YelloPain Interview: How to Go Viral | Chats with Oprah Winfrey

Being a genius does not feel like you're doing something genius. It feels normal. Like if you're in math class and somebody's struggling with math and you're really good at math, in your mind, you're not doing this genius thing. You're just doing math. So somebody is struggling, but oh man, you just put that right there. But to somebody else, you messing a mind up right now. Like, what are you talking about? Like, this is like a hieroglyphic. Hit me, baby, one more time. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the One More Time Podcast. One more time. I'm Playback Ben here with my co-host, Henry with a three, because some guy already took Henry with an E when I was making my Gmail, so it's Henry with a three. That's what I'm saying. That's where it started. It was already taken. So did you ever like try to like make the three have a representation? It's kind of like popped up in various ways. Okay.

Since then. It's made an appearance. It's it's there. Henry, who do we have in the hot seat today? Welcoming in on episode 90, big nine-o, of the one more time podcast. Legendary recording artist. You're seeing him for the first time without a hat. The ladies love Cool James. It's LL Cool J. You ever gotten that one before? No, I have. You have? And every time I get it, somebody asks me, Have you ever like, Yeah, I got it. I got it. For sure. But but he's always wears a hat, so that's the giveaway. Is that you got the hair? You got the hat this time. Yeah. In all seriousness, we have rapper and motivational speaker, overall, good guy, good energy. We got yellow pain in the building. Yellow! We are here, man. Yes, sir. So I gotta ask. This is one of the only interviews, if not the only interview, that Henry had his hand in coordinating. Not true. That is fucking false. Henry, how did this interview come about?

We were at a producer event in the city, and uh all the who's who's all the important folks were there. Clearly. So clearly, me and Yellow were there. What do you mean? That's how it happened. Of course. That's how we met. Yeah. So it was at Beats at the Bar, right? I did not make it. I was, you know, too late for me. I was on dad duty. Some excuse for an old fart like me. But anywho, so y'all met just like what? Struck a conversation? Like how did y'all even know when you're in the room, you address the people in the room. You chopped it up. Hey, what's up? I'm yellow. And you know, and then it went from there. Especially at a type of event like that. It was very like they're encouraging networking. You know, you just never know. You could be standing at a table and someone's gonna pop up and say, hey, I do this. What's up? But like, what's the right way to network at something like that? Because I always find those things kind of awkward. I I mean, to me, you know what I'm saying, when it comes to networking, it's just literally, I just want to see what you got going on. You know what I'm saying?

Like, what what what it like in Atlanta? Nobody really lives here unless you either a born and raised here or you do something. Like, so you know, I just want to know what everybody do. You never know. We're like the LA of the of the East. Exactly. Like most people just move here. Everybody does something. He got a podcast, somebody else got a um, they do film. It's just it happens like that. So just genuine curiosity for real. You it like it just you don't even gotta be scared. Hey, yo, what you do? That's how it was, literally that night. Everyone's like, I do this, I I people are giving me stickers and QR codes. It was crazy. Okay. Exactly. Yeah, but there was also a mutual that you guys determined, right? big shout out, superstar. O, man. Oh, yeah, that's my dog. Yeah, You know you from my hometown. Yeah, I well, I knew you were both from Ohio, but I didn't know if it was the same city as well. Yeah, Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, yeah. So that's yeah, that's how y'all know each other. Literally growing up in the same area. I didn't know him. I didn't grow up with him.

I grew up knowing of about him. Yeah. And then um, I reached out early on, like some um years before everything started to take off, and he respected my hustle and stuff. And you know, then we connected. Just dope, man. I love O, man. O is such a genuine fucking spirit, dude. That guy he's literally his whole thing is spread light, you know. what I mean, absolutely, just positive, dude. So, as someone who's from Ohio, I gotta ask you, like, how does it feel that the whole state of Ohio was like a meme on TikTok? I didn't know that. You don't know about this? You don't know about Ohio, Ohio. A meme for what? Bro. I don't know if it's a good thing. I don't think it is, Henry. What's what's the the joke? It I I don't really quite know how to articulate the joke. But like if there's something crazy going on in a video, it'll be like you know, average day in Ohio, or just or if someone's doing something crazy, a guy's doing something crazy, it'd be like Ohio man. Yeah, yeah, like you know when like Florida man kind of took off. It's kind of like a

thing about like that. Yeah, yeah. So okay, well, I I was hoping you would have like heard that your state was a meme, so that I could just be like, how does it feel to be from the meme state of this era? I could imagine. growing up where I grew up, I could imagine why it would be that. Yeah, why? What do you mean by that going on? Man, you know, like I'm from Dayton, Ohio. It's the number one city in America for overdose deaths. So you know, you got a lot of drug addicts, you got a lot of it's poverty, you know. You know, so people act weird, crazy. Oh yeah, and then the weather is so like up and down, you got it'd be cold, rainy one day, snowing the next day it's sunny. So the people are bipolar and the weather's bipolar. That's what I'm hearing from. With drugs and inconsistent weather, that sounds like a recipe for this. It sounds like a meme for sure. And apparently there's also a lot like some type of law where the arrest records and like the police records are very public. So things become like public news very fast.

Yeah, you told me this. I I that sounds bizarre. I mean, dude, my credit, my source is social media. It doesn't mean shit. I'm probably wrong. In my hometown, uh, the actual uh the I don't know what he called a district attorney or whatever, he got a Facebook, and uh every arrest that they do, they post it. Yeah, yeah, and it just goes like locally viral. So you just know everything going on. That's part, I'm telling you, that's part of the meme is like they're allowed to talk about everything as it happens. Yeah, so it's it's easy to latch on to because it's so publicly available. That I think that's part of it. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, when I did my research, I would say the overwhelming amount of press. You've had tons of looks on the internet that weren't related to this, but I would say the overwhelming majority of things I could find was around the whole my vote don't count song. Yeah, big shout out. And like for those that aren't familiar with the record, like can you just speak on like the message and the kind of vision behind the song, and then we'll kind of get into you know other specifics? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

So um, you know, just to do a little recap on the whole how it even came about. Yeah. It's just like, You know, I had obviously went viral a lot of times prior to that. And um Oh, yeah, you were making fun of our 100k, you know. No, no, so we're doing a hundred K on TikTok on a video right now, and Yellow is like how about that? That's adorable. How about that seventh digit? Bruh. I'm saying I'm proclaiming it's gonna be at least 350 by the time we get off the podcast. By the time we get off the podcast. I hope so. Man, that'd be a blessing. But yeah, so you had seen some viral success here and there before this. Yeah, exactly. So um my cousin was like, you know, since you got such a big platform, I think you should make a song about voting. And I was like, shut it down, because I was like, you know, I ain't never voting, ain't never I never thought it benefited me, you know what I mean? So like I shut it down, and um, you know, once she explained it to me and really like taught me how it worked, I think that kind of made me upset. And I don't usually get that upset, but when I do, typically we get a million views, you know what I'm saying?

There you go. I'm about something that serious, you know what I'm saying? So once I learned how uh how much it connected to my community and how everything, the condition of the people that I see, the minimum wage, uh, you know, the condition of the roads, uh just you know, snap benefits, all these different things. um, it's connected directly to the voting system, and um people don't vote is like kind of outraged me a little bit. So um, you know, I was like, okay, cuz I gotta make the song. You know what I'm saying? Cause that's you know, I always try to give like uh real practical advice on like things people could do to make their life better, you know what I'm saying? As far as work harder, you know, like you see, like I'm a motivational speaker. So you were already doing that prior to motivational speaking, but it wasn't in in the in civics, you know, or in civic engagement. And you know, I feel like that's one of those things that is like a very um, you know, tangible uh thing you can do. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, oh, we can actually shift, like everybody can get on one accord and and push an agenda and make something change. And once I realized that it just became a mission.

