Manny Akiio Interview: The Art of the Interview

The characteristics of a bad interview is when you coming in acting like you're Drake, you should come prepared, not I'm such and such I'm such and such. I'm him. We see him every day. People don't understand, like, they don't know how much these cameras cost, they don't know how much these mics cost. They don't know how much time you might have spent staying up all night preparing for an interview. My time is valuable. Time costs money. If I didn't interview right now, I could be clocking in, doing a job, some shit. The fact that you're in my presence in my time and I'm on your time, we're gonna respect each other. One more time. I am so pleased to be welcoming in on the one more time podcast, legendary rapper from New York. His style has no father. It's old Dirty Bastard. No, Henry, Jesus Christ. I said he does interviews for Dirty Glove Bastard. It's not ODB. No, DGB. What is this then? What are we even doing here?

We're interviewing one of the most amazing interviewers on one of the most prolific, well-respected platforms in the hip-hop music business, especially here in Atlanta. We got Manny. I don't even want to butcher your last name. I Akio. Akio. Akio. I get to say that on camera. It's Akio. A-K-I-I-O. Damn. There's actually two I's in there. Yeah, yeah. So you can get the E part right. Oh, it makes sense. It's a pronunciation type of spelling. So you can get it all together. I didn't, I didn't get it. It didn't help. It did not help. You know, sometimes when you got two vowels, it pronounces like another sound. Who's we? Hey, who me. No, but so I wanted to kick this off by having you do like an intro for us, right? So, you know, Dirty Glove Bastard off the porch is notorious for, yo, this is Manny Akio. And I just jumped off the porch with Dirty Glove Bastards. So, like, can you do that? was a good rapper voice, babe.

Thank you. It was. It was mad on point. I never heard that from him before. Yeah, yeah. I got more where that came from. Um, but like, can you do it one more time podcast version of that? Like, do you have any ideas? Hell Yeah, yeah. You have any ideas? All right, let's go, let's go. I'm recording. I don't know. How would y'all describe? I ain't gonna lie, I got fucking frustrated at that face. So what would y'all? Because you know, off the porch is real like Gertie, and you know, like so what would y'all describe like? one more time? we like learn things here and we kind of tell jokes sometimes. Corny, Kind of corny. I'm saying, how would y'all put any y'all words? Because I see I see y'all shit. Y'all shit going crazy, first of all. Put push the button for y'all. One more time. Yeah. yeah. That button. That's the button. Y'all going crazy for sure. Yeah. I would say, like, what's up? It's your boy Manny Akio, and you're watching one more time podcast. Bro, wait, wait. You didn't have to do your white voice. No, no, no. That's like my super 1950s radio. It was a radio voice.

That was like really radio. Can we wait? We need you to do it again and then it was really white. We need you to do it again, and we need to not say anything. In fact, I'm just gonna mute our mics while you do this. Okay. Let's go. okay. Do it again. What's up? It's your boy Manny Akio, and you're watching one more time podcast. Incredible. Holy shit. Incredible. All right. By the way, we own all the rights to this content, so that is now our intro. Moving forward. Obviously. Holy shit. That was great. I don't know where to go from there. I'm trying to tell you. Okay, no, no, I do. I do. So you have journalists in your Instagram bio. Yeah. Like, are we journalists here? Like, is that what we is that what we do? Bro, I didn't even know that until they told me that. Okay. So you told me that through your Instagram bio. I was like, they told me that through working. It was like you're a journalist. I'm like, what the fuck you mean? I'm a journalist. Like, I'm not writing shit.

At all. Like, no, I'm not gonna lie, though. I did start it off like writing little articles and shit. Like, I'm gonna say little. I wrote big articles, let's be very clear. I wrote articles. The biggest of articles. No, I had one big article, I feel like. Well, I had a couple. What'd you write about? The first big article I feel I had was the Travis Scott Astroworld uh article I wrote for Dirty Glove. Oh, like the shit tragedy massacre. No, no, no, no. Like the album. Okay. Okay, good. So I had like when the album had came out. I was like, I don't want to ask him about that. No, no, no, no, no, no. It was like I just wrote about the album review type shit. You know, when the album had dropped, I just wrote like a little my opinions and my thoughts about the album type shit. But it was a very detailed article. That's the first time I like went and dealt with the journalism shit. So I was like, okay, Okay. That was my phone. You let them know that you're on the one more time podcast. Yeah, that was my phone. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm like, Manny. I thought that was Phil. I'm like, bro, you fucking up. I'm looking at Phil, like, is that all you do?

That was Phil. He's looking around like it's a ghost cell phone. I'm thinking like, goddamn, y'all are that popular. Like, shit. We out. Our phone is ringing off the it's actually the one more time podcast hotline. I like it. It's ringing off. I ain't gonna lie, y'all should probably do that. Like what people call in short. Damn, that's a good one. Like a big old school phone. That'll be put up to here. That could be like a fire statement. Caller number one. What do you got for us? Yeah. We could use your voice, your white voice. Um, that's like my I say 1950s. You say white, I say 1950s, bro. Yeah, you gotta watch like some 1950s shit, and they'll be like, oh right, and then we're right back with uh you know what I'm saying? It sounded like pushing racist for sure. But like, you know, we're friends, so like I guess you're allowed to do that. Uh, but okay, so you wrote that article. And so, yeah, like we're journalists out here. Yeah, we are. I guess we are, bro. That's what we're doing. You feel like a journalist, Henry? Not really, No way, you. but I'm questioning it now. I'm kind of questioning it now, because I mean, we are like, you know, reporting on news.

We're just not writing it down. But we could get, you know, AI to just transcribe what we're saying. And then if it's an article, is that journalism now? I don't feel like I'm journaling, but maybe. Are we journaling? Like, are you I took you as a journaler, bro? Like, you just every day, like a daily journal. I had a journal. Oh, yeah, well. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, I did the journal thing as a kid, too. Yeah. So, so who are some of the goats in this shit, you know, journalist wise, right? Like, if an interviewer is a journalist, which you know, I guess that's the title they're fucking giving us these days. Like, who are some of y'all's y'all's favorite interviewers? Because I got a few. Um Ali G. No. Hip hop journalists, Henry G. He's pretty hip hop, bro. I'm not gonna hold you. Doug Banks from Chicago, I gotta say that. Cause I grew up listening to Doug Banks in Chicago for sure. Is he a radio uh interviewer? Okay, okay. Steve Harvey wasn't like one of my favorites, too. I'm not gonna hold you. Okay. They not hip hop, but it's like I'm saying, like, okay, that's what I was, but them was people like I looked up like was people like I looked up like watching they shit a little bit. It's interesting.

I actually learn a lot from non hip hop interviewers. Right. That's what I'm saying. With like how I get my, I guess, style, if you will. But some of my favorites are definitely Nardwuar. You gotta give it up I'm not gonna lie. for that fucking creepy, like all knowing motherfucker. Yeah. Uh like I just love his style, the the detail that he goes into, like the level of research and preparation, and obviously, like it's a fucking gimmick, but like rappers love that shit. No, supposedly that's not a character, bro. Like, he is I don't like that. I don't believe that. I mean, you embellish a little bit when the cameras get turned on, obviously, but bro, he talks like that, he acts like that. He's wearing he's wearing a uniform, though. He's wearing a fucking beret. That's an embellishment, maybe. But like he's not wearing that in his house, bro. He's not getting off the interview and be like, that was a great interview. I really appreciate you getting on my. All right. He's probably a weird cat for sure. Yes, bro. Speaking of Nardwuar, I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna put Hayes on blast. He dressed up as Nardwuar for Halloween one time.

Yeah, fucking nailed it. That was the funniest shit ever. Shout out Mike Hayes one time. Yeah, shout out Mike Hayes. One time, man. Founder of Dirty Glove Bastards. Is he co-founder? Zip is actually Ziploc Mo. Shout out Ziploc Mo, Uncle Zip, I love you. Ziploc Mo is the founder of Dirty Glove Bastard. Okay. And Hayes was one of the original writers for Dirty Glove. Wow. Who was helping Zip run the site? So that's how it all kind of formed. And shout out Dre, shout out my boy Dre. Dre was from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He's like, is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He came along, and that was like they were all helping each other, like run the site and shit like that. And then shout out to Spitty Will. And they were journalists. They are journalists because Spitty. Speedy was at the crazy part about it was I don't even think Hayes knew he was being a journalist at the time. Or Dre. He was writing shit. Yes. Yeah. I don't think they know, like. I don't think any bloggers knew. I don't think none of us know that that's what we're really doing. We're just telling our story and our passion for like the show we like. Are we all Mike Hayes? Is that what's happening?

