like I'll be.
Speaker 1:I've really got faith in all of this stuff and just let God handle everything and do whatever I could. So it's like with me. It's more like I really just sit back and look back. I'm like I can't believe my life is really going this way Because I had a lot of. My whole life was always the underdog story Of like nothing was ever easy to me, nothing was ever like I gotta. Like my brother was. My little brother was a talented one he could freestyle.
Speaker 1:He was the one who was producing first. He was the one who was naturally gifted like an athlete and all this type of stuff. Me, I gotta work 10 times harder to do the simple thing that he could do. So I built a work ethic yeah and I was never good at things, so I was just like I just kept going. So I can't believe that I'm able to be where I'm at and do the things that I'm doing that's beautiful.
Speaker 2:I love that um.
Speaker 1:From time to time it's good too from time to time it's good to sit down and shut the hell up when you talk too much, and then you also gotta just be down and just be still. It's hard to be still when you got so much going on. So I'm just trying to. I'm trying to learn that a little more. Say no to a lot more things retweet.
Speaker 2:I love that. Yes, all right. I made a complete fool of myself when I okay, okay, this was an embarrassing moment for me.
Speaker 1:When I was younger, I wanted to be a singer.
Speaker 2:Uh, I wanted to be an R&B singer okay that was like after the rapper thing you really love R&B. Yeah, I really do it keeps coming out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So like when I, when I was uh, since I wanted to be an R&B singer, after the rapping thing, I was just like I couldn't sing. Obviously I could probably hit like little Drake notes and stuff, but like I'm not, yeah, so I was. I remember I was so bad at rapping that I would have all the homies from high school pull up to the house because we had the studio, we all put money together and got some equipment and all that. So then I would literally just be the one trying to be like oh, let me be on this song, but I wasn't good enough.
Speaker 2:You was trying to be Drake, you was trying to do hooks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i're trying to be Drake. You're trying to do hooks. Yeah, I was trying to do everything. I was trying to do everything, so like I would literally try to. You know, I was using auto-tune, uh, when I we didn't afford that at the time. So all of that right.
Speaker 1:So then, whenever it came to so, whenever it came to rapping, I wasn't good enough to be on it, and whenever it came to singing, I wasn't good, good enough to be on it. So the rapping thing, I used to just go to my room and just literally, just while everybody's in the studio downstairs, I'll literally be in my room just writing. Everybody be like yo, where's he at? And I'm just there by myself, not talking to nobody, just trying to get better. And then there was a day I was driving everybody home from. It was like three in the morning and they go like you want to be a singer, right, sing. And I was just like nah. And they were like, yeah, sing, and I'm just singing in the car and it sounds so bad. And I remember the feeling. I was just like yo. I never want to feel like this again did your friends tell you it was bad?
Speaker 1:uh, they were trying not to. They were trying not to, but I knew what it was. You knew you. I just knew, I knew. And it was like that moment I remember. I remember that I never wanted to feel like that again.
Speaker 2:And then a similar situation was when I'll tell you, that went off, see, well, I gotta say, the more you talk, the more I'm like how can you not have nothing but respect for where you are right now because you put the work in? Yeah, yeah and um the fact that you're going upstairs right by yourself was it. Is that still your recording process? Do you want to be?
Speaker 1:in solitude, I don't mind now. Now, more than anything, I work best on my own, because I love, I know how to engineer myself and everything, so I work fast like that. Yeah, it's a lot, nothing to play with. I like that, though I had to learn all this stuff. My pops always taught me learn how to do the things that you want to do. That way, when you hire people to do it, they don't fuck around, and all that stuff. So that was something that I would learn how to do, and then I would constantly record myself all the time. But now, more than anything, even with phases, it was like yo, let's be in the studio more, let's, let's go, let's go talk with people, let's go connect with people, have new energy and stuff. So that session that we did last week with all of us there, that was a great feeling. I'm gonna show you that record, too, before we leave love that is.
Speaker 2:It is your pops into music. Did he do music?
Speaker 1:no, no, no, no, okay, he owns his own, he has his own company.
Speaker 2:Fire, yeah, fire, fire. So, and you're Dominican.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm Dominican. I never say it in interviews, though, but this is my first time really saying it.
Speaker 2:You gotta put it out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm Dominican. You don't see too many Latin rappers.
Speaker 1:I feel like no, that I'm not gonna front like. I haven't battled with that throughout the process and stuff, because you know it starts the whole thing of like, oh, but what type of Dominican are you? Are you this? Are you this?
Speaker 2:are like wait, there's types of Dominicans yeah, there's white Dominicans oh, okay, yeah there's definitely white Dominicans.
Speaker 1:There's uh, my family is, is is mixed with, like, african ancestry and that's Dominican. European, but not not some. There's some that's just straight Spaniard and they just were. They were just born there, or something like that. Got it, so it's like there's always a mixture of stuff, and then the whole stigma of like Dominicans always saying I know black, I ain't Dominican, and all that type of crap. So it's like I'm not even gonna unfold that I'm not even going to unfold that. Yeah, you got to deal with all that crap Fast.