So, you know, I I put out the song and you know, it went crazy. Yeah, and and talk about the sequel, right? The sequel. Yeah, I think that's a really cool part of the whole thing. Yeah, that was that was that was uh that was an experience, you know. what I mean, that was my first industry feature, you know what I mean, with like a uh, you know, like a signed artist. Um yeah, Who was on the record again? Seven Street. Yeah, yeah. So um, you know, it was a different that was really like a nice taste of just like what it's like, you know, like shoot like the video, because I I do my own like videos uh most of the time. Um me and my like team. You directing? Yeah, I shoot, direct all of the shoot when you're behind the camera. How are you behind the camera and in the shot? How do you make that? Well, no, when I'm not in the shot, okay. My people do it, and then if you don't see me on a camera, nine times out of ten, I'm behind it. You know, that's just kind of how I started off. Um I appreciate it.

You know, just ain't no excuse, you know, you get in there and you make it happen. Yeah, don't like breeze over this because this is very important. Like you posted a bunch of camera equipment back years ago at this point now. Yeah. And you were like, I stacked my shit up, yeah, and I went and I got no excuse because I bought my own fucking gear and I'm shooting hella visuals to all my songs. Yeah. Do you have a song now that doesn't have a video? Yeah, I got songs that don't have videos. Okay, because it seems like you're dropping a video to every fucking song at this point. Yeah, that that's that's like the goal. You know what I mean? Um and that was one of the reasons why I did it. And um, and then also to control my own vision, and then at the time it was to save money, you know what I mean? And you can be as creative as you want. Like, you know, one of the things, like if you have a um if you're an artist, right, and you got a music video, um I I've actually done videography for money at one point, um, before you know the music started to pay for itself. And um, if you want like a lot of videographers, just say if if it's a cheaper videographer, they say, all right, you know, we give you three locations, um, it's five hundred dollars.

That's like a a real cheap videographer. Yeah, three locations, $500. Say you got a crazy concept that just requires a few days to do you might be at $1,500 with a cheap videographer just because you had a good idea, you know what I mean? But if you do it yourself, you could take two weeks to shoot something. And you don't want to be restrained by that. No restrictions. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? When you put the ball in your own court, yeah. So that's like one big benefit to helping me like advance. Yeah. I was able to. Yeah, I mean, for me, it kind of reminded me of we've had a lot of artists on here that talk about like learning how to record themselves. So, like, have you done something like that? Like, like pretty much to be honest, anything that you can think of that would help an artist um media-wise to get from point A to point B, I've either do it still or have done it at some point. And I think um it just really comes down to not when you want something bad enough, you just can't have no excuse. Anything that that's in your way, if you can control it, do it.

You know what I mean? So, you know, it took a lot of research, a lot of energy, a lot of effort, but you know, nothing is in a way, you know what I mean. I'm not about to let being broke or being in the hood or or not having the money be the reason why, you know, I've never made it. You know what I'm saying? Like that's if you got enough. If you got Google, you can do so much. Just if you have an internet connection. And I do think, And I do think that like when you do start to do the math, I mean, we're even contemplating upgrading a lot of our equipment, right? Because it's like we're doing other stuff outside of this that requires maybe you know, production equipment and this, that, and the third. And it's like you start doing the math, and you're like, if we want to do this multiple times, we could have already just bought the fucking equipment. Imagine if y'all had a media company coming up. Doing this A thousand dollars easily. Exactly. Every time. Every time.

Every episode. Exactly. No, that's what I mean. It's completely unfeasible. Yeah. But then you know, you look at like the other stuff we want to do, like out in the field, and it's like you start talking about okay, even if you just gotta hire a cheap video guy, 250, 500, whatever, just to even like come with you to film. And then it's Like, oh, that video guy just went through a breakup and he can't make it or some shit. It's just like, you know, just relying on other people, dude. It's like good. Yeah, we can't, like, we got shit to do, man. So we need this guy, he's got the camera, but it's like, ah, we just need the shit. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, for me, man, I really do. Do you feel that like your visuals have been like how important do you think your visuals have been to the success of your career? Um, I feel like visuals help you tell a story that the song can't do on its own. You know what I mean? So um it's it's everything, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, it's everything.

Because I look at your videos, man, and I mean, I was trying to like put him on to some like of my favorites because there's so many. You were putting me on to Yellow Pain. To the video you hadn't seen, yes. Really? Yes, I was, I don't know. Yeah, okay. Anyways, so just just to even go as far as like you know, the sequel of my vote won't count to my vote will count or whatever. You shot a new video, even though your your portion of the song remained the same, right? Yeah. Yeah. Like a traditional remix. But like who's doing that? Yeah, nobody. Who's shooting another fucking video? This is an amazing idea. And it's creative as fuck. for the same fucking verses. I'm like, I was like, I got tricked into thinking you were saying something different. And I was like, no, this is the same song. Like, other than of course the the beautiful feature that was on there as well. But I'm listening to your part and I'm like, wait, like, I think I think he said I think that was it. But the the visual side almost tells it again in a different way. Because even though it was the same verses, it was still like a different story, man.

So I just wanted to give you your flowers for that because I thought that, yeah, like the remix side of it could have just added fuel to the fire. You could have just left that with audio and it would have still like been a cool look, right? But to shoot a whole nother video that's all different than the original, bro. Brand new campaign, like whole new. I was like, that was and that was the that was the objective of it. You know what I'm saying? Was uh to run another campaign on a song. Yeah, it was fire, man. so what looks did the like my vote won't count video and I guess song and campaign, like what what looks did that lead to for you? Um the remix, just I I guess the original, probably honestly. Or either one, really, yeah. Um, any doors opened? Um, to be honest, every door, you know what I'm saying? Um, you know, uh when it first went viral, you know what I'm saying? I got um awesome management out the gate, you know what I'm saying? So I got new managers, It was, it's Crescent Productions is the name of the uh production company.

Shout out Crescent. Yeah, shout out Crescent Productions. Um but then um, you know, like as far as media, you know, it was pretty much everywhere. You know, I was I did Oprah, Steve Harvey. Yeah, yeah, fucking Oprah. Bro, what was that like? Like, tell us about the Oprah experience. That's gotta be Legendary. Even me who's not like this diehard Oprah women. I don't have a fuck about Oprah, but I'm so excited about that. Exactly. Like if I was the first yeah. The first time I did Oprah, it was like First time. Yeah. With the re multiple Oprah. Yeah, yeah, we just recently did Oprah again. Shout out, no, for real, it's a blessing. Yeah, uh definitely. So the first time, yeah. Like, what was going through your head, man? The first time I did Oprah, uh, they were so uh, I won't say guarded, but like it was so much preparation before I talked to Oprah. I didn't even all the way know I was talking to Oprah. That's how like uh what you want to call it, like just security it was.

