Bear1Boss Interview: Atlanta's Hottest Underground Rapper is a POPSTAR?

My Instagram was hacked on that time. It's still just scary to me to rely so heavily on one platform. So my shit is like more like music. We could take pictures of me, but let's hear this audio. What do he sound like? He's an artist, right? He's not an influencer. You didn't get a bunch of followers and then put out a song because you had followers. You put out a bunch of songs and got followers. I'm gonna do everything you take to be the biggest artist in the world. The One More Time podcast has finally made it. Welcoming in Lil Uzi Vert. Oh my god. Oh s***. He's here. Lil Uzi. Vertical. Oh my God. Oh. I can't believe it's happening. Nah, nah. We got the we have the professional fun haver. Yes. You said that in an interview before. I don't know if you yeah, I don't know if you remember this. It's a fire type. The professional fun haver. We got Mr. Hot Sauce. We got I am such a legendary guy. You are.

Bear One Boss. That's crazy. Bear One Boss at the One More Time Podcast. Bear One Boss. Man, I'm excited about this one. It's gonna be a good one. Holy shit. We were having a lot of fun. So you're kind of like the king of the underground scene here in Atlanta, at least. If not like honestly, potentially like in the US in general. But do you do you like the term underground rapper? No. No, right? Yes. Yes. It's something to come from. Like, it's like, where would I come from? I gotta come from something. You know, like it's a culture. Like, it's like graduation. Like, you gotta, it pushes you to go to the next level, you know. I wouldn't know what next level was if it wasn't a level to So you don't want to remain underground forever. I'm not. I'm not underground at this point. I'm on this podcast right now. That's true. If you're on the one more time podcast, this is not underground. Superstars only on the One More Time Podcast. Underground artists are gonna look at this and be like, I want to be on this. Yeah. That's fire. Yeah, I just feel like I'm disrespecting an artist sometimes if I call them like an underground.

I don't know. Maybe is that like in my head. Allow them to tell you. Yeah. Yeah. It feels I love the underground. Yeah. Underground artists. Some people. One time, look. So I was called, I talked to BK one time. I was like, oh yeah, you big now because she was on radio. BK the ruler. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, crap. We all came up around the same time. Like, I still look at her as underground though, even though she thinks she's underground still. This is what I'm talking about. So I'm talking to her. I'm like, oh, you big now, sir? like it's up. She's like, no, no. No. She's pissed. Underground, like forever. Like, no. She loves it. Yeah. So it's like. It's like currency, too. I feel like currency is one of those guys that's like so comfortable being like not the A list. Yeah. But his fans on the, I don't want to say B list, but but they love him for that. He is like he connects deeply with those people. And it's okay. It's supposed to be like it's levels. It is. It's people on every level. Yeah, it's it's weird. It's like, especially in the underground scene.

I'm talking about like the fans now, right? They do like I just feel like you're probably gonna lose a lot of your fans once you cross over that threshold, unfortunately. Isn't that such a weird like paradox of like you can't do it? You gotta do it naturally. Yeah, you're gonna lose the hipsters that only like you because you're small, and fuck them anyway. Like if you like an artist, like the other thing. No, don't fuck them. I mean, really there are people that just like artists because they're small and they're too cool for school, and that you don't need them anyway. Or if you lose a fan because you get big, are you gonna miss that fan? Yeah, probably I don't think that's gonna happen with me because the way my perception and how I'm coming about it, it. It's like the whole thing is like, bear, it's gonna get big. We want bear to be big. Why is Bear not big yet? Okay, so it's not like it's like I'm giving them a reason to. It's like being a wrestler or something. Like my thing is this. Their thing is that. So it's like they're gonna treat it as such. My thing is like on the road to WrestleMania. So it's like, shit, we wait, we gotta go through all these obstacles with Bear as a fan.

Like, we gotta watch him go through this. Watch him talk to Trippie or watch him be with Drake, or watch him talk to Uzi, or watch him be with these people, or watch him be with these people. And then one of these, it's gonna be like, yay, we Rolling Loud, man, in that nighttime show. I knew this was coming. Like, we watched it, we did this. Yeah, I think it's I think you have to be very um like intentional about as you continue to you know grow as an artist. I think you need to be grounded, obviously humble. And I think you've even talked about over the last few years, even as you've progressed and as you've gotten bigger and more recognition, right? You've gotten cosigns from the people that you've named, right? Um it's really that you need to like stay grounded, right? Right. And that's where you won't lose that one fan that was just rooting for him because he was small and underground. It's if you treat it like a certain way when you cross into that, you know, next superstardom type of role. I think it's the attitude going into it.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. It's like just staying authentic to who you were when you were on the come up, even though it's it's tough. Let them know you're on the come up. Don't start the flexing like you already made it or whatever. Like, do your things as an artist to make sure, like, yeah, I'm popping today or whatever, I'm doing this. But like, but like be true to your come up. Yeah, that's a good one. Do you do you think a lot of artists uh act like they've made it too much, right? Because you're saying kind of like pop your shit, you know, when you want to pop your shit. I hate talking about people, but I love talking about people. This is what we're we got you for, man. Come on, let's get into it. So yeah, of course, I feel that. Yeah. Because it's like it, but it because it corners people like me, like who are being real. Like, I still got a mental brain. I still got emotions. So it's like, all right, I'm doing this, I'm doing this, my music is good. Okay, talent is cool. Talent is good. I'm also popular, but it's like, all right, I'm not a millionaire yet.

But it's like I do millionaire shit if I wanted to. We had a we had a guy on uh David the Tragic. I don't know if you've heard of him. It's just one of my favorite quotes on the podcast of all time. He's like, I'm at that level where everyone knows who I am, but I'm still broke. Yeah, shit like that. Like, I'm not sometimes like I could because you gotta think about it. I I'm living off like this in my career. So it's like monthly streams, of course. Which pays dick. Terrible, right? If you're streaming poorly. I think if you're streaming well, you're still, I'm a Maybe you cover rent. I come from the hood though. So it's like we come from I watched my grandma come off of like a thousand dollars a month, section they house. So me getting $500 a month is cheat code. That's a blessing, yeah. Yeah, it's like, whoa, I did this at 23. She was doing it at like 50. Yeah, okay. Well, in perspective, yeah. Whoa, okay, cool. It's a lot of little money, everyone. But um, yeah, yeah. Um shit, like, I still get books. Like, I might get like a little 2500 for a show or feature. Cool, but it comes randomly.

I can't plan. Yeah, it's not stable. But it's all at once, too. So me talking about what I was talking about earlier, I don't gotta keep up with these people who are flexing. So like I'm gonna have to spend my big check on a pair of shoes. Just so I could wear them all my way. Or how much did those shoes cost? 40 bucks. Yes. Really? So now it's like about style. Maybe put pick them up on time so we can get a good yeah. Big, little flex here. I seen um Shots out Griselda. I seen um Fly Guy, what's that gun? He has some ones. Those? Those type of shoes? Yeah, like in the fucking, it was um I forgot the song name. It was a song with Mos Def on there. Okay. So fire. I'm from Buffalo. I'm born from Buffalo, right? But I don't know that. So I'll be trying to get as much culture as I can from Atlanta. Okay. Do you still have family up there though? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you're you're kind of like finding yourself coming back to that scene musically even. Yeah, because like I've been traveling so much, so it's not I'm not trapped in Atlanta no more. So it's like I'm on some like repping America shit right now.