I think so. Nah, man. I'll take it. But yeah, those are the four original founding people of Dirty Gloves. Yeah, for me, like I love Nardwuar's style, but then honestly, I I've been really loving uh Speedy Mormon uh from Complex. Shout out Speedy Mormon. man. I've really been loving uh Speedy's interviews. I think he's just got this super like calm, cool, collected, demeanor, very like well spoken and articulate. Like I love the way he delivers, you know, questioning uh and like his interaction with the guests. And then uh I used to love Adam 22 from No Jumper, but like I'm kind of kind of like I haven't listened to a no jumper interview in quite some time at this point. It's not exactly the same anymore. It's not right. He's kind of gone off the deep end as if he wasn't like already pushing it. And then Manny looks like he has something to say. I have nothing to say, but what I was gonna say is I was actually gonna agree with you, is like the newer journalists, like you had said Speedy, right? I was more so inspired by like the newer people, you know what I mean? Like Wayno, yeah, fucking bro.

Shout out Wayno, Wayno's one of the realest, one of the realest, realest, realest doing this shit. One more time podcast alumni. For real? Yeah, we had Wayno on here. It was one of my favorite interviews. Shout out my dog Wayno. Wayno's one of the ones. That guy can talk, and he's one of the people who didn't even know like journalism, like we talk about that. shit, he was like, bro, I didn't know that shit was like some shit. I'm like, yeah, me neither, bro. Like so it's like, Wayno, though. I fuck with Ebro at times. I feel like his opinions are like so like outdated a lot of times. That's why he's old man Ebro. He gleams into it, you know. But he, I feel like he's standing 10 on structure and shit of like the foundation of hip hop. So it's like a little bit I respect. So you coming from, like, a solid place of, like certain shit from the recipe can't be left out. I agree with that sometimes, but like a lot of times it's like, but look, bro, that nigga still cooking. You know what I mean? Same with like a big boy, out west. But how about Charlamagne Tha God? Charlamagne and Big Boy. I fuck with Charlamagne a little bit, but it's like his I fuck with Charlamagne a lot too. I'm not even gonna lie. You can't You can't. You can't not. I'm not gonna lie. Like, it's his opinion you just can't agree with all the time.

Or how he says things. That's just most of the time. but you cannot fuck with him, bro. He's like one of them ones. Like you got to. So I fuck with Charlamagne too. For sure. So I would interview Charlamagne. Yeah. Yeah. I think we all would. I think he would come on here and call us call us appropriators, you know, like hate on us, but I would still do it. Yeah. Y'all feel like definitely culture vultures. over here for sure. Journalists. Yeah. Do y'all feel like sometimes we have to just go ahead and give our raw, honest opinion? Yeah, but we we are definitely trying to uh be okay with that. Neither of us came into this wanting to do that. Same. Really? Right? Like we we had opinions, but like we just we almost looked at the people who would be so like intense with their opinions online, and we were like, uh, like fuck those guys, like whatever. That's like academics, you know. Yeah, yeah. Where he, he knows what he's doing. I get it. He knows what he's doing. Big guy.

So yeah, I I think I think we have to because I think that's what our audience uh wants. They do want our raw and honest opinions, but I do struggle with it. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I struggle with it all the time. Because I'm also one fucking guy, and I acknowledge that where it's like, what actually does my like it's my it's one guy's opinion. Like, yeah, I'm probably wrong about a lot of stuff, you know, and like that's but I feel like as humans we're all entitled to an opinion, so but not every like you're saying, not everybody wants to hear that shit. Yeah, who am I to say, no, I'm not fucking with that, or no, I don't like this. You know what I mean? It's the people that come onto our posts on our page and comment how whack we are, stupid we are, dumb we are. Yes, but like you're in our territory commenting it. So definitely we've learned to have to have hard skin in this shit. That was a big one. Because the bigger you are, yeah, the more hate you are gonna get. You're not winning until you get hate. Hey, and we're we got some hate now, so hey, shout out us for sure. Yo, I'm I'm gonna put your uh mic down a little bit so we can see that beautiful face of yours. Oh, okay.

Um, yeah, if it was Henry, we should probably raise Henry's mic to cover his face, but uh anyway. So, like, how would you describe your interview style? Like, have you thought about that much? Honestly, when I interview a person, my only goal is to like know you. Why do you operate the thing? Why do you operate the things you do? Why do you do the things you do? I mean, and like what makes you you? Because everybody's story is different. Everybody can come to the porch, everybody can come on this couch right here, but their story's not gonna be the same. You know what I mean? So, like, what makes your story so great? What did you go through? How did you learn how to get through that obstacle? Like, I want to know why you operate the way you operate and why you're the person you are, you know what I mean? Yeah, so I just basically ask questions basing on that, like trying to break you down because everybody is not gonna be the same, but somebody can learn from some shit you might have did or some shit you might have been through. You know what I mean? Like, everybody wants to know why that person is there and I'm here, but what makes us similar? Yeah, that's why.

How long have you been doing it? About five years now. And and so, how long would you say it has taken you to develop like the style that you're at now, right? Like, is that like really recent, or is it kind of like from the beginning it was it was like this? Or were you always like thinking about that? Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Always it's still like because it's like I feel like I still haven't gotten it down. Sure. But it's like people will be like, Oh, you're good. I'm like, you fucking with me? You know what I'm saying? Like, bro. Thank you. Yes, bro. When I had interviewed, don't call Me Right Girl. Shout out to Mona, man. I love Mona so much. Is that your favorite interview? One of them. it seems like one of your favorites, bro. One of my favorites. The way he's been posting about this interview. I had to go watch it. Like, I try and watch as many of you know Manny's interviews because I do love your style, and obviously, I you know I appreciate it. I I you know I want to support you. I love you. But like the one that you posted about the most with like the most intensity and like just excitement was the don't call me white girl, Mona. Yeah, that's because Mona was probably one of the realest people I ever interviewed.

You know what I'm saying? Like, she in what sense? Like the status she's at, like, we're doing the same thing like as journalists, like like you're saying, like, this is a world we're kind of like new to because with social media and everything, like social media probably wouldn't have told somebody like me that I can be a journalist. But I just wanted to give my opinion, my thoughts on shit, and everybody was fucking with it. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, like Mona's one of those people that reflects the same type of background, probably came from an even more rougher background. Yeah, but she was one of the most genuine and most open armed people I ever interviewed because I don't even know why, but she's just one of the realest. Like, I fucking loved her, bro. Like, she was like her story and everything, so it was like I was really in tune with her because she was just like really in tune with me. Did you think that it was gonna be one of your favorites going into it? No, you wanna know who I didn't know who was gonna be one of my favorites that ended up being one of my real favorites. That's uh was one of my questions I wanted to ask. Yeah, who? Sexy motherfucking red. You interviewed sexy red? Yeah, shout out Sexy. Big Sexy. How long ago?

Like February, I interviewed her in February, yeah. Bro, she took the fuck off. Was Pound Town out? Yeah, I think she was teasing it. I think she was teasing it It was about to come out. yeah. Or it was it was already out or some shit like that. Like it was just now, like in the, you know what I'm saying? Becoming what it was becoming. Sure. But she was still like one of the most down to earth, coolest people ever. Like Pound Town was not Pound Town yet, but she was like sexy red at the time. That makes sense. You know what I mean? Like, she was still the same person, lit as fuck, cool as fuck, down to earth. Same person that we see all on social media. Like she was just one of the coolest people ever, bro. So what'd you think you were getting? You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Since it was surprising, like what were your expectations versus what happened? Honestly, because you know what I'm saying, like rap can be gimmicky sometimes. People knew a lot of stunt shit, like, oh, I'm trying to be this person or I'm trying to be that. When she came, it didn't feel like a persona. It was just like, I'm really trying to tell my story. I'm trying to do what I gotta do to get to where I'm trying to go. And it was like, you wouldn't expect that from a person like that, but it was like determination.