Like, you know what I mean? So there was like um Yeah, you're like talking to her people's people, people. Like, exactly. You're like, am I even gonna be on Oprah at this point? It was Oprah's team. Yeah. So it was like for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and um they just you know was asking me all these questions, and it was like, all right, we need you to say it exactly like this. No, take that out, don't say that. And I was just like, okay, so the first interview with Oprah, it was almost like I already knew what I was gonna say. So I was almost, I won't say rehearsed, but it was just like curated. I felt it more so after the interview because it was like I already knew, I was more so in my head, but it was a crazy experience. The second time, it was a regular, genuine conversation. And I was like, man, it was like the craziest feeling in the world. Like, yo, I'm sitting here talking to Oprah, like, and then she referred to me as yellow. Like, she's like, so yellow. And I'm like, oh the short version. Oh.

You're like, you're like, can I call you O? By the way, by the way, the letter O with this man, Oprah, superstar O, yellow ends with an O. Ohio. Like, that's your letter, bro. You see it? You're drawing some crazy conclusions. here. What are you saying, bro? Is it not something? Oh man. I'm on to something. That was kind of a bar, but thank you. Damn. So other than of course, like, you know, going on Oprah, for example, getting on, like, you know, Steve Harvey, like, how do you recommend some artist out there who catches this like viral moment? Like, what'd you do next? Like, how do you capitalize? Yeah, like how do you capitalize on a viral moment? I think what makes somebody viral is something that people have never seen before. You know what I'm saying? And just hear me out. Um, and you they're usually the reason why somebody never seen it before is because they don't know you. You know what I mean? So I think um to capitalize on giving people something they never seen before is to continue to be you because you're something they didn't never seen before. So instead of trying to rechase the moment or anything like that, it's just to continue pushing the envelope in the way you was doing in the first place.

It's just don't do like what you did got you here. Keep doing that. Like, don't switch it up. Don't try to like, oh, snap Oprah's watching. Keep doing what got you here. So that's what I'm doing, even to this day. That's hard. I like that, man. Like, yeah, this is I I got here getting beat by being me. I'm gonna keep being me. Exactly. Bro, I knew I was gonna walk away from this interview just feeling like hell motivated. I was like, I was like, is he gonna bill us for this like motivational session, bro? I was like, hopefully, you know, Sinatra in here isn't gonna like invoice us for some some of this time because damn, bro. That's funny, bro. Um, so prior to this song though, I mean, just to clarify, like you had no political aspirations. No, I I was on the other side of it, which is why the song came out the way that it did. Um, the original song, because I was on the side of that stuff, don't got nothing to do with me. I voted before, and then and I was still sleeping on the floor. So I don't really care about politics.

So once I understood it, I was like, what? You know what I mean? I was so blown away, like, oh nah, why didn't you tell me this? Why ain't nobody tell me like so? I was upset, you know. So that's really what it was. So that's why the song, the first half of the song was it it came off like uh like I've been broke all my life, but I kept hope all them nights, and I was talking about Obama ain't do nothing. What I'm supposed to do, blame Trump, you know what I'm saying? So I was really like going into this whole, you know, like, and then I was like, everything I just said, everybody I know think the same way. So I had to flip it so they can I had to draw people in that felt just like I felt right before I knew how important it was. You know what I mean? so paint us the circumstances of like your upbringing in that sense, right? So, like, why were you sleep? You know what I mean? Like you were sleeping on the floor, you know what I mean? Like, if you don't mind painting kind of the picture of like your where we're just where you're coming from, really, you know. I mean, I'm from I'm from Dayton, Ohio. You know what I'm saying?

It's it's a uh, you know, it's not a uh very financially prosperous city, you know what I'm saying? It's a lot of you know, majority of it is boarded up, you know what I'm saying? It's um, you know, back in the day it was called the Gym City because it was a lot of uh businesses there, but just like Detroit, you know, a lot of businesses left. Um, and it's that type of story. So it's a lot of um, you know, like I said, it's the number one city in America for overdose related deaths. Um, you know, it's a lot of killings. Same in a inner city story as um any other city that's struggling, but you know, I was in the city, you know what I mean? And um I grew up in a house with a lot of siblings, you know what I'm saying? So how many? Um see it's kind of a trick question because I grew up in a two-parent household, right? But I got the type of parents that have that like, you know, they have that like I won't turn nobody away type of love, you know what I mean? So I did grow up with love.

That's one reason why I feel like you know, I I have that for other people because I received it. You know what I'm saying? But um, you know, like sometimes it like some of my siblings might even be like other siblings' friends from school, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's like if you're in a neighborhood and you're struggling, you need a place to go, just just come here. So, how many at like one time? Um 12, 13, 14, 16, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, because it's not even all siblings, some of it be like cousins and kids, you know what I mean? So but just still how you looked at it was just a big old family. Yeah, so you can imagine how limited the resources would be, you know. what I mean, like, you know, um, shout out to you know, my parents they worked as hard as they could, but you know, I didn't grow up with no doctors and lawyers and uh, you know what I'm saying? Shout out. So, what is that? What is that type of environment? You know, what did you learn most from that? Right? Like that big family, you know, people coming in and out, everyone struggling, of course, trying to like make it and you know, survive. Like, what'd you take from that most?

I think one of the biggest things that I took from growing up with so many people in the house is like just so many individual stories and um really being able to see that everybody is different. You know, like you could be having 10 people in the same circumstances with the same people and all living completely different, having completely different understandings of what they're experiencing. You know what I'm saying? So that made me look at people like that. Like, don't uh mirror image yourself with nobody. You could I could be standing right next to you and we've gone through completely different things. So I look at the world like that. Like it don't matter what it look like, you know what I'm saying? Like we are completely different, and that way you could be more patient with people. Yeah. And I think what you yeah, and and I think what you're almost getting at too, that I'm taking notes mentally about is that like even if you have what looks like a similar circumstance, yeah, everyone's gonna deal with that shit differently too. Of like, even though y'all are all in the same crib, yeah, eating the same shit, like you know, living in the same circumstances, to your point, you look left, that person's dealing with it in their way or whatever is going through their mind, you look right, different shit, and then look into yourself and like you know, same thing where it's gonna not be the same as whoever is you know, standing right next to you, type of deal.

Exactly. And and sometimes that's one thing that I really realize with like understanding value, right? Now understanding gifts, um, you know, and just understand it. Like sometimes we take for granted how gifted we are, because being a genius does not feel like you're doing something genius. It feels normal. You know what I mean? So it's like if you're in math class and somebody's struggling with math, and you're really good at math, in your mind you're not doing this genius thing. It's just you're just doing math. So somebody is struggling, but oh man, you just put that right there. And then you know what I mean, like, yeah, but to somebody else, you messing their mind up right now. Like, what are you talking about? Like, this is like like a hieroglyphic, you know what I mean? So it's it's really having that patience and understanding, like, hey, just because I'm a strong person, just because I'm mentally, I have the mental fortitude to push through circumstances, no matter what's happening. Somebody next to me might not have that same mental fortitude and understand that my strength is actually a gift.

And it's not, oh, I'm just you know what I'm saying you should be like this too. Like, and that give me patience with people because you might be like, oh, they everybody they want to make excuses or no, sometimes they like mentally don't have the same strength. Like, that's really a thing. So just having the patience with people so that they so you can understand that we are completely different, you know what I mean. When did you learn that? Um right, like at what point did the light bulb go off that like the shit that you are maybe genius at, right? It feels so normal to you, even like the strength thing, or even like maybe some of the motivational, like speaking type of stuff that a lot of people would be like, I could never fucking do that. Like, this is well, how does he sit in front of a camera and like pump people up and like give us all this, you know, wisdom or whatever? Like, when did you realize that? It's having siblings, It's, you know, like having so many people around and trying to explain stuff, you know, and seeing people bump their heads the same way over and over. It's like, yo, you doing that again, you with them again.

