Alex of Legado 7 on Corridos, 420 Culture & More!

Summary

DOPE AS USUAL Podcast - Episode Summary: Alex of Legado 7 on Corridos, 420 Culture & More!

Hosts: Marty O'Neill & Thomas Araujo
Guest: Alex Legato, Member of Legado 7
Release Date: April 22, 2025

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1. Introduction of Guest and Background

The episode kicks off with hosts Thomas Dopas and Mario Neal welcoming Alex Legato, a prominent figure from Legado 7, a group instrumental in revolutionizing Mexican music by blending traditional corridos with modern LA lifestyle influences.

2. Pioneering Mexican Music and Corridos with a Modern Twist

Thomas Dopas: "Do you do music where enough people listen to what you’re doing?" (02:30)

Alex elaborates on how Legado 7 has been at the forefront of evolving corridos, traditionally known for narcoculture themes, into more mainstream and diverse topics including lifestyle elements like weed and modern American influences.

Alex Legato: "We changed that with a few artists that are on top right now." (03:43)

3. The Rise of Spanish Music Globally

The hosts discuss the surge in popularity of Spanish music over the past five years, highlighting its dominance in global charts and media. Alex attributes part of this rise to Legado 7's pioneering efforts in normalizing and commercializing Spanish-language music intertwined with contemporary themes.

4. Record Label and Collaborations

Alex shares insights about their record label, Lum Music, and early collaborations that helped propel their music career. Notably, his collaboration with the legendary rapper Too Short marked one of their initial forays into blending genres.

Alex Legato: "We were trying to make it in LA, and when my partner posted our live album on YouTube, it blew up instantly." (60:56)

5. Personal Journey: From Mexico to Phoenix

Alex recounts his childhood, moving from Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 11. This transition exposed him to a blend of Mexican culture and American lifestyle, significantly influencing his musical direction.

6. 420 Culture and its Influence on Music

A significant portion of the conversation delves into the 420 culture—weed—and its integration into Alex's music. He discusses the challenges and triumphs of embedding weed culture into corridos, a genre traditionally not associated with such themes.

Alex Legato: "My music revolves around weed. All my albums talk about weed, hoes, and the game." (28:08)

7. Balancing Family and Lifestyle

Alex opens up about balancing his personal life, including being a father of three, with his musical career and weed lifestyle. He emphasizes the importance of setting a responsible example for his children while pursuing his passions.

Alex Legato: "I got kids, so I don't know how I’m gonna feel, you know..." (29:10)

8. Weed and Its Role in Creative Process

The discussion shifts to Alex’s personal experiences with weed and how it influences his creativity. He shares anecdotes about his initial encounters with marijuana and how it eventually became a central theme in his music production and songwriting.

Alex Legato: "When I took a hit correctly, it changed everything for me. It became a better experience." (80:05)

9. Tours and Live Performances

Alex highlights the success of their "Smoke Me Out Tour," which has spanned 46 shows across 50 states, showcasing their wide-reaching influence and dedicated fan base. He hints at future tours and continued efforts to expand their musical reach.

Alex Legato: "We’re doing 46 shows and adding more. It’s almost every weekend." (105:34)

10. Social Media and Music Distribution

The hosts and Alex discuss the pivotal role of social media in modern music distribution. Alex acknowledges the necessity of platforms like YouTube and TikTok in promoting their music, despite initial challenges and the oversaturated market.

Alex Legato: "Social media is a tool we have to use to show our music to people who might not see it otherwise." (109:22)

11. Business Ventures and Personal Passions

Beyond music, Alex shares his passion for classic cars and business investments. He describes his love for building and maintaining muscle cars, particularly Mustangs, and how this hobby complements his entrepreneurial spirit.

Alex Legato: "I love building cars. I have several Mustangs that I have meticulously worked on." (68:11)

12. Experiences with Weed and Shrooms

The conversation takes a personal turn as Alex narrates his experiences with dabbing and psychedelic mushrooms. He recounts a particularly intense shroom trip that ended awkwardly, highlighting the unpredictable nature of psychedelics.

Alex Legato: "That trip was a nightmare. My uncle thought I was a demon." (100:00)

13. Future Plans and Releases

Wrapping up, Alex announces the upcoming release of their 10th-anniversary album, "L7X," set to drop on April 17, 2025, coinciding with the 420 weekend. He also teases upcoming tours and collaborations, reinforcing their commitment to evolving the Mexican music scene.

Alex Legato: "We’re dropping 'L7X' with 17 bangers, all about weed, hoes, and the game." (08:27)

Thomas Dopas: "We'll link everything in the description for our listeners." (106:18)

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Notable Quotes

• Alex Legato: "We bridged LA lifestyle with corridos to create something unique." (02:02)
• Thomas Dopas: "Spanish music has exploded globally in the past five years." (03:43)
• Alex Legato: "Social media has become an obligation for artists to reach their audience." (109:39)
• Thomas Dopas: "Once you start dabbing right, it changes everything." (80:05)

Conclusion

This episode of "DOPE AS USUAL" offers an in-depth look into Alex Legato's journey as a pioneering artist in the Mexican music landscape, his integration of 420 culture into his art, and the balance between personal life and creative passions. Alex's candid storytelling and reflections provide valuable insights into the evolving dynamics of music, culture, and lifestyle in today's globalized world.

Listeners are encouraged to follow Legado 7 on Spotify and other platforms to stay updated on their latest releases and tour dates.

Transcript

[Thomas Dopas]

Thank you all so much for watching this episode. We just want to give a special shout out to our friends over at Spotify. So go ahead and check us out on Spotify Dope as usual podcast. We have comments, there's video, there's short clips. And most important about Spotify. They let us 100 be free. We are fully uncensored every single time. Just want to say thank you so much to Spotify. Have a dope ass day. Perfect. What's up everybody? Welcome back to Dope's Usual podcast. My name is Thomas Dopas. Yours is my co host, Mario Neal.

[Mario Neal]

What's up guys?

[Thomas Dopas]

Sup? Let's get straight into it. We're dabbing, we're chilling, we're hanging out, guys. We want to give a special welcome to our guest for today and is Alex Legato. Thank you so much for being here.

[Alex Legato]

Thanks for the by way.

[Thomas Dopas]

Thank you for being here. Let's just start off right now and if you're in an elevator with some full. What do you do? Give us that. Like, what's, what do you do? In a nutshell, like what, what do you do? Because I know if somebody looked at your Instagram like, oh, he makes music, man. That's awesome. So like, what is it that you do? I know you make music, but there's.

[Alex Legato]

A little, there's a little more.