That's she was so cool though. Like at the same time, it was like, who are you? It's like intriguing. Yeah, that's that's why I feel like everybody loves her when they meet her. Yeah, that's literally how I imagine I'd love to interview BLP kosher. The uh you know, the white Jewish rapper from Florida who's got the crazy hair. Cause I think it's the same thing. Cause I've met with uh someone who's you know helping him from like an AR perspective and and you know that sort of thing. And like I asked that guy, uh you know, shout out Mateo. I was like, is this dude for real? Like I was just like, is this a is this a gimmick, or is this like is this like really this dude? Like I don't know really what I'm what I'm getting right now. And he was like, no, dude, he's the real deal. Yeah, and like I think it's kind of similar with what you're describing with sexy red, where you where when you didn't really know what was going on, you kind of look at it like eh, fuck, like I don't know what this is. Right. This is just some thing that's gonna come and go. Right. And like maybe it still will, time will tell. But to your point. Big sexy here to stay, bro. You think so? Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. That's a ski. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.

Bro, I'm not going to lie. I don't want to make this a sexy red interview, but I'm not gonna lie, she had probably one of the most intriguing fucking moments. You gotta think about it because I feel like look at the song Pound Town, right? It can be gimmicky if you're not in depth with what she got going on in tune with what she got going on, right? Yeah. Then she dropped one of the best projects of the year. Really? What? Y'all gotten it? I haven't heard. No, I haven't heard bro. You got to. I will now. I'm not going to lie, bro. I'm not even gonna lie. I will now. Sexy Red dropped one of the best projects of the year. And I feel like she turned everybody's perspective up, like, oh, I'm an artist. A real one. Wow. With real hits. Like, look at her. She's still here charting now. Like, yeah, yeah. Poundtown charted. Hellcats SRT charted. Ski E charting. So she's here. Who's on the Hellcats remix too. Lil Dirk. Yeah, Dirk. Shout out to Sean Ferrari. Sean Ferrari went crazy on that beat too, man. Damn. So how do you prepare for an interview? What's your and like how much do you prepare? Damn, bro. You put me on the spot. So you don't.

Do you? Not really. No. Wow. I like freestyle. I like punching in. Punching in. Oh, did he see one of our clips recently? Because we just went. Yeah, we just went in about it. I like punching in. I like punching in. I'm not gonna lie. I will read the EPK or the bio sometimes. Okay, but those are a few. I'm not gonna lie. Those are worthless. They really are. Publicists do better. I literally got more by looking at three Instagram posts than your fucking EPK. That like what are you even sending me? Are you saying EPKs are worthless or just they're these EPKs you're seeing are shit? EPKs without depth are worthless. Exactly. I'm not gonna lie, some some publicists do send really good EPKs and bios. But a lot of them send shitty ones too. I've got some. So I got us some shitty ones, like three, four or five sentences, not paragraphs, sentences. Hey, he the hardest motherfucker out. You gotta interview him. He's going up. He's fine. he dropped this song, this song, this. I'm like, I know.

I know the songs that he released. That's for the other section in the fucking EPK. Don't use the bio to just tell me all the songs that he dropped and where he's from. It's like we know. I mean, you can say where he's from, like whatever, but just oh god, do better. You seem to get genuinely flustered. No, because I think I understand his pain. Because it's a good chance, it's a good chance to really um like demonstrate what it is that this artist is all about. And to your point, it's just it's shallow the shit that I've got. This might be the only time, like I may not have time to really dive deep into your artist. Yeah, I may not have time to watch all his videos. I may not have time to watch all the interviews. So this EPK might be the only thing I have. So it's like you can either write it like a kindergarten or you can write the shit like JK Rowling. You see what I'm saying? That's a bummer. I'm a Potter fan, so that one really hit home. That's what I'm saying. You can tell the story right, or you can tell it wrong. So it's like it's on your publicists, too, though. I'm not even gonna lie, but that comes from knowing this shit and knowing that you need a team for this shit for real, too. though. Yeah, I would like you to respond to his freestyle-esque punching in style of interviewing.

No, compared to your let's see what we got here. Okay, I'm not gonna lie though, full page of shit going on, which I think is dope. maybe it's his style, I'm not against it, I'm not hating. No, but but my my question was do you think that there is, and I guess you would answer the question, yes. Do you think there is such a thing as like being too prepared? And no, really, I'm going to tell y'all why again? So when I was doing interviews and shit, I had to watch Hayes. Like swear to God, like every time Hayes was back in doing the back doing the interview on the porch, I had to be back there watching him to understand how to do some shit. Yeah, so it was like for months, months on months on months before I even got a chance to even do an off-the-porch interview. Okay, you were the you were the uh grasshopper and he was uh he was the sensei. Dead ass. Okay, so it was like I had to study him to learn how to do that shit. Even he gave me the blueprint. Okay, this is how I do my structure, this is how I prepare, and it ended up helping me to already know what I'm gonna get into when I'm gonna do my interview. What did you see?

So with Hayes, he would always hit how he would body the interview. He will always go from top to bottom in the story. Where are you from? What do you like to do? How did you get into music? What trouble did you get into to make your story different? What did you experience in life that makes your story different from others? What about your city? What is your city? What's going on in your city that's not going on in other cities? How do you want to make a difference? How did you want to make it out? How did you put the plan together? So it was like that shit. I I learned all that shit from watching his interviews back to back to back to back to back. To the point where I was like, okay, well, shit, I know how to do it. You see what I'm saying? Like, I didn't know, I didn't need to. All right, what uh I know what questions to ask to bring that question out. What percentage of the guests that you interview would you say you already are pretty familiar with the the general story of theirs? You guys do like a hundred interviews a month. Yeah. Um, I'm not gonna lie. You still, like again, you do have to read those EPKs. Sometimes the EPKs may not be some about some shit. So you gotta go, you gotta go look on the Instagram.

You gotta go fucking watch an interview or two or some shit. You got you gotta find the time to do so. So you are at least doing that typically. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna go in there butt ass naked. Okay. You see what I'm saying? Like, I'm not gonna ever go in there and put some drawers on. Yes, bro. I'm gonna at least have white beaters draws and socks on. I'm not gonna be fully clothed, but you know what I'm saying? I'm gonna go in there knowing. I feel like I'm showing up with like a suit and tie or something to my end. You definitely are. I'm not going to lie. I think that's your style. too. Like a big jacket and like multiple layers. It's your style though, too. And I think it works for it. It's cool though. It's like it's cool though. Just like some artists get in the booth and they punch in every bar, and some of them are good at that. And some of them, when they do that, it's trash, but they can write an insane verse and then record it in one take. So it's self-awareness, I think, at the end of the day, right? Yeah, just sometimes I feel like I'm missing out on some of the stuff. I mean, he's he's not against it, but like we haven't figured out a way to document some of the uh off-camera, like behind the scenes conversations because we were having some amazing conversations before we even sat down to talk on this on this podcast, right? Also, some that did not need to be on camera.

Well, and that's where I think that's where, yes, that that's where we would obviously get their approval to you know remove certain things, etc. But I do think that there's a lot of good stuff because it is that like I'm not prepared for that. Like clearly I'm not preparing, like, oh, behind the scenes, I'm gonna ask them these five questions. That's not that's not happening. So I do I do like miss that genuine side of it when I'm a little too prepared sometimes. And I feel like I'm trying to curate this like perfectly told story when like maybe I'm missing out on something that's like really great that could have organically come about. I'm not gonna lie, I don't think you're doing nothing wrong. I feel like because both of y'all, you like to punch in his style and you might like the structure style, it's a balance automatically. So that's what makes y'all shit y'all shit because Ben might have a structure and Henry might come with the personality and the freestyle. Yeah, so that's what's gonna always make it what's gonna make it, so it's gonna always be peanut butter and jelly. You feel me? Damn. So it's like yeah, am I am I peanut butter or jelly? Would you say you want? I don't know.

I think you're crunchy peanut butter. Oh shit. I like smooth, creamy shit, man. Smooth out your interview style, maybe it's a little too crunchy for you, Henry. Jesus. Strawberry jam, baby. All right. All right. I'll keep it. So we kind of got some of your like uh most uh you know unexpected success interviews, and then we got like one that you've been really excited about recently with you know, Mona and uh Don't Call Me White Girl, right? And um and then sexy red. What's like if you're comfortable actually name dropping the worst one, let's hear what the worst interview was. If not, we'll move into like what are the characteristics of a bad interview. The characteristics of a bad interview is when you coming in the interview acting like you're Drake or your future. You know what I mean? Like everybody's just supposed to be gravitated to your story. Like, I'm not gonna lie, off the porch is a platform where it's an equal opportunity platform, so anybody from the any walks of life can come there and tell their story. So therefore, you should come prepared, not I'm such and such, I'm such and such.

