1000 Superfans is All You Need ft. Phay

Yo, like that mama era was like, I just remember where I was at the time. I was in college. It helped me through this. And a lot of our experiences with music and how we digest music is based on the experiences that we're going through at the time. The One More Time Music Podcast. Genuine conversations with genuine people about music. Hosted by Henry with a three and playback Ben. We're from being located, so podcast one more time. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back for another episode of the One More Time Podcast. One More Time. I'm your host, Playback Ben, here with my co-host. Henry with a three, because numbers are cooler than letters. Why not? Fair enough. Henry, who do we have on the podcast today, my friend? Welcoming in on the One More Time Podcast. Today we have DJ Drama. Let's go. DJ Drama in the house. I love your mixtapes, man. Where he at, though. Yeah.

No, you've fallen victim to our classic intro roasts. Oh, okay. Apologies for that. No, no, I respect that. I've gotten that before. Um finally. Finally. Sometimes he says lookalikes that no one's ever gotten. No, DJ Drama's there. Uh, somebody told me I look like an obese um um I've I've lost a little weight since then, but uh, they said I look like obese Swiss beats. Oh, wow. So I got that before. Uh DJ Khaled, of course. Sure. Um, that was Montana. just anybody who fits the profile with the beard and a hat. Sure. Yeah. Beard and a hat. So thanks. man. Yeah. So good job, Henry. Yeah, but who is this really, Ben? Three and a half gold stars for you. This is legendary recording artist here from the east side of Atlanta. We got Mr. Faye. What's going on, Faiy? Welcome to the show. What's going on? We appreciate you coming out, man. Of course, man. Thank you, Faye. My pleasure. Of course. We're gonna dive right in. So you are first generation American, right? Yes, sir. So, where did your parents immigrate from? Uh, they immigrated from is it migrated or immigrated?

Same? It's a good question. What's the difference? I don't know. I was looking for Faye to answer that one. Oh shit. Look, they immigrated from uh Palestine. Um or migrated. Yeah, or migrated. They were Palestinian refugees, and then uh they were uh relocated to Jordan and then from Jordan, my dad came here at 19, went back home after like 32, 33, and then you know, found uh found a wife, and those are my parents. So, what kinds of things would you say you've learned from you know your parents' immigrant story? I'll kind of wake up in the morning and be like, yo, I'm not fucking rich yet. Like I have no excuse. My dad came out here and didn't know English, didn't have a lick of English, had no education and shit like that. 19 years old, sleeping on hummus bags. Damn. Wow. And he made some shit. You know what I'm saying, to work for himself. And then, you know, you fast forward 20, 25 years, 30 years, I'm 30 years old now. And it's like, I know the language, I know the culture, I'm American. I was born here, and I'm just like, so what the hell is my excuse?

You know what I'm saying? So um, I learned that that they have a lot way more resolve than I think, you know, first generation Americans do, including myself. Like they came in here, all the odds were stacked up against them, and uh, you know what I'm saying? We're kind of um spoon fed. And you know, being spoon fed, that's subjective because some people are like, oh, if you have a silver spoon, it's like you know, daddy buys you the big Benz and the Land Rover at 16. We didn't have that, but we're spoon spoon fed in the sense that we didn't have to worry about where we were gonna stay month to month, you know. Yep, and so you were a pretty smart guy, are a pretty smart guy. You ended up becoming valedictorian at your uh university. Who told y'all? Is that correct? Yeah, and by the way, what is that university? Georgia State. Shout out the Panthers. Shout out, Panthers. I've got like six more classes if I ever want to go back to finish. Hey man, hey, look, if you're not taking out any loans and breaking your back on debt, go back and finish that shit. I'm gonna do it one day.

bro. For your parents at least. Yeah, my dad would appreciate it. Bring that expensive-ass piece of paper back home, man. Expensive ass piece of paper. But but so were you always into school? No. I I just I wasn't into school when I'd when I became Valedictorian. Okay. Wow. Just not into school. Bruh. Yeah. I'm in I got some new sound effects. He's very proud of him. I've always been good at school, you know what I'm saying? Like uh high school was like a 3.9, but it wasn't something that I was like passionate about. I wouldn't go home and be like, I have to study for this algebra test. It was just regurgitation. The school system is all about memorization. And I think I've just been blessed with a uh slightly above average uh memory skill, I guess. So it wasn't challenging. Yeah, it didn't feel like that. So, you know, I got I graduated valedictorian. Wow. It was really cool. I got off the stage. I remember my mom hugging me and being like, uh I'm still not impressed. And I was like, fuck. I'll slap you.

You didn't even graduate. I almost slapped my mom, clearly, but it was just like you didn't even graduate college. But that's another one of those things uh they really came here and set us up and you know gave us that stepping stone. They might have not went to college, but they gave us that stepping stone to actually go out and go to college. And uh I randomly got valedictorian. Random. It was random. They just drew drew your name out of a hat. It was it was a 4.21 GPL. All my homies were like, bro, we were doing shows at Apache and shit every weekend. Like, when the fuck did you study? And I was like, I the night before, man. So multiple people called you a class clown. Do you feel like you had class clown tendencies? Yeah, I was a dickhead. Because it wasn't just one person. There's a couple people that unanimously unanimously voted you a class clown. Yeah, I was a dickhead growing up. A dickhead growing up. Do you think you still have class clown tendencies today? Absolutely, man.

I don't know. I just get a kick out of it. And it's more so for me now instead of like my classmates. Just making yourself laugh. Just being in a situation, I could be trolling someone. They don't have no idea, but it's making me uh it's it's giving me entertainment. So that's like I'm kind of just naturally just trying to make light of a situation because the world is fucking. dark as hell right now. So Kelechi, who goes on to be a collaborator of yours, he was a friend of yours. He even has a bar, I'm pretty sure in in your last song with him about you guys being class clowns. See, that's how kind of you guys on Will, yeah. I I would say, you know, kind of found each other, right? You're both kind of goofing off and you know, had that class clown mentality. You guys end up starting a rap group together. Yeah. Early on. What was the rap group name? Uh the standard. The standard. Yeah. Can we find any standard tracks out there today? I hope not. Nothing on MySpace. God forbid. Did you try and wipe that from the- SoundCloud?