[Thomas Dopas]

I met you at a weed event at John's booth. So I'm like, oh, all right. So who's this guy? So what do you do in a nutshell? Cuz I, I've. We've done, we've done our research. So it's like, what do you do from your end?

[Alex Legato]

So I do music, bro. But like I, we do Mexican music, right? Original Mexican. But my music is based like in la, you know, like, my music is like a lifestyle and original Mexican music, you know, like me, myself, like I got to us when I was 11, so I wasn't born here, you know. And like me, there's a lot of people that doesn't really listen to English music but doesn't really listen to the full Mexican music, you know. So I feel like my style is like a little bit of everything, you know, it's like bridging LA lifestyle on corridos, you know?

[Thomas Dopas]

That was perfect. All right.

[Alex Legato]

Perfect.

[Thomas Dopas]

Thanks for the, thanks for the truck. All right. No, so that's, that's what I got from it. I was like, I don't speak Spanish. I don't know Spanish, but it sounds tight. But if you're mixing both worlds because right now I feel like we talked about it recently, that Spanish music's on the rise. It's probably the most popular music besides like, I don't know, Indian music. They got the most people though. K Pop maybe. They got hella people.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

As of right now, I feel like it's the biggest thing in the past five years.

[Alex Legato]

In the past five years. Yeah. You hear on the radio and, and probably you don't know, but, and, and, but I want to tell you, which is my band, like, we. We're big part of that. Like one of the first groups that started making it happen like on this side, you know, like before us. I feel like all the musicians out here, like, we were just. We were just trying to make it. Trying to copy like the real Mexican style that was coming from Guadala Misanora Caloa. That had a lot of good musicians, bro. And all the people here were just trying. We were trying to.

[Thomas Dopas]

All the people here was just trying.

[Alex Legato]

To copy their style, you know. And I feel like after us is when it came all these new wave that is talking about a whole different new thing, you know, like back then it was like a lot of narco stuff, you know. And right now it's changing. Like right now it's like the corridors are talking about like pretty much what reggaeton used to talk about, you know, like hoes, weed, American rap music. And that's that and, and that's what we're listening to right now. You know, the new style. Like. Like all these new things is. It's. It's been like getting here.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like it's almost commercialized.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it's almost. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it got to glow. It got to global this year, you know, like the past two years has been global now. So. So yeah, I feel like we were a big part of the. Of that, you know, of that change. Yeah, we changed that with a few artists that are on top right now too. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like who are a couple. Marty, as you could tell, probably doesn't really, you know, listen to Spanish music. And you would probably get fooled by me, but I don't listen to Spanish music either.

[Mario Neal]

Listen, Big Pond.

[Thomas Dopas]

Get out of here, man. So who are some of the artists you're talking about that you're working with?

[Alex Legato]

Oh, no. So when we started making the new movement, right, like I think it was 2018, 2016 around there, we started making a lot of songs with the. We also had our own. Our own record label, what's it called? Lum Music. Okay. Yeah, we. We had signed at that time, which is one of the biggest groups in the world right now on the Mexican thing. And also, I didn't say badron is. It was just a new movement, you know, that it got, it got pretty big to where it is now. Yeah, yeah. And I want to say the legal at the started that, you know, take.

[Thomas Dopas]

A little credit for it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, no credit for that.

[Thomas Dopas]

Where did you. When you say you moved here at 11, where did you move from? What. What part of Mexico?

[Alex Legato]

Okay. To Phoenix.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, to Phoenix.

[Alex Legato]

Phoenix, Arizona.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn. Hot to hot.

[Alex Legato]

Hot to hot. Yeah. Super hot. To super hottie.

[Mario Neal]

When you say legato. Seven and seven people in the band.

[Alex Legato]

No, with five. Five people.

[Mario Neal]

Oh, okay.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Seventy. Just for lucky number. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So like you were saying for your chain.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, like, I'll see at the. It was me and my partner Ramon. He's the recording player. He's the one that invited me to the group, and I met him in the studio. I've been writing music since I was little, a little kid, so.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, really?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. He heard about my lyrics and then.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, so this is like overnight. You've been doing this for a while?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I used to write music all times. I remember, bro. And there's this day that I, I, I give like five of my songs to, to my homie, Junior Salazar. And then my accordion player was actually producing his album. So I bet, I believe he probably asked him, like, oh, who, who is. Who wrote this? You know, he told him about me and he called me. You know, we made a group since then. How old were you at that time?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

20. 20.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, okay.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. And my started popping like, right away, bro. Like. Yeah, yeah. Like we did the album and pretty much on the next year, we were already doing a, A tour. Oh, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So this happened fastest. How old are you now?

[Alex Legato]

I'm 31 now.

[Thomas Dopas]

31, so. Okay, so. Damn. You said you'll get over that, man. When I turned 31, I'm grown. I just turned 35. So now I'm like, oh, I'm fully grown now. So now.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, one of, one of the main purpose that, that I want to do this podcast is because with dropping my tenure album, this, this 420. We've always been sick. We've always been dropping albums on 420 because that's one of the things, like, since we started, like, my style was like weed corridors. So people. But you don't hear about people call it a corridors. Read this. Which is green corridos.

[Mario Neal]

You know what's what's corridors translate to corridos?

[Thomas Dopas]

It's like a hard translation, right?

[Mario Neal]

It's like style of music.

[Alex Legato]

It's a. It's a corridor, is like a, like a. I don't know, like. I don't want to say man music, but. But I don't know. How can you say.

[Thomas Dopas]

What would you pronounce it to a guy from these lifestyle.

[Alex Legato]

Bro, you're talking about your lifestyle. That's what we live, you know what I'm saying?

[Thomas Dopas]

Like we smoke.

[Alex Legato]

We smoke.

[Mario Neal]

Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, this is from the ground up.

[Alex Legato]

It's like a. Yeah, yeah, like a super rap song. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so like street music.

[Mario Neal]

Basically.

[Thomas Dopas]

You're awesome.

[Alex Legato]

You never heard of those before?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, no, no, just saying, like, what does it mean? Oh, you talking about the music you've heard. Omar's made hell of. I don't know the word.

[Mario Neal]

Like, I'm trying to.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, I got you, I got you, I got you.

[Mario Neal]

I thought it was like the genre of music.

[Thomas Dopas]

I mean, that's what it's kind of. It's like, it's like saying what? Like street rappers. Street rappers. Like. Oh, you're classifying it. Yeah, but you're classifying it as something, right?

[Alex Legato]

It's a gangster, like gangster rapping.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah. Gotcha.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. Hey, so 10 year. Is it a new album is a compilation of other music?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So we always be dropping albums on 420 and this year we're dropping the big one because it's been 10 years, you know, so I wanted to put it out there.