I'm him. We see him every day. You know what I'm saying? So it's like you should come prepared, like at least respectable, you know what I'm saying? Like to the opportunity, and then we're gonna respect the fact that you come here too, though, every time. So it's like the worst interviews are the people who feel like it's finna just be B T 10 Bart. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I love that, man. And I just and I already just love your energy, even just being here is just amazing because we have had people who get on here and they act like being interviewed is a chore. And I'm like, we're fucking doing this for you. And if you are getting free content, you are getting free exposure, you are getting airtime. Like your marketing team and your label's gonna love this, even if you don't, but like you should love it too. Like, you're getting a chance to tell your story. We spent so much money on this set, and it's cameras and we don't interview anyone. And that's what people don't ever respect. So, shout out to press the button for y'all one more time. Come on, man. Because people no, no, no, not that one here. We go. One more time button.

Yeah, come on, bro. You feel me? Get the fucking button right. You have one job. Do not respect our end of the craft. Yes. You know what I'm saying? People don't understand. Like, they don't know how much these cameras cost. They don't know how much these mics cost. They don't know how much time you might have spent staying up all night preparing for an interview. They might not know how much you had to go out. You feel me? I know, bro. Come on, bro. So it's like they don't respect that part. And that's the lamest part about the journalism aspect of this shit, because we're in a new realm of this shit. Like, I didn't, you know what I'm saying? I did go to school to study journalism. But I'm saying, like, I dropped out, though. Dropped out, though. So it was like, I didn't go to school for journalism. You feel me? but it was like I dropped out once I realized I needed to be in school for journalism. So it was like, okay, cool. But I like uh again, I took time into learning this crap. I took time into learning who who you were as a person. I took time into investing in these cameras. This fucking audio equipment cost a fucking arm and a leg. People don't understand. My time is valuable. Time costs money.

If I didn't interview right now, I could be clocking in doing a job, some shit. I'd be driving doing Doordash, Uber, whatever the fuck people be doing. My time is valuable. Time literally costs money. Time is money. So the fact that you're in my presence in my time and I'm on your time, we're gonna respect each other. Yes. That's what makes bad interviews when people don't understand both aspects of the scale. Damn. But there's nothing better than when that respect exists. And they're like those are the best interviews ever. Man, shout out Fat Man Key. Yeah, shout out Key, bro. Gotta shout out Key. Key was my first off-the-porch interview. Ever? On the actual porch. Really? Whoa. Yes. And because like that's like feeding you to the wolves. No, let me tell you why it wasn't. Wait, what year was this? This is back in 2019. Five years ago. I think I think so. It might have been 2019. My dog, man. Hey, come on, bro. Well, he told you that he started doing it five years ago. You just did some quick maths. Okay. It might have been 2019, but I'm like, but key, like, was again, it was an artist I again grew up loving. One of my favorite artists.

So it was like I was already knowledgeable about the artist. But because I had to watch Hayes for months and weeks on end, I already came with the structure. So that was probably one of my favorite interviews. And that showed DGB, like, he can do this shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, because that interview was one of my best and one of my favorites coming out the gate. I remember Hayes was in the it was in the back watching me. Like when my first doing interviews and shit, Hayes sat in the back and watched me like for a couple interviews. a talent agent. Yeah, like he was really goddamn, he was really one of the best OG and mentors, bro. And this shit. I'm not even gonna hold you. He would just make sure I was good. I remember looking back and he had fucking left in the middle of an interview. He was like, No, you killed it. I felt so fucking good. I'm like, bro, it was one of my best interviews. Yeah, like yeah, yeah. I loved our Key interview as well. I just want to shout out. One of the best humans ever, bro. One of the best humans. He fucking love that kid, man. Yeah, no kidding. Seriously. No, I I just, you know, I just got a text today, the interview that we're dropping tomorrow, whenever this is being shot. Uh, shout out the artist.

Um, she's going crazy. RB's like future. And her manager, who I'm friends with, texted me, like, yo, that was her favorite interview. Like, just getting that type of like respect for like what we're doing. I'm not gonna lie, like the you know, the vanity metrics on like how many likes and comments and shares and followers and all that shit is cool. But I'm not gonna lie, for the people that sit on this fucking couch and come onto our show and respect what the fuck we're doing enough to literally like give us praise of like, yo, that was like amazing. Like, really appreciate you having me on, sharing the clips, being involved with our community. Sharing the clips. Yeah, Can we get a collab post? An hour and a half interview, and the artists don't even share it. Crazy, doesn't even mention that they did it. Insanity. Your work didn't mean shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, what the fuck did I do? But how dumb are they for not sharing it? You would be blown away at the number of people that have actually just asked us for the footage to make their own clips. Like we make clips, but like, you don't want an hour's worth of content, potential content. Did you not promote your brand?

Did you not say anything worth not shit? Like, do you not even think that you said anything? Like, fuck us. Like, literally, go ahead and say, fuck me and Henry. Like, that's fine. But you didn't say anything cool enough that you want to put it out on your social media. Like, it's fucking like mind blowing. Man. But nah, man. Shout out to all the people that do actually respect the craft because, like, yeah, it's um, it's definitely, you know. It's appreciated. It's much, much appreciated. And the people that don't even understand, once you appreciate my craft, I appreciate and respect you even more. So I would want to go further for you. A lot of people get that shit misconstrued. Like, oh, that's just such and such from one more time, or that's just such and such from Dirty Glove. No, because such and such from one more time really got the plugs, but they don't understand it. Yeah. So it's just like, hey, that's on you. Yeah. No, it's absolutely true. So what's the wildest shit that's happened on one? Because like you got some, y'all got some, y'all got some guests like that. I tune into some of them that I haven't heard of, and I'm like, what is happening on this porch right now?

Double cupping straps out. Just like 12 people on the porch. I mean, like, so what's I love it? What's the wildest interview that you've been, you know, that you've hosted? Um trying to think. One interview guy, he was like in character. Oh, what do you mean? What do you mean? He was basically like, it was trolling. So it was like, I didn't understand he was trolling. So I got pissed for real. I'm like, bro, what the fuck is you doing? Like in the interview, like that part got cut out, but it was like, what the fuck you got going on? He was like, no, no, no. I'm like, uh. So it was like Can you explain the troll? He a little. So it was like, nah, a lot. Because it was like, I didn't understand. Like, bro, what the fuck is you doing, bro? Like, I ain't gonna lie. I never told Hayes, none of them this. But they understood, like, I broke it down, like, you know, minimize it, like. Me and the um interview had uh, I didn't understand what he was doing. He was like, oh, okay. But no, it was really like, bro. What the fuck you got going on? Why why was he doing that?

For like again, gimmick shit. You see what I'm saying? It's a character. It was the character he was trying to troll, like, oh, I'm off the porch, I'm finna goddamn fuck with the no, the fuck you not. Like, you know shit, you fuck with the wrong dude, my guy. Like, oh god, like I'm not gonna lie. That's one thing I love about DGB, Everybody's standing together too. So if it's like, if I feel some shit wrong, I'm not even gonna lie, no matter how wild it be, they'll tell me like you want some bullshit, man. Like, okay, cool. I can't do nothing about it. But if they know I'm in the right, okay, you in the right. We we behind you 100%. So it was like, okay, cool. How much of the interviews are actually edited out? Because we yeah, we barely ever edit anything out. But I think a lot of podcasts do. All of them get something taken out. like a lot of them do got every off the I will say this, every off-the-porch interview does get scanned and edit for interviews. Yeah. Like, in case you might say some dumb shit on camera that we may not agree with, it's not gonna come out. So that's one thing I do respect about DGB, too. Okay. So everything does get oversaw. I mean, overseen and goddamn looked over thoroughly before it's put out. And then it's like sometimes even if you want to see it before it's getting put out, they'll send you the footage, so you can see it too.