God forbid, maybe on Bandcamp or something like that. But I mean, it was a MySpace. It was a necessary process though. Yeah. That's what I'm gonna tell people. How so? Um, we really challenged each other to get better, you know, friendly competition. Like, sure, we really challenged each other without envy, without any of that shit. But Kelechi is like the OG in this music shit. Like he was doing shit at 13, 14 years old before the plug and play um audio uh equipment was out. Like you actually had to have a desktop and like the actual hardware for to record yourself. It's not like today. And um, I just remember that being super cool. Like he would chop beats up and samples and stuff, and it was during like Kanye's trilogy, like the glory years, uh, Graduation. Graduation Registration, yeah, drop out. Yeah. Um, and he would just sample stuff, and I'm like, yo, nobody was doing it at that time. So you know, you had the standard rap group. Were you rapping under the name Pharaoh at that time?

Or did you Yeah. Tell us what was the concept behind that? I was just a lame man. Because you're not Egyptian. I'm not, yeah. You know what I'm saying? But it was one of those things. Like, yeah, it'd be it'd be racist. I mean, I expect nothing less in this situation right now. White people are just accidentally racist, so you know what I'm saying? So we really don't mean it. Can't fault us. Most of us, some of us mean it, not us. Yeah, we definitely don't. We can't speak on behalf of our people. Yeah, okay, cool. You just gotta check them sometimes. But um, yeah, man, I was just it was just one of those things where I wanted to be the Arab rapper, and it was just like one of these gimmicky ass, like, I'm a you know, a lot, I'm the magic carpet rapper. Look at me, like I smoke hookah and drink, and it was one of those situations, and I realized like it was like, yo, that's just really uh really gimmicky, you know what I'm saying? And Pharaoh was just an Egyptian, like that's just what you think about when you think about like Hollywood and and how Arabs look, you just kind of go to like movies like The Mummy Returns and shit. So it was really just a very bad uh it was it was not tasteful at all, just bad taste, being young, immature.

And um, I realized that I had a lot more to offer than just being a gimmicky Arab rapper. I'm just a I'm a I'm an artist who happens to be Arab, if that makes sense. For sure. But you got Faye from Pharaoh. I got Faye from Ferris. That's my that's my uh government name. Oh wow like Ferris Bueller. Yeah. Um, and uh my homies used to say, like, you know how they call Jay-Z, JZ, and Kanye, Ye? People would just call me Faye randomly. Yeah. And I was like, yo, that shit has a ring to it. Let's just let's rock with it. Yeah. And it stuck. Yeah. So was uh was Mama your first full length project under Faye. Which by the way, yeah, which dope, fucking. crazy jacket. Yeah. Shameless, man. I've had this jacket since 2016. I lost a little bit of weight, got it from the fucking from under my bed, and I was like, yo, this shit kind of fit now. Yeah. Need about 10 more pounds, and it'll be in there right. There you go. So was that the first full-length project under the name Faye? Yeah, yeah. That was the first uh full length under Faye. Okay.

Um, a lot of people, I just posted something on Instagram that like had kind of like the eras of Faye, like the six albums or six projects I put out. And a lot of people are like, yo, like mama was a different, that was a different era. Like I was like, which one's your favorite era? And I always want people to be like the latest era, of course. Exactly. But you don't get to choose that. And people did, some people did, which is amazing. And uh, but I don't know, like uh a lot of people are just like, yo, like that mama era was like, I just remember where I was at the time. I was in college, it helped me through this. And a lot of our experiences with music and how we digest music is uh based on the experiences that we're going through at the time. Yeah, and that's what happens with a lot of successful artists. It's like they make these these projects and then they go on to make more projects after they found success, and it's like, well, now their life is like touring and like spending money and doing photo shoots, and it's completely different. So when they go to write a song, the material's not the same. So the music is naturally gonna be a little different.

So we we talked about that before. It's an interesting topic. I I saw a tweet the other day that said I think they were uh referencing uh Donda in uh CLB Certified Lover Boy, and they were just like, I this one girl on Twitter, she was just like, I don't think it's possible for super rich people to make interesting albums. Interesting. And I was like, you know what? That's a good take. Yeah. So speaking of kind of being in a certain place to write great music, you had taken a pretty long break for or a break from music prior to dropping mama, right? Yeah, yeah. So tell us about the space you were in. that made you want to take a break from music? Because yeah, I had just graduated. Um, and for people who know who just graduate, you know what I'm saying? That's when they kind of get thrown into the fire. That's kind of when life really starts. Cause like when before you graduate, there's always a next step, like from fifth grade you go into middle school into sixth grade, right? And then from eighth grade, you go into high school and ninth grade, twelfth grade, you graduate, then you do four years of it, you kind of have a structured life.

Yeah, then after you graduate, it's kind of they throw you out to the wolves bro. And it's like yo, what the fuck you gonna do? Like, there's no more structure. Yeah, so I kind of um I I took it upon myself. Um, you know, at the time my pops needed help at the restaurants and stuff like that, and I was I was holding it down for him for two, three years, and I was doing nothing creatively, and really just really took a toll on my mental and shit like that. And I was just like, yo, like I need to do something creative, even if I'm not putting it out, yeah. And then Kelechi came through one day and I was like, Yo, I need to record this joint, and um and it turned into two records, three, four, and those the therapy sessions, you know what I'm saying, or studio sessions, which were therapy sessions, turned into what mama is today. And I'll just say, Oh, I I gotta do this shit. Like, you know, so I saw the I saw the feedback. I saw that you know, people really coming out to shows, not even like social media feedback. Like when you see when you have a show, and even if it's a three, 400 cap and it sells out and you see the faces and you shake the hands, you're like, Oh, people are impacted by this, and I have a responsibility. So yeah. Yeah. There's a, there's a theme too of the whole making music as therapy thing.