Speaker 2:Dominican. There's Dominican rappers, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is what it is, but I'm proud to be able to be go against the grain of whatever these things are.
Speaker 2:I think you should, I think you should lean all the way in on it.
Speaker 1:The reason why I don't was because I always wanted to be known as like.
Speaker 2:Talent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want you to rock with me for just being Iman, Not for where I'm from, who I'm associated with or anything like that. Just rock with me because you think I'm dope. So the moment I start going around being like yeah, I'm Dominican, Then it's like oh, he's Dominican, he's nice, you got to do this, this, this. It's like nah, but come to the shows. Come rock with me, come do this, and that's that's always been a thing with me.
Speaker 1:Like I, I always wanted people to just rock with ima more than anything so yeah, but to be, you know, I want, I got, I'm gonna talk shit. What's? What's like sorry, like grammys and all this shit. It's like first dominican artist or whatever. This is like I want. I want to do all that type of stuff for sure but, right now, while I keep going it. It's just like love me, for me, I'm here.
Speaker 2:I fuck with that.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:I fuck with you. Thank you, I do. All right, so you're off to a crazy start this year, anything? Oh, wait, wait, I forgot, I'm getting tired.
Speaker 1:Oh, we got some more.
Speaker 2:My personality trait is blank.
Speaker 1:My personality trait is Okay Chill.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Off camera. I'm a lot more funny and stuff. I like to do these type of things. I'll be saying this with my outrageous dark humor, which is why I love Schultz so much.
Speaker 2:Nah, his shit is. The utmost outrageous If he borderline like but yeah.
Speaker 1:Nah, his shit is the utmost outrageous Like if he borderline like nigga wait. Should I be offended? Yeah, so like that, uh hardworking and uh passionate, I don't know. Like those are my things.
Speaker 2:Could I what's your sign?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I don't really know what that is yet, but I just know J Cole and Kay Cuddy are Aquarius too.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so is Megan Thee Stallion and. Rhapsody Look, we got some goats. Yes, y'all do I fuck with Aquarius? I'm a Leo, but Aquarius and Leos are polar opposites, so we get along. Oh you a Leo Gang gang gang okay.
Speaker 1:Aquarius is a Leo with a leather jacket. That's what my wife says. It's a Leo with a leather jacket.
Speaker 2:That's what Aquarius is I like how she worded that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cocky is the same way we are, but they more chill about it.
Speaker 2:We just have to be cocky. Not a Leo with a leather jacket. That's funny.
Speaker 1:My best friend's in Aquarius I really yes okay polar opposites, but we're like the same oh, we're gonna get a long, great, yeah, like. But you know what's crazy? I was preparing myself yesterday because I was like I've seen these interviews before, right. So I was like, all right, wait, there's gonna be a question in there that I don't know what, what, what if I don't know the answer to this?
Speaker 1:right, so the game, or like what we just did right there was one that you asked and I was preparing myself and I was just like, okay, what if she doesn't ask this, but what if she does? It was you you asked this time before it was uh. You wouldn't believe me if I told you yeah, that one, I was like I was stuck for so long. I'd be shocked when people be stuck. But now I gotta ask you.
Speaker 2:I was stuck for so long. I'd be shocked when people be stuck, but now I got to ask you.
Speaker 1:I was stuck for so long and I finally got my answer, so we're going to do this one.
Speaker 2:Let's do it. Yeah, you would never believe me if I told you.
Speaker 1:I've been with the same woman for 14 years. Wow, there we go, I got a good one. Wow.
Speaker 2:We love that. That's dope, that's dope. And now she's your fiance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need stability in my life, because this stuff ain't stable.
Speaker 2:It's not at all At all. It's not at all.
Speaker 1:So that's why I need that part for me to keep me like, because she don't do nothing with music, she's away from all of that stuff, so it's just like she was with me before the music was even a thing. So like I, like, I value that and I need that stability.
Speaker 2:So yeah, 14 years is a long-ass time it sure is, and you're young, so you guys were babies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of learning and all that and you grow with somebody and stuff. But we ain't perfect. But, like you know, you learn, figure it out. You know, you learn how to figure it out and stuff. So I'm grateful. I take a lot of pride in stuff like that. I think that shit is cool.
Speaker 2:Hell, yeah, you should. I think not to bring this back to Cole, but I feel like something that people who fuck with Cole resonate with is like having a partner Though I feel like he misrepresents her sometimes in the music when he always talks about cheating. But outside of that, just the concept of having somebody dealing with them and the things he talk about, it's all relatable. And I think Kendrick too.
Speaker 1:Even to say that whole cheating thing. I don't believe in a lot of these rappers. No more with things. I feel like it's entertainment, it's cap. I think it's cap. I think it's entertainment at the end of the day.