Why you, you know what I'm saying? And you and just having that type of love and not being able to see people like push through circumstances, like, why do you do that? Or you know what I mean? And you just eventually start to understand, like, oh wait, you're not me. And let me not try to make you me. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. What what's something that you learned that you were quickly, or I guess something you quickly learned you were not genius at, right? That maybe like some of your siblings were like, you know, I don't know if it was the math thing, or you were the one bumping your head and thinking it's hieroglyphics, or you know what I mean? Like, what's what's something you've internalized as like a weakness, you know what I mean? It's funny because it's math. Is it I'm not sure? So you were just perfectly describing yourself of like shit. Somebody might think I'm a genius, but then like I I really did algebra two twice. And then I was and I was focused. And then I had to have a girl help me with it and turn in some assignments for it. There we go. Like, hey, at least you're on it. Shout out to her. Yeah, so you know, kind of back to like the visuals side of things, because I really do think like your music videos specifically are like top tier, man. Like, I really do.

Um, I didn't have a chance to watch all of them, obviously, because I think there's there's just tons. But like the Thanksgiving one, yeah, bro. That's some eerie, like, that's you know, it's like some scary kind of shit, bro. Like, you definitely are like, you know, striking, like you're very engaging with the storytelling to a point where like it's pushing the boundaries, I would say, of you know, I mean, like that scene with you fucking dangling the like turkey baby. I don't even know how the fuck to describe it. Like Yeah. Yeah. No, um. What are some of your craziest concepts? Would you say? I feel like that was definitely the craziest one. Gotta be, right? That was the craziest one. I was like, if there's crazier out there, bro, we'll put a link in the bottom of this video. You know, you know, like one thing I realized, like, and I and I try to tell people uh is like never in the history of forever have you really seen change without people being shocked. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And um, that's just how change happens. You know what I'm saying? When you look at even Jesus, you know what I'm saying? Like, people were shocked that he got murdered on a cross and woke back up. It's like, Whoa, what, what he what you mean he alive? You know what I'm saying? And that story lasted forever because it shocked people's perception of how things are going or how things should typically go. Anybody that you know raised any type of crazy awareness, it had always been shock. People are always shocked into okay, something I would have just ignored. I'm like, oh yeah, dude just kept saying he was like the king of the Jews or something like that. Something they would have ignored. It's like, wait, what you mean? He up, or you know, Martin Luther King. What you mean it's a a it's 20,000 people in the street marching right now, really? You know what I'm saying? Like even they know they're getting hosed and spit on it. innovation, you know, it's like it's always met with it's not real innovation if it's not met with some pushback. So the thing is, you know, when I think about these messages, I told you just like my vote don't count.

Stuff gets on my heart real heavy. And um once it gets heavy on my heart, I want to just explain it to everybody. Maybe that's like a bad thing at times if you just want everybody to be on the same page. But how do I get everybody on the same page? If I was to come up to you right now, like, yo, yo, you know how important voting is. Let me tell you, like, this it would sound so boring by the time I got through explaining, like, so you got all right. Look, bro, you got three branches of government. You got the judicial, legislative, and executive, right? So, all right, so in the executive branch, you know how they say the president, it's already getting boring, right? You know what I mean? So the only way to explain something to somebody and to make them care about something they usually wouldn't care about is to shock them into caring. Yeah, that's what a lot of these messages are. Yeah, I mean, bro, I'm not gonna lie. I was literally even telling Henry before this interview, I was like, bro, I mean, he found a way to honestly, like, I don't know how it didn't come across as like corny sounding, bro. When you made this like political rap song, I was like, bro, this dude's like spitting.

He's like the the like emotion and the like you know, intention with it and the flows and like just the whole overall like visuals too are so crisp that like it can't do anything but like make you listen and try and be like learning from what's happening. But I was very shocked as to like, yeah, like how did this dude pull this off? Like straight up, and I think you've done that very well with just all of your messages, right? Is that to your point? If you were to just come up to me in the street and try and like willy-nilly just tell me these messages, would not work, it wouldn't work. No, you gotta be a puff daddy and literally vote or die, motherfucker No, but even just beyond that, even like the struggle stories and like you know, the messages of hope that you're painting, right? Like, you've done a really cool job, you know. When Henry was asking, like, you know, how do you shoot your own videos? You do a lot of this, which I think is super creative, that a lot of other videos have done. It's not like this novel thing you did, but having other characters rap your lyrics, whether it's whether it's a young white child, a ma, a white mom, a young black child, a you know, uh, you know, Hispanic person, whatever, like you've taken people from different walks of life and had them like rap your lyrics in the videos.

I think that shit always turns out fire. Yeah, and it's like it's so jarring though, because you're like, this isn't yellow, but he's rapping, but then this like Henry fucking guy is rapping the lyrics or something, you know. Remember the joiner Lucas? Um he had the white guy spit a verse of his and then dropping that. Hard, bro. That was a wild rollout, dude. That was crazy. Well, I just think it's been done very like selectively still, like it's not very common, but when it does work, like it hits different. You know what I mean? So I think that's like been super successful. So, how much of the videos are you doing now, though? Like what is your role? Are you still like editing your own shit? Because I know you like got a MacBook from a or like a Mac computer from a homie back in the day. You started editing all your own shit. Like you still where do you find that story? I have my sources. But we're the one more time podcast. We have to know this, yellow. Um, but like, are you still editing? Yeah, I still edit. Um still edit. Yeah.

Wow. 90, no, 100% of the videos. Like, so sometimes is that just fun for you at this point? Because you gotta think you could probably pay an editor now. Or is it more just like, oh, if I don't fucking do this, the vision's not gonna be executed correctly. Exactly. That's how I feel as an artist. I don't I don't, I trust it. I won't say with specific videos, because then the videographers would be, you know, exposed. But I I tried, I tried. You know, what I'm saying? You tried it. To let somebody else just think like, okay, you you did the camera work, go ahead and edit it. And then I get it back and I'm like, okay, send me the files. You know what I'm saying? Like the vision, I already have it in my head before we shoot it. So it only makes sense that I finished the finished the work. You know what I mean? That's something I really can't get around until maybe I get I find the right video company or videographers that really have can really sit down with me and understand, you know, the vision. Yeah. Yeah.

No, it's it's tough. I mean, even just letting go of like editing some of the content from the pod, we it's like your baby, you know, and like you got this certain way, you know it needs to look. And it's especially when your passion is in the result, the outcome of it. Like some of these, like, so maybe if I had like uh a song that was just like a turn up club song, and I might just let that one go. But when it comes to these serious messages and things that I'm really trying to affect people's lives, and it's people's salvation on the line, it's people's um, you know, freedom on the line, it's people's, you know, mental, emotional freedom on the line, it's people, you know, people's addictions on a line, you know. Like, I can't just let somebody freestyle it. You know, what I mean? I mean, that can't be a uh like some money for somebody. That has to be like they have to edit it with their heart, like I do, you know what I mean? So it's like too close to home or it's too personal. Yeah, this this art of yours, where you know, not to say that people making club bangers that it's not, you know, personal to them, but like you feel more responsible for the result.