We've had a you know, not everyone on the show is an artist, but the artists that we've had on. I feel like we almost always touch on that, how it's so therapeutic to really get your feelings and ideas out into like a tangible, digestible kind of form. That's really cool. It's so hard to put it into a and that's why I don't think a lot of artists get enough credit to put their their pain or their feelings into song form and not just song form, but a digestible song form to where there's a hook, right? And there's a structure to it, and people are like, yo, this is hitting me. That's fucking hard to do, man. So shout out to anybody doing that. Yeah, I mean, we talked to an AR for Danny Wolf's imprint, Chaos Club. His name's Jack Mumford, he was on uh episode 15, 16, yeah, 16. He talked about how he manages producers, but he's also head of AR at Danny Wolf's, you know, label. He talked about the differences between you know producers and artists, and the biggest thing was that like you know, Henry mentioned when he makes a beat, he's not necessarily so vulnerable that he's pouring his whole life into that beat for people to listen to, but you kind of hit the nail on the head of like you're fucking talking about some real shit as an artist sometimes, and I mean, it gets real intimate and vulnerable in the session. And then of course, post-release, I mean, your life is out there for people to, you know, either once again relate to, judge, maybe, you know, there's a lot of vulnerability.

that goes into it. The words that you choose are a little more specific than which snare I choose. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. But at the same time, there's a lot of people who may uh a lot of producers I know who are married to snares. I mean, Kanye on Stronger. I don't know if you saw that interview, but he literally had to fly um, he had to fly Timbaland out to the studio to pick a snare. To pick a snare. He had to bring his snare pack. It was just like, I can't find the right shit. Snares are the fucking worst. Bro. I just want to say that right now. Timbaland was going through like his whole dictionary of snares. He flew him out, bro. That is incredible. And he was just like, that's the one. Like when he played just played a random ass snare. And I was just like, well. I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit, fast forward to bake sale. There's somewhat of a connection between bake sale and your family business or your parents' family business, right? Yeah. From a concept, perspective? yeah, from a concept uh perspective and from an entrepreneurship perspective. Yes, and tell people kind of what the the connections are.

So what's the business? Um so bake sales is turned into a kind of like a I don't even want to say a lifestyle brand, but it's you know, the merch, the experience. We had a pop-up at Sublime. It just seeing that whole world, I think that that uh situation and that pop-up really just um I think it really showed exactly what I was trying to do with bake sale um in terms of like all using all the senses, you know, taste, smell, hearing, uh, touch, you know, with the merch and stuff like that. And people came in and really bought into the world. Like everybody showed up with their bake sale merch, and everybody went inside and bought the, you know, the actual donut, which actually had like an edible topper of me on it. People eating it. Yeah. It's hard. It was tight, man. It's hard. It was really dope. And shout out to Kamal, you know what I'm saying? The owner. Yeah, shout out to Kamal, the owner of Sublime. But yeah, man, just seeing my dad start his uh Mediterranean grill from from scratch.

Shout out Med Grill, man. Yeah, man. Plenty of food from Med Grill. Gyro and potatoes is a killer combo, man, with the tzatziki sauce. I saw my dad literally take a leap of faith. We lived in Chicago in like a fucking 400 square foot. It was probably the house was probably as big as his garage. I'm not gonna lie. Two bedrooms. It was eight of us sometimes with my grandparents and one bathroom. And when you had to take a shit in the morning, you had to time it, bro. Like everybody's cycle was like already like our bodies already trained to themselves. Like clockwork. Yeah, like my brother would take a shit at like 630. I was at 640. My grandma's 650. Like it was just our bodies knew already, because there was nowhere else to go, man. But um my dad took took that leap of faith, sold the house, and was just like, yo, like I made, you know, I have good recipes. He was actually a chef, you know what I'm saying? Like culinary, he's he was big on the culinary arts and stuff like that. And he was like, I could bring this Mediterranean concept to Atlanta because they don't have something like that right now. So I saw him, you know, take that leap of faith. He had four kids and a wife, and really had no money to his name, and took that leap of faith and was like, yo, I'm gonna build this concept that I believe in wholeheartedly, brick by brick.

And the stakes for him to fail were way bigger than the stakes for me to fail at bake sale, right? Yeah. Um, but um, he did it. There you go. But you probably treated it like the stakes were equally high, right? I did, yeah. And I think that's probably what's made you. You have to, you have to treat um every situation, even if you have a backup plan or a safety net, you have to treat treat it as if it's still not there. Yeah. Because anytime something doesn't go your way, it's so easy. Well, I got that other shit I could work on. You know what I'm saying? Fuck that. I'm just gonna quit. So yeah, I did treat Bake Sale like it was uh like I was actually actually opening a bakery. Yeah. Um that the stakes were equally as high as your dad coming in and opening a Mediterranean grill. Absolutely. Yeah. So plan B's can almost be toxic in a way. No, he's actually 100% right. Yeah, you got a plan B. I mean, you know what I'm saying?

If I'm thinking this whole time, well, if bake sale doesn't work and this music shit, nobody streams my music, I'll just go make falafel at my dad's restaurant. Right. Like it's just like, come on, dawg. Like and as much as my dad, if it was up to my dad, I'd be in that motherfucker right now with the apron in the trenches, whipping up hummus. So I know this is like picking your favorite child as an artist, but what's one of the the favorite records off of bake sale? I'd like to play a little snippet. Which which song would you like to play? Man, it was uh as an artist, and I'm sure you know about this. I don't know if you've been in a lot of studio sessions, but a lot of people think that when you're in a studio session and you're making a record that it's just like this magical situation. It's actually really plain sometimes. Like it did honestly, sometimes it feels like work. Oh, yeah. The magic happens after the record, usually. Yeah. And when you see people receive it. There's very few times in the studio, at least with me, where you just feel something there. There's a connection, the engineer is synced, me and the engineer synced.

My engineer's Kalechi, by the way. Yeah. Um, and it's just like we don't even speak. It's just, it's just going, it's happening. And then it kind of, not to sound too artsy, but it creates itself at the end. You're like, when the fuck did this happen? You know them situations. And then there's sometimes where you're fighting for every like the snare, or yeah. It's just that technical shit. Oh, take this breath out. Or the flow. exactly. Like, there's we've had sessions where it's like the artist literally can't get this one word correct. Or like he'll you. It's a bad sign. Yeah. It's it's when you it's when you black out and you wake up and the song's done. Those are usually the songs. Those are the magical uh scenarios. So which song is that for you? Which one are you? Are you getting to? Probably everyday people. How long is the flow gonna last? The fofo blast, the po-po on my ass. And I'm staying in my lane for the shoulder pass. I'm feeling like Jermaine Dupri, and this is so so deaf. I done wrote so many flows, oh, there ain't nothing left. I'm just here to do you right, like I can't go left. I would die for my people, man.