I'm not gonna lie. This dude's patriotic as fuck right now, Yeah, it was hard to even lock you down for this interview. This dude's patriotic as fuck right now, guys. Loves this country. Yeah, I'm on that. That's incredible. I'm coming to the country for this country. So I was listening. It's funny, you and I were actually talking about this topic, but not the specific example. So I was listening to a podcast with Ice Cube earlier. Right. Okay. And Ice Cube was basically somehow he was relating AI to auto-tune. And you know, I don't want to get into that whole comparison. But basically, he was saying that auto-tune and basically removing rappers' voices or kind of like standardizing rappers' voices, it has been an issue for like people to be recognizable, right? He thought it was all about the voice, because he grew up in an era where you could really tell who a rapper was because of their voice. And he was kind of like speculating that in a day of auto-tune, it just normalizes how everyone sounds, and like rappers, you can't really tell. who sounds like, Yeah, right? I disagree too. It's cadence, it's not auto-tune. So it's just different uh ways to recognize it.

Well, it's cadence, bro. You ever been a music class, bro? You know, like you've ever been in a chorus or anything dealing with music and education, you know, bro. It's the same. If you're gonna use the same cadence, it's gonna sound the same. It's a choir. I can make 500 people sing on the same chord. It's gonna be fire. And they can all have auto tune, yeah. It's gonna be. I can have let no auto tune, it's still gonna be the same note, same as in what they're doing. They all sound the same. I can have these people might have a higher pitch than these people, tenor, auto, soprano, but if I make them sing the same note, it's gonna be a harmony, a symphony. So, of course, if there's if people are sharing cadences from different sessions across the world, like if I'm over here recording over here and these people recording over there, and I'm on this type beat that you like, you're gonna be on that type beat that I'm like. Yeah, it felt super old-headed of him to sing. I mean, bro, think about like delay using delay. Let's look educational on music, like people use delay, like echoes, people use reverb. Like, if we all use reverb, everyone uses delay and reverb.

I don't think. Does that make us sound the same. Ice cube. I don't think Dr. Dre would agree with on a musical education though. Yeah, we should ask Dre when we have him on the pod. No, that's gonna be question number one for sure. So who do you think in Atlanta specifically deserves more credit for like the impact they've had on the culture here than they than they get right now? Like who's underappreciated coming out of scene? Schooly. Shout out Schooly, man. Yo, you ranted about Schooly in another interview. Come on, bro. Biggest Schooly. He's the president of the Schooly fan club. For sure. Like, literally, I'm the president of Schooly fan club. What about Schooly Do you think has been you know so impactful on the on the culture here? Look at him, bro. Just just take one glance, man. The man is a bro. He's pissed. He's a walking goat. Like he's a walking, like, and it's like y'all be on him doing like, and y'all don't know y'all making him feel a type of way. How so?

What do you mean? I can see it. I'm the only one that can allow him. I'm the little brother. So I can see him, like, like he only gonna be as as big as y'all want him to be. You know? So it's the perception shit. Like, y'all gotta boost my brother, bro, And he gonna do that. Cause he shows out. He's a talented artist. Oh, he's dope. I just seen Nicki talk about talent versus popularity. Like, yeah. You got people like us. We're slick mix. We're popular and talented. But if you got people who like, they might lose faith because you're not, you feel me? Do you think being part of a group like early on had any effect on what he's doing? No, I think it's more like it's also him, bro. I be on him too, bro. Cause like you can do what I'm doing, bro. Like, you could like you can do what I'm doing. Like, drop music, bro. So he's not dropping enough.

Get on that SoundCloud, bro. He's not dropping enough for sure. Get on that SoundCloud, bro. Don't be worrying on that label, because they that's not, they not gonna, they not gonna be mad at you for dropping no free music, bro. Yeah, YouTube SoundCloud. Please drop that. Audio Mac, Shout out to Audiomack who just posted you. Shout out the audio Mac. You can then your Schooly, like you can drop, just do that shit. Like, so he gotta, it's it's it's a mixture of him and the fans. Like they gotta like get back on the same page. You know, they gotta meet back up. Like, like yeah. Like, like yo, we we here, like, like I wanna do it just as much as y'all want me to do it. It's that meetup. Yeah, for sure. So you bring up an interesting point that actually was something I want to talk about. This whole idea of like talent and you know how good the music is and people fucking with the music versus popularity is what you're calling it. Basically, like personality. Do you get clicks? Do you get views because of who you are as a person on the internet, basically, right? What you know, you've talked about you are focused on the music, bro.

You want the audio to speak for itself, but yet you're such a fucking character at the same time. Content's fire too, bro. You know, it's like, do you find yourself, you know, when you maybe go viral because of something you do, not something that's associated directly with the music. Does that like fuck with your head a little bit? Or do you like that? Because, yeah, of course, I like it, it's a bonus. It'd be like, dang, I really am cool. And some of that's gonna obviously trickle into streams, and people might become super fans, right? Yeah, it'd be like, dang, I really am. I really because I don't really do the TikTok thing because I don't want to why I don't want to be, yo, you were pissed at that. Bro, you go crazy on TikTok. No, I know I just have to. It's just a platform. You know how long I worked on my Instagram. You don't have to do dance moves and shit, like be humble. Oh, he's clinging. He doesn't want to start from zero. No, he's clinging to the Instagram because he's not at zero followers. anymore on Instagram. That's weak, bro. I work so hard, bro. I'm gonna call you out on that.

Not gonna lie, it's not it's not even about that. It's like I don't want to look corny, bro. My biggest fear, bro. You can post whatever the fuck you want, it's just videos. I don't want to look corny though, bro. So make a not corny video. But what if I feel corny? Well, that's bad. Probably make another video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably make them until you don't feel corny. It's Just a platform, you sign up for an account for free. I have a I have a TikTok at I am bear One Boss. I had an old TikTok. Was Bear One Boss taken? Someone took Bear One Boss? Bro, so I don't know, you know, in the early come-ups to TikTok, you know, I I've been around social media. I'm an internet kid. Yes, yes. I was there the first day of the event. So I did my analyzation or whatever the made one at Bear One Boss. But um I think my I had switched my number or whatever. I had a new number. Oh, you got locked out? Locked out. TikTok's still developing even today. So there's no way unless I go talk to somebody that works at TikTok. Oh shit. We know someone that works at TikTok. We interviewed them. Maybe I can get my my original.

page back. The handle. Yeah. But yeah, so it's like it's like they don't even if I could try to forget the password or whatever, it doesn't even yeah. But it's just your number. Yeah, it shows up. Yeah. As it comes up if I search it, but if I try to log into it or change the password, it doesn't. Damn. Yeah, we could probably get we might try to get that figured out for you. Yeah, so that was a big on my cause I was gonna do it, bro. I'm better. You should do it, bro. I'm not scared, bro. It's just like, So first that was like all right. And your fans are Gen Z, bro. And your Gen Z are on TikTok. bro. They took, That's why I was like, when I seen, I be seeing how like other people do it, like I'm a fan of Yeet. Like I said, Yeet. Everybody else posts Yeet, lonely. Everybody else posts is lonely. Everybody they they don't post themselves on TikTok. So I'm trying to get that. I don't want to do it where I'm the TikTok influencer. I want the TikTok influencers to post about me. So that's why I use the platform that I got the most interactions on, which is Instagram or SoundCloud or YouTube or Apple Music or Spotify. That's where I post. So they'd

be like, all right, it might trickle down into the influencers. It just makes me nervous, man. Cause like people rely on these platforms. These platforms could disappear tomorrow. And that's another thing. We're good. Let's talk about this. Let's go. I got a hacked before. See? On Instagram. But guess what? But this this boosted me. Because it was like, okay, the same time I got hacked, right? I got a fire interview podcast with some big shit. Like one more time. Like us? Nah, it was back then. Oh, so not as big as us. Nah, like, nah, like, nah. God damn it, Henry. Nah, like, He was so confused. He's like, what is this guy telling you? bro. Yeah, I gotta go watch them shit. They shit, bro. They got like who is it again? Which one? Cozy vamp, bro. Oh, yeah. Cozy vamp. No, yeah, I saw that one. I saw that one. They tweaked, bro. So, like, anyway. I did my my Instagram was hacked on that time. Like, I knew I was gonna get it back or whatever, because you know, I'm eating Zuckerberg's on his shit. So it's like, okay, cool. Let's just go through the motions. But as I'm going through the motions, I'm realizing like, bro, I'm still doing this shit.