It sounds like. Like if I drop the ball, I'm not just dropping the ball for me, you know. You know, it's not just like your career at stake. It's like you're looking at this at a very grander scale of like who can this help? Even if it's one person, even if it's one view, one person, I want to make sure that I put everything into it. You know what I'm saying? It's also just if you're paying someone like one time or you know, an hourly wage or whatever to get this little project off versus someone who's like invested in the whole fucking thing, you know. It's like it's almost like give the fucking videographer five percent of your entire company to shoot all your videos instead of paying them this, and then they're just like, okay, I gotta do this until I'm done. But even even that though, yeah, it's still dropped the ball. I think it's still a matter of timing, though. I think we're gonna find the right person. You're gonna probably find the right person eventually, right? Like, because there's other people out there other than us that have personal messages they want to get across, and they have found the right team member to execute the vision, right? But I think it's definitely don't want to, you know, end up being like Forever. 50

Editing your own shit. Yeah, still sitting on the computer, yeah, for sure. Um so I don't want to misrepresent you, right? So, like when you go up to someone and they're like, hey, what do you do? Here I'm a rapper, motivational speaker. Like, well, what what would you characterize or categorize your subgenre of rap as you know it it sounds so cliche, right? Because some so many rappers, like you can't put me in no category. Yeah, yeah, no, that's 100% a rapper. But but at the same, but but really though, like I do so much. Like I really do got club anchors. Like I really do got them kind of songs, you know. You know what I mean, I really got, you know, RB songs, I really got songs that really are uncategorized. Like my vote don't count. You can't just call that nothing. You know what I mean? So I would put it like this, you know, like you could say it's one thing or you could say it's everything.

You could you could call it conscious rap because I don't, even in a club song, I'm going to rap from the heart. You know what I'm saying? So you could if you want to say conscious, you can say conscious. Um I didn't think about conscious rap. Like I guess that could be. But but the thing is, like when it's not the total picture. When you hear conscious rap, your mind. You think something different. You think like Common. Yeah. It's not, it's really not what you do. But it's just like yeah. It's a little typically more like light. Yours is a little like intense, and you know what I mean? Like, or at least from a lot of like the records, you know, intent in it. In a good way, but yeah. Yeah. I'm in the mind, the third eye open, the cookie, that type of like so here's the equal question that artists hate. Are there any artists that you compare yourself to, or you would say that you kind of sound like or have a similar vision to? Yeah, I was just trying to get an idea because even like the my vote don't count um like record, right? Because I know that that's like slightly an anomaly, you know, of a record for you, but then at the same time, I do think that like a lot of the ones that have these like you know, intense messages and like very, you know, real life shit that you're talking about, you know what I mean?

I do, I was just curious, like who else is doing that? You know what I mean? Like, like who do you look at? I guess I kind of, I kind of threw out like a childish, childish or like a joiner or like, uh, those kind of guys, you know, Gambino. Yeah, like I don't I don't know. I mean, who do you kind of see as like peers of yours if if you ever have given that any thought? See, I don't give it that much thought. Let me tell you why, right? I'm a strong believer in like if you got a talent, do your talent, don't do what you like, if that makes sense. So I'm talented at the type of music I make, but the type of music I make is not the type of music I listen to. So what do you listen to? Now it's hard. Like, like my favorite artist is like Meek Mill is my favorite rapper, you know what I'm saying? I listen to Tee Grizzley, Blac Youngsta. Like, yeah, so nah. So the type of music that I make That's funny. That's a bar though, to lean into what you're good at. And what you like, because some I feel like a lot of people really try to chase the type of music that they like and they missing a mark of what they good at, you know what I mean? How do you find that?

You have to stay motivated. Did you evolve? Did you used to make music like the people you liked? Like like the Meek Mills? No, because I think that ain't really my life for real. You know what I'm saying? I think that it comes down to authenticity, you know what I'm saying? And if you if you're chasing somebody else's lifestyle, I feel like you would never be received the way they being received because nobody will see you like you see them. You know what I'm saying? Like, if I if I try to be, if I, if I try to be Meek Mill and I didn't grow up like Meek Mill, I would, I would never get Meek Mill's fans. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I would probably sound so corny doing like you know what I'm saying? Yeah, like no, I mean I I think that would be you. I think that the reason why we have like a fascination with certain street rappers is because you can literally you can tell this motherfucker's about that life. Yeah, even if we're not, no, exactly, you can hear it, exactly, and appreciate it, but like someone that's making music that's trying to be about that life, the audience can sniff that shit out bro. We are smart. We are fucking detectives in this shit. Exactly, that's a fact. You can hear it, like, and it's subconscious. I can hear your voice, you don't mean what you talk about, right? Yeah, you've never live this yeah yeah and I even ah man I go back and forth on this all the time with like artists I know I won't you know name drop but like drop one drop a name no even like the even the you know I've got money I've got cars I've got clothes where if you don't have the money money cars and clothes I'm kind of just like I don't know like it can work don't get me wrong there's a lot of rappers that have rapped about like that lifestyle that they weren't actually living I I also feel like when it comes to success though I ain't gonna lie good music always wins you know what I'm saying if you're really good at making music you know what I'm saying it don't matter what your lifestyle is if the song is good people gonna you know respect it as a good song they don't really care what your life is like it's like an actor playing a role that's not how they are but if you but like just if your music ain't fire it's going to stick out like it's gonna get scrutinized super heavy exactly it's a way bigger scale it's a way it's just micro it's on a microscope when the music ain't top tier you know it's almost like people don't give a fuck if the music is hitting that hard because the thing is when it's authentic your music could be okay and you'll still get a fan base because people feel the authenticity Yeah. You know what I'm saying? but then still the like caliber of the actual music authenticity aside is also a part of the equation. Exactly yeah yeah.

That's true. That's true so so at what point did you start kind of like the motivational speaking side of like your brand, right? Like, how long ago does that go back? Was that like from the jump? No, that wasn't from the jump. Um, motivational music was from the jump. But I think uh just with music, just with my purpose in life, period. I feel like a lot of times when I do motivational videos, 98% of the time I be talking to myself. And um, you know, and I think when I start going viral with a lot of my songs, you know what I'm saying? Um I started to realize that some stuff that I was just so passionate about, it's millions of other people that benefit off of me just talking about my story or talking about somebody in my family that went through this. And once I got the fan base, I realized how much people need to hear some stuff that I experience every day. So it's like I would be selfish to sit on something that I just realized today.

Like, you know, I might realize something in this podcast, like, yo, you know, I don't know, white people are cooler than I thought. You know what I'm saying? Like, but all right, interview's over. That was our goal. But just say if that was my my thing, it might be like uh millions of black people that don't feel like that. So that could be you know, what I mean? there are sadly there are. So why would I hold that to myself without sharing it? So it's just kind of like that. Like, I gotta let people know. Can you can you make a motivational post about that? Like, make the next one? No. No, I love that. all white people aren't that bad. I met a couple cool guys, they have this podcast. I love what you said about making shit for yourself. Cause I I started like posting TikToks, trying to do TikTok, you know, on a personal like producer level, and the shit that I found popping off the hardest. I was even writing in the caption. I was like, you know, this is for me. You know, it's like message to myself a lot of the times with the content. And those are stuff that resonated ended up resonating the most with people.

