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Plain Golden, the Friends and Family.
We're calling QG for short.
And if you feel like that's what we're coming,
you can call me that too.
Man.
So, I watched a video the other day.
They finally released a flying car,
or some jets and shit.
It's an electric car,
but that motherfucker takes off and flies.
It looked a little wobbly in a flight,
but it shit took off, flew about 100 yards,
and then landed.
Can you imagine the fucking car accident
when Niggas gonna be able to fucking fly a car?
When that shit is like...
Now, I wonder how that's gonna work.
Would you have to go get a new type of driver's license, I guess?
I don't know.
It's like the prototype,
but they ready to do mass production
to make it a public thing.
So, fucking, plane crash, car crash?
That's a school shit.
The one dope part about it though,
let's say you're getting chased by the police,
or you're getting chased by Niggas trying to hurt you,
or something like that.
And you just fucking start driving.
I mean, you start flying midway.
You're like 80 or 90 on the highway,
and they get up on the back,
and you just fucking elevate and just fly off the highway,
and just fly into the woods with some shit.
Like, I don't know.
The fact that this shit is even
something that I'm talking about is insane.
Like, I've looked at it, I've seen it.
Like, I've watched it operate.
This is a real thing.
It's so crazy, it's just like,
you know, the year is 2025.
What would technology be like 50 years from now?
What the fuck do you 2075 look like?
That's just crazy.
Like, honestly, I don't want to say I'm afraid of it,
but I don't know.
Maybe you should have just be the same as it is now,
but just maybe a few more, like,
conveniences, like, as far as, like,
the AI side of things.
Like, maybe, you know, there's no more Uber,
it's like, you know, automated cars.
Which is technically already a thing too,
but like, widespread.
So, you know, let's say you're a senior,
and you need to go to an appointment,
or go to groceries, or whatever you need to do.
You know what I mean?
You can just fucking type in the address
into your, you know,
artificially intelligent car,
and it just drives you there.
You go in there, handle your business,
come back out, and it just drives you back home.
But, I mean,
most access and should occur
based on human error.
So, maybe there's a greater chance of, you know,
not finding yourself in some type of collision.
It's, I don't know.
And then even with that, like, does it,
does it just know to operate on its own?
Is it being controlled from a remote area?
Like, I don't know, man.
But long story short, the future is here.
The technology boom over the last, like, 60 years has been insane.
Like, you know, I grew up in an era,
pre-internet.
So, when I was a kid,
the internet wasn't a thing in your household,
until I was, like, 12 or 13.
That's some shit like that.
You get those little AOL, AOL things in the mail and shit.
And then, you know, you put it in your computer,
you gotta plug your phone line into it
and make that loud ass robotic sound,
and all that shit.
And then, like, you get on the internet,
it was like nothing to do.
You go to Messenger, or you would play, like,
you know, you could play, like, speeds,
or, like, solitaire, some shit like that.
But, I mean, I remember the first time,
there was some real shit.
I got a homeboy named Rock, and, like,
he'd get money niggas.
He always been though.
Like, he's just a sly nigga to this day.
Like, rock be beaking moves.
But, like, I remember the nigga,
the first nigga I saw in person was, like, a two-way.
And, like, for those who don't know,
a two-way was, like, this, like, slip screen, sidekick,
by Nokia, where you could, like,
pretty much it was like the invention of, like,
text messages and slash emails.
So, we sitting there and shit, we in the studio,
and a little sidekick shit is going on.
So, I'm like, what the fuck is that?
They trying to explain to me, so we joking on this nigga, like,
I saw it on a call, and you know, it looked like a Power Ranger.
It looked like the Power Ranger's calling you, nigga.
So, in that, we laughing at it.
He go, yo, Chobro, I got to send this electronic mail.
So, what the fuck is an electronic mail?
It's like an email.
I was like, what?
That nigga might as well have been speaking fucking Lebanese.
I was like, what are you talking about?
So, they explaining to me, you know, that shit.
So, then, like, at the time,
I think I had, like, a flip phone.
I had, like, a razor or some shit like that.
Or maybe it wasn't a razor.
Maybe it was, like, that brick, no-keyer phone
with the snake game on it, I think.