[Thomas Dopas]

Sick on 420.

[Alex Legato]

What's it called?

[Thomas Dopas]

Or can you say it?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it's called. It's called L7X, you know, L7X, that's the name of the album and it comes with the 17 songs. And they're all bangers, bro. They'll talk about weed, hoes and, and the game, you know. Yeah. And we got a. We got a few good featurings that I don't want to say yet.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

But yeah, it's gonna be doing.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, you're happy about is what you're saying?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, I'm super excited about it, bro. Honestly, like, we hadn't. It's because you. We have a studio in the house, you know, so the albums, like the last albums were like, okay, like I call my drummer on Saturday and then he'll come do the drums. Then everybody on a different day, you know? Yeah. And for this album, bro, we just running a sick ass studio and we'll win for a week.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, like a summer camp.

[Alex Legato]

Two weeks. 12 to 12, you know. So it was badass, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, full dedication.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, hell, it was full dedication for.

[Thomas Dopas]

This catching up on earth, but like on your phone at the end of the day. Oh, that happened today.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. Sounds awesome.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, hell yeah, that sounds awesome.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

So we. That. We got that coming.

[Mario Neal]

Do you like to collabs with like, American rappers and singers and stuff, or like, like English speaking? I should say.

[Alex Legato]

Definitely, bro. Yeah. I feel like it's a good time. And we did that, like when. I feel like we did that when we started. We did a collab with Too short.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, nice.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. And back then it was. I feel like it was too early. People wasn't ready, you know, if you.

[Thomas Dopas]

Dropped it now it have.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because I feel like right now is that it's the time for. I feel like Mexican music is one of the top music right now.

[Thomas Dopas]

People are. Yeah, major mainstream top 10.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly. I know. And. And I see everybody getting into it, you know, like everybody wants to be solved. Everybody.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, it's a good way to put it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Now is a good time.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, I think it's because, I mean, what percentage of America is. Is Mexican American now? Like, a giant percentage, dude.

[Alex Legato]

It's a big percentage.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's a big percentage, man. It's not gonna stop, right? Unless everybody's like, yo, we're gonna be abstinent. Like, it's not happening, dude. So I feel like that's why the past couple years, it's just. I mean, it's. It's blowing. It's exploding. So for you to say that, like. Yeah. And now it's the time. I mean, that's. That's the time. Because, like, I don't know Spanish music, right? So I asked my little sister. I'm the only one don't speak Spanish. My family, my little sisters are fluent.

[Mario Neal]

Because they're their mom who like this.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. Their mom speaks full Spanish. I mean, she's from Mexico. She don't speak English. So everyone in my house is, like, bilingual but me. It's like, damn it.

[Mario Neal]

Everyone in the city.

[Thomas Dopas]

Everyone in the damn city. Yeah, basically. So it's not me because my mom's a Jewish lady, right. So I'm praised by her. So when it comes to the Spanish music, I'm always, like, completely lost. So I asked my little sisters, and then I showed her. She goes, oh, yeah. What about. I'm gonna go. Oh, that's all it. Let's Go. Because I don't know Spanish music. And my little sisters are tapped into this, you know, I mean, they're all. They just went to that Cali bash. Kelly. Yeah, they were just there. I mean, they just. They came up for the night. Like, they're into it, dude. So I had to ask, like, I don't know Spanish music, man, Concrete about you.

[Alex Legato]

I was actually asking my homie on the way. On the way here, because I was sure that you speak Spanish, you know, and my English is not that good, like, and I get nervous sometimes.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's great, bro.

[Alex Legato]

So it gets worse, you know, I was asking Howard, hey, Spanish. I don't know. He was telling me, like, I don't know if you get nervous just answering the Spanish, you know, but. And then when you told me you don't know. You don't know Spanish.

[Thomas Dopas]

Ready for this? About 40 minutes before you got here, because I met you at an event and it was loud. We didn't say. I'm like, oh, what's the things for? Watching, couldn't hear. And then I look at your page because all Spanish I called him. And JJ was, does this fool speak English? I swear to God, I thought the.

[Alex Legato]

Same thing, but opposite.

[Thomas Dopas]

I couldn't hear him. Everything's in Spanish on his page. Dude, are we about to get into. Me and Marty going, dog, what the fuck is happening?

[Alex Legato]

I'm so happy, dude.

[Thomas Dopas]

You guys did the same. That's ridiculous.

[Mario Neal]

Oh, oh, check this out real quick.

[Thomas Dopas]

Very true. See.

[Alex Legato]

His little accent?

[Thomas Dopas]

That's AI doing a Russian accent in Spanish.

[Alex Legato]

That's crazy, bro. AI is crazy, crazy, crazy.

[Thomas Dopas]

But I'll just sent it to my grandma. She's like, wow, how crazy to hear like. I know, right? It's like, I'm part of the family now, man. No, A.I. r.I.P. dude, just do it in that the whole time. I'm so happy you said that. I wasn't going to say what I. What we. What I called for and you. All right, let's go.

[Alex Legato]

Okay, hold on. Before we go.

[Thomas Dopas]

Before we go, before we get into another topic, I want to ask my. My stepmom, all her sons, my step brothers are all from Mexico. They all grew up. Why does it feel like all. Everybody that comes from Mexico? But yeah, we got horses. What the is happening?

[Alex Legato]

Everyone's.

[Thomas Dopas]

Did you have horses where you live?

[Alex Legato]

You know what, bro?

[Thomas Dopas]

You did. Huh?

[Alex Legato]

Right now I got. When I. When I got here, I got out because of. I'm about to exchange a corrido for a horse.

[Thomas Dopas]

I want to get to that level, bro. I really. I want a rhino. I really want a rhino, dude.

[Alex Legato]

No, bro, I love horses, bro. Like, when I was little, I used to go to school in a horse, you know, like for. Yeah, for. For, like, for like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Where'd you park it?

[Alex Legato]

And I'll tell you where. Okay. We in the soccer field. Shut the up.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, the stereotype getting higher and higher.

[Alex Legato]

The goalie, bro. In the golly thing, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Really?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Were you the only kid that did that?

[Alex Legato]

No. You're probably the coolest. No, there was a few.

[Thomas Dopas]

No. If you're any age under 12, you're like, you have a.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Eight, nine years old.

[Thomas Dopas]

Parents trust the. Out of here.

[Alex Legato]

Hell yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hey, take this.

[Mario Neal]

Was it your horse? Like, it was your horse?

[Alex Legato]

No, it was my. My. My. My ts. My Thea's husband at that time, he.

[Thomas Dopas]

Said, need his horse. He's like, yeah, take it to school every day.