I love them to death. So that was a snippet from everyday people off of Bake Sale by Faye. Your songs have streamed very well. I mean, for an independent artist, you're streaming very, very well. Would you agree? 11 M's. Yeah. That's no fucking joke. 11 mils. They call me, they call me eight-figure Faye. Eight-figure Faye I love it. So, but in the grand scheme of things, 11 million, 11 million in the grand scheme of things is like what Drake does in like a fucking in like the first hour of CLB. Yeah, like the 12 hours, like the the first two hours or 30 minutes of CLB, 12 million million. That's my career stats right there. But that's Drake, though. You know what I'm saying?

So you're putting yourself in the in, you know, in his company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you're competing with Drake. You're not competing with you. But that's essentially that's what you're doing. Like, they say that it's like tens of thousands of records are uploaded on Spotify a week. Yeah, okay, yeah. A week. Yeah. Essentially, you are competing against Drake. Yeah. What makes what would make somebody um listen to me over Drake? The fact that they like the song better. Because I'm not as accessible as Drake. You go on rap caviar or hip hop controller and shit like that. Drake is gonna dominate those charts. Lil Baby is gonna dominate the charts. You have to actually, you are you are going against them. That is your competition. You're going against a corporate giant. And uh that's why there's a stat at the end of every uh every year on Spotify. I'm not sure if you guys know. Yeah, but um, for artists, you're your year wrapped. Yeah, you're you're your your year wrapped. That's my favorite shit, right? Because it really, it's an evaluation of your business, especially if you're indie.

Yeah, just shows you, yo, did we grow this year? Do we stay stagnant, or did we just fucking flop? And uh I'm I'm I'm proud to say that year to year we've seen gradual growth. But um, there's this one stat that says X amount of people listen to you more than any other artist in the year. 2020. Love that one. or 2021. Yeah. And I remember it starting off the first year, 20 people, second year, 80, third year, 300, fourth year, 700. And you know, we're in the fifth year right now. I'm just like, there's 700 people on this earth who played me more than any fucking artist on the earth. It's gotta feel incredible. Magical. I need to find those people because they could fund my whole life forever. Be like, hey man, let me just sell shit to you. I'm just gonna make music for y'all, man. The law of a thousand super fans. If you have a thousand people who are super fans and they buy your merch and they go to your shows and they stream your music, you can make a hundred grand a year just off of them. You're already over 700 now, so you're like, you're about there, man.

You know what I'm saying? So, what do you think it is about your music that connects with people? Um, I think it's that bounce, that nostalgia, um, the fact that um I come from uh you know, very distinct cultures. I come from, you know, Arab parents, Muslim background, uh, but I'm also from East Atlanta, born in Chicago. I got homies from Toronto. I think a lot of people um resonate with the fact that maybe I'm you know racially ambiguous. But aside from all that extra shit and the gimmicky stuff, like of where I'm from and and what city I'm from and stuff, I think the music just genuinely has a really feel-good sound um in terms of the samples, the nostalgia, the bounce, uh, the flow, the melody. It's really good music. Thanks, man. I appreciate that. bro. I'm serious, man. I listen to a lot. I really music. I really, I really appreciate that, man. And it's kind of my take on what I want to hear. So, like, not on not uh on in an unbiased way or whatever, but sometimes like I I have a playlist with, you know, if if it's a 40 songs, I have a playlist with four or five of my records on there.

Just because that's what I want to hear at the time. You know what I'm saying? And I do that with everything I do. Um, if I put out a merch design, would I wear this jersey? Would I wear this hoodie? Would I wear this hat? Is this quality? Would I buy this if I saw it in the store? Brutal honesty. Those are things you gotta ask yourself. Would I listen to this? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Would I listen to this in uh when I'm out? Or like would I listen to this passively, or would I actively go and if you know, search for this type of music? And those are the things you gotta ask yourself before you create anything. Would I would I consume it? Yeah. So major key. Yo, on the one more time podcast, major key alert. When we feel like an artist has dropped a jam like that, we like to hit him with the one more time, sum that up. Give it for the people that weren't listening the first time, please just say that one more time. One more time. I forgot what I fucking said, but this happens all the time because he does a whole spiel about what the one more time thing means. Oh, I forgot.

I forgot exactly what I said. Hold on, G. I said, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, turn that shit off. Um, I said basically, you gotta keep in mind when creating, you gotta keep in mind what I consume this product that I'm making. And that's it. That's as simple as it is, man. You can't lie to yourself, bro. I knew he'd come through. I knew you know what I'm saying? Of course, man. I knew I added the Jeopardy theme music. today for a reason. That shit was nerve wracking. Were you sweating a little bit? As soon as I heard that music, I was like, okay, yeah, I'm definitely not going to. Yeah, yeah. I'm fucking hot. Yeah. So so other than streaming success, because you've definitely, for an independent artist, you've streamed very well. Like I said, what have been some of your other favorite accomplishments? So some of my accomplishments, the best accomplishments that I've had or most memorable are like the intangible ones. Yeah. Like what? When you when when somebody DMs you and says, Hey man, I was going through a really rough spot, and you kind of like, and I know it sounds dramatic, but I've had people come up to me like, oh, you saved my life. And I think that's a dramatic take on that.

Because, you know, how powerful is that, man? It honestly makes me almost uncomfortable because it's just like, damn, man, I had that fucking responsibility. Yeah. You didn't even know. And now I gotta maintain this shit. Yeah, better make sure the next one doesn't make him feel the opposite. The motherfucker jumps off a cliff because I drop a flop ass album. I don't want that responsibility. The pressure is real. You feel me? The pressure is real. Um, I don't want that. But uh, yeah, man. Um, I remember just people sometimes it's uncomfortable, but um it is one of those situations that the the best situations are the intangible ones. Seeing people at a show and seeing people travel. Um, there's one time at the pop-up, this group of girls, it was four, it was four girls from Minnesota. They drove 14 hours to come to the pop-up. It's incredible. And those are the moments that it's better than any fucking write-up. It's better than any type of stream number, any type of Spotify playlist. We've been on the Spotify playlist.

Even those don't amount to like, you know, firsthand seeing how it affects someone. Four girls coming and being like, yo, we drove 14 hours to be here. Crazy. And I was just like, yo, and then you feel like a crazy responsibility to be like be super hospitable. Yo, let me buy your donuts. Let me make sure I sign everything that you bought. Pictures. Sign your donut. Just uh yeah, sign your donut. You feel me? Um, but yeah, Shit, I never thought I'd hear. Yeah, let me sign your donut. Please don't. You know what I'm saying? No, thank you. You just took her donut and put fucking Sharpie on it. And she was just like, yo, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna you know, I guess eat it. You can't eat it after that. You just hold it. She just holds it, she just frames it. And uh, but um, yeah, it was one of those situations, man. I think those are the best. I mean, we've been on Fader. Um, um uh, we've been on the you know, high Snobiety, all these blogs and stuff, and that's cool, right? For a resume builder, but it doesn't really yield uh as much as people think it does. It's just like, oh, you're gonna fade it.