I don't remember, but I remember the first,
I guess, smart phone.
I had a Blackbird.
And, like, the nigga Rock had a Blackbird, too.
And I remember him, like, you know,
typically niggas in the studio, you write your songs.
You know, no book pad, you bring your rhyme book with you,
all that shit.
I remember the first time I, like,
I wrote a verse in my Blackbird.
It felt so fucking weird.
So, I remember, like, going in the booth,
and the engineer was the nigga named J.G. and shit.
And he's just like, yo, the way your rhyme book.
I was like, and I just showed him the nigga my phone.
He's like, he looks so puzzled.
And then I went to, like, my no-pad,
and I started, like, rhyming out of my phone.
He said, yo, this shit is crazy.
And back then, we think, like, yo, this some next-level
Jets and futuristic, future-rom,
and, like, niggas was blown away by a fucking Blackbird.
Nowadays, the phone in your pocket,
you can fucking record a podcast.
You can make a YouTube video, a vlog, or whatever.
You can shoot a fucking movie if you want.
You can make porn with the shit.
You can do Excel spreadsheets with the motherfucking,
like, you can send emails.
You can fucking log into any website
and take care of your bills online as opposed to,
like, back in the days, if you had to, like, pay a bill,
you had to call somebody over the phone
and give them all your information.
Or you had to go to, like, a cash-checking spot,
or, you know, or the actual building
where you had to pay your bills.
I remember, like, having to drive to go pay my cable bill.
Or having to drive to go, like, pay the rent.
When I was, like, living with my mother and shit,
like, we lived, like, on Cold Spring,
and I landlord, his office building was down on Howard Street,
which is, like, the light rail tracks,
and I was just super close to downtown.
But I used to have to drive down there,
find somewhere to park, go in there,
and then pay the fucking rent.
It was crazy.
And they paying for rent and cash.
Like, that shit is wild.
Damn.
I'd be at, you know, I'd be in a studio,
I'd be at work, I'd be at work, I'd be at work, man.
I'd be in the mall.
And then I would get, like, a fucking reminder,
like, hey, such-and-such bill was due in the next three days.
I'd go, oh, shit.
I'd just open up the particular app for that thing,
hold down my thumb, it reads my fingerprint, logs me in,
and then with one button it goes, make payment,
I'd just go, yes.
Scream, like, loads.
It, like, resets itself,
and then my confirmation number would pop up.
They'd let me know that they'd go send me
confirmation confirming it, like, I paid the bill,
but I always screenshot it. Fuck that shit.
Whatever that email don't come through and y'all niggas come.
Hey, you didn't pay last month, bullshit.
So I always screenshot my shit
for confirmation numbers and all that type of shit, so.
I don't know, man, just, like, I've been, like,
thinking about the future.
And funny enough, the more I think about the future,
I find myself thinking more and more about, like, the past.
And it's like...
I don't know, I was talking to my nephew this weekend,
and, like, he's 20 and shit.
Shout out to my nephew Miles.
Even when he hear this, he know what it means.
But, like, you know, man, we just, like,
talking about the future and what he's trying to get ready for
and what he want to achieve, the goals he got to accomplish,
or he's trying to accomplish and shit, and, like,
I gotta say I'm super proud of him, man.
I really am.
Like, I'm glad he wasn't, like, a knucklehead,
like, me and my brothers were coming up.
You know what I mean?
Like, we didn't get in a bunch of trouble type of shit,
but Niggas definitely was making, like, bad decisions,
like, as a kid, all the way up to shit.
Mid-20s, late-20s, early-30s.
You know what I mean?
Like, but, like, he's on a whole different, like, trajectory,
and, like, you know, it'd be the bit of old Niggas
that would see a young nigga like achieving something.
Maybe it's a goal that the older nigga had, maybe,
but they'll watch a young nigga achieving a goal.
Man.
Surely gonna deserve, like, that suck of shit, like,
whatever I achieved in life, and have I ever really
set back and told y'all, like, my true origin story,
it don't even sound believable, if I'm being honest,
but it's 100% legitimate.
I got proof of everything I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying? But, like,
I'll say that for, like, another time.
But as successful as, you know what I mean?