I'm doing shows and shit. People still coming up to me. Like, so while it was hacked, did you start a new one or did you just say fuck it? I'm gonna try and figure it out. You got Bear One Boss back? We'll figure it out. Yeah. Okay, so you you were just off Instagram for this time. But it's like, bro, come on. I see Cardi do that shit for like three years. I'm not worried about Instagram. Cardi can do that shit and be the biggest in the world. I can do that. Yeah. It's still just scary to me to rely so heavily on one platform. So my shit is like more like music. I know the music and the music platforms go out. That mean I can sell CDs again. So let's go. I don't care. I'm gonna drop music back to what you was talking about. I don't give a fuck about that uh picture shit. Like, we could take pictures of me, but what that music sounds like, like let's get on Billboard right quick. Yeah, yeah, let's hear this audio. What he sound like he's an artist, right? He's not an influencer. Yeah, he's not a um a model. He's not a yeah, you didn't you didn't get a bunch of followers and then put out a song because you had followers. You put out a bunch of songs and got followers.

And got followers. You feel me? So my people are fans. Yeah. Yeah. Clutch. That's how it is. So I'd be, I'm, I'm gonna do everything you take to be the biggest artist in the world. Yeah, you've got lofty goals. I mean, this guy wants every type of plaque that there is. I I know there might be like bronze plaques or some shit. He wants a few of those. Like of course, diamonds, platinums, I mean, gold. There's not a bronze plaques. I'm just saying this dude wants all the fucking awards. I like heard him in another interview. Like trip to the biggest. I want to raise one of my best friends, right? Yeah. I and we like the same age. You gotta think about what that does to me. Yeah, that's crazy. I watched, I see it. It's my comparison shit. Do you like in your own head about that? But in a good way. So that fires you up. Competitive. He allows me to do it. Other artists won't do that. Other artists won't let you see their accolades and let them like let you be inspired. Yeah. He allows me to be inspired. And then he also shows the love. Like he allows himself to be inspired back.

Because he also on the steel. he got bigger goals than what he got. That's why he got what he got. Because his goals are bigger than what he has. You feel me? That's why my goals got bigger. Cause like, bro, you the same age and you still going on some shit. You want something that you not. You want something so bad. I can't tell you what he want, but he wants something so bad. And everybody around him knows that he wants something so bad, he's on the road to get the shit. Because the shit that he's getting. It's some, I think I seen something in the Bible or something. It was like, you just gotta stay righteous and stay on the path, and then all this stuff going to come with it. That like all your biggest dream plus more. Did Trippie try to sign you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you decide against that? Not completely. It's more of some like, I want to see, I just want to keep growing right now. You know? Yeah. Are you against the rapper sign to rapper thing? No. I'm not. I'm never would. Look at Gunna. Oh gosh.

Well, well. Yeah, no, but yeah, no, that is a good example. Like, like signed to a rapper and he blew up. Yeah, so like, yeah. So it's like, bruh. Yeah, all other circumstances aside, I guess. Lonely, Ken. Yeah. Ken. It's more. Um, Wayne, Birdman was a rapper, bro. Well, I don't know about that. We love hating on Birdman more than anything. Yeah, I mean. I love Birdman, bro. I would say, whoa, whoa, hold on. As a rapper. As a person, bro. Okay, well, as a person? I mean, as like a nice person. Just like me loving Tupac. As a businessman, I fuck with Birdman. I don't think I would go to like dinner with him. I'd go to dinner with Birdman. I'd go to dinner and maybe ask him some questions. But just to be like, bro. I just want to see. You would like to meet his family and hang out with him. Eat the steak, bro. I ain't been cutting that motherfucker, bro. I gotta see him do that, shit. I would go home be like, bro, they bet Study stay like this. Y'all do.

Oh man. Study steak like this. Y'all eat steak, bro. How do you get your steak cooked? Well done. Well done, yo. So I tell my grandma, but I I do, cause my sister, I do, bruh. When I I swear I'm not picky, bruh. I do I eat it like however it comes. Yeah, like if I if I want, like if I want my soothing, I'm gonna eat like how they eat, they like it medium, well, or medium. Okay, not rare, but medium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, because the juice. Yeah. Just go tender. Man, because People, people that like steaks would crucify this guy for that answer. My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, she like it well done. So I used to go out with that. Because I like the I like the um the um, what's the burnt part called? The the sear? Yeah. Oh yeah. It just be that'd be the thing. Yeah. So it's like, of course, I'm not gonna eat like that all the time, but for when I do want it, like taste that taste. I'm gonna cook it like that. Fair enough.

Yeah. No, the steak connoisseurs would definitely tell you medium rare. It has to be medium rare, but fuck those people. They're annoying. Like, fuck you guys. Yeah, have you? However, you want it. Yeah, come on, man. I might want it like that. One day you want it like this one day. Right. Let me have it. It's interesting, man. I feel like steak. Yeah, I feel like going back to the trippy. Give my dog a steak. Yeah, I feel like going back to the trippy thing, it's interesting. Cause I I feel like I heard this on our podcast recently about like, have you made it? I feel like artists and just people in any industry get that question a lot of like, have you made it? And someone's answer, I can't remember who the fuck it was. I'm pissed, but basically they're like, if I've said I've made it, was it Wayno on our podcast? Or no, it was Wayno on another podcast. So Wayno, the EVP of A&R over at QC, he he was just on the pod. I'll do my research for him. And he talked about if I've said I've made it, that means that like I have no more goals. Right. You know, so it's cool to hear that trippy, for example, at arguably, you know, the highest level of rap. Platinum platinum like that.

Like exactly, but he's not done. That's not yeah, yeah. He's just not satisfied, and and he he wouldn't even say that he's made it necessarily because he's got on to the next thing. Like, you know, what what else can I do? You know, challenge myself with something new. That's why he wanted to sign an artist. Yeah, because he got to that level. That's a whole new endeavor. Yeah, he's like, bruh. Has he signed anyone yet? Yeah, like Zelly, he did Zelly Zelly. He got um K-Swab. K-Swab, really. K-Swab is K-Swab. K-Swab, bro. Okay. Tap in. K-Swab. But Zelly, Zelly is one, Zelly Ultra is one of my um, he got Chris, Chris King, Zelly Ultra, Buddha Bands. You know yeah. um, he almost signed Tezo. Tezo. Oh, Tezo. Jesus. He's a he's one of my number one fans. Bro, he would tell y'all out of his mouth, Bear One Boss is an inspiration to me. Really? Yeah. And that type of shit be blowing my mind, bro. My uncle showed me um Tezo, bro. Yes. Like one, bro. This was like Who, 2 Chainz? No, not even not 2 Chainz.