Yeah, it definitely doesn't charge you back up, right? Like, I mean, the the experience you're talking about, that would probably make you want to jump right in the fucking studio and make the next yeah, I gotta make an yeah, I want to make another album now. That makes people feel and that makes people drive cross country or whatever, you know, from Minnesota down here. Like, that's awesome. Exactly. When they came and they're like, we came from Minnesota, I was like, yo, y'all are fucking tripping. Yeah. Like, I wasn't even like, oh, like, you know what I'm saying? I wouldn't have come to see me. Yeah, for 14 hours, bro. That's uh so you mentioned you know, you're not signed, you don't have a label. I don't think you have a manager even. Nah, you don't have I come in with the shooters, man. Yeah, you come in with the squad, and that's about it. So, you know, doing this, I I'm sure you have people that you know help with this, help with that, you know, because you know, you maybe don't do every single thing, but you're clearly the quarterback of this of this operation. What's it like kind of handling things, you know, solo dolo, if you will. So a lot of people, like whenever I drop, like because I'm big on aesthetics too, you know what I'm saying? Like design and and things of that nature, but I'm gonna tell y'all a secret.

Well, it's not a secret. I don't know how to do shit like um, like I don't know how to do this shit, if that makes sense. You know what I'm saying? Like you're winging it. I know I'm I'm winging it and I'm like, yo, uh this is the sketch, and my fucking my drawings are terrible. They're like stick figures. But you know exactly what you got. But I know a great idea in there. I I know exactly how I want it to look, and I think it's just a taste, uh, it's just the taste factor. So me, I don't know how to engineer physically, right? I know how to stand behind the boards and be like, yo, EQ that and do this. But if somebody told me, yo, you do it, I'd be like, oh shit, this is this it's gonna sound like shit. Yeah, but I know the terminology, I know the jargon, I know the shit. Um, I don't know how to draw, I don't know how to use, you know what I'm saying? I'm I'm not a I'm not a fashionista. I don't even like I wear the same shit like almost every day, like Adidas track pants and a mama hat and fucking uh a jacket or Adidas track jacket. It looks good. That's what I'm saying. He he wears a different black t-shirt every day, but it's still a black t-shirt.

That's fucking tight, though. Black t shirt type of guy. That's what it is. Like, but I don't. NASA one time. Absolutely, man. But I I don't know how to do any of this shit technically. The only thing I know how to technically do is rap. Very well. And and and I don't even know how to read music. Um when I'm singing my melodies and shit like that, I just know if it's on key or not. That's it. Yeah, sometimes even Kelechi, Kalechi don't know how to read music. I don't know if I'm exposing him. Well, anytime I anytime I sing and we do a pitch correction or auto-tune, we gotta go through every fucking chord in the book and be like, okay, that's the one. Okay, it's not G minor. Try D minor. No, no, exactly. Yeah, yeah, literally. I can help you out with that if you want. That's that's perfect, man. But I think it works for us because it's just like it's literally based off. He likes the struggle. I I honestly love it's it's honestly part of the process. Yeah, it's kind of like uh a plug and play, like you know what I'm saying? You really learn the notes that way, like, oh, that note is not okay.

I'm not gonna say that. Oh, no, no, but I never learned them. I'm like, cool, that was that was G major. You forget the next session. I'm like, yo, that was G major, and I never think about that session ever again, bro. So that's that. But so for those of you know artists out there that are trying to do things on their own right now, other than of course, perfecting the music, you gotta try and get better at your craft. What are some of the other things that you you know would recommend that they're doing if you're kind of on your own? So if you're on your own own where you don't have a manager, and this is designed this way because I if if I have a manager, I want I want to put them in a position where they can feed their family or at least you know live their lifestyle. I'm in a situation where yeah, I pay my bills off of music, but shit, I give 15% to someone they're in trouble. And not not to be not to be in that situation where it's just like, oh, I'm a starving artist. Like very few artists get to the point of supporting themselves with their art, you know what I'm saying? And I was reading this thing on Spotify, and it was like if you have like over a hundred thousand monthly listeners, like you're in the top 95 percentile of our all musicians in the world.

So just to think that there's only 5% of musicians that are doing better than me uh musically in terms of like a financial number aspect is fucking insane, dog. Yeah, such a that's such a cool accomplishment. I'm not gonna lie. It is, yeah, it is. But um, damn, what was the question? But but no, just just bringing on a team. Oh you want to be at a realistic point, where Like it makes sense for you and makes sense for the the manager, exactly. So, what I would tell the people is this is I I often believe that this was this was written, like it was written. It was a godsend, like that my best homie became this awesome engineer, and he's a great artist, and he pushed me and I pushed him, and we you know, kind of cultivated uh a friendship, and we're in very similar parts of our careers together. So, like there's very few people on this earth who understand like what we're going through. Like if someone hits you up on some bullshit, or if like some this dude one time on my Instagram, like sent me a picture of his ass cheeks spread wide open, bro, unprovoked. And nobody Yeah, G.

It's a true story, bro. story. Why are you looking at me like that? That's not me. That's not me. That's unprovoked. He didn't solicit that. It's it's on one of my Instagram posts. I posted this picture, and it was just like, I just it was as a request, and I was like, oh shit. So I talked to Kelechi and be like, hey man, this shit, this motherfucker tripping, man. Cause I I only feel like I could. Did you send him my way, Kelechi? I just I feel like yo, has this ever happened to you? And I had similar situations where people will send unprovoked things or weird things. This is what you get with 100,000 monthly listeners. Honestly, I don't know if I want it anymore. I'm being I'm gonna be honest with you, the listeners are cool because they can't hit you up on Spotify. True. It's when the it's when the Spotify listeners bleed over, bleed over to this to the to the Instagram. And it's just like, oh fuck, man, they found me. Because if it was up to me, if it was up to me, I would just have the Spotify. My Spotify numbers are the only thing I care about.