I am.
And I say that no humbleness,
because I'm not a fucking millionaire or no shit like that,
but I do very well. I do well for myself.
I do well for myself. I do well for my family.
Like, we all come.
And, like, I'm not gonna get sidetracked,
but the way the power of the United States
has been going as of lately, like,
we're, like, full speed ahead towards, like, a recession.
And, you know, not to be grim,
but it's gonna be tough for a lot of people.
And, you know, unfortunately enough to say,
I don't believe my family will be affected in a major way
by whatever the fuck comes next.
If you can hear that in the back,
you're not gonna know what it is. You know, never see never.
But I feel confident in, you know, what I got going on.
But I say all that to say,
the trajectory that my nephew is on,
it's like he's gonna, like, surpass whatever I've done easily.
And that's what I want more than anything else.
Anybody I love, I want to see them be extremely successful.
Way more successful than me.
And that shit applies to homeboys.
You know what I mean?
Anybody that I got love for, family, friends, co-workers,
I want to see everybody see,
I want to see everybody be successful, I should say.
Because I'm never the person where I feel like
if I see you achieve something, it doesn't,
it doesn't make me fail at whatever I'm doing.
Even if, let's say we had the same goals, right?
Whatever that goal might have been.
And through year, day to day, you travel, whatever,
you figure out how to streamline and get to that point.
And then you got, I'm gonna champion 100%.
Even if I don't like it, I'm still going championing you.
And the reason being is, you just showed me that it was possible.
So that part of it, I no longer have the question.
Can it be done?
Yes.
This person right here is proof that it can be done.
So that tells me that I can do it too.
Don't mean I can do it the same way you did it.
I still got to find my own way.
But you have shown me that it can be done.
So, you know what I mean?
Like, that's, I think that's the mindset that more people should have.
But who am I to say that?
But like a lot of brothers, a lot of sisters, people in general,
like a lot of people, like we use their lives, their livelihoods.
It's just nonsensical shit.
Because we're out here trying to compete,
but we just got like a deep seed of hatred for a nigga who's upon themselves and who not.
Like, I'll never understand that like thought pattern, that type of mindset where like,
it's kind of happened on like some local rappers shit, like, especially in my city,
which kind of feel cliche to say because every nigga from every city pretty much has the same thing.
It doesn't make it less true though.
But if I'm speaking from like personal experience, like,
I've known a couple of rappers from the city who were super popular, super talented,
and they like died the gun violence.
And then, you know, not saying I'm some like insider or some shit,
but you know, you know, motherfucker who know motherfucker.
And the news, the social media painted as whatever, whatever the circumstances is.
But then you actually run into, you know, people who are part of that day to day lives,
and they tell you what actually happened.
And he's like, God damn, he died over something that petty.
Damn, he didn't even know the niggas who did that to him.
They just watched him from afar.
It was like, damn, I can't do shit.
So fuck it.
I'm gonna take him like, I'll never understand that shit.
Like, but at the same time, I do understand as bad as violence is.
I can understand the place for it.
The reason behind it is usually like what a change my view on the circumstance,
because I mean, not to be grim, but, you know, like life isn't meant to last.
And with that being said, or with that having that mindset, having that level of understanding,
you appreciate your time or you utilize your time and, you know, better ways,
more beneficial ways towards whatever your, whatever your goals are, whatever you're trying to achieve.
So, you know, I heard somebody say once like, yo, why wait till tomorrow for some shit you could do today?
And that's a great question.
And you just ask me, it was like, yo, what's you trying to get done, bro, man?
Yo, I want to start shooting content and making videos.
Okay.
When you want to start?
I don't even know, you know, I just like, well, nigga, you got the idea in your head, correct?
Yeah.
You got a phone in your pocket, don't you?
Yeah.
You got access to the internet?
You got social media?
Yeah.
What are you waiting on?
No, I mean, you know what?
They'll give you a thousand and one excuses why a later time is a better time.
And I can say at like some junctions in my life, like I had like the same type of shit where it's just like,
I'm just like, you know, cultivating a catalog of like music.
And it's just like, yo, nigga's like, yo, can you put it out?