It was um another uncle showing you dope music. Bro. Is 2 Chainz your actual uncle, by the way? That's my goddad. 2 Chainz is? It's like my goddad. Oh, okay. It's just the term. Just the term. It's not the goddad. He's not your actual uncle. Yeah, he's my goddad. Okay. So your actual uncle showed you T-Zo? Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah, so like. Damn, your family's tapped the fucking bro. Yeah, so like, bro, this is crazy. And he, cause he was showing me like on some like funny shit. T-Zo had a, it was with garage T-Zo with the chains and the this is before he blew up. Yeah. Like this before the notes and all that shit. Like, this is like just him being an artist. Like him, like you, you gotta realize this ain't a parody, but you might think it is. It is wild looking. This is that, this is that T-Zo. like he not giving you enough to know if he playing or if he not playing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying. So it's like you taking it for what is. So my uncle they're taking it. It's like this shit funny as hell, but he going hard. Yeah. Like it was the uh sucka, me sucker. And and you know, I come from pimps and hoes.

Like aunties, uncles, like I love them. So that shit's funny to them for real. Like they seeing him sucker and and mean me sucker. It's kind of pimp slang. Yeah, shit was funny as hell. Yeah. So like a year go by, I go to um Compass Con. I'm with Luke. Shout out, Luke Wave. So I um I'm at ComplexCon, and then I think um, yeah, he he was at ComplexCon, but I didn't see him. So I got home, whatever. Somebody he they was in a video showing, like, who's the up and coming Are you listening to, I seen Cy Baby that day too. Shout out to Cy Baby. We we did we got close like this. Cy Baby from Detroit? Yeah. Nobody even knows, yeah, nobody knows that me and Cy Baby are like this too. Really? Yeah, we were real close, but you know, it's Cy Baby. he's Mr. Squeeze. Cy baby, yeah, for sure. So like he Mr. Mysterious, like you not gonna know. Until he's ready for you to know.

So like I um I don't know. so like Tzo, it was a video. They going through it, they like who the up and coming? like, you know, people saying, people saying these people, you know, who coming up, like can't can't, you know, shit like that. We all same type of come up. So uh then they had T-Zo, but it was like random people just fans, and then it was T-Zo with like, like, nails coming out of you. Yeah, like chains and shit, like bare one boss. He said bare one boss. So then when I seen it, I'm like, bro. What the fuck? Like that's that bro. So I showed my uncle, like bro, you don't know it. Uh bro, he like, bro, I told you, my uncle don't. We from like the hood from like MLK, like bro, I been telling you, bro. You you next. You need a bare and T-Zo record. Yeah, we definitely did. That's on the way, bro. Like, bro, my man sent me a note, you know, he be on the notes. he sent like little yellow notes. Yeah. IPhone notes. Bro, it's like he writes on them with his finger. Uh I think he writes on the notes with his finger. Yeah, yeah, draws on it with the free draw. Yeah, yeah.

And he like he did one, he was like, What's your number or whatever? I sent him a number, he never texts me. T-Zo? Yeah. But then so look, but I had caught Trippie the other day. And Trippie was like, bro, T-Zo came here to record the fire shit, bro. He recorded a fire ass song. He was like, bro, get what he do though. He put your shit on the goddamn Xbox. Oh, he was recording his song, He making all his music, but your videos on YouTube just playing like back to back to back to back. You're like the inspiration. I don't know. okay? So can you like confirm how it is that all these different types of people have become familiar? Right? Like, are they all finding you in one internet, bro? I know, but it's that that's like a very, very big thing. It's a big place. You know, like can you point to some I guess examples of how, God, bro? Okay. Straight up.

I'm gonna just be honest, bro. I really I'm prayed up, I'm born to do this, bro. Yeah. Like you think people are born to do this? Yeah, you are definitely prophets in all types of ways. They might not be what you think uh how you might feel but they covered all types of ways and they go in all types of ways. And when they go, they leave. They change the way of the world. When they come, they change the way the world when they go, they change the way the world. So what do you characterize yourself as a prophet? I would never. Okay. It's disrespectful to God. Do you do you think other people might? They can. Okay. They can. Yeah. I would never. How about how about stars? Like, you know, just superstars in general. Is that a born? Yes, like born thing. Can someone work hard and become a star? Yes. Everybody's a star. Everybody's a star. So it's really how much work you put in? It's the people who are stars are people who realize their surroundings. When you realize everybody is a part of the journey, you use every party. everybody, every party.

Yeah. You use every party. Yeah. Yeah. I think for me, still just bro. I wouldn't be nowhere without me knowing everybody. Yeah. I think for me, something that you know I've heard a lot that I try and have us adopt here with the podcast, even is like having your own superpower, right? So to your point, it sounds cliche, but it actually is fucking true. Everyone is a star in their own right, meaning, but you have to figure out it's not always obvious what it is that you're specifically good at or like destined to do. And like everyone struggles with that shit, right? You're going to try. Self-awareness. Yeah, yeah. And that's that's not always blatantly obvious to everyone, you know. So I think that if you can identify that, especially as an artist and like as a brand in general, that's when you like really start to hit your fucking stride, you know what I mean? Like if you love mechanisms and how things work, you would like to use every tool and every hint to get the mystery solved. You know, that was some video game shit right there. That was going to say it's a game that I love.

It's a game that I love. What's that game, bro? Um, it turned into a movie. It's like a um not Indiana Jones, but like that type of movie. It's like a game. the Mario movie came out recently. What's the game, bruh? We gotta learn the game, bro. Duke Nukem. Duke from Spider-Man played in it. Which Spider-Man uh the new Spider-Man. Tobey Maguire? No, he's the first one. Um shit. Oh, uh Tom Holland. Yeah, he played in the movie. It's like an Avengers game. Like, oh damn. Yeah, I know what I'm talking about. But life, life is that game. Yo, someone drop a comment and let us know what the fuck. I know what I'm talking about. This is. Yeah, yeah. Because I'm drawing a blank here, yeah. Shout out Tom Holland. Let me look it up. I'm looking it up right now. Yeah. Yeah, run it. Oh god. You know, something that you talked about before that I think is so fucking like crucial. Is you've met a ton of, you know, A-list celebrities, big artists, big names, whatever. But something that you've talked about in another interview was that almost more what is it?

Uncharted. Uncharted. Yeah, yeah. yeah. Like fire. Where you drop onto the islands and you shoot people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fire. You got to figure out the mysteries, get the treasure. I played that shit on PC. Yep. Yep. Sure did. Yeah. It's a real life movie. So yeah, something that you talked about is, you know, you're all about meeting the people that surround the main person. Like you've mentioned building a connection and relationship with like Wayne's drummer in another interview where I was like, bro, this guy fucking gets it. And I think that that's like a huge part of what's made you like successful and be able to really like grow your network. Is that you're not just trying to get to the who's who in the room? Like you're looking at who's next to them and like who's supporting them, whether it's their DJs or engineers or Man, shout out to Drake and his camp. I man, yeah. That was but like leader, right? Yeah, leader is somebody that, that's, I did. I just was meeting people and yeah, like that. like that. Like I can call Lita right now, he's gonna pick up and be like, you okay, you good?

You need anything with you? How you feel? You good mentally, like he only takes some mental like talk to me. Yeah, yeah. What's his role within OVO even? Bro, he's a OG, he's just just OG. One of those mysterious characters. His LinkedIn says OG at OVO. Yeah, bro. Right? Like he just OG, bro. I couldn't tell. He might be a security guard, he might be a uh, bro. He's just OG, bro. He's the leader. Yeah. Yeah. That's his name. No, I just thought that was so underrated, man. Because even I never asked him what he did. Yeah. Yeah, because I think this even goes to like, you know, producers trying to catch placements, right? I mean, an underrated strategy is always like, all right, you want to get beats to whoever, right? Look at who the fuck's around them, right? Like, who are the artists that they're fucking with that? Maybe, you know, you do a song with them. It ends up being that, you know, the artist that you ultimately want to get to hears that shit. Who's their engineer? Yeah. Big hack right now. Or engineers. Engineers love a little recognition.