Speaker 2:I be hearing it like what happened to folding clothes. We went forward just to go back in there. What the fuck? But all right.
Speaker 1:Yo, you know what. And so somebody told me one time when they were just like when the whole with the beef thing, they were just like they called me to go like go tell your man to go fold some clothes. Go tell him to fold some clothes, bro, I'm just like yo relax bro, Relax time.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna fold some clothes, bro. I'm just like yo relax bro, relax yo it's. It's a tough year being a cole fan, but I'm at peace with the decision that he made. But my whole thing was just like. I just wish you never jumped out the window in the first place, like I understand why he did it. Seven minute drill should have never even been a thing, if you were going to apologize you want to know my strategy with that right what?
Speaker 1:here's what I think he should think he should have did. I don't think 7-Minute Drill should have been a thing Ever. I think what he should have did. You see that Pi record.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pi was crazy.
Speaker 1:Yo, if he would have. Just he had the two TD guys there with Daylight.
Speaker 2:You can't do that.
Speaker 1:No, no, your strategy right now. Right, because the verse is crazy. Yes, if you did one little like, one little like shot nothing crazy, just like a little, a little jab, it would have started the conversation of none of y'all favorites is rapping like this, like all of that that would have just it's just a narrative game at the end of the day too. So, no, that would have just been the thing of. You can't mess with my guy, you know all of this. So I thought if he would've did that just a little like, nothing crazy, you don't need to go crazy.
Speaker 2:It don't gotta be like that. Yeah, but it could just be a.
Speaker 1:You know just a little, just wake him up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would've preferred that that would've been so much more effective in my against Kendrick nigga. This is this is war.
Speaker 2:It seems like it feels disrespectful. It's disrespectful. It feels disrespectful, yeah, what you're not even taking it seriously.
Speaker 1:He apologized. He did what he did. Yes, I still love Cole. Cole is my favorite same. Uh, I got more thoughts on it, but we're not gonna talk about that same, you know I'm.
Speaker 2:I am really curious to see how both of them come back out post war.
Speaker 1:Yeah, world war three, it's gonna it's gonna be, I think, everybody's fine I think everybody's fine yeah, I think everybody's fine. I'm happy for kendrick, though, because kendrick is now having a a very, very big moment, even to see what he did with the whole west coast thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought that was incredible.
Speaker 1:That's great for hip-hop hell yeah incredible moments that we could all remember, like to like later on, like these are the stories you feel me, I was out at an andrew show show, yeah like all of these, all of these type of things. It's just like yo.
Speaker 2:We lived through this yo what and we can wrap. I'm sorry, but we're here. What was your first reaction when you heard meet the grams? Because it was so. It sucked the air out the room. But to me I was like damn, this is crazy yeah, like that's always evil the way the beat alone was like.
Speaker 1:The beat alone fucks with your head so I remember I was texting, I was texting nico and I was texting jew, hollywood jew, and I texted him the family matters record. I'm like oh, he responded, judah responded me. He texted me 15 minutes later with a devil emoji and it was me at the grabs the devil emoji, the grabs and I was just like why?
Speaker 1:why does this feel like he thinks I chose a side right now? I'm not, I'm neutral right now, I'm just keeping y'all updated. Like what are we doing right now? But I was laughing and then, when I heard it, I was just like shit, what the it.
Speaker 1:My brother calls it crash out music. He thinks that's the song that you crash out to. Immediately. It was like Dear Adonis. It was like God, what are you doing? God, stop. You're lying. You're lying Like stop. So that's how I feel about that's. Where I was home, I was on the phone with HD. Actually, too, I love talking about rap shit with rap friends, friends and stuff like that's. That's like the greatest thing, so like we're just all on the phone like for the night and just like talking about it and just like getting like yo this is crazy this, yo, this is fun, so like.
Speaker 1:And then somebody will hit you with the. Your man's ain't in it, though, and it's just like why do? Why do y'all gotta keep doing that I?
Speaker 2:know I keep getting that too. Just let it be. I don't want to be attacked for what he did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I respect him still, Let him do what he do. Yeah, I get it as a human being, 100%, just as a fan. It's just there were certain things, it's just like it's like being a sports fan on your.
Speaker 2:We supposed to be in the playoffs and now we in the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2:Same. It is what, it is Same, but alright, we got the new class Of the blog era here. Yeah, iman, new tape out. Phases 2 Make sure you guys tap in and the shout out to Graham. Let everybody know when they can follow.
Speaker 1:Hey man, y'all can follow me at Iman Nunez now, oh, okay, okay. So yeah, follow me at Iman Nunez I-M-A-N-N-U-N-E-Z on all social media platforms. It's easy to find me. Reach out, let's talk. Go listen to Faze's Volume 2.
Speaker 2:Out now, talk soon, bye, bye.