And it's like, you know, and I would never really have a real justifiable reason for not wanting to do it.
I think it's that one, everything to be perfect shit.
It's just like, who got time to chase perfection?
You know what I'm saying?
You actually got to find the perfection within your imperfections.
Because if it's too polished, you know what I mean?
It come off disengaging sometimes.
Sometimes niggas want like that raw experience and shit, but it depends on what audience you're trying to cater to.
So, you know what I mean?
Like, hypothetically, let's say you work in a blue car like that.
You work in a blue collar environment where like, you know, it's easy to identify with the people around you.
Like your upbringing is with similar, let's say some of your deficiencies are similar.
Like you can find commonality in that as opposed to, you know, you're in a, you're in a,
your surroundings are like white collar.
And like, I mean, you can't find like, compatibility with, you know, like, not trauma, not like trauma bonding.
So it's not that it's just like, you know, it's, you can't hold a conversation with a nigga about like,
damn man, I've been one time growing up already, cereal for dinner.
Just green hand nothing until mom like got like her, you know what I mean?
Government assistance type of shit.
And then you have some people like, you'll say that, I mean, I'm a nigga who been through that similar thing,
but like, like, ain't that the truth?
And then y'all just start talking about like hood recipes that niggas made out of just necessity.
Like, all right, we got this and this, these shits don't go together, but fuck it, we're going to make it work.
And then you have people who were like, well, why did you serve dinner?
Like, why didn't you just, you know, go to grocery stores?
It's like, nigga, that wasn't an option.
So actually, you know what?
Speaking of, what's the top five hood recipes?
You know what I mean?
Like, what's the top five go to?
I don't even want to call them struggle meals.
I want to call them like survival meals.
You don't naturally think it's going to go rhyme in the orders and noodles or whatever you call it.
Like, cheap, sizzling, you know what I mean?
So that might be number one on like top five survival menu.
Like, that might be dish number one.
You know what I mean?
If you want to get fancy, fry some hot dogs, chop them bitches up, put them in the noodles, you know what I mean?
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich got to be a cool second.
Again, savory, sweet, protein, bread, fill you up.
You not got one of them bitches, maybe two of them if you're real hungry, you're straight.
Bag of rice can't go wrong with that shit either.
Cook that rice up.
You can put sugar in that shit, make it sweet rice or, you know what I mean?
Throw the garlic powder, the black pepper, some, you know what I mean?
Some, you know, some red pepper flakes or like some like cayenne pepper in that bitch.
I mean, boil it, put it in the pan with a little butter, fry that shit up a little fried rice and shit.
That shit it get it done too.
I'm telling you bro, like, I was talking to one of my homeboys and shit, and we was kind of talking about like the struggle mills and shit.
And this nigga said, like, we don't like the struggle mill draft type of shit.
And he was like, yo, he taking potatoes number one.
That's it. Potatoes number one.
And he said, yeah, bro, go that bitch, you to bake potatoes, you know what I mean?
Mash potatoes.
I was like, what else?
Fried potatoes.
I was like, all right, you cooking a little bit nigga, no pun, you cooking?
But I never, I'm never putting potatoes in my top five survival mill menu.
Like, I'm just not doing it.
I'm getting wrong. I like potatoes, but like, occasionally.
Oh, granted, you can make french fries with the bitch or two.
Oh, this nigga might be on to something.
The potatoes might be top five survival mill essentials.
I still think ooze and ooze is number one, but peanut butter and jelly being a close number two.
And the reason, you know what, peanut butter and jelly might actually take the number one spot because it doesn't require like, any like, cooking other shit.
No, you got two pieces in my fucking put some on one piece of bread, some on the other piece of bread and straight with the noodles.
Got bored of water, pot draining, hit that bitch with a little seasoning pack, put a little butter in there.
You know what I mean?
Oh, no.
I don't know.
I might I might put this shit up on my IG and like do like a little.
You like a little survey like top five struggle mill type of shit.
She never go wrong with tuna fish, but it depends on how you cook it.
Because like, yo, I didn't I didn't been over like people house and shit.
They didn't make tuna fish.
And I'm thinking, it's like a teaspoon of mayonnaise and that shit is basically cat food.