Like, oh, you're an engineer. I love your mixing. Here's a couple beats, man. Engineers be playing beats for the artists. I'm an engineer. So love the engineers. Like, oh my God. I know you talk about Pro Tools on some records. I've heard you mention Pro Tools a couple times. Yeah, like that shit was a video. That was a like really one first video game that I fell in love. Out of out of like San Andreas and Skate and shit, but like I don't want no video games. I fell in love. Pro Tools? Yeah. That's a video game. That's fire. I'm like, wait, is there an actual video game? It's similar. No, I know. But that going through my head, I'm like, is he talking about another video game. Bro, the fact that he looks at Pro Tools like a video game, like it's so apparent in the music, though. It's almost like really cool that you make that comparison. It literally is like you have a controller, you press some buttons, you literally use the same thing. You Have an outcome. Yeah. Yeah. Can there ever be too many sound effects in a song? Yeah. I feel like you have a lot. But it makes there's a lot of sounds, bro. It makes the sound, bro.

I know that's why I figured he would say no, that there can't ever be too many. There can't be too many. Well, it can be too many. Yeah, but you're right on the line? I'm right on the line. Have you ever been like, yo, maybe we should add one more? Yeah. Have you taken have you taken some? I might have stretched one. Yeah, yeah. Some tags be really long, where they tags, so they take them from things. Yeah. So like some tag might have like a sentence. I might want the whole sentence. Like now, like Adam and them, shots out Adam. Shot Adam in the building. So like they might put like fuck you, bitch. We in this motherfucking turn. They might be turning. They put like long ass things. That's one of his tags. Like they put all random ass, like Oh, shit. Trap-A-Holics. like old like shit. You never Yeah, real trap shit. Like real trap, real trap shit. Live from the fucking streets. This is a certified hood classic forever. Wow. They be stretching it out. Yo. But it's fire, because like we could do that.

you tripping too. You tripping too, because like they taking that plug shit to another level. Like you got people like me. Like I would have never knew I inspired, like, shots out David Shottie. Like people like David Shottie. like they blew up off of just being inspired by like me. I'm not too my own horn, then. Like they call me and make sure. Because I be going through shit like on my mental. Like I don't like being the popular person, but I love being the popular person. So it's like I be going through it. So they be happening to call me and let me know. Like, yo, you the goat. Stay like that. Don't forget who you are. Like you are the goat. Like I make it off of you. We we listen to you every day. That's why we doing this shit. So like people like you tripping, who produced for like David Shottie and like all those producers who like the real hyper pop, the real hyper pop. Like I make rap and pop and hyper sounds. Hyper rap, maybe. Yeah, But they really make like Hyper rap pop. they really be like switching their voice, glitching their voice up, putting the tags in, stopping the beat in random times, and they're crazy, bro. So do you struggle most with like doubt then?

You know, when you yeah. Yeah, facts. It'd be doubt, it'd be doubt. It'd be more doubt than it'd be positive times. So so when you catch yourself overcoming the doubt, is it typically from external forces, like people calling you, letting you like reassuring you that that's how you get through it? Facts. Yeah, cuz I need recognition. I mean reinsurance. Yeah. Shout out to people around. Damn. So shouts out to the people that's doing this shit and give that give recognition. That's what it really matters. Cause I can listen to people who don't do the shit all day, but they don't do the shit. People doing the shit. It means more. It means way more. That's why when I do get the trippy random call or the Uzi random call from a random number, I'm I'm like, what the fuck? I like that. Yeah. Like and I keep and it speaking of me and Uzi relationship. Okay, people always ask me, what Uzi feature? I keep me in Uzi relationship as like that's still my hero, like who I look up to whatever. So I don't ever want to really.

I met Uzi, but I never really just want to meet Uzi. Cause I don't want to, I don't want to fuck up with my perception. Yeah, yeah, there's that thing like, you know, you don't want to meet your heroes because I don't want to meet my hero. Yeah. Yeah. Cause they're not what you think. So I don't want to, I don't want it to be like that. Yeah. It's not gonna be that I'm not gonna allow it to be. Even if I do be happening to be stuck in a room with Uzi. If I have to be. Like they put me in a room. If you're forced to do a song with Uzi. I'm not gonna make it, I'm not gonna not be a fan. Yeah. Wanna make sure I'm listening to what he say. I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna let him lead. I'm gonna make sure I'm inspired. I'm not gonna give a fuck. If I get richer than him, like I'm gonna make sure he's still the golden boy. Like, yeah. I just want to learn. Yeah, that's a. I feel like we've, you know, had some people on here that have met people that they've looked up to and like haven't lived up to the hype. That's gotta be like the most disappointing reality.

Facts. You know? But it's probably good for you at the end of the day. It's just probably get it over with. Everything is good for you. Nothing bad. Everything is either a lesson or you know. Yeah, it's either a W or a lesson. Yeah. So we had Pop Star Benny on here right around the time that your self-titled Bear One Boss album was coming out. Shout out, Benny. So for me, once again, I'm like the overthinker here in the group. So, you know, forgive me. But like big time. if I'm putting out a self-titled album, I feel like that's gotta probably warrant like so much more like attention and like nerves putting it out and like stressing you out, like you know, making it and shit. Like, is that is that fair to say, or was it just like any other fucking album to you? It was more so just me having all this music that I was making for me. That I liked it. Music that I like. It wasn't for a certain specific crowd, or I was doing it for the fans. I was doing it for me.

So it wasn't more like this is self-titled. It's more like this is my album. That makes sense to me. Yeah. I just felt like there would be like such high expectations for yourself of putting, you know. You know, if like if I don't know, like if we started like a segment that was just called Ben and Henry, like I feel like I'd be so nervous. It's like, oh shit. Yeah, like this better be fucking good. You know? Yeah. But at the same time, you you probably are you able to separate Bear One Boss from like you, the human being, you know? That'd be the hard part. Because I am bear one boss. Damn, you don't turn it off. It's not even something I turned on. I was born like this. I was born Bear1Boss. Been, that's how it's always been. It's a lot of responsibility. It's the weight of the world. Yo, was it your first rap name? Or did you have others? Stop lying. No. No, you can look back. My music, I would go back to where I started.

Damn. I have albums I dropped in high school. Nobody was dropping on high tunes. That's rare. Before Apple Music, it was just no. You never had no corny high school name? No. It was always Bear. Wow. Wow. Like. Damn. Yeah. You were born. You were born Bear One Boss. The corniest it gets is me being hot sauce. And I made that cool. Yeah, what's that about? It was a song that shots out Lil Grimes, it's my artist and producer. So he gave me a beat, and it was one of his first songs that I like. One of the first songs that blew up. Not the first song, but one of them, like that was a part of that. Like look, because I wasn't a one hit one, I never was. It was more like he hard. Y'all go listen to this shit. Whatever went. So it was like high school, I was making songs, Dropping on SoundCloud. go to breakfast in the morning, and see the reaction. You know. So one time it was I made a song. I was like, Costa Rica, they caught me one boss hot sauce. From the And One, and one.