Just because I thought it was for me. It's like Rick Rubin says like the last people you create for is your audience. Like, don't think about your audience. You make it for you, and the audience finds the product. That's a way better way of doing it. Yeah, because I mean, we even, you know, literally before you walked in, we were interviewing an artist, uh, you know, Michael Aristotle, and like he talked about, you know, I make music, and who it's for, it's for them, and who it's not for, it's not about like fuck you, it's just like it's just not for them, you know? And so yeah, I think that is a good point. And I do think that like I always talk about this, man. What's gonna be sustainable? How long can you do it? Like you keep up a facade. Exactly. It's not you. How long can you do something you don't actually fuck with? Like, we even talk about this of like man, we gotta make content and like interview people that we actually because people ask to be on the show all the time. And I'm like, bro, I would be doing you a disservice and myself because if I don't actually genuinely want to sit down with you for an hour plus and have a conversation, I'm gonna quit doing this. You know what I mean?

Like it will drive me to quit. So same thing with like artists, it's like y'all gotta make the music that you want to make at the end of the day because it's the only thing that's gonna keep you like able to have the like, you know, I guess motivation, if you will, to get up every morning and do it, you know what I'm saying? Absolutely. Good point. But but so, like, where do you get the motivational thinking, right? Like, are you a big reader? Do you watch other motivational speakers? Does it come from? Like, I know you're a big guy of faith. Is it all like coming from God in your mind? Like, you know what I mean? Like, where do you get the things to say, right? Like the motivational thoughts. It's a it's I feel like it's it's it's all of it, you know. Um, sometimes, you know, God give me messages, and I'll be like, okay, I'm I'm gonna say that. And then sometimes it's life experience It's something that I uh I just experienced that day and I want to share. And then, you know, I I listen to other motivational speakers, other people. I listen to people when they talk, you know, like that's one thing I feel like is super valuable is to just live like when I'm when you're talking, I'm not thinking about the next thing I'm gonna say.

I'm thinking about every single thing you're saying, you know what I mean? Because it's valuable, you know what I'm saying? Even if it's incorrect, it's value in realizing something. Like it's everything is a lesson. So, you know, I try to just keep my ears open and my eyes open. Yeah, I think I do struggle with like the concept of listening through people versus listening to people, yeah, you know, because it is something where, you know, especially for me, like even just doing interviews, like I am always trying to make sure that like we keep the conversation going, like this, that and the third, right? So it is a balance of the thing. It's yellow being boring as fuck right now. Jesus, Henry, no, not that at all. And you're not. But I just mean in general, like I almost like put the pressure, I almost like put the pressure on myself to make sure that like, oh shit, like that I am prepared for the next thing, right? But I think as an interviewer, though, that's that's kind of what you kind of gotta do. You know, I know, but still, there are he's right, but we're all interesting enough people that we can have conversations that whatever you say, I might be more it might take the conversation further if I'm listening to versus listening through. Maybe my next fucking question is not as important as the response to whatever it is that you just were saying.

And I think 90 episodes in, I've definitely gotten better at that. But it's even shit that like my wife gets on me, you know what I mean? Because it's like I just want to get to my point, you know what I mean? Like, all right, well, Ben, what you're saying is pretty boring. So what's your next uh point here? I thought you had the next question, Henry. Uh I have the last portion coming up. No, but I I was, you know, kind of curious, like, how do you stay motivated? Um I feel like you find motivation and discipline, right? And I use the uh the gym as a perfect example, you know what I'm saying? Like which you've been hitting it. Yeah, for sure. I can tell, man. His biceps are about to hit me in the face. So it's like one of them things like you go to the gym, you know what I'm saying? And um, or just say like the first day, you're like, I'm so ready to get strong or lose weight, whatever you go and you got all this motivation, right? Done that like a thousand times.

And they're like, what is that? I don't know what that means. What is that? Henry's like, never tried it. What's this gym you speak of? Four days in, you wake up, you see your alarm going off, and you're like, bro, I don't want to go to the you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but discipline creates motivation, right? So you you walk, you walk into the gym, you still don't want to do this. You start walking on the treadmill, you still don't want to do this. And like this is the discipline that's happening, you know what I'm saying? You start jogging, and now you're three minutes in and you're trying to get to five minutes, and now you have five minutes and you want to go to seven minutes. Now you got like, ah you feel like you felt the first time you went, and I think it's just like have a little bit of discipline and a motivation to come back over and over. But if you don't have the discipline, you will have to wait for the next time some motivational speaker get you excited. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, it's doing the things that you don't want to do. It's literally being having the fortitude to go against what your short-term brain is telling you. Like this is gonna be painful, this is gonna be uncomfortable, but finding a way to just fucking do it anyway, right?

That's such a powerful skill in itself. Yeah, I mean, for me, that gym story though, I need to try and get back in the gym. Like just after you said it. Are you motivated. No, no, just because I've felt that. Yeah, like literally the whole thing he was talking about like the three minutes to five minutes to seven minutes. Yeah, that shit's real. Well, because the hardest part is literally starting. Yeah. Once you start, it's like you're in there, you know. You get to what you get to two minutes, you're like, all right, and then five minutes, but like, did you drive to the fucking gym and then start? That's the whole thing. I'll be sleepy with an attitude. I've been I've been I've been here in the gym consistently for probably about two years, you know what I'm saying? Uh maybe a little bit more. But like I be sleepy with an attitude every time, and I get motivated like a few minutes in to it, right? Yeah, and I pretty much know that I'm gonna get there now. So now I'll be like, I had an attitude, but I'll be like, I know I'm just gonna shake like 20 minutes. The worst part is just convincing yourself to fucking just start. Yeah, so does everyone at the gym know not to talk to you if you just walked in? Because they're gonna catch some like yellow attitude.

I go five in the morning, so everybody kind of got that same energy. Everyone's pissed off, everyone's pissed off until they start working out exactly. And they haven't had their espresso yet. Yeah, oh god, the five in the morning workout. So coming from Ohio, when did you move to Atlanta? 2020. Oh, okay, wow. Sorry, so you've been here just uh north of three years at this point, yeah, south of three years. South. 2023? 2020. It's just now 2020. Regardless, Henry. Jesus. Um I'm the math guy on the podcast. What were your first impressions of Atlanta? Um, well, I have been coming to Atlanta. Like uh Atlanta had always been like the the place to go, you know what I'm saying? Since when I was like 15, you know what I mean? Like but why from Ohio? Well, it's just period in America, like when it comes to especially black entertainment. Yeah, oh yeah. Atlanta is the place to go. It's the Mecca for sure. People move from all around the world to be in the the black hip hop culture.

Just they move here for that. So I knew that that was the place to go. Um beats at the bar isn't happening in Dayton. I knew that, Henry. I just meant like he's arguably closer. I don't actually know if you're closer to New York, for example, but just like this, I'm not. Okay. Yeah, it that's, that's, you'd seem like it seemed like it would be, but it's not yeah. But but uh but uh but New York is not is, is, you have come on, bro. No, trust me, I I get it. We've had tons of people, especially like the HBCU presence here, like with Morehouse and Spellman and Clark, It breeds black success, like for sure. The culture is here, yes. And and black, like you said, black success is here. You know, you you you go to the the hospital and the doctors just black, you get pulled over the cop is black, you know. You go to a restaurant and the owner is black. I don't that's that don't happen nowhere else, but really Atlanta. Not saying people don't have ownership in other places, but in Atlanta, it's just coming from where I'm from, you don't even see that type of prosperity in in a black community. So yeah, well, yeah, I think statistically it literally is like per capita income and shit, like for black people.