No, I want mayonnaise in my shit.
Chop things.
You know what I'm saying?
I put chopped pickles in my shit.
Yeah, she's that shit up with the old Bay, the black pepper, the garlic powder.
Yeah, I mean, put a little dill in that mom fucking if you want to be fancy like, you know what I'm saying?
Little Reagan on to if you want to like little tea, maybe like a squirt of muscle to give it at the city.
Let that motherfucker sit for about 30 minutes.
Let it demonstrate.
So that motherfucker can grab with chest and suck.
Come on, man.
I don't even know how I got this fucking subject.
Oh, maybe it was about like, you know, being around people you can identify with.
So yeah, like being around like motherfuckers who ain't used to like, you know,
survival shit, like it'll make you want to punch him in the face.
But the it's not that thought though.
Like, you know, a person can only be what they know.
And if that's not their experience, like, you know, you're not going to relate on that.
But I don't know.
I see it in my day to day.
Well, like because of the atmosphere or that setting, like motherfuckers are just talk crazy.
Like, like, like getting punched in the face is like not an option.
It's like, nigga, it's always an option.
So I don't know.
I don't want to get you personal, but yeah, I think I'm going to try to even though the money is good,
I can get pretty much the same money, you know, in the atmosphere that I like that I would feel,
I guess would be my comfort zone, I guess.
At least like, you know, socially like identifiable, like, I feel like I'm around a bunch of fucking squares
and like, it's, if I hate it, 20 jokes, passive aggressiveness, fucking fake tough niggas like,
I hate it.
I mean, like, I don't know.
Anyways, I'm rambling, but shit, that's what I do.
That's what this shit is.
This is what it's meant for.
I'm coming in just rambling to say I feel, but I ain't gonna lie.
I think next episode will be like episode 25.
So I think I might, I think on these next like two episodes, maybe in the first like 10 minutes,
the first five minutes, I'll give like bits and pieces of like my origin story, like,
where I'm from, the shit I've done, what makes me the person I am today.
You know, the friends I grew up with, the friends I lost, first relationships,
not understanding how relationships work, fucking, you know, my educational background,
like how far, how much I achieve with like the music shit,
just for those who don't know me.
And for some who do, like, I done been to record label meetings, I done opened up to like mega stars,
I done fucking traveled this country, I done went out the country.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
I went further in my education after all that shit.
I done worked at Fortune 500 companies.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
I got a sick little story.
All this what dealing with street politics,
dipping my toes in the water outside, you know what I mean?
Trying to, you know, gain validation to like learn my worth.
I done seen fucking murders in person.
I done seen, I done seen some shit.
You know what I mean?
Like, to where like if I told my fuckers like how I played out it,
like, fuck, it's 100 bits and accurate.
But anyways, damn, it was so much I can go into,
but I want to get too deep into any particular subject and run past the, you know what I mean?
Run past like the allotted time I set for myself.
Like, I try to always keep these things on the 30 minutes so they can be quick, they can be digestible.
I mean, take a little 30 minutes out today, listen to your boy and then, you know, do the rest of your day.
Even though I like long form like podcasts, like the drill button shit.
Like, when I go to log on, I see that the episode was like four hours.
I'm like, oh, bet we let.
Like, if I see a drill button podcast, it's like under two hours, I go, hey, what the fuck is going on?
But, you know, that's like some being greedy type of shit.
Like, but, and he got a whole team.
So like, with this shit is, you know, just me basically.
So there is nobody like the bounce back and forth for all.
So I just give you whatever's on my mind, whatever I seen throughout the week, whatever I think next week is going to hold for me.
I just give you that.
But anyways, like I always say, I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
And with that being said, I want to thank any and everybody who took the time out that day to listen to this.
Whatever goal you chase and hope you get one step closer to that goal.
If not achieving it all together and then once you achieve that goal, what you will set a new goal and then work towards that.
Everybody stay positive, stay healthy, stay productive, stay safe.
I mean, and if anything you heard today you want to challenge or you don't agree with or you just want to have a dialogue about.
You can always reach out to me in my DMs at Instagram, baselage, QG music, that's QGMUSIC on Instagram.
And with that being said, peace.
Thank you.