So I know hot sauce now. Dudes are like you know him? Yeah, I met a big fan. You met him? Yeah. I met I met him too at Run and Shoot. Down in College Park. My journey has been crazy. So, like, I'm real hot sauce for real. Low key owe him 5%. I could really like call hot sauce right now. Damn, we've got yeah, we might need to do that. Like, he'll do it. Like, he'd been wanting, I could put him in my music. I'm gonna put him on my documentary. He's gonna be in my documentary. Damn. Doing some crossovers. Yeah, man. Yo, can we make it? I'm gonna let him cross me up. He got to. You have to. Yo, can we get in the doc? Okay. For sure. Y'all can do the doc. Okay. Oh, shit. Okay. I don't know if we're qualified for that. Yes, y'all are. We are just shooting this on four iPhones. I could put y'all with the people that y'all need to be with, and then y'all can make the doc, right? Bring a vision to life. Okay. Oh my gosh. By the way, the first time I uh became familiar, I I had heard of you, but the first time I saw you was at a little show in like a like a warehouse or something on the north side. Wix Patton brought you out. That's how weeks, right?

Shout out Wix. Also, one more time alumni. Crazy white boy. And I was like, That's how we're gonna. And he's like, I'm bringing up bear one motherfucking boss. I was like, oh dude, I heard of this guy. I wonder like what his show's gonna be like, what he's gonna say on the mic when he comes up. And this guy came straight up on the mic, he said, if you like hot sauce, say, oh. Oh. the whole crowd. Eww. I was like, what is about to happen? That's such a like crowd control cheat. code, though. It got me hype as fuck. Because you were chill. You didn't charge me up doing it, So I had no hype. Because usually people come out like, oh, are you ready to do it? There's like super hype to get the crowd hype. People gotta be hype, but he was so chill and got the crowd hype. It was like something I had. Intriguing. Yeah, it was like what captivated you. No one's ever done that with such confidence and been chill and like got me hype like that before, bro. I swear. And then it was a great performance, man. To the Internet. Right. You literally called me after that. I did. I had to tell him, bro. I didn't know people come to the show just to do that. To go.

They're like, bro, we can't wait till he finna do it. He's gonna do it. I'm so glad I didn't know it was coming. So you do it every show. That's what makes it even better. It made it better. People who don't know, It's always like, yes, all right, 15 people who don't know, but it's like 30 people who do know. Yes. So when they do it and sign up, I'll be like, I'm left out. Like, what the fuck? They did that shit. Everyone did it. Because some people come to shows and they gotta like be looking for the cliche shit or like being like, what's corny or not? And they go for it. Like they're looking for only that. They're not gonna appreciate what's cool. Yeah. And so when cool shit do happen, that actually surprised them to the most. Yeah. Because, like, oh shit, I wasn't expecting no people to do that shit. And it made me want to like share it. You gotta share it. Now people are talking about you. Like, you you you critic it's a critic thing. It's like I gotta look at it and perceive it. And if I like it, I'm gonna share it. 100%. And it's fun. I mean, you are the professional fun haver. Like, seriously. Straight up. No, because everyone's cliche ones are like, if you're ready to have a good time, say hell yeah, hell yeah.

But like, if you like hot sauce, say ew. right. Like, people are like, of course I'm saying ew. like why would I not? Even if I didn't like hot sauce, I might say it. I'm saying it. Because it sounds fun as hell. I've got to. I got to. I have no other choice at this point. And literally the whole crowd's doing it, like, is this a thing? What the fuck? Like, yeah, probably there were some people that didn't say it the first time he asked. I didn't say it the first time. Second though? I like Oh, second and third Third, fourth. as loud as I could. For sure. See, screamed it. You won him over. Bro, damn. I was in there. I was so pissed that I left early. He did leave. early. I left early, bro. Big fail. Yeah. I got a sound effect for Ben. Oh God. So something that I you know want to ask you about is uh how important do you feel cover art is in today's movie? Very important? Yeah. Very important. We just talked about this. Yes. Especially like, bro, because y'all can use so much. Like it's so much to do. Like it's art, bro.

Like I want people to see the art and be like, okay, let me listen to the audio. Yeah. Oh my God. I'm looking at the audio. Like, you definitely don't want to lock your phone because you listening to the song and looking at the art. Like, bro, this shit is fire. Like, it's just my shit. And so then, you know, I'm still looking for the plaque shit. So I'll be thinking about that shit. Yeah. My plaque's gonna be the art will be on the plaque. Oh my god, like this shit gotta look crazy. Damn, that's a good idea. That's a good point, bro. So yeah, go ahead and tell Bear about your hot take. Well, I just kind of said, like, it doesn't fucking matter anymore. Like, no one's looking. Like, I just I just hypothesized that most people could not tell you what the cover art looks like for some of their like favorite songs. Cause they don't care. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They don't. But I thought what was interesting about you and cover art is you told uh everyone in another interview that you made a whole project after you saw the cover art. Yeah, facts.

You were inspired by the art a lot. That's I don't think I've ever heard that before. No. I thought that was super dope. Was that a a very much like different creative experience for you doing it that way? You're gonna look at some you're gonna be inspired by words or experience or so it just happened to be that I'm getting because my artists are sending me art like all the time. Because off of Bear, off of who I am. That's not off of what song you're going to make. Oh, it's just like look at these arts and whatever song you feel as if, or if you want to use them as an album. Oh wow, you're just getting flooded with like inventory options. That's right. Yeah, I have a real artist. I have real artists. And some people be hating on my artists because they so fire. Have the hottest artists in the world. Like, shout out Ferris. Like, shout out Safe Sex. Shout out People like Safe Sex? Yeah, Benny. It's a fire name. Yeah, Benny even still. So, like, yeah. You got Ferris because Ferris made like savage mode. Like, Ferris made Oh, wow. the Uzi, the Uzi, Love is Rage. All the Oh, wow. most of the Uzi shit.

He did the last Uzi shit. That's not Ferris's legendary, is it? No, it's just Ferris. Okay. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause that's like that's the first time. But he sounds legendary in his own right. Yeah, he is. Like, I'm going to show you his. Damn. Yeah, I just tap us in. I just definitely was hating on cover art, bro. But then I heard you're taking inspiration from it to make a whole project off of the cover art. And I thought that was super fire. I think Ben like sees people completing a project and then like struggling to have an art and not putting music out because they don't have an art. Yeah, just the overthinking and just the waiting. And yeah, damn. That's some like fucking abstract. Oh man. What's his gram? We need to tap in. Yeah, yeah. Send me that to my DM, bro. but guess what? I'm on there. Yeah, Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice. Okay, Yeah, one of my legendary tapes, you know, Sugar Spice, everything nice. Y'all go listen to that. That shit is one of my legendary first. It's, like one of the first tapes I probably did with like just like, yo, this is me. Like, yo.

Just me. Like I'm popping it. Yeah, how long did it take uh to really hone in on like how you feel as an artist? Cause it feels like you're pretty comfortable in what you're doing now. But it's more I'm more toned it down because I was I seen how people were treating people who like be such a cockiness, and I didn't have enough ammunition and money to back up my own, the way I was popping it. So I didn't want nobody to envy me or try to like hurt me due to like because there's a lot of rap cap out there. Yeah. Let's let's be real. My shit was so real because I was popping it off real life shit. I'm 2 Chainz, son. Yeah, I can go really be with a Roll Royce or really do some shit and then I can go get keys. I can go do some shit for real. Have you ever been hit with the term industry plant before? I wish you said I would use the fuck out of it. Yo, we were literally saying the same thing. We were like, It's amazing. Damn, like I don't think he's getting that. Like, okay, first of all, do you think industry plants exist?