And even those are numbers, even those I'm never gonna be happy about. Let's get Faye a social media manager. So that we need to deal with this bullshit. That motherfucker needs, whoever he is, needs to be paid for. He needs to be paid big time. But no, I would say to people who are doing it on their own to find somebody who is very like minded and to grow with them. A lot of times people try to reach up, upwards on the ladder. Like, what can this person is well known and well renowned in the industry? I want to work with him. It's honestly, better to come up with a sideways. Side people on your level, networking laterally, lateralization. I'm big on you. Is that a thing? Yeah. Yeah, laterally. I'm a fucking, you see, I never heard that. And it was just like, yo, find someone. We had another guest who he's a manager and he does some AR work, but he's, he's interned for like, you know, Rebels Group, which does like G-Eazy management, tour management for Drake. He's done internships with the blueprint group, which is like Tez, who managed Lil Wayne and whatnot. So like he's he's got people he can reach up to too, but he's the one that brought it up.

It's like he's building with his peers, man. These are the guys that are gonna be the the next heads of the labels, the next heads of the publishing companies, the next, you know, big time managers, whatever. So it's it's cool. if you ignore the the the littler people and they become the guys, they're gonna remember how you treated them back in the day. Absolutely, man. And that's also another thing, man. Treat people with respect no matter where you think they are on, on the ladder. There's a lot of people, once they find out your your position, they start they start kissing your ass. Yeah. And then there's a lot of people, if you're if you're lower than them, they just kind of brush you off. So you really gotta treat everyone and you gotta invest in everyone. Not as for a for like a not in an opportunistic way, but just in a basic human capacity, man. They're gonna remember how you treated them. Anybody who comes into my to Atlanta to my city, who's an artist, and I know them off Instagram. Yo, let me show you around, bro. Just on some basic hospitality shit.

It don't even have to be about music, just on some people to people stuff. And a lot of artists, they don't have an identity outside of their art and their music. Like I do music five percent of my life. Wow. But uh the the time I'm I mean, if I were to like calculate, like the time I'm in a booth and the time I'm sending emails and dropping music and making merch and stuff, that probably constitutes five, 10% of my life. Wow. You understand? Like, and and a lot of artists, they just they're consumed with just being an artist and they always want to be treated like an artist in every single fucking situation, bro. When I'm with my homies, bro, don't even don't even bring up, we don't even bring up no music. Yo, how's the they might say how's the music going? But they I mean they see it. It's just, I just want to be a person. You know, I want to go to Stone Mountain with the homies and get healthy and you know what I'm saying. And then the art is is what I it's just something I do. It's just I'm an artist, but I'm not an artist 100% of the time, if that makes sense. You're a person.

Yeah. So so what can we look forward to? Are you working on a project as an artist? Might you be taking things in a completely different direction? I don't know if there's anything you want to, you know, mention that that you're up to currently or kind of what what you're working on. So I had a loose idea. Yeah. I'm I'm coming out with a deluxe album just to keep, you know, I'm saying for bake sale. For bake sale. Okay, cool. Um, I'm coming out with visuals too. I just had to, I just had to lose some weight. Quarantine got me took me back. I was big thickums. But well, those Stone Mountain hikes will definitely uh that's what I'm saying. So um, I really want to get a lot of visuals um for the for bake sale, kind of create the world uh in a visual sense as well, not just you know, I mean, we did it with the artwork and stuff like that and the baked goods and the hoodies and stuff, but I really want to put together like a visual short film. But um that's what I'm working on. I'm working on a deluxe uh three new records, it's gonna be 13 tracks total. Um, and it's called Baker's Dozen, which is okay, awesome.

For those who don't know a Baker's Dozen is 13. A lot of people are like, Yeah, why the fuck are you doing that? They're like one extra, bro. Yeah. So that's what I wanted to drop. And then I was just like, yo, like, if I keep working out, we could turn this bake sale. Cause I like, I did this thing on Instagram where I was just like, yo, y'all don't know what it takes. I gained 50 pounds for this rollout just so I could play the fucking baker. But it was really because I was just being a lazy fuck, you feel me? Perspective. Yeah, you know how you look at it? Self-awareness. It's kind of like, you know how how actors gain weight to play a role. So I'm like, I did this. Playing it off like that. I did this for y'all, but it was just me just being a fat fuck. And I was just like, yo, if I lose this shit, I come out with some like kale sale or like salad bar or something like that. Somebody was like salad bars, bro. And I was just like, nah. I kind of like it. Salad bars is cool. It's a really cool pun, but then there's a fine line between uh, you know, corny and uh tasteful. And uh I don't know how it's straddling the line.

Yeah, I don't know if I have another like super theme like in me, like in the next year. So I really want to still play on the bake sale world. I feel like it hasn't done everything it's gonna do. Cool. And uh yeah, I want to go ahead and create that world visually. I want to give y'all these records, and I just wanna, you know, keep it rocking. New merch. You know, winter's coming, the hoodie sold amazing. I have a uh collab tea with Chilio coming out. Oh, shout out Chilio. Hell yeah, Chilio, the OG. He was like he was loving that collab. Cause yeah, Henry is big, big Chilio fan. He's an ATLien, you know, he does the ATLien shirts. Yes, he does a lot of art, uh does BMX. Awesome dude, 50 years old. I'm not sure if people know that, but like he's fifty, he looks super young. He influences the youth, great guy, and I reached out to him and he was a hundred percent down, man. And I was just like, yo, let's let's fucking do it. So we we doing like a special run.

I'm getting them made right now as we speak. Um, thinking about delivering them personally on some baker shit. Put them in a donut box. That's how I've been pulling up on people with the merch and I'll put the merch in the donut box. This guy's like my best friend when it comes to like just marketing and like thinking through the experience, man. People overlook that shit, man. Uh they don't get it. It's so funny. delivering the shirt in a fucking donut box can make it something that they talk about forever. There's the difference between getting a shirt in the mail that you may or may not wear, and then like opening your door, and there's a guy with a donut box with a shirt in it, and you're like, this is a weird situation. I'm always gonna remember this. Yeah, I pulled up on these guys that I never met before, like personally, but they're like, yo, you're my favorite rapper. Yo, will you pull up here? Because I was doing deliveries and drop offs and stuff, and I was having fun doing it. It was uh last winter, and um happened to be on the block, like in Decatur, you know what I'm saying? He was just like, Yo, I understand, like my neighborhood's a little rough.