Yeah, we'll do that for sure. How many, how many interviews just get scrapped all together and say, like, fuck this, this? This isn't coming out at all. I can't imagine. Is there any? A couple, it's been a couple. Okay, but not out of 5,000. Upon the artist request. 0.0001% of their interviews have never made it. Upon the artist request, though, a lot of artists have like requests take their interviews down. How crazy is that? We have one. We have one that never came out because on the uh guest request. Yeah. So fucking stupid. But that's actually a that's not a bad rate. It's some shit you don't understand all the time either, though, bro. Because I'm not gonna lie, like, you know, say what you want, but like uh I've I did my research of this guest's past interviews. Ours was good, better, obviously. Yeah, like I mean, shout out to us. Like, we're doing our fucking thing here. So it's like yeah, exactly. So I just I don't understand that shit, man. Um, but I think you kind of hinted at this. Like, how much does the guest have control over like when the interview comes out, uh, what to cut out, what social media clips, the title of the interview, like does the guest have any control over any of that? Yeah, yeah, 100%.

Wow. Like, we give you that option. When do you want to because like a lot of interviews might be a part of a rollout? So a lot of interviews might be okay. I want to drop it on this date. Okay, we'll drop it on this date. Oftentimes, though, a lot of people are not telling us when to drop it though. Yeah, oftentimes though, some people will. Okay, I want to drop it on this date. I'm not gonna lie, This will be a lot of better than interviews, too, though. Yeah, so it's like when do they do they tell you before you shoot the interview? Yeah, sometimes they will. See, that's different than like sometimes they will. Sometimes. we've had times where we're about to drop it, and they're like, not yet, not yet. Oh my god, those are the worst, bro. we gotta we drop every Thursday. Those are the worst, but they have like 10 backup interviews. Right, right. We have maybe one or two. They're Posting five a day. So it's like, well, we only had four today. Yeah, fuck that one. Exactly. For us, like for anyone who comes on here in the future, like we only upload one interview a week. So if you tell us the night before that you just like, oh, like actually, can we push this out a few weeks? Our daily night is ruined.

I'm up all night editing. The entire night is ruined. Because we do have backups, meaning like we've gotten ahead, but like it fucks Henry's night up. Like completely. And the next day. And then he's grumpy at me, so then I have to deal with you guys because he's grumpy at me, and I have to be grumpy at you. It's a whole, it's like a uh, you know. Ben asked you that because we kind of want to be like, fuck the guest. I mean, it's just it's our it's our, it's a lot of people. Bro, not like that. A lot of the bigger platforms do be like, fuck the guests, though. So why can't y'all be like fuck the guests? We let any anything you want to take out, we're we'll take it out. We get if you come up to us early, y'all reasonable. There's a time you want to drop it, we'll push it back, we'll do all that. We're very reasonable. We're making all this content for you. If you have a title you love, we'll consider it. Yeah. But we feel like we know what works best, you know, as far as like it's our platform. And it's our fucking platform. I don't tell you what lyrics to write. I don't come into your studio session and tell you what fucking lyrics to write. Right. You didn't come in here with your cameras or your microphones.

Yeah. Which camera are we at? You can go in here, bro. If you gotta say something crazy, go here. Respect The journalist, bro. It's that's just uh it's just that simple. Is that the title of this interview? That's respect to journalists. Respect the Journalist. Respect the journalist. Bro, drop like some fire ass sound. Yeah, all that shit. DJ Human. But it's like, bro, respect the journalists. At the end of the day, you don't understand how important media is. You don't. That's why they come to us. Literally, bro. So it's like, you know, you may not understand what this interview might do for you or your career or your fans. We understand what it's gonna do for you, your career, and your fans. So you should respect the people that's taking time out there a day to goddamn appreciate what the fuck you got going on. And you specialize in this shit. At the end of the day, we got families. You got kids, you got family, you got sisters and shit. I got brothers and sisters and moms and shit that I could be pouring into versus you, bro. Yeah, I don't give a fuck about your story.

I'd rather have my mom, my brother, and my sister piped up. Facts. Also, the that that's actually a good point. The paid, if the if the guest is paying for the interview, that might be a little different. If I was a guest and I paid for my interview, I might want a little bit more control. Nah, but still. that's not even true either. When you go to the store and you buy some shit, you can't run the store. Exactly. So it's like you came here. At the end of the day, you fucking came onto our show. Bro, my favorite point when people be like, oh, paying, paying, paying. When you go to your barber, what do you do? Let him cut your fucking hair. You let him cut your fucking hair and you pay for the service. That's it. So when you come to me, this is a fucking service. I'm taking time out of my day. But I might say, like, you know, but I want the fade, I want the shit. You can say all of that, but guess what? It might come with a little upcharge. It might come with this, it might come with that. You can get whatever the fuck you want. But guess what? You're gonna respect my time. I'm gonna respect yours. I'm respecting your wishes. All right, you wanna drop on this day?

Cool. All right, you want to do that? Cool. All right, you was talk about people being late. Oh my God. I swear to God. Is it is anyone late for y'all's interviews, or are we just getting hella disrespect? What? Because everyone is late like all the time, I feel like. Hayes is so patient when it comes to people being late. And you're not? Late fee. Oh shit. Should we? Bro, we could be millionaires if we charge late. fees. We could have been. We don't have a regular fee, though. Yes, we do, Henry. Okay. It's $1,500 an interview. Yeah. Come on, bro. Totally. Shut the fuck up, Henry. God damn, bro. We've had $1,500 off. I want to say they're taking them. This is not my platform. I just work for these people. Like I always say that because people always want to beat me up. Another you gotta understand. When people, like again, when you come here, production costs, time costs, literally, bro. People have to pay people. At DGB, it's a big business. So you gotta think it's like five, six people doing different things for this fucking business, bro. People have to be accommodated just for you wanting to do what interview.

A price is a price. Just pay for some shit. You're not finna negotiate with your barber about the price of his cuts. You're not finna negotiate with your landlord about the price of your rent. You're not finna negotiate with Kroger or Publix about the price of their fucking groceries. Why? Because you need that shit. If you're doing this rap shit, you need media. You need one more time. You need DGB. Why? We're the building platforms any fucking way. We're gonna give a fuck up before anybody else does. Damn. God, he gets me fired up, bro. Let's just marinate on that one for a second. Holy shit. I got to. I gotta chill. Shots fucking fired. And if y'all owe favors, pay up on the motherfucking favors too. I'm tired of doing free fucking favors. 2024, you're done. Like I swear to God, what I say is what I say. My budget is my budget, my price is my price. That's it. I just saw that from uh my guy Brick over at Daily Chiefers. Shout out to Brick. I love that, bro. I love what they're doing, and he's a character because he posts shit like that on his story of being like, I'm fucking sick of y'all asking for free shit. I'm not posting your whack ass rapper friend for free. Fuck you.

Like it basically. I feel that though. Yeah. They don't understand. We just don't have the same model in general, anyways. Like we should, because we're fucking, I don't know. Like, we've had people uh offer to pay for like 24 hour story posts. I know, and like that's what they that's what the other platforms obviously do. And so we I don't know. Like, we we we just need to talk, we need to talk about it. Because, like, yeah, it's a it's a lot of money that we're leaving on the table for sure. But I think that's one of our strengths too that we haven't rushed to monetize this shit, which keep it pure, man. Don't rush that shit, bro. A lot of platforms do be rushing that shit. Thank you. Your platform even established for you to be charging people. You should be fucking with the culture and fucking with the people in building before you even want to. Now that is lame shit, too. Like, I'm not gonna lie. DGB is one of the platforms that I did excuse me, see grow to where they can charge some shit. I'm not gonna lie, I really watched this shit. Like, if you got 20 people trying to get on your shit in the same day, bidding war. What? You feel me? Like, I'm not that's something you can't negotiate. That's the business you built.

This is the platform that's been established. That's some shit you can charge for. Not gonna lie, but it's be a lot of platforms that be like 1500 followers trying to charge people 200 for a what? Mhm, and it's it'd be respectable. People reaching out to you, just trying to fuck with your platform. You should post that shit for free. You gotta build this shit. This shit Lego, you feel me? Like, yeah, you got to. Exactly. I think we're at that point where we're just you know, when is the right time? You know, there's no like oh now we've built something that's worthy of the thing. Bro, y'all got Drake liking y'all shit. Drake actually liked our did like one of our posts. Make some post and make some noise. Yeah. Make some noise one more time. Shout out to six guys. This is his host uh personality coming out, yeah. Because you know he like host parties and shit. Yeah, yeah. He's like a concert and event host, like from time to time. And so that's like what that is. The bar is open, drinks are flowing. Oh, he knows. You gotta come out to Hey, shout out to Slang Fest. I'm hosting Slang Fest September 30. That lineup looks fire, bro.