[Alex Legato]

No, he had a few. Yeah, he had a few. And I feel like he had. He had like another house, you know? Like, I feel like he had another family, to be honest.

[Thomas Dopas]

My grandpa does.

[Alex Legato]

Well, I don't know, you know, Like, I was. I was little that time, so that's.

[Thomas Dopas]

Another layer of Spanish.

[Alex Legato]

For days, you know. And he will tell me like, oh, feed him and I'll give you some. Some fetia and I'll feed the horde, you know. And then I. After that, I started grabbing the horse, you know, and then there's this day he caught me on outside in the horse, you know, when I got back, he was there. I was like, oh. He's like, hey, what's up? Where were you? You know? And I was like, oh, I was right there, you know, in the canal over there, chilling. I'm giving water to the horse. He's okay. Hey, if you want to take it, take it, you know, you can take it to school. And we're like, oh, yeah. He's like, yeah, you. You know, just. Just bring it back and. And feed him. I was like, all right. Hell yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

What a responsibility. Not even, like, unborrow your car.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Let the car die.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, I won't feed him every day. You know, as an eight year old.

[Mario Neal]

You can, like control a horse like that.

[Alex Legato]

Oh, yeah, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wow, that's. That sounds fun as hell.

[Mario Neal]

I always thought, like, how did you. They not just take off, like, at that time, bro.

[Alex Legato]

Like, I used to walk from my house to school and like, halfway to school, bro. I always used to see this guy. This guy will sell ice cream too, on the weekends. But I guess during the week, this fool will. I don't know how to say it, bro. Like, you know wild horses, right? Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Dam them.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. He will do that to them, you know, free money. He will be fighting the horses every day if we try to. Try to calm them down, you know? And then there's this day that I ask him, like, where do you get these horses from? You know? He's like, oh, I get it from. From these place. You know, I just go and I grab him, I bring him, I calm them down. And then when they're. When they. When they're. When they're super come down and they're domesticated, like, I'll sell them. And I was like, like. And at that time, bro, my dream was to go to that place and grab my own horse. You know, that's.

[Thomas Dopas]

You're just stealing someone's horses. Like, where's all my horses?

[Mario Neal]

I'm really good at taming these horses.

[Thomas Dopas]

They were just chilling. I. I took the saddle off them. They were wild.

[Alex Legato]

No.

[Thomas Dopas]

But.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. I never had my own horse, though. But it looks like I'm about to sick.

[Thomas Dopas]

I'm about to trade a horse for a song. Incredible. They better give you a cool. Or they just give you the.

[Alex Legato]

No, no. It's the badass horse. It's the baddest line horse. It looks nice.

[Thomas Dopas]

So I was right. Everyone that's ever came from Mexico, like, dude, we had horses where we live. Like, why the. Are you leaving?

[Mario Neal]

Damn.

[Thomas Dopas]

Y'all got horses out there and ranches.

[Mario Neal]

Every American little girl, like, my daughter, all she wants is a pony.

[Thomas Dopas]

Right? I didn't even think about it that way. So you grew up, all right, till you were 11. So you had. So you grew up with. On the ranch, obviously.

[Alex Legato]

No. Yeah. Over there, everything is around.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay. I grew up with their streets is what you said.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So what's like growing up out there and then coming out over here? Because I have a lot. Every one of my cousins, besides, like, the ones my age are from Mexico. Everyone. So they tell me, like, yeah, it's better here. I'm like, all right, that's cool. But, like, what's the difference?

[Alex Legato]

Honestly? Honestly, bro, to me. To me was kind of different because I was super good over there, you know, the only difference is that my mom and my dad were over here. You know, they tried to bring me when I was little, and they couldn't, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn. She couldn't be with them. When you're a kid.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So she were. They were only Able to cross my. My. My. My two sisters and my. My little brother, which is a little bit older than me. I mean, a little younger than me. I'm the oldest. And then.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, you're the oldest.

[Alex Legato]

I'm the oldest.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, that seems like a lot more fair, but. Yo.

[Alex Legato]

No. Yeah, you're staying here. No, I'm the oldest. Yeah. So they were different. I wasn't able to. To come, you know?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

And then I stayed with my grandma. So when I stayed with my grandma, my grandma was doing good over there, bro. Like, my grandma was boss over there, bro. And. And that was my. That was my. My. My day. Day over there, you know, like being my grandma all day. And it's a typical day with you, though.

[Thomas Dopas]

What's a typical day? With your life. Yeah. What are you doing? But like a little kid. A little kid day.

[Alex Legato]

Go to school, you know? Go to. Go to. To a school. I will go to get out of school, bro. Go home to some bombass food by my grandma, bro. After that, my grandma will have cantinas. You know what cantinas? Like a cantina. Like. Like a bar.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, I thought you meant food.

[Alex Legato]

No, she had bars over. She has bars over there. So we would just run it up, you know, pick up the money every day from every. From every. Candina, that was your job. My. No, I would just be my grandma, you know? Yeah. And then after that, like, she would have people selling food too, and then we'll just go collect from them. Sounds badass. Yeah, it was just. Honestly. Honestly, I was good over there. And then the music, too. I started the music over there too, like, before.

[Thomas Dopas]

11 years old.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, actually where I'm from, bro. Like, I think I had one of the best child. Child childhoods over there. Over there. Every. Everyone is a musician over there. It's called that. Musicians Colony. Colonial Los Musicos.

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you serious? That's where you grew up?

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, it's the town.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So a lot of people in that.

[Thomas Dopas]

Disney Pixar movie I just watched. Everybody's a musician in the town. What is that movie called, man? I just watched. It's a Spanish town. Everybody knows me. The Coco.

[Alex Legato]

What?

[Thomas Dopas]

Thank you. I just want.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, bro, it's like pretty much like Goko, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's you.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's real.

[Alex Legato]

Damn. They stole.

[Thomas Dopas]

You guys need some rep, like, reparation money for that. They stole your whole vibe, dude.

[Alex Legato]

And then when we got to Phoenix, like, Phoenix was what's super cool to me. Like, my dream was also to come to the US and visit my mom.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, like, how long were you here and they were there? Or obviously, how long were you in Mexico when they were in America?

[Alex Legato]

Since I was born to 11 and then I haven't gone back to Mexico.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wait, how? When they were like, hey, we're only gonna be able to take your sisters.

[Alex Legato]

How long? Oh, like what age?

[Thomas Dopas]

Of what age? Till 1140.

[Alex Legato]

Like 7 to 11.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, so you remember?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, yeah, I remember like five. So you remember at seven?

[Alex Legato]

Oh, yeah, I remember a lot yet.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so they're like, yo, don't worry. You're gonna collect money with grandma. You're like it. And then play your coco, and then. That's badass. So the whole town is, like, musically inclined and.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, sick.