And I was like, Yo, my parents live like seven minutes down the street, bro. And I pulled up and they're like, they couldn't believe it. Yeah, they were like, yo, you on the fucking block right now with the donut, and da-da-da-da. and I was just like, Yeah, man, like yeah, there's love, man. Like, you're turning fans into super fans. I think that's one of the reasons you're streaming well, man. It's like people underestimate, oh, you already follow me on Instagram and you like my posts, cool. Cool. Now I can ignore you and just try and get new people. Nah, you know, how do we take these people from like casual Instagram post likers to like this is my favorite artist? I'm ordering a shirt in a donut box. Oh, yeah, man. And it goes both ways, man. Like people who reach out to me and say, Oh, I love this, or they buy merch and stuff. I usually know a little bit about their life story. Yeah, they marry, they not marry, they divorce, they have two kids, they live here because we have real conversations. It's not just, hey, I like your music, appreciate it, man. See, we fucking keep it going. This guy fucking gets it, man. we might have to have you on for like a whole other marketing. episode. Yeah, because I mean, this is shit that you and I talk about all the time, man.

It's like, yo, do not be afraid, like hand-to-hand combat, so to speak, in the DMs with people. Like, look at their page, say something genuine about what the fuck they're doing. Like give a fuck. Yeah, like literally care. Give a fuck. Give one fuck. If you expect them to care about you, you have to at least assume that you might should care about them. It's once again, Drake can't care about all of his fans. I get it. When you get to a certain point, I get it. But there's no fucking excuse when you are an emerging artist. And Drake said that, which is funny. He said, Yo, the best time in my career has passed. The greatest time of being an artist is artist discovery when people were discovering it. Yeah. And that's when he was having the, you know, five, ten, fifteen thousand. And he he could actually reach out to them and touch them. Drake can't touch anybody now. This motherfucker, I went to his show. It's just like everybody to him is a fucking spectacle. He's an ant. He's in an arena. He's selling out, he's selling out State Farm Arena three nights in a row. You can barely see the iPhone uh flash.

You can't see shit, no. Thanks. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, that's really important, man. And I don't, and I don't see it from a marketing standpoint. I see it from a genuine, hey, you took time out of your day to fuck with me and spend your hard-earned money with me. The least I could do is pull up on you and talk to you and have a conversation. And Chilio is on that too, actually. I I linked up with him before we did the the um collab because Chilio was like, I think he's one of those vibey guys. It's just like, yo, if he can't vibe with you in person, he's not gonna work with you. Yeah. So we we kicked it, was the day after his birthday. Um, and uh we were just talking and he was like I still believe in hand-to-hand combat like he said and this guy is a 50-year-old man who has already proven himself in the scene, he has nothing left to prove artistically, and he's still touching the people. Yeah, he didn't have to meet you to do that. He didn't have to meet he doesn't have to meet me, and he doesn't have to deliver, he still hand to hand delivers his shirts. That's crazy.

And I was like, bro, you're just what it say. That's crazy. The best type of marketing is when it doesn't feel like marketing. No, for sure. I I just more mean if people can't get it from just being a fucking human, then at least be like, oh, this is probably good for my career. At least try. You know what I mean? Like, of course, from the capitalistic standpoint. I love people to just understand that it's fucking obvious, but they don't. So then I'm like, okay, at least put yourself in the shoes of like this. Probably makes sense from like a me trying to make this as a career. You know what I mean? These people are are paying your bills, yeah. And I understood so at least pretend to care. At least pretend. I I learned this from my dad. Anytime somebody will come into the restaurant or and not complain, but be like, yo, like, can you remake this? Or you know, they give me a hard time. He's just like, yo, of course, the customer's always right, but at the end of the day, they pay the bill. You live in in my household and they pay your bills. Yeah, so it's a service, yep. You know what I'm saying?

And and as artists, we like to think that we're above our audience. There we're we're actually it's a it's a it's a service job almost. 100%. It's just it's an entertainer, it's a service job. Yeah, you're making people feel good, You're entertaining people, and you really need to come. I don't want to say come down to the level, you just gotta be at eye level with at their level, at their level, yeah. And I think they, you know, people get to mix misconstrue because just even the way stages are set up, they're set up. They're set up higher than the audience. Yeah. But it put you on a pedestal. Uh I don't, I don't know. I don't think that way, man. And I know I'm in a in a an amazing position. Uh, I know it's divine, you know what I'm saying? Like, of course, hard work and stuff plays into it, but like things things don't have to be this good. And I always think, like, oh, yo, it needs to be better, but you got to stop yourself and be like, look how much growth you've made. And you know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And just kind of just be grateful for where you're at. Yep. Speaking of where we're at, Henry. I think we're at uh the final segment of the One More Time podcast. It's everyone's favorite. Everyone's favorite. It's gonna be Faye's favorite. I can already tell. Oh shit. Uh oh. This is what is it, Henry? This is called the Rapid Fire Rampage. Rapid Fire! Basically, what we're gonna do here, Mr. Faye, it's a three-part rampage. I'm gonna fire some short answer questions. Just ask you a question, give me an answer back. Second part is gonna be a this or that, give you two choices and pick one. Third part is just be a word association. I'll give you one word, you give me one word back. And I'll re-explain that as we go because that's a little overwhelming for a lot of people too. He has a great memory, though. Remember, he does have a great memory, so we'll see. Here we go. One more time podcast, Faye, rapid fire rampage initiated. Rampage! on the comedy aspect, give us one of your favorite comedians. Dave Chappelle.

My number one, by the way. I was gonna say, when I was when I was younger, I really fucked with Adam Sandler, bro. Me too, man. You just got our two favorites. Yeah. Yo, Adam Sandler, bro. You talking about happy Gilmore. Big Daddy and Madison. Come on. Man, even eight, even I went to eight crazy, uh, eight crazy crazy nights. Eight crazy nights, man. Me and me and my pops, uh I'm dragging my pops to watch a Hanukkah movie. I'm Muslim and shit. And it's just like he's just my man is it's awesome, man. He he's I know on Rotten Tomatoes, he gets like, they be shitty. How about Uncut Gems, real quick though? Yeah, serious, real quick. But we're talking early comedic Adam Sandler. So I'm gonna say Adam Sandler, but but Dave Chappelle from the stand-up aspect, nobody's better. I literally did a scuba Steve, uh, like you know, damn you. No one knew what I was talking about, but it was incredible. You're talking about from Big Daddy, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Give us, in your opinion, the most important aspects of a good live show. For with rap, don't have your track playing.