I think it is like the most successful city, like when it comes to black people in America. I think it is like the number one. I don't know the statistics, but I know for sure where I'm from in comparison to Atlanta, it's day and night. So um so yeah, so I I I definitely always have been like super excited to come here. Um, and I think um moving here, I was like all the stuff I just named is all of the reasons why I'm like, oh man, I want to stay here because I'm able to see people that look like me winning, you know what I'm saying? And they're not selling drugs, you know what I'm saying? Like as far as when I first moved here, I moved here during the pandemic. So you can imagine how upsetting that was. Yeah, we didn't really shut down like that though. We didn't really like it. Well, if you were smart, you still did. You personally shut down even if but you could just imagine, you could just imagine. I'm talking about at the at the high like the the start of the pandemic when they first like I moved in April 2020, right now. That's when it was just like that was the height.

America shut down. All right, that's the worst. It was the worst time to move. Yeah, it's like that's the worst time to move anywhere. Yeah, yeah. Atlanta, aside, I bet you were on a plane by yourself though, which was nice. You said what? I bet the plane over here was like empty. That was when like flights were cheap and there was no one was on planes. Oh, you drove here. Okay, well then you're definitely by yourself. Yeah, because I was I was moving, moving. So I was like, Okay, oh true, yeah, Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So, you know, it's towards the beginning of 2023 still. What are we looking forward to this year? Uh so I got a documentary coming out. Oh shit. Tell us more. Whatever you can share. It's on civic engagement. Um, it's called Simplified. The title is subject to change, but I got a uh a screening in LA uh next week. Oh shit. Is there gonna be an Atlanta screening at all? There was. Um but these are these are more than that. Did we meet you? Did we meet you too late? Yeah, Just like like like about a month too late. Oh man, I'm a dope extra. He has been in some music videos.

It's a documentary um really showing people um how important voting really is. So you know I'm I'm talking to different politicians, I'm talking to people in the community, and I'm bridging the gap between the people who understand and the people who don't. And it's it's funny parts in there, it's super entertaining. So it's called Simplified. Damn. So did you like direct and produce it and everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shot it Most of it. crazy. Damn. Yeah, so you went, you went like full send into like the civic engagement. Yeah, yeah. Like you, it like really woke you up. Do you have any political aspirations yourself? No. Okay. No, I like that. No mayorship or uh governorship or not gonna pull a Herschel on us? I recommend I would probably recommend uh some more uh young people to run. I wouldn't even want somebody with my type of schedule to be in office because that uh that would piss me off as somebody like you gotta say convince all these people that you're the right person for the job and you got like shows all week. It's just like yeah, it doesn't work.

Yeah, like what why would you do that? He just dropped a music video, isn't he supposed to be like fucking passing some laws or some shit? You'd have to quit, you'd have to quit uh music essentially to be really good. To be effective to to, to be to do my job, or to not be a sleazeball. Exactly. you know what I'm saying? So not just be dicking around with the music is a very demanding job, but I mean maybe when I'm like 60 or something, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Damn. Yeah, how long do you think the yellow hair is gonna stick? Until you're 60? Oh well, it's the brand at this point. my grandfather, he died with an afro, so that's hard. So I don't think balding is is uh an option. You know how like they got the videos. Is that your mom's dad, by the way? That's my uh my my pop's dad. Okay, because mom's dad is apparently the one that whose hair you take out. Yeah, it's funny, but it's funny though, because you know how they've like that video didn't live very long. You know what I'm saying? Did I be like bald in like five years? Like, pull this. It didn't age one comment, didn't age well. Yo, check back in in a couple years.

Let's see how yellow's uh hair is doing. He's gonna be LL Cool J wearing hats all the time. That's funny, man. No, but um, but yeah, I mean, you know, so yeah, documentary. Yeah, yeah, documentary. Um anything else musical? We got an album coming out or any songs? That's nonstop, bro. Nonstop. You know what I'm saying? So um I got some very impactful records that I'm putting out this year. You know what I'm saying? I got uh EP uh that's gonna come in conjunction with the documentary. Okay, love that. Yeah, yeah. So that's genius, man. Yo, you got an amazing story. Your energy is just like unmatched, bro. Seriously, seriously cool, dude. And like love, love the message that you're pushing. We have entered a final segment, Henry. Uh-oh. Where the fuck are we at? This is let's see if we're at 350k real quick. 335k. Hey. Hey, almost nailed it. We probably will be 350 by the end of the day. Bro, yellow's our good look charm, Yeah. He's our guy. He's he's gonna be, he's definitely gonna stick around for sure.

So this final segment is called the Rapid Fire Rampage. Okay, rapid fire rampage. Let's do it. It's a three part rampage. I'm gonna start with some short answer questions, real simple. I'm gonna move into a this or that. I give you two choices, you pick one. Okay. I'm gonna close it out with a word association where I say one word, and you just give me the first word right off the top of your head, right back at me. Okay. Sound good? Yeah. All right, starting with the short answer. Episode 90. All right, YelloPain. This is the Rapid Fire Rampage. You've just started a heavy metal gospel band. What instrument do you play? And what is it called? Uh heavy metal gospel. Oh coming out hot. Yeah. It was a tough one. You said rapid fire. This is going slow. This is one of the hardest songs. I don't know why this was first. And then you gotta name the instrument. Okay. So uh uh heavy metal gospel. Yeah.

Probably played like some clash and cymbals or something. Okay. Percussionist. Yeah, it's just sound loud. Yeah. Uh and then name the band, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, name the band. Your heavy metal gospel band. What's it called? The holy devils. Ooh. Damn, that's kind of hard. Yeah, the dichotomy of it. I love that. I like it. Yellow, you just inherited 10 million dollars tax-free. What are your first two moves? My first two moves. With your tax-free 10 mil. Tax-free 10 mil. Oh. I feel like if I got first two first moves, I'm already dropping the ball. Like, put it up. First move is like, think about it. Yeah. It's like you got two moves already. You just got 10 million Yeah. Uh no, but um uh man, that's a tough one. I'm not doing fast at all. I started hard.

Though we'll get easier. Okay. To be fair. 10 million tax-free first two moves. Um, why not go get fly and then give some charity? Oh, he's oh, I'm tripping. I ain't even pay my tithes, bro. So pay tithes. He said, He's a man of God. Yeah, he's not paying his tithes. Pay tithes and get dripped out. Yeah, pay tithes and get dripped out. They're equal. They're not one before the other. That works. Perfect. Okay. Let's do it. Perfect, perfect. Yeah. Yellow, what is he felt God like just looking at him like, What about them tithes, bro? Come on. man. Got tithes and not tithes. Yeah. Yellow. What is the smallest thing that can ruin your day? The smallest thing that can ruin my day. Or just a small thing that can ruin your day. Someone not wiping down the equipment at the gym before you get 5 a.m. Sweaty back. Smallest thing that can ruin my day is being around somebody else with a ruined day. Love that.