[Thomas Dopas]

Dude. Has anybody else came out of your town that you're like, yo, I like their music.

[Alex Legato]

Oh, yeah, A lot of people.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mario Neal]

Is that where you started smoking weed?

[Alex Legato]

No, I started. I started smoking weeding when I got to California.

[Thomas Dopas]

America, dude.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Corrupted.

[Mario Neal]

He always talks about how much like, Mexican culture.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's why.

[Alex Legato]

That's.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's another whole hill I want to climb right now. My whole family, it's like, yo, yeah, you can do hard drugs, smack your wife. Don't worry. Everyone's cool with it. In my family, we smoke weed.

[Alex Legato]

Look, bro, you're a piece of. I want to tell you something about the weed. My first thing, we weed. So my uncle's over there in Phoenix, so they used to. They used to get access to weed, right?

[Thomas Dopas]

I love the way you said so.

[Alex Legato]

Bro. Like, there was this guy outside, like, this is me not knowing no English, no nothing. No nothing at that time. And then I got here when it was kind of like summer school. I. I got probably to the u. S. And where is it when you get out of. For some, like, May, I think.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, May.

[Alex Legato]

June was like May. So I used to get out of the apartment and I used to see this kid, like, shooting at the birds with one of those daisy rifles from Walmart. I don't even remember those.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, it's the first thing I had, Daisy.

[Alex Legato]

And then I was like, I just wanted to kick it with somebody, you know? Cuz right? There was just old people, bro. Like, all my uncles, like, no kids at all. It was just me. And then I remember the first day of school, he was like, he. He. The guy told me he never. He never spoke to me. And he's like, hey, you want to see something? And I didn't know what the. He was saying, you know? And he's like, calm, trusted the, out of him. Yeah. And then he's like, he told me marijuana or something, you know, and then he shows me something. And bro, that wasn't weed. It was like, like grass, you know? And, and I was like, oh, like. And I was like, you want some? And bro, like, I went, I, I, I went back to the apartment and I remember my uncle had a coconut, A coconut, like shell. Coconut shell with a, with weed in it. And I just grabbed a little bit of that and I went outside and I was like, like, look, weed. Yeah, bro. He went to school with school the next day he brought me out. And then what? Yeah, I wasn't in class and the security came to pick me up.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hey.

[Alex Legato]

They told my, my, my aunt at the time, like, oh, this kid, this kid is saying, this is, he didn't speak English.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, he's the one with the drugs up. Dude, you don't even know what's happening and you're seeing the trouble.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

The kid was killing birds. Was he white or Mexican kid?

[Alex Legato]

It was white.

[Thomas Dopas]

How did we know?

[Mario Neal]

I was picturing Sid from Toy Story.

[Thomas Dopas]

What I was thinking too. Damn. He's murdering birds. Tries to front on you. Like, he's got some weed. You pull out weed. He gets so scared, he tells the principal, my kids, whenever I have them, never turn out made like that.

[Mario Neal]

Right.

[Thomas Dopas]

That sucks.

[Mario Neal]

What a disappointment.

[Thomas Dopas]

What a disappointment. Not in the kid with the drugs. The kid that snitched.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

What a bad turn event.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so that's how you got here. That sounds awesome.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right. So that's how you got introduced to weed. Did you smoke it with him that day?

[Alex Legato]

No, I didn't smoke it.

[Thomas Dopas]

Until you're older.

[Alex Legato]

Until I got to the, to California. So my mom was staying in California. My, my uncles was staying in the, in Arizona. I came to, to, to California when I came, bro, like, I just wanted to go back to, to Arizona.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, really?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So I remember I went back for a few months with my, with my uncles, and then I came back to California and then that's, that's when, that's, that's when I stayed here. And then the first time probably smoking weed was with my neighbor, one of my neighbors.

[Thomas Dopas]

When you're, what age did you go to California?

[Alex Legato]

14.

[Thomas Dopas]

Prime age. I mean, that's when I started smoking.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. 14.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so with your neighbor, what, what can was it out of?

[Alex Legato]

Nah, it was, it was actually on a piece. Yeah, on the pipe. Okay.

[Thomas Dopas]

Most people don't. It's always had Some.

[Alex Legato]

Their first. No, this was a, this, this was. It was a cool neighbor.

[Thomas Dopas]

He's an older white guy that worked.

[Alex Legato]

No, no, he was, he was, he was a year older than me.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh.

[Alex Legato]

But he would, he wouldn't go to regular school. He had probation school.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

So this was like, this was a super, super trip. Like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, hanging out with some delinquents, bro.

[Alex Legato]

You just flocked to the. He's actually doing, doing life, I think right now. Yeah, he's doing live in prison right now.

[Thomas Dopas]

That sucks. That was not what I expected. Right now. He's actually a janitor now. He's crazy. I was expecting some.

[Mario Neal]

He started a bitcoin company. He's falling right now. That's okay.

[Thomas Dopas]

So he got you in the weed?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, he got me in the weed.

[Thomas Dopas]

And then for me, I smoked weed once and I was like, I'm gonna wait a little bit. I don't want to keep smoking non stop. And it took me like four or five days. I was like, I think I could try it again. How long did it take you?

[Alex Legato]

Damn. To me. No, to me was like, I got hooked, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Instantly. I was like three days later. I'm like, before that.

[Alex Legato]

Like, I tried it before, but it never got me high, you know? Like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Were you with Mexico though?

[Alex Legato]

No, no, no. When I was in Phoenix and, and, and, and, and I think in high school too. Like, I mean, on, on middle school. On middle school. But it never got me high, you know? And I think I was kind of scared. Like, probably like not. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

I smoked.

[Alex Legato]

So that day, bro, when I was smoking with this food, like, you can't fake a pipe. I got high, bro. Like, and then I just started super cracking up, like laughing attack. Like super, super bad, bro. Like, and then since then I was like, oh, you know, like, damn. Like one of those days that you get scared of. Oh, what was that?

[Thomas Dopas]

You know?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

You never forget the first.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah. And then from there it goes to.

[Thomas Dopas]

This picture and from there just turn into this.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah. And then the music too. You know, when, when.

[Thomas Dopas]

Well, you're 14, you know, you're. You're like, I like music. I make music and I smoke weed. Then you start feeling like, I'm gonna play guitar joint. Try feeling like a badass after that. All right. So your neighbor ruined it for you.

[Mario Neal]

Did your parents hate weed?