Bro, shout out to Jay Pride. I'll let him. bro. It's gonna already have happened by the time this interview comes out. Bro, that shit is going to be fire. So, like Slang Fest was fucking dope. 2024 is next year. Buy tickets now. Next year, slang Fest will be fire as fuck. Okay, so you recently did a couple of on-camera interviews. Yeah. So they're they're usually keeping your, you know, I don't know why, your beautiful face behind the camera, but uh, but you were on a set. You interviewed Cowboy. Cowboy, and I just interviewed Schoolie and Schoolie. Yeah. so far. Um, what what's it been like being on camera versus you know behind the camera like you are at off the porch? Um, shout out to Full Circle. Dot Now that's my brother's BP. Uh shit, I fucked up. That's my brother BCP Branding's podcast and his platform over there. It's basically been he came from off the porch. He was one of the original videographers filming all the interviews, and he just branched off into his own shit. Oh shit.

So he just asked, he was like, yo, I need a uh on camera. I was like, fuck it, let's do it. So it was just like just because that's the family, you know what I mean? Like, it ain't shit when it comes to game ever. Does DGB care about? No. That's why I love DGB too, because it's like they just want to see us grow. Okay. I'm Not gonna lie. We need to get, I'm gonna get more in depth on like how that shit, like, it's a like a beautiful conglomerate over there. I'm not gonna hold you. It's like pressure make diamonds over there. Yeah. It's so that DGB family treats something, stupid. But it's like, FullCircle.now, like I said, is my brother BCP Branding's shit. He just asked me to come on and just like do an interview one day, which was Cowboy. Yeah, who was also like a DGB family friend because he used to record out of uh plugged in studios every fucking day. Okay. So it was like, oh okay, shit is cool. It's no problem. So we just did it, and then the people loved it. So then he asked me to come back for schooling, and then the people love it. So it's just like, I don't know what it's gonna be, but shit. On camera is way better and different than DGB off the porch because I feel like DGB, I gotta be more structured and thorough and making sure the artist's story get out. When I'm at FullCircle.now, I'm Manny.

Like, if you know Manny, I'm fucking Manny on camera. Like goofy, funny, piped up. What the fuck are we doing? You see what I'm saying? So it's like it's just more fun on camera over there. Yeah. Yeah. Are they just getting started at full circle? They are. How they got cowboy cowboy in school, y'all already? What are we doing? No, y'all can get them. Look, I'm finna get on their ass too. because I be telling Ben all the time. They can be having the same fucking people, bro. I tell Ben this shit for the past couple years. Like, y'all shit Ben lit. Look at this new fucking set, bro. I didn't even know y'all did this shit out of the same area. I asked him. I'm like, bro, do y'all do this shit here all the time? They was like, yeah, I'm like, wow, this shit look way different. Like, it does. Yeah. Shit like professional. It's like we in a fucking house. Like, we're on Ellen. You know what I mean? I like Oprah better, but like sure. Well, these do look like Oprah. As a show. Bro, you look like Tom Cruise. Me? Yeah, when you stood on the couch. That's like the okay.

I don't know. That's like an amazing compliment. Uh, but no, I it means you're like five. six. yeah, and like a Scientologist. Yeah, um, yeah, really weird. Damn. I actually really like uh the I'm not gonna lie, shout out to DGB off the porch, but like I really loved the uh full circle.now interviews with you on camera. Just with you on camera, I think you're right. I think it unlocks your true uh personality. I think that you have to be a little more uh I I don't want to at all say scripted, but just more like conservative in your line of uh or like in the way you're delivering the questions. It's not it's less a conversation and way more an interview, yeah. You know, you know? Yeah. You you you do try and like have uh moments within the off-the-porch interviews where you're like commenting on something or like telling your own perspective, whatever. But it's way less with that than even the the two interviews that I was looking at, you know, clips from the the full circle.now stuff. Cause you even telling Schoolie like that you used to want to sing like him and shit.

I don't know that you would like have delivered that same. I see what's going on. Right? Yeah. No, that's very much so. It felt more comfortable to sell him that on camera. Yeah. So it was like, and because it was like it's more like how we having a conversation. Exactly. It's more like a podcast. You could, the full circle could you could upload that as a podcast. Yeah, that is it is a podcast. So it's just on some chill shit. So it's just like I get to give Schoolie his flowers. Somebody I was really looking up to in high school and shit. Of course. That's the best part about it. And he just being receptive and cool about it. I get to pop shit. So it's like it's the it's a good thing. So it's like, yeah, I get what you're saying. Like, I get to be more myself on camera. I didn't think it would be like that. I think I'll be more shy and shit. But it's like, I'd be me, nigga. Like I'd be popped the fuck up. Yeah, you shy, that's your strength. Yeah. So of course. So what's the what's the goal? Like, do you want to be like the best journalist, or do you have other like aspirations within music? Or like what, you know, what are we working towards here? Oh, bro, the realest. I ain't gonna hold you. Like I said, I never ever had fucking plans on being a journalist.

Yeah. Like, I can tell this story all the way to the case. Except when you went to college for journalism. I went to college for journalism mass communications, right? I dropped out after three fucking months. Okay. And then I started working for Dirty Glove, I think six months later. Uh I was working at the Tabernacle. Y'all know what the Tabernacle is? Yeah. I mean, we're from Atlanta. Hey, come on, guys. That church. Used to go there. Yeah, you feel me? Yeah. Exactly. I had randomly started my own blog at one point, like on Blogspot.com. I would just go to all the concerts in Atlanta, just recording my own little footage and just uploading that shit on Blogspot.com and just doing my own little shit, talking about the shows in the city. So then I ended up getting a job at the concert hall, which was a tabernacle, and I bumped into Hayes and Aaron from Dirty Glove. I was backstage. It was a big boy concert, bro. I was high as fuck. I'm not gonna lie, I had my headphones in, not supposed to have your headphones in and shit. I'm back there listening to music, piped the fuck up, and everybody is just walking up, shaking their hands, being respectful. You're not supposed to talk to the guests when they uh walking in the tab and shit.

Nigga, CeeLo Green walked up, was like, what's going on? I'm like, what's up, CeeLo? You feel me? And then David Banner walked up. What's up, David? Hayes and Aaron walked up. And I see their DGB shirts. I'm like, oh shit, this Dirty Glove. They walked to me, I'm like, what's up? But they walked all all the way over to my station. So I'm like, oh shit, I'm finna get fired. So it was like, what's up, y'all? And Hayes was like, What's up, bro? Aaron was like, what's up? I'm like, I'm good, but I don't fuck with y'all. They was like, what? I'm like, yeah, I don't fuck with y'all. I tried to be one of y'all writers at one point, and y'all wanna fuck with me. They bust out laughing. They was like, just come to the office. Swear to God. I'm like, for real? Like, you know what I'm saying? They were like, yeah. So Aaron took down my number and shit. I was supposed to talk to Aaron. Aaron was giving me the runaround a little bit. So I had ended up tweeting the main DGB page at that time. I'm like, man, I had bundled to the niggas at Dirty Glove, and I was trying to get a job, and they thought I was playing. And then Hayes, who was running the DGB Twitter at the time, he was tweeting me back.

He was like, just come to the office. And then he DM'd me the uh the address. So I pulled up on him, I think like that day or the next day. And they was painting the office and shit. Like this was the off the porch office that it is today. They were painting that shit. They were like all this fucking paper and furniture was around and shit. It was nothing like it looks today. So me and Hayes was in there, Hayes paint all over his arms and shit. He was like, Yeah. So tell me about yourself. So I got to tell him about the artists and shit I love and shit like that. I was talking about Slime Seater at the time. I think Makonnen, Key, Icy Twat, Lucky at the time, like all the five underground shit. And he was like, I fuck with those people. I was fucking with those people. He was like, Yeah, so yeah, you can write for us. I just can't pay you. I was so I thought that was like, fuck that. You know what I'm saying? Man, I'm on my way. Like, you know what I mean? That was like a million dollars worth of me. So it was like, ever since then, I mean Dirty Glove ever since. Wow. So you took it to Twitter, you made it public. Yeah.