Fantastic. Don't bring that negative energy around us. Exactly. In a freaky Friday type of scenario, you're able to switch lives with someone for one day. Who do you choose to switch lives with? I want to switch lives with a probably a homeless person. Ooh. Wow. See if I can get out of it. Yeah, that's a good answer. You got 24 hours to become un-homeless. That would be a feat. You should experience that. Most people would be like, Bill Gates. That's what I'm saying. That's great. This guy's awesome, dude. shout out to yellow. man. I love this guy, dude. Who's putting themselves on the ground floor, you know, when they could be at the fucking penthouse, bro? Fire. He's like, Nah, homeless crack addict, I'd say. See if I can get clean and find a home. Fire. Like, damn, man, that's awesome. Yellow, what is the most likely way that humanity will come to an end? Arguments.

Just disagreeing. Yo. About everything. Politics. You know, everything, religion. You know. Tell me this. If you had two extra noses, where would you put them? Yeah. Two extra noses. Where else? Where else would I want to smell from? Exactly. I can think of one place you don't want one from. Yeah, exactly. I put one in my hand so I could smell. Like a mobile, like what's that smell like? So I could sneak, I could sneak the smell. You know what I mean? Like if I'm messing with a girl, I just kind of like. Yeah, how you doing? Yeah. Oh, nope. Nope. Not for me. Never mind. So one in the hand. One in the hand. Um, the other nose. Nose three. Oh, your third nose. Where's it going? Oh. Oh, under my arm. That way I can know when I'm when you need to reapply D.O. Exactly. Love that. That's a fantastic answer. That would that would basically make it would force you into always having clean underarms all the time.

So you gotta get it together. Yep. That's my favorite answer. Yeah, that's fucking amazing. So, how about this? What is a profession that you highly respect but you could never do? Highly respect, but could never do. You're killing me with that. You didn't think I had the Jeopardy music on that. Uh man. It's Jeopardy music sauce. I don't feel like it's nothing I could never do. I think that's what it is. Um, but that's kind of a fire answer. You could be an astronaut, you could be a fireman, you could be a doctor, you could be a lawyer, you could do all that shit. I know I can. You know what I'm saying? That's a fire answer, right there. Yeah. We'll take that. Nothing he can't do. Nothing. I like that. I like it. Um, this answer is gonna require you to pull out your phone real quick. All right, let's do it. This is a cool podcast. Yes.

All right. What's the last text you sent, and what is it about? The last text I sent. I'm getting into the private life of YelloPain right now. I'll text uh not including Ben if you were like getting here. I was just about to do it. I knew it. The last person he said, he said, who did you call? He said, I called Ben, and I was like, Yeah, but you just said you were outside. Not including that. Uh let me see. Before that, yeah. Uh uh, it's not interesting. I sent an Instagram video to my management team. Okay. What was the what was the video? The video I posted earlier. Okay. Were you like, yo, look how good this is doing? I'm gonna ask for it so they can post it on the other page. Uh okay. Fair enough. All right, he's just getting down to business. Doing work, it's working. I love it. I love it. Working. Yellow, how many strawberries would fit in a treasure chest? That's different size treasure chest. You know that, right? Average size, standard size, standard size. Okay. Standard size treasure chests. So is this like a like a treasure chest? Standard size.

Yeah. Like, you know, like a something a pirate would find. You know what I mean? Okay. I say. How many strawberries? Strawberries. I say probably like 700. 700 strawberries? 700 strawberries in the treasure chest. Yeah. Okay, last one of the short answer. Invent an app. Okay. Right now. What is it? What does it do? What's your app do? I can't be giving you out my sauce. I don't even know. Well, then make a shitty fish. Give us of bullshit. It doesn't have to be good. It's just about it. All right. Boom. Uh boom. Let's do something. A coffee finder. You can find all the coffee shops. Whoa. Coffee. Coffee app. Love it. Part one. There you go. Part one. Not bad. You started off real slow. Start off slow. Real slow. Got better throughout it. Thank God the answers were good when he was slow because if you're slow. Yeah, like if you're slow and you have shitty answers, like it's over. Yeah. You're going and going down in history as like the worst rapid fire rampager. It's definitely gonna come down to the next two sections.

So this is the this or that section. Let's see how you do. Uh huh. That's quick. Yeah. There's two choices. You'd think. Oh yeah. Here we go. Intro or outro. Intro. Drums or melodies? Melodies. Organ or choir. Choir. Play every instrument or speak every language. Every language. Free pizza or calorie-free pizza? Free pizza. You're tripping. I'll take that calorie-free pizza. Oh. dang. Moving on. Midday or midnight. Midday. To be or not to be. To be. Okay, Romeo. Twitter, Twitter, or TikTok? TikTok. Yellow. Sorry. Purple pain or yellow sorrow. That's depressing. Sad, man. But yellow sorrow is closer to yellow pain. So do yellow sorrow.

But something about sorrows. It sounds way worse. Oh god, don't change your name to that. Definitely not purple pain. Yeah, you got the alliteration going? It's kind of hard. No. Alright, anyway. Severely crack your phone screen right now, or give yourself a moderate to severe paper cut. I'll crack the phone screen. He doesn't want that paper cut. I'll paint it now. I don't feel like hurting. You ever just feel like hurt? I feel like hurt right now. I hurt right now. You do have pain in your name. So how about this? Okay. It was nice. How about this? How about this? Sneeze whipped cream or cry barbecue flavored tears. Sneeze whipped cream. I gotta eat it too. Hell yeah. I might eat my barbecue tears too, though. I don't know. Oh, God. But it's not my question. Anyway, never never experience traffic again, or never get any mild sicknesses again. No cold. No colds, no flus, done.

You're sitting in traffic. You haven't been in Atlanta that long, huh? No. Bro, I don't care if it's LA traffic. If I can never get sick again. Exactly. Absolutely. That's a good one for sure. Yes. All right. Last one of the this or that. Snitch on a friend or do a year in jail for a crime your friend committed. I'm doing the year. He's doing the year. He's Doing the time. That's a fucking part two. That's the guy. Man right there. All right, part two is way better. Way better. Your stock just went up, bro. Stock just went up for sure. Yeah. So now it's like at the make or break with the last part. This is the word association. I'm gonna say one word. You just say the first word, maybe two words, first thought off the top of your head. The quicker the better. This is the rapid fire rampage. Are you prepared? All right, it's buckled up. Starting as always with hip hop, music, designer, clothes, cousin, Skeeter. Amazing. Desert.

Eagle. Salt. Pepper. Nightmare. Dream. 42. Doug. Bodega. Corner store. Cash. Money. Subway. Cookies. It is their best product. People's brains work so different. I was thinking like New York. Yeah. This is nuts. I was thinking about the back of the day. I actually changed it from MARTA to Subway because it's just you know global global. He's thinking the subway fucking franchise. That's what I wanted him to think. Yeah, and the cookies are the best part. Anyway, moving on. That's a fact. Podcast. One more time. One more time. NFT. Uh what's the nigga's name? I'm gonna say uh uh forgot Gary V. Yes, Gary V. NFT God. Yeah. Gary V. Atlanta.

Uh traffic. No, okay. Bringing the Yeah, okay. Miracle. What? Lil. Zane. Who's Lil Zane? Zane. Oh, Zayn. Yeah. Lil Zane. Wait a minute. That is baby. That's funny. There you go. I was just saying somebody I probably do not know. Diamond. Cut up. Front. Yeah. Hey. I switched that one at the last second. too. This has been another episode of the One More Time Podcast. Yellow Pain. Appreciate you coming on as always. Please like comment and subscribe. We appreciate y'all for the support. Thank you for coming on, my man. Appreciate you, man. Until next week, what are we doing? Getting out of here. Getting the fuck out of here. Peace. Peace. Yeah