Okay. Just a beat. Yeah, just the beat. Maybe for the hook, you know. Yeah. But people wanna are there to see you rap. Yeah. Level with you're not better than your audience. Level with them, read the crowd. If it's intimate, bring everybody in. You know what I'm saying? Don't be too big for the moment. Um, and just kind of eye contact. Eye contact is huge. And not just, you know, I know a lot of people say, yo, you know, when you're public speaking, you kind of look in a triangle and stuff like that. Look into people's fucking soul. Mm-hmm. Because they could test that. Like, you know how like how how animals could uh tell could sense fear? Mm-hmm. Your audience will know if you're scared up there, and they'll know if you're demanding attention. And it makes them feel uncomfortable. Exactly. If they think you're uncomfortable, you're a leader. Yeah, you gotta be up there and you gotta lead. That's right. Yep. Give us one of your favorite hobbies to get away from music. Oh. Um, it used to be smoking hookah. And I've been like a month sober from hookah. You know what I'm saying?

But uh Stone Mountain. Hiking. Hiking is fucking tight. Love it. And swimming is tight too. Yeah. Love swimming. And going to Playa Bowls. You ever had an acai bowl from Playa Bowls? No. I've been living a Caucasian lifestyle recently, man. That's like y'all are white. You know what I'm talking about. You feel me, right? I was like, I have no idea what you're talking about. Whole foods, the I don't shop there. Nope. Uh pumpkin spice lattes, no? Some of that quinoa, you know. Quinoa? Yeah, upbeat type of shit. We be going to upbeat and shit. This quinoa. You might be whiter than us. I do not go to Kale me Crazy, okay? You don't? No, I don't. Fuck. man. Contrary to popular belief of my skin tone, skin tone, but. Okay, I'm the on the food tip. I'm the food tip. You can only eat one meal for the rest of your life. What is it? Oh my god, bro. We're asking the tough questions on the One More Time podcast. Fuck.

Like one meal. Or you can take it as you're on death row and they ask you for your last meal, yeah. Wow. That's tough because I've been eating a lot of healthy shit recently, and it's just not that good. Maybe this the shrimp tacos from uh uh El Rey del Taco. Oh. I don't know if you've ever had them. This shit is fucking fucking I know shrimp tacos are tough for me. Yeah, I can do that. Okay, you've been given a giraffe. You can't give it away or sell it. What do you do with it? I'm gonna ride that shit into the city, bro. Sounds like an epic music video. With the fucking with the Glock 40 on me, dog. Straight up. If you were a plant, what would you be? I'd be a fiddly fig.

I don't know what that is. That was so quick. Sounds hilarious. He's thought about that one before. I'm gonna Google fiddly fig. My wife got a fiddly fig at the crib, and it's apparently like a super stubborn plant. That shit just be dying, dog. And we be trying to feed it. It's just super specific. It's uh what is it? It has um resilience. Not resilience, it's super needy. Oh, it's like high maintenance, high maintenance, it needs like 30% sunlight, like fucking from a 40 degree angle. It's you really gotta read about them. So that's you. That's who I'd be because that's an elegant plant. But the shit at the crib is dead. Damn. R.I.P. What is To the fiddly fig. Fiddly fig? What is your dream superpower? Oh man. Probably teleportation, man. Because I hate I hate travel. Traffic. I hate uh traffic and I hate traveling. Like it's just like anybody's like, yo, pull up, pull up to this spot, and it's just like, oh man, like I gotta fucking book the ticket, pack the bag, wait in line, TSA, ride the plane, land. It's just like yo, if I could teleport, boom, I'm there.

On a scale of one to 10, how weird do you think you are? I'm up there, man. I'm up there. Give it a number. Probably a nine. Nine? Yeah. Nah. What'd you think? Two. Two? A two. Everybody's weird. Everybody got their little glitches, man. Everybody got glitches. If you hang out with them long enough, you could realize, like, yo, we're all kind of not okay. Uh weird can be good. Yeah, that's why I like seeing the interpretation of it. We all have kind of these glitches. I would say he says two, knowing myself, maybe a six or seven. Okay. That'll do. First part of the Rapid Fire Rampage. You're doing great. so far, Faye. Nice. Great job so far. You're on to part two. You've made it. Let's get it. Part two is that this or that. I'm just gonna give you two choices. Pick the one that gravitates to you. Cool. So here we go. Writing or freestyling? Writing. Boxers or briefs? Briefs.

Instagram or TikTok? Instagram. Entree or dessert? Entree. Fish or reptiles? Fish. On stage or in the studio? On stage. Crushed ice or cubed? Cubed. Singles or a project? Project. Day or night? Day. California or New York? New York. Chocolate or vanilla. I love the chocolate. What a part two. Crush that one. Last part of the Rapid Fire Rampage. It's the word association. Let me give you one word. Fire off the first thing in your mind. It comes back at you. Here we go. Piano. Elton John. Jeep. Big body.

Anxiety. Me. Sports. Basketball. Bitcoin. The one. True. Microphone. Penis. Now I'm uncomfortable with the way I talk talk right into it. We really set you up for that one. You got me back. You got me back. You know how like you do. Like rappers be like, she could sing into the microphone. It's just one of those situations. Okay. Now it's Henry into the microphone. Yeah, great. We all have a mic, guys. Yeah. Earth. Green. PlayStation. Five. Label. Week. Danger. Imagination.

Lil. Baby. Politics. Same team. Kelechi. Lesbian. What a rampage. What a rampage, folks. What an episode. of the One More Time podcast. We managed to get lesbian and penis in there in the end. Fantastic. Part three. Uh needs to be censored. Yo, Kelechi, man. God forgive me. Bruh. Big Big time. Big time. I didn't say he wasn't thinking that though. He was fucking lying, bro. He said hell no. We joke with Kelechi all the time that he's just a he's just a big lesbian, man. The big lesbian mule. The big, big old. Kelechi, I don't feel that way. But folks, this has been another episode of the One More Time Podcast. I've been your host, Playback Ben, here with my co-host, Henry with a three. Henry with a three. We've had Mr.

Faye on here. Go stream bake sale. Go stream mama. Go cop some merch. Show up to the next pop-up. This dude is an incredible artist. He's working with an incredible rollout. And the deluxe is coming soon. So everyone stay tuned. And until next week, we are out of here. We out. Bye bye. Man, thank y'all.