To lock it down. Like how much fire. How much charisma did he have to have for them to just meet him while he's on shift at the concert? And they're like, yeah, like totally you guy that we're just meeting should come to the office. He made him laugh. Yeah. I did. I mean, like, showcase some personality, folks, because that shit can work. It does. Personality works every time. But so if you didn't think you wanted to be a journalist, obviously, you know, five years later, you are doing hip hop journalism. But like, is this where what you like? Is this the is this the world you want to stay in? I got mad off track. No, you're good. You're good. I'm here to get you back. Again, so it was like, I'm not gonna lie, journalism was never my goal. It was just a hobby. Yeah. The goal was always to be on some like exec type shit. Like, I always wanted to creative direct. I didn't even know what an AR was until I started working with Dirty Glove. Yeah. It was some couple interns that worked there, and he was going to, I think Morehouse, and he was like, Yeah, I'm just trying to be an A&R. I'm like, what the fuck is an AR?

Yeah. And he was like, Oh, it's this, this, this is. I'm like, what? It's a job for this shit. I've been doing this shit since I was in high school. You know what I mean? Like, if you were in high school, you kind of know like it's a competition to know what's hot. So it's like kids don't even know what you're doing right now is a lucrative career. So it's like once I found that shit, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do that. All right. I want to be fucking Clive Davis, Jimmy Iovine. I want to be like fucking people I was looking up to at the time, TM88, Sonny Digital, Mike Will, Southside, Pharrell, Ye, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, them niggas. I was looking up to all of them. Yeah. So it was like, I want to be like that. I want to create, I want to be in the rooms. I want to tell the story. I want to tell the picture. I want to tell the video. I want to be behind everything creative. So it's like, that's what I really want to do. You're not in the end, I want to do cartoon voiceovers, and then I'm gonna be a radio host. Ooh, I could see that. Like, definitely voiceover work.

He's he's he's got that radio host uh voice from the that white guy that we met at the beginning of the episode. And Jackie Robinson is rounding the bases. Oh man. Well, Manny, I think anything that you fucking set your mind to, bro, we're here for it. I think I'm gonna rap. What y'all think about that. I'm not there for that. Swear to God, I'm here for it. I don't know, bro. I'm thinking about rapping. Everybody rapping, bro. I'm really thinking about rapping. I mean, Henry's got a mixtape on the way. Bro, but Henry's a fire producer at the same time. Produce myself. So it's like save on cost. It's 100% of publishing. Yeah, for sure. That's a flex. You know what I'm saying? Manny, I I know that you are familiar with the Rapid Fire Rampage. So, Henry, take us away, my friend. Oh shit. Yep. Oh shit. Let's try and stump him. See if we can uh yeah, throw him a curveball or two here. I like that. Uh-huh. All right, let's go. This is the rapid fire rampage. It's a three-part rampage. We're gonna start with the short answer questions. Are you buckled up? Alright, let's go. Starting with.

Um, starting with, I really just wanted you to say um in your voice, this is the rapid fire rampage with one more time podcast. In that white voice. All right, I got you. What am I saying? This is the rapid fire rampage with one more time podcast. This is the rapid fire podcast. Nah, shit, I'm fucked up. Rapid fire rampage with one more time podcast. Rapid fire rampage. This is the rapid fire fan page from One More Time Podcast. If we start a fan page, What is it? What is it, one more time Rampage. Rampage rampage? We're gonna get it right. We're gonna get it right. Listen to Archer say it. Okay, baby. Rampage. Rapid fire rampage. I'm doing my drop. Yeah, this is our drop. We need it. This is the rapid fire rampage from one more time podcast. Beautiful. Yo, can we get that as a sound bite? Oh, it's already. This is the Rapid Fire Rampage with One More Time Podcast, and you're tuned in with your boy Manny Akil.

Take it away, Ben. Oh my god, take it away, Henry. Take it away, uh, Phil. Oh god, we need Phil to do that. All right, was that not for real? That was. I needed that. But uh That was a late edition, right? That was late edition. Okay, good. That was the last thing. I'm so glad you added that. Oh shit. Okay, starting with. You booked the Beyoncé interview. Oh shit. What is the first question? Shit. How does it feel to be the new generation of Michael Jackson? Oh shit. See, like a little bit of glazing in there, maybe. To quote the young kids. I like it. That's smart. She's the new Mike Jack. Facts. No, I hear you. Absolutely. All right. You booked the Jesus interview. Yeah. What's your first question? Bro. Y'all want to know the truth? Yeah. I'm really gonna ask him. Am I gonna be up there with the people? Like, am I going to heaven, bro? Just tell me now.

Like, this is the truth. All right, do you wanna know? If he said no, terrifying. I'm going, I'm doing crack. Just kidding. Like, I'm going out with a bang, Like, I'm gonna do everything. I was like, how does he proceed if he if he gets the the no? Yeah, you know what I mean? Crack. It immediately turns to crack. I ain't gonna hold you. I ain't I ain't gonna do no crack, but I really might rob a bank or something. Yeah. I'm going out crazy. For sure. Like, might as well. Yeah. But then imagine he's like, oh shit, that was the other Manny. Damn it. And you know, you've Damn. What if he fucked up? I think Jesus' bookkeeping is pretty good. Bro, I'm not gonna lie, though. My name is Emmanuel Isaiah Phillips. I think he kind of That is so religious. I think he fucks with me. That's like the most biblical name I've ever heard. I'm the biggest sinner I know, so it's okay. Straight up. God fucked with me though for sure. Nice. Okay, we're moving on. This is called Ideal Audio. We're going to craft the perfect song. You get to you get to be the producer here, Connie, and produce a song. Pick two producers and three artists to create the perfect song. For the perfect song.

Perfect song. Ever. Ever. Ever. Can I do two different songs? I don't think so. No. So it gotta be one song. One song. And you know, Phil's a producer and he's in the room. I'm just saying. But like He's looking at you. Phil, my brother, Phil already know. Phil already know the vibes, though. Yeah. Uh but he's not being chosen. But he knows it. He he'll be. This is his ideal audio. Phil will be in the room, though. Yeah. Okay. He'll definitely be in the room. This song is gonna elevate Phil's career. Yeah. He might do the snare. You feel me? Like, I'm gonna get my dog in there some way, somehow. We'll give him one percent publishing. Shit. If it's if it's all right, look, all right. What if we did what are we going for with this song, though? Two. The most ideal. I'm gonna do two different songs, bro. Because I guess we go two different ways. Nope. We're getting into the the man the mind of Manny Akil. Because I don't know. Bro, I'll go big. Uh, but then I'll go underground legendary too.

So it's like you gotta pick one. Maybe you mix them. Maybe you create a little we're stumping them. This is good. This is good. He has no idea how to do this. I don't. Dude, worst AR ever. This guy can't even make a song. Mix the big and the underground. Mix them together. That's what's gonna make us cheat. I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna cheat. I'm gonna tell y'all straight up I'm cheating. Okay. I'm gonna do two songs. Oh shit. So it's like he's just bucking our rules. Should we put our foot down? No, no, no. Look, I'm gonna say you got to, because I'm not gonna lie. Dude, So persistent. Like Jesus. So it's like this, right? Okay. I'm gonna do big and then I'm gonna do underground because it's like two different ways, bro. I got to. Okay. So he's torn, like he had to. we're going. Michael Jackson and Beyonce produced by Quincy Jones. And then I'm not gonna lie, just add a little bit of relevancy to the record. We're gonna add Quincy Jones and Metro Boomer. I knew Metro was coming on that. Wow. Because that's that's our goal of this generation. Who's the third artist?

Oh, it's another artist on there? You get three. All right, so we got Beyonce Mike Jack. I think we need some rap vocals, right? Sure. Probably. Fuck it. We're gonna throw Wayne back in there. Let's go. You can't miss. Let's go. I would have said Drake, but I'm not gonna lie, that's too expected. Yeah. And Wayne is like, I feel like they're trying to fuck with Wayne. At this point, but Wayne is still one of them niggas. Yeah. you fuck with that cat song he dropped? Cat food. I didn't listen to that. But you know what I'm saying? It's hard. Is it? Yes. But they still Wayne is included in the hip hop 50. Of course. Says a lot. Yeah. All these performances I've been seeing, Wayne got them get his flowers. So that's finally, yeah. Okay, moving on. No, no, no. I almost got him. Gotcha. Oh, gotta do the underground song. I was like, all right, Henry did it. So go ahead. I'm not gonna hold you. What's the firest underground song I'll put together right now? Yes. I gotta throw Anycia in there because Anycia is one of my favorites right now. I want that interview, bro.