[Alex Legato]

My mom did. At a time. Yeah, bro. It wasn't. So I started actually making. Making it, you know, like when I, when I bought my first house, you know, like, that's When I feel like she started tripping. Like, okay, like this was actually doing something, you know, like, but before that, not, like, yeah, she would trip a lot. So I had, I. I even had to get like a regular job, you know, because music is good pay, bro. Like, honestly, like, at that time, I will get upset, bro, because, like, I have to have to have a job to keep my mom happy at that time. Oh. And then I wouldn't make much. You know why? Because, like, I will go. I will. I will go play in the Aramaniscu place on Friday and I will make like 600 bucks, you know, I will go play to a wedding on Saturday in a quinceanera, and I will make like 800 bucks, you know, and then I will play on Sunday to a Marisco place all day, and I will probably make like 400 bucks, you know, so that was a good weekend for me in those days. That was good for me, you know, probably 17, 17, 16. 17, 18. So I was doing good, you know, but then I was smoking weed, you know, I was getting my money, you know, I was smoking weed and then my mom was thinking I wasn't making, you know, like, oh, so, like, what? But, yeah, like, she hated it. But. But after that, like, well, I do my own thing, you know, bro, And I. I feel like she sees it now.

[Thomas Dopas]

I would hope so. About to put up a 10 year anniversary record, like.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, but it's hard, you know, because now I got kids.

[Thomas Dopas]

How many kids?

[Alex Legato]

I got three. Oh, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, Okay.

[Alex Legato]

I got kids. So I don't know, how is that gonna be? How am I gonna feel, you know, because my. I feel like my. My oldest kid. Like, that fool wants super be like me, you know, like, oh, okay. Yeah, he's eight.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, he's already full grown adult. Yeah, yeah, I remember being eight. I know everything, bro.

[Alex Legato]

See? Yeah, exactly. You know, so, yeah, like, I don't. I don't know.

[Thomas Dopas]

He's gotta avoid every situation. Like, what do you mean? Weed?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

What's weed, man?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, no, he already knows, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, oh, with the Internet, you're done Google his own dad's name.

[Mario Neal]

Thomas was doing this with him.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, this is my little brother. So for 10 years straight, dude, I would hide every poster, every bong, every John will come, every spotless apartment. Now it's boxed in here.

[Mario Neal]

All for nothing.

[Thomas Dopas]

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[Alex Legato]

It's because my music, bro, like, it revolves weed, you know, like my style of like what you sing, if you go to all my albums, like, it's just weed music, bro. Like, like when I started, when I, when like I was hit, this started like on this on the second year. Like, I remember Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg posted a video listening to one of my songs. Like, rolling a blunt, you know, like, that's my style. Like, it's like, yeah, my Chevy bolts around me. You know, when I said earlier that we change stuff, like we actually, actually change stuff even in the nightclubs, bro. Like when, like I was here to start it. Like, the nightclubs were doing the much. Why? Because the people that was going to see, like, I wasn't drinking bottles, you know, they were smoking. They were, yeah. You know, like, we started that on the Mexican thing. I know on the rap thing. It was. It's always been cool to go on a club and pop some Bottles and smoke, you know, in the Mexican scene. No, that was not cool. You know, like, they wouldn't let you do that at all, you know, and right now it got normalized, you know, like, because the music came in with it, you know, like. So that's. That's what.

[Thomas Dopas]

I broke the ice.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Because I don't see. Like I was telling Marty, we've been doing the show for. Just finished four years when I met Marty, when talking about my family. No, I don't let my family know I get high. Like, you're on the Internet. Like. Yeah, I'm not gonna tell them yet, though. Like, my grandma. I could do everything right.

[Mario Neal]

Go.

[Thomas Dopas]

You smoke weed. You guys are my. You might be failing right now, you guys, because my grandpa's like. He's one of those Mexican old fools. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I work till I die. Like, he's one of those guys. If you don't, I might smack one of you guys. So for me to get high and. But you know, like, you're saying you're doing your own thing. It wasn't until I'm like, living. Doing down here, and they're like, okay, okay, now I can tell you.

[Alex Legato]

So you can't talk. Exactly. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Because if not, you keep it under wraps. You could be drinking and everything, but put the blood down.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, they're coming.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's a weird thing in the Mexican culture, dude, we just so frowned upon. But that's why I was so excited to do this, because I wanted to. You're the first person I've ever seen push it like that.

[Alex Legato]

And honestly, I feel like it's just because us as Mexicans, like, we're not really used to talk, like, good things, you know, like. Like, I want to give you my example, you know, like, at that. I feel like at that time, like, my mom was probably tripping on me because, like, my mom never told me, like, like, she. She really never. She was too busy. So busy working, bro. Like, that. She never saw that. Oh, this is working already. Well, I'm as this, ready for some rent for the house, you know, like, or for some. For something. For something, you know, to pay something in the house. So she was thinking I wasn't making no money. And, well, over here, the homie was just smoking the whole money from the weekend, you know? Yeah, Yeah, I was just smoking good with the compass, you know, and. And not being, like, responsible at that time. Well, I was a kid, you know, but I was already making money So I feel like we gotta set like responsibilities for, for our kids, you know, like to see there's, I mean, that's when you're gonna know if some, if, if someone is gonna do something good or not. You know, like you cannot be a pothead and, and, and, and be there the rest of your life and your mom's. That's, that's, that's what the fame comes with. Oh, this smells weak. Oh, he's probably gonna be like that rest all the people that smoke. Sweet.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, set an example is what you're saying.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Well, I mean, I hope once it gets normalized and I think that's all it really takes to. Yeah, the youth, the youth is always going to try to push on, on the older people, but it's once the, the 50s to 80 year olds in this, in the Mexican cult start seeing like. Oh yeah, they're talking about an award show. This guy's winning Grammys. He's talking about smoking blunts. Okay, maybe it's not as bad because like right now, future you could talk about Percocets and right? Big Pharma, remember the song? He yells big Pharma. And everybody's like, yeah, yeah. And then we said a word. Yeah, but like 20 years, you're like, what do you just say? You just say how to roll in the song. What the. So once again, like, when that. Another five years, right? Another five years. Because I'm sure you smoke joints sometimes on stage. Yeah, doesn't take too long.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it doesn't take too long, bro, to be honest. Yeah, and it's, I feel like it's getting there, you know, like the social media especially, bro, like now we got the old people on social media too, you know, so they're, they're watching and believing everything on social media though, Especially those people, you know, they believe everything on social media, bro. So they. I believe that. I believe that that's, that was the next step for them to see it like more normalized, you know, like, do.

[Mario Neal]

You smoke in your videos and.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, you said it.

[Thomas Dopas]

All set.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Does YouTube mess with you? Do they age? Restrict your videos?