If you plant them. Is it like are people doing that? If It's intentional. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying, do you think that that's a real thing where like artists just pop up? If yeah. If it's intentional, then it's real. Like if you can if somebody wants to do it and they'll do it. I'm pretty sure it's probably been done because somebody probably wanted to do it. Yeah. Like if I want to, I don't know. How would you see? Because I probably could do it if I wanted to do it. Plant and put some plants in, plant some seeds. Yeah, because if I know a bunch of connections and I'm the one who knows the connections, and I just wanted to be like, I'm gonna go back scene, I'm gonna let this talented person, I'm just use my connections and blow them. Yeah, it's almost like a label like them. It's like a major label signing an artist. using connections. I guess That's me planning them. Yeah, I mean, but it also seems like so that's you know, intentions is the grown person imagination. So if your shit's good, there's nothing wrong. Yeah. Like if I want to make an industry plant, my shit gonna sunflower. Like my shit straight up.

It it it seems like if you I don't know, it just feels like you probably could have already been signed to street execs if you wanted to go that route. Right, right? Even today, I could do that right now. Yeah. Yeah. What so what do you. You'd rather, you'd rather get there though. Yeah, I was gonna say, what do you think you know has stopped you from maybe just falling? I mean, because a lot of us would just be like, fuck it. Yeah, okay. I'm hard-headed too. Yeah. I'm such a boss. Like, Uncle Chains, the numbers ain't right. it's not even the numbers, cause it ain't even about the money. it ain't about the money, because like we're going to be rich. Like, we rich as fuck. Like in the spirit first. So, like it's more so like, bro, I want to do it this way, and y'all don't know about this stuff. Y'all know about rappers. Yeah, it's different. It's Street execs, it's different. that's smart of you. It's smart of you, man. It's My family. It's actually very smart. We street executives. Yes. It's not pop stars executives. It's not internet pop stars.

It's like it's not internet money. Yeah. You know, it's not we they don't know certain, they know groundwork. That's why they gonna stay forever, because they know the shit that people don't know. That's gonna that the shit they know, the knowledge they know is gonna fade out eventually the way the music game is going. And that's why they're gonna be the who they are forever. They're gonna be a billion dollar company one day, just off of because the knowledge. Some people gonna need that knowledge that they only have. It's like a library, it's like Egypt or something. Like, damn. It's it's like a pyramid. It's definitely I gotta go here to see this. Yeah, it's so smart that you haven't like, I don't know. You I just feel like you could easily have been like, ah, like fuck it. Like, I guess I'll just maybe be a street artist at this point. You know, what I mean, because that would that would have been like the easiest. Hypothetically, it would have been the easiest. route to, you know. that's what makes me fun, but cause like I could do that. I could do that, still be me. I be doing it sometime. I be making songs here and there. What's y'all mean? What's local trap star? What's them songs? Like, then them old.

I got songs that I still be. I I'm I love trap beats. I come from that. Like, I do that. I really am specialist at that. People might, if you know, you know, you know, but I come from that. Like, so that's my specialty. So me taking them elements and putting them into the shit that I like and want to learn about is what makes it like, oh shit. Yeah. You're doing that shit. Like, that's why I'm pushing pop so hard. Like, like, Shane gave me that. Like, that's my God that he gave me, like, bro, When we was making their first album, when we was talking to DJ, I met DJ Drummond, all them people. I met everybody. When we was introducing the people, when like, because the artists and everybody, like school, this is such and such, the schoolie. This is my oldest son. You know how he do it. This is my oldest. Goddamn, he's in the sleepy, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever. World, all that. Then it was like, this is my pop star. This is what he said to everybody. Cannon and them, all of them is there. This is one of them rooms. Mm-hmm. I think this was Mean Street. So this is one of the

rooms. That sounds like an Illuminati meeting or something. Wish. Damn. Damn. Stupid ass. Hope not. I bet not, man. Nah, but no, no count. Like, these people, these people are real life, like there. They like, bruh, all right, let's take it for what it is. This is a pop star. Cool. And I just was like, all right, fuck it. I'm gonna really push this shit. He think this. This without me even really talking about it yet. It's just me just popping it. Yeah. It's not me, like, I'm a pop star. It's me, like, I'm Bear. I rap, but y'all know I'm y'all calling it weird rap or whatever. At this point. It's no title for what I'm doing. It's just not popular yet. Yeah, it was not. It was before his time. Yeah. So now it's like, okay, cool. That's why I'm ahead of the curve or first in line when it comes to the new wave. Yeah. Because like I was doing it.

It ain't that I'm like better than nobody. It's the work. You were ahead of the time. Yeah. So. Damn. So what is the title of the music now? So far. You know what I mean? Like what is the genre? I just call it pop, bro, because I was talking to my engineer. My engineer, like, bro, you make pop, bro. What is rap? Rap is the most popular genre right now. Yeah. Pop is popular music. Rap is pop. Rap is pop. Thug, Future been said that shit. Yep. So I'm like, all right, man, I'm just toning in on what I do. I don't care what it sounds like. It's gonna be a pop. It's gonna be popping the genre. So my last little single run, my last five singles that I just dropped like this month, they're pop genre. Cause that's just what I'm doing. So that's what you put for like the genre. Take it, leave it. Yeah. I'm either going to go number one and pop or not. It's gonna because you know the shit works anywhere. The hip hop and rap genre songs, they make the pop list all the time. Yeah.

Every day. Yeah. What is Drake? He doesn't put that shit in the he makes the pop list every time he drops. It's that and the other list. He makes both lists. Yeah. So I'm just gonna tone in and then of course I'm gonna make the rap list. Nothing. Is genre just kind of like fading away and kind of just an annoying thing that we still keep up these days? I feel like it's almost like not a thing. I hope not. You you want to keep genre? You want to keep shit kind of separate? Because like don't come over here with what I'm creating and try to like, you know, manipulate it. I created this. You know, you didn't create it. Well so you like so you like the idea of creating a lane? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, like no, like toning in, like, because I did my study on Michael Jackson. Like, I'm I'm the Prince of Pop. That's why I call myself. I would never just pick and call myself the king of pop. The world pop. The world will have to call me the king of pop. I will never do that. I'm the Prince of Pop. Okay. I studied Michael Jackson. I know Michael Jackson, like I know Michael Jackson. like spiritually. Like, I know Michael Jackson.

Like, I can no cap, bro. Like, shots out Taz, shots out, like, man. Like, if anybody like wants some Michael Jackson art, real life shit that Michael Jackson did, I can commission you on that, like real life. Like, I got, I'm in. I'm on the inside. Like, real life. Like, I'm tied in with the Jacksons. Okay. This is no cap. This is another. I don't I don't really. This is new. I just tweeted about it, but like I'm still like, like my whole conversations with these people is like, I don't want no money. I don't want y'all to give me nothing. I just want people to know that I'm doing this. I'm in tied. That's gonna help me do what I'm finna do. And that's what I got going on. You know what I'm saying? So like I got, I'm tied in. Like, I can go, I can go get an MJ piece and wear it in a video. I'm tied in. Like, damn. You got the fucking Prince of Pop on the live. In real life. Like, I had tweeted fire. I just really became the Prince of Pop. Nobody know. I'm speak on a lady I tweeted at. They don't know what it means. They don't know what it means until we make a clip out of this conversation.

It's really live. Like shots out Taz, bro. Like, no cap, bro. Damn. Well, Bear, Prince of Pop. We've entered a final segment of the podcast. Oh shit. Buckle the fuck up, Prince of Pop. Let's go. Oh yes. Fuck. Damn. That got me fired up. I'm fired up as fuck right now. He's tied into the Jack. He was just like, damn, bro. Bear one boss. This is the rapid fire rampage. It is a three-part rampage. Okay. I'll explain the parts as we go. First part is just some short answer questions. Are you buckled up? Let's Do it. Rampage. You got to put that in the song. We make. Yes. That rampage? Yeah. It's from Archer. I don't know if you ever seen the show Archer. I can use that as a tag. Yeah. That sounds like it's from a bear song. Of course. Rampage. Rampage. Starting with knock knock. Who's there?