Smiles is she's trying me, bro. He's trying. She's one of them ones. You gotta get her on here. She's one of the ones. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie, I was thinking about this the other day. I would go Anycia, and y'all know the uh Aliza. No, who's that? Aliza from the um A L-A-Z-A. I said, I spelled I butchered your name, so I'm so sorry. Aliza from um the group from Memphis with Glow Real Little K-Card, oh yeah, yeah. Alaza. I knew there was a group. I don't know any of the others. Hit Kid, produced by Hit Kid, and I would go goddamn. Throw Beanie in there. Pop Star? Yeah, that's my dog. Pop Star. Pop Star. Pop Star. You have one more artist on there. And then I would throw, fuck it. Tia Corinne just to ask some spots. Crazy. That'll be crazy. Nice. Actually, that's a Fucking good record, bro. There you go. Shout out to Tia. Signing to uh Interscope, right? Shout out to Big Tia. Yes. Oh, I'm gonna cheat one more time. I'm probably gonna do a Fat Man Key and an Icy Twat song, too.

Okay, just throw that in there. Sneak that in at the end. He got three songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Literally, he got three. Okay, moving on. Moving on. Manny, If you were an object in this room, what would you be and why? This plant. No cap. Why? You see how just it's here. You don't even know it's here. Just being here the whole time. We know you're here. But you don't know this plant been here too. You feel me? The plant just chilling. The plant just here in the spot, covering us. Yeah. It's just here. It holds us down. It's just is here. It's giving us oxygen. We don't even know it's giving us oxygen. Ooh, yeah, it gives life. It's just giving life. We don't even know it. It's just in here. I think it's a fake plant. Yeah, it's it's not actually making it. There's a lot of fake plants in this shit. though. The bricks are fake too, but we didn't say that. Well, now I think it's an industry plant. The bricks was fake on the porch, too, though. Don't tell nobody. And it's inside of a giant warehouse. It's not actually. Yes, all right, but damn. Damn, sorry. I ain't gonna lie. When people be coming there, they be really expecting the actual porch.

Like an outdoor porch. Like, bro, I thought this shit was outside. I'm like Surprise. Surprise. It's a set. Wow. All right. Um, last one. This is the cosign corner presented by Guayaquil, Yerba Mate. Um, just shout out a couple like artists. You've mentioned maybe a couple, but this is your chance to kind of co-sign some up and comers. Who should we be looking out for? Who should we get on the pod, et cetera? Artists, artists, producers, videographers, creators, music execs, music industry people that are just dope. again, Anisia. Yeah, yeah. She wanted them ones. Shout out to Nini. Big Nini. I love you, girl. Um Father Ray's videographer. That's my dog. Father Ray. Reggie. Oh, Reg. Shout out, Reggie, goddamn. Um first class. he a dope producer. Trying to go in all the range. Shout out first class. Shout out Backwoods, too. Y'all had Woods on here. Y'all had Woods on here. We love Woods. Um, Phil got another one. Y'all gotta get my brother on here. Yeah. Shout out Phil. In the building and another one and another one.

I'm trying to think who else. Y'all had Mike Norris? Yeah. Hell yeah. Shout out Mike. Yeah. Shout out Uncle Mike. Yo, publisher extraordinaire. Mike does feel like my uncle. Mike is so fucking cool and intimate, bro. Y'all know who Mark is? Mark Gianni? Yes. Of course. Of course I've tried to get Mark on here. Mark acting like he can't do that's an uncle. Now that's an uncle. Yeah. You know, he got me on at StreamCut to do an internship. Well, and we were supposed to get Ernest on, and then he was like Michael Ernest. I'm mixing the Tia album. Sorry. I was like, oh, he's not mixing it. Well, I don't know. I mean, he's in the mixing. sessions. He was probably goddamn In the room, In the room. Ernest is like one of those people that is overly like you, like overly prepared. Like he is. Yeah. Yeah. Ernest don't bullshit. I know Henry was like, what do you mean he has to be you're like questioning the guy, and I'm like, I mean, I was more lucky Matt, he just canceled. Yeah, he was kind of he was kind of sad. He canceled. Yeah, I fuck with him. I'll still definitely still do the interview. I definitely wanted to do that one. Absolutely. Anyway, that was part one.

We are moving on now to part two. This is the this or that. Dude, that was slow. That was very slow. That was not rapid. That's always the slowest section, though. So it's gonna get a good idea. Well, yeah, because he tried to do three songs when we were. I wasn't thinking about another one. I ain't gonna hold it on. Oh my god, Manny. Because y'all know I do the independent AR shit, so it's like I always think about I daydream about records all the time. This is the perfect question for him. It really was. I I I don't want to dive into that, no, moving on. Off camera, I want to talk about the whole AR, independent AR. Say less. Yeah, because in this section, you only have two choices, and you can only pick one. So it should be all right. I'm gonna play by the rules. Y'all got my word. Okay. Yeah, you can't add an option. I got you. Like, this mad thing, this is a this or that. I'm trying to hold you down, bro. Well, you know, the first word of this is rapid, which it hasn't been, so yeah, we're trying to keep it going. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna be rapid. All right. Starting with singers or rappers. He's not off to a rapid start, bro.

Rappers. Rappers. Pac or big? Big. Scrambled or over easy? Scrambled. Xbox or PlayStation? PlayStation. Smoking or non-smoking? Smoke king. Smoke king. Smoke king. Yeah. Okay, I see what you did there, my friend. Yoga pants or jeans. Joggers, nigga. I ain't wearing no yoga pants. I didn't say you were wearing them. Oh. Shit. Don't add context. Bro, you don't have to add context. My mind, of course, immediately goes to a girl. I'm thinking about it. I'm not wearing yoga. pants. He just pictured himself a yoga pants. He's looking at me like. I'm like, no. Okay, then yoga pants. Okay. Moose or hedgehog. What? Moose. They big as shit. Like you that's some shit you probably never see. Yeah. They in Canada, bro. We don't see moose. We don't. What's the plural term for? moose?

I don't know. I don't know. maybe. Mooses. Mooses. Oh, Shit. Okay. Way simpler. Allegedly. Hot or lemon pepper. Hot or lemon pepper? Can't have both. Wow. I know. Lemon pepper. Broken happy or rich and stressed? Broken happy. And finally, make zero dollars from interviews or quit interviewing. How much do you love this shit? Quit interviewing. Start his own club. Yo, every time he said journalist, he gave air quotes. He's like, fuck this journalism that we do. Because I'm not gonna lie, bro. Everybody's trying to like make that shit a box, bro. I'm not it's talking to people. What we're doing right now is journalism. I know, but how does this feel? Does it feel like your journalism is super journalistic? Do you feel like your journalism? Nah, I feel like I'm kicking it. Yeah, I love it. You see what I'm saying? Part three is the word association. Manny, I'm gonna say one word, and you just say one word off the top of your head, right back at me. First thing you think of, no thought necessary.

Here we go. Starting with hip hop, Dwayne. Basement, good time, DJ, Marby, sneeze, free on the slack. Did you say sneeze? Yeah, yeah. Okay, I don't. Yeah, I'm not putting it together, but I I feel like if I ask a question, it's gonna be bad. So I'm just gonna like You're not here to ask questions. Yeah, no, no. We're free Jeff, France, French toast, cryptocurrency, flop, podcast. One more time. Love. Me. Hate. Fake shit. NASCAR. Vroom. That was a good one. Pink.

Nicki Minaj. Op. Fake shit. Lil. Uzi Vert. Dirty. Bitches. Yo, can you do a sign off for us? Can you do the white radio voice? First of all, I was going for glove, obviously. Dirty glove. That's the shit. They already know that though. You already know that. they knew that. Alright, so sign us off in your white radio. voice. All right, it's your boy Manny Akeon. We're signing off with one more time podcast. Henry, hit me out. As always, please like, comment, and subscribe if you fucking. And until next week, Henry, what are we doing? We're getting out of here. We're getting the fuck out of Dodge. Shout out to Babe Ruth. You know he had 50 home runs. Peace, y'all. Bye, that shit like one more time. Bye, that one more time. Bye, that shit like one more time. Bye, that one more time. Bye, that one more time. Bye.