[Thomas Dopas]

Great, thank you.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So.

[Thomas Dopas]

Do they go flag harmful?

[Alex Legato]

Not much, to be honest. Not much. They most, they usually a lot, but not for that. Like for guns, for the girls dancing and like that.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, I'll tell you though.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you why. Yeah, well, the label will tell us like now, now we, we're working with Sony, so pretty much they gave us a lesbo of things that we shouldn't do or use. And yeah, that. That helps a lot.

[Thomas Dopas]

It helps a lot.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. So. So we usually avoid like a lot of stuff. Like the, the back then we wouldn't, you know, but like you smoking a J, like, like that, like, and doing like singing little song. They wouldn't, they won't, they won't mess with it.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's because it's part of the art.

[Alex Legato]

Because I believe when there's a lot. Yeah, because. Yeah, no, when I was. When it's a lot of smoking content. Because I used to do a blog suit for YouTube.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh yeah.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, I used to do blog. I used to do blogging and they used to ban me all those for, for smoking. Taking that.

[Thomas Dopas]

Because at the center of the video is a.

[Alex Legato]

It's a drug. Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Without being art.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Music. Oh, he smoked weed in a little bit.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, you see a lot of influencers, they'll hit a joint and then start doing a cooking video. You're like, damn, 80 million views. What the is happening? Because it's not all about that. Or you see guys start doing push ups. Hits a joint.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

This is what I do when I wake up. Voiceover. And some skinny ass, white or black dude just doing a voiceover. Always, from what I see.

[Mario Neal]

What about you dabble in shrooms or anything like that?

[Alex Legato]

On shrooms? Damn. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Bro.

[Alex Legato]

Like I had a crazy experience, bro. Like, so I was like, probably like, like, like, like two years ago, like two years ago it was, it was like with the weed, you know, I always. My homies, like, they always. I always get access to him, you know, some way somehow. And I tried them, the, the little bars and stuff like that. But he never hit me, to be honest. Nothing like that. Nothing that ever hit me. So I went to a video shoot, bro, and one of the. To do a featuring with. With a guy, regular Locado is his name. And I remember somebody had. I don't know if it was him or somebody else there that had a big old bag of shrooms. And then I took a bagel back to my house, bro. And then one of my homies went to drop off some weed, whatever. This homie talks to one of my other homies. He calls me the next day, my other homie, he's like, hey, what's up? I talked to. I talked to Gompa. He told me that he went to your house yesterday and he saw some bagel shrimps return to your table. And I was like, oh, Simone, what's up? Come to the house at that time, bro, I was at the dump at the, the trash dump. Because I, I, we were cleaning my, Cleaning my mom, my mom's house. So we went, we went and dump a bagel load of trash. And I was coming back already. So I told him, you know what? Go to the house right now. Wait for me right there. I'll be there quick. I got to the house, bro. He was already there waiting for me to help me. And then I had my uncle with me. He had just got in here from Mexico. And then he, he smokes with me and everything. So we were coming and then I was, I was telling him on the way, on the way to the house, I was telling him, oh, Theo, we're gonna get to the house right now. And then the home is going to be waiting for me. I'm gonna get there, I'm gonna shower while. Shower like you offering the compa. Something to drink, you know, something downstairs, whatever. So, bro, like, this fool, my, the homie that got to the house, he had just got him back from mean. And when he was in Meoan, he asked me if I wanted something. He was at this place that I really like, this K. You know what k is? Like caramel, bro. Like, like something super good. Yeah, Bomb. And then he brought some, some from over there. And then he was like, oh, but I got you this. And I was like, oh, perfect. You know, we'll eat the shirts with this and then we'll be good. You know, bro, like, I remember there were some, There were some bagels shrooms where I never, I never seen them like that. Like, big ass shrooms. And then they were there. So I was kind of dirty, you know, I, I was coming back from the, the trash dump. I went and took a shower, bro. And then when I came back, my homie was. My, My homie was chilling right there. And then my uncle, My uncle was having like a laughing attack, like, just going at this, like. And I was like, what the. And then I was like, theo, like, how many do you eat?

[Thomas Dopas]

You know?

[Alex Legato]

And then I saw, bro, like, no, bab is like the back, the back was big. Like, this was he like three big old ungos, you know, Way more than three. Than three grams, you know? Like, yeah, so, bro, they had a super trip and I wasn't ready for that. So I had some, I had, I had some. And when it, when I realized, like, they weren't going crazy, like, damn. I was like, I just killed my high, bro. I was just taking care of them. And then my, my uncle started having a super bad trip, bro. Screaming and yeah, like pray and in the middle of the house, you know, like. And then his team want that. He wanted to tell everybody about this, you know, like, yeah, like that. He was telling me, like, what is this? What do you gave me? You know, he's like, damn, I gotta tell everybody about this. And then he will go outside and then like he will get scared and then like he will keep praying, you know, and then he really wanted to go outside, you know. And then like, bro, I live in a, in a place like. Like I don't know how to explain it. Like, I didn't want them to know about this, you know. And bro, you wanted to go outside, make a scene. Luckily, my brother got there and he was able to hold them super tight, you know.

[Mario Neal]

He bear hugged him.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, pretty much, bro. And then that just gave him a super bad, bad, bad trip. Like, oh, why are you doing this to me? Yeah, bro, it was just bad that day.

[Mario Neal]

How did that end? How did he chill out? It just wore off, bro.

[Alex Legato]

Cut that in because it was long, bro. It was like, it was long. It was an old day thing, bro. Like, yeah, bro. It was on a Sunday, bro. Like, yeah, I remember my sister, My sister, My sister was there and she.

[Thomas Dopas]

She would just was.

[Alex Legato]

You heard the. He was praying like super loud in the middle of the house, you know, My sister came. Yeah. What's up? What is wrong with him? Me, I was, I was on a little high two, you know, he's in a good one right now. And then my sister was like the. Like, like, like she was probably. She was probably scary, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, are you the only one that takes like psychedelics and smokes out of your siblings? Your sisters and brother smoke?

[Alex Legato]

My little sister, she smokes. And, and, and she took some, some shrooms a day, but she said they didn't hit.

[Thomas Dopas]

She got a high tolerance.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. And she's a Jung.

[Thomas Dopas]

So in true fashion, Mexican fashion. Is your uncle like three years younger than you?

[Alex Legato]

No, no, but he's four years younger than. He's like 10. Like 10 years older than me.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, that's not too much?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, not that much.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right, I just want to make sure. Do you have an age gap of 40 years between like you and you and your little sister? My little brother's 11 right now.

[Alex Legato]

Oh. And yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, he's about a college student younger than me.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay. I just wanted to make sure.