The One More Time Podcast. One more time. Moving on. Who else? Sorry, I had to get that one in there. That was hard, bro. You didn't think we had the Drake? No. Come on, we got it. I love you, Drake, bro. Shots out OVO Sound Radio. I was on OVO Sound Radio, man. Really? Oh. OVO, bro. Shouts out to OVO, bro. Clutch. No cap, bro. I might as well just be like, get my own skit on, on air Drake, bro, because I'm really just as cool as Johnny. No cap. Bear 1. What are Three qualities that you look for in a producer. Uh lit. Funny. Weird. Those are good. How about three qualities you look for in an artist to collaborate with? By the way, none of those qualities had anything to do with the like type of music. The music. Which I love. I love that. That was amazing. That's incredible, by the way. I kept waiting for like something to do with it. Drums are hard.

Personality, man. That's fine. Weird and funny. Yes. How about how about for an artist to collaborate with? Is it similar? Similar list. Um I can say it's more, but um, no. Don't be weird. Sorry. Okay, okay. Like, don't be weird. Not weird. But be lit. Be lit. Be funny? Be yourself. And be yourself. I like that. I like that. Be funny though. Be funny on purpose. Try. Funny lit. and yourself. I hate people who are not funny, but try. Yeah. That's funny. Cringy. It's funny and it's ironically funny. It's Ironically funny. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but then you're laughing at them. not with them. But they know that. Yeah. some of them. Some. But that's what I'm saying. Don't be weird. For sure. Yeah. That's the weird part. Bear the zombie apocalypse has just started. You have to pick three weapons to defend yourself. What year is this? 2023. Oh fuck.

I wish I had a laser gun or something like that. That's fine. You got it. I got it. I can still use laser guns. We'll give you laser guns. Yeah, I will use a fucking mini laser gun. A minigun. I'm thinking of like the one from Men in Black. I'm on my one. I'm on my first one still. I'm on my first one. You're starting over? No. I'm a collab the mini laser. So a mini laser gun. A mini laser gun because it's going unlimited. Okay. It's off of like it's solar power. The lasers never run out. Yeah, moonlight, sunlight. Genius. That's smart. Ooh. Ooh, come up. Yeah. Like what's up? So that's one weapon. Oh, that's what else I need. All right. Nothing else, but really. But you get two more. I'm gonna get a fucking pot. Okay. Like a pot? Yeah, because I'ma cook these niggas. I'ma get I'ma get bars. I'ma get Let's see. Yo, we might you know this might be the whole song.

I'ma get I'ma get um I'm gonna get a torch. Okay, yeah. Like a flamethrower? Yeah, so I can cook these niggas with a pot. Whole lot of cooking going around. Bear, what is one weird talent of yours that no one knows about? I used to do the underarm fart. Can you still do it? I haven't did it in a long time. Can we try? Can we get a here we go? One more time exclusive, the bear one boss. Oh yo, like he never stopped. He's back like he never left. Oh my god, it's so loud in the headphones. This is amazing. Let Adam get his video of this. We need this. Oh my god. As if we don't have four other videos of this. Yeah. That's the content I'm here for. This is the content y'all are here for. Come on. Like, comment, and subscribe. Where else do you get this with the one more time podcast? God, armpit farts?

Come on, guys. From rappers? from Pop Stars? Are you fucking kidding me? God damn. Shit. What else we gotta do around here? This podcast is it, man. I don't care what anyone says. Couple more here on the short answer. Bear, who has the best fast food? Chicken. Sandwich. It's got serious real quick. Cause you gotta go with your taste, buds. Have to. Follow your heart. See, the deluxe Chick-fil-A sandwich is different from the just regular Popeye sandwich. Put that sound back on. Never had a request for it. He needs it. It's thinking music. But now he's just getting into it. Yeah, now he's writing bars. I can't remember the question. Put some drums in. I think I'll go with Chick-fil-A sandwich. CFA.

fair enough. Okay. Last one of the short answer. What is your favorite curse word? Bitch. Round one. Part one. Part one. Amazing. That was amazing. God, the armpit fart is going down in the rampage history. That was incredible. I'm not gonna lie. So good. The best part is though. I'm so happy that that was his skill. Yeah, no, I'm gonna keep asking that one for sure. The best part though is there are two more parts. I can't wait. Round two is the this or that. I'm gonna give you two choices. You just pick one. Rampage! Starting with rapping or singing. Drake. Pancakes or waffles? Pancake mix in a waffle maker. Ooh. Damn. Interesting. Sonic or Mario? Sonic. Learn every language or speak every. Wait.

Learn every instrument or speak every language. Speak every language. Certified hood classic or real trap shit? Certified hood classic. Give up your passport or give up smartphones. Give up smartphones. I think we're three for three on that. night. He's going global. I totally agree. Yeah. Lose three fingers. He's going global. Come on, bear. Worldwide. He's not going on these international tours. Popstar worldwide. Popstar worldwide. Popstar worldwide. Lose three fingers. Oh god. Or go live on Instagram for eight hours a day for the next three years. Eight hours a day. I already do that. He's live a lot. I thought that would sound more like fucking super annoying. Because I have a six hour limit on my Instagram. Oh. so you would get kicked out. that shit runs out all the time. Okay.

If I put eight hours on it, I asked the wrong guy. He's a natural. Jesus. You're gonna have to up the ante a couple hours. So it's like what the last one of the this or that. Win the lottery or find your soulmate. Find my soulmate. First one to say that. Thank you. We need love. So many lottery winners. I mean, look at his look at his hoodie. I need soul. It's he loves cough syrup, so I guess it's a little different. First love, man. First love. First love, bro. Yeah, you know. So look, like whatever tickles your fancy. Promethazine and codeine. I love it. First love. The final part is the word association bear. I'm going to say one word. You just give me the first word, maybe two words, right back off the top of your head. First thing you think of. Can't wait. Let's do it. Rampage! Starting as always with hip hop. Just two words, I think. First first thought.

First thought of you saying hip hop. Hip hop. Say hip hop again. Hip hop. Pancakes. I'm so happy. Oh, that was great. Settle down. Sorry. Family. Turn up. Yeah. I don't listen to anything he says. Family. Holy cow. Kush. Smokey. Mirror. Look. YouTube. Me. Piano. How? Bathtub. Sink. Lil. Wayne. Politics. Trump. Ostrich. Nick. Podcast. One more time. Hot. Sauce. What a rampage. What a rampage. Holy shit. What an episode. What a rampage. Oh man shit. I am excited for this young gentleman's future, Henry. Me too, man.

And I'm excited for the one more time podcast. This shit's going down in history. This is gonna be one of those ones. One of the ones for sure. If y'all fuck with this. I was so true to myself to that, I need to do that more. Like that was therapy. Yeah, yeah. Like, I really just said it was the first thing I thought. Right. It wasn't like it's a look into your soul. I really like that. Hip hop and pancakes. I'll never know why that. happened. I don't know why it happened. Yeah. But I blame it on the waffle question. Yeah, no, it definitely from the waffle. I blame it on the Yerba Mate. Just kidding. We love you, Guayaki. Thank you for the sponsorship. Thanks, guys. As always. Please like, comment, and subscribe if you fuck with the bare one boss interview. Until next week, Henry. What we doing? Getting out of here. Getting the fuck out of here. And I'm doing my own special interviews here. Don't get don't get it twisted. I will be co-hosting. I'm coming back. We might have a third host soon, ladies and gents. I'm getting rid of Henry actually. I need something to do. on Mondays. There we go. All right. Peace, y'all. Bye bye. Later.