[Alex Legato]

No, no, my younger sister, she's a 23 or 22, I believe. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

So did you listen to like American rap as a kid or were you still listening to like, Mexican music when you were living in la?

[Alex Legato]

No, I always listened to Mexican music, bro, to be honest. Yeah, I started listening to fairly to. To. To English music when. When. When we actually did the too short stuff. Oh, no, no, no way after. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

You guys are in your own thing.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, wow.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, no, I was.

[Thomas Dopas]

So you've been doing this. We. Purely in. In Spanish and it's just crossing over.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's a big leap, dude. Did you get any. Any lash. Any like lash back from any of like, you talking about weed a lot, bro?

[Alex Legato]

Like. Like that's. That's when I tell you, like, that's that. I don't wanna. I don't. I don't. I. I really don't want to sound. Sound like cocky, you know, but I feel like my band is the one that opened the door all these ways for everybody, you know, And. And. And Pastor Pluma invited me to his concert and he also said it live. Like thanks to Legal Siete for. For. For paving the. The way for us, you know, because, bro, like, we're the ones that pretty much for everybody, you know. Like the radio didn't want to play us.

[Thomas Dopas]

Because of it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, because of it. TV shows never wanted to with those neither, you know, like, and. And we made it happen, you know, after the people. The people wanted it. Like they played us in the radio without us paying any, you know. Like we went. Yeah, because it was popping, you know. Yeah. So. But they didn't really want. Wanted us, you know, like people didn't.

[Mario Neal]

Wanted us on some Cypress hell. Damn.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, they didn't want. They didn't want it. To be honest, until they see that a lot of people started doing it, you know, that's when I say, like, we actually changed stuff. The. The demand was now people from. At that time, people from Mexico was doing this style, you know, People from Mexico was out doing songs about weed. And. And we changed, you know, like it was backwards back then.

[Thomas Dopas]

See, I wouldn't go for it.

[Alex Legato]

I didn't.

[Thomas Dopas]

I wouldn't think that the radio would be against you see. Damn. It really is taboo. Until recently, man.

[Alex Legato]

No, it's kind of crazy because you.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hear all the other Spanish. A lot of Spanish groups talk about some wild.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, some wild.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's way worse than just smoking blunts. Yeah. Joints. So for. For you to be able to do that. How long. How long do you think it took for you to win them over? Me like, all right, now they're a household name.

[Alex Legato]

It took like four, four years, bro. Oh, like four years. Because after that, like they. People from. From those times, like the ones we started making featurings like Forza, like after that they started making like big numbers, you know. So the. The general went. Went up, you know, like it wasn't the same. Like back then when someone. When. When an artist from. From or regional Mexican was popping. When they will come to la, they will do like a place called Rodeo, you know. Right now when the Mexican artist pops, like, they come and they do the staples. They do. Oh, right now it's bigger. Like the audience is bigger, you know, like, there's way more people listening to Mexican music than back then.

[Mario Neal]

Do you do arenas at like venues that big?

[Alex Legato]

So for five years we did a. A tour. The did super good, bro. We did it in the whole U.S. it was called the Smo Tour, Smoke Me Out Tour. And then we had, we had. We had a few of these artists that are doing really good right now too. You know, we had a junior age in the tour. We had in the tour. We had Patronus in the tour.

[Thomas Dopas]

And two of those people actually know who knew exactly.

[Alex Legato]

They are. Yeah, they're big enough for me.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, I don't even.

[Alex Legato]

These artists came out of this store, you know, like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, on your.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it was my tour. Like they, they all used to open up for me, you know, at these times. And so we did that for the, for, for. For three years. Then covet hit. We stopped the year. We stopped the older year too, because it was still up. And then we did the final one on. On 2020. I don't remember. We just did an event two years ago, I believe. Another smo. And, and that was. That was really cool. We did it at the pickup theater.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

And that got sold out quick. And we're probably trying to make another tour right now, but right now, right now we got another tour with those which is working really, really good. Well, I mean, we just released the dates.

[Thomas Dopas]

Where can people buy tickets.

[Alex Legato]

Bro? To be honest, like, I'm not. I'm not sure what website is it?

[Thomas Dopas]

We'll put the descriptions.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, Ticket Master.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. Ticket Master. Yeah, for sure. Ticket Master and Ticket On. That's. That's where they can get tickets for the tour.

[Thomas Dopas]

Sick. It must be kind of surreal. But yeah, I'm gonna do another one.

[Alex Legato]

I invite you, bro, on the LA event. Oh yeah, I want to go see that.

[Thomas Dopas]

What do you think it's gonna be?

[Alex Legato]

I'm not sure when, bro, but this year. When.

[Thomas Dopas]

This year though.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, this year for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh yeah. I want to go see that.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, I'll send it in mind. And it's a good experience, bro. Like I. I want you to see what I'm talking about, you know, like it's a whole. It's a, it's a, it's. It's a. It's a cool world, you know, like. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool vibes like my music and. And the people that goes like we hardly have like people fighting and like that, you know. It's just people blazing it, bro. Yeah. My advances. Just people blazing it and having a good time.

[Mario Neal]

Sick.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's awesome. You don't ever feel like we should.

[Mario Neal]

Know about this whole.

[Thomas Dopas]

Right, Man, I feel like we should. What do we do? The Smoke Me out tour.

[Alex Legato]

Smoke Me out tour? Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

I love it, dude.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

No, like I said, you never hear like that in this culture at all ever.

[Mario Neal]

How often are you in the studio after?

[Alex Legato]

Am I in the studio a lot, bro. Like I'm in the studio a lot. Like, like I told you. We also got a record label with my partner Ramon. So we got people right there, you know. And then yeah, we got a few artists from Mexico working on music. They send music over here to the studio and we got a producer right there in the studio compasses. So I go blazer all the time, bro. I love spending time there. But even, even if I don't got to do there, like I'll just go and blaze Wonder, you know, at the studio headquarters. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Sound like such a fun, right? Fun life right now. You gotta be like, I'll just go there and get a high.

[Alex Legato]

Hell yeah. And it's been like this like for a cool minute, bro. Like honestly like I really, I really love the. The. The people give us a support, you know, and we're able to do what we like, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Know for some reason I feel like the weed community in and of itself besides the music, you know. Cuz say they didn't know you like take the music out of it. There's still like a community there, right? With the, with the music in is so much, so much more connected. But the weed community is so loyal to. Yeah, they will show up to everything every time.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

And nice. I've seen argument in our meet and greets maybe.

[Alex Legato]

Uhhuh.

[Thomas Dopas]

Nobody's fight like, you know, I love, I love that about this week.

[Alex Legato]

Community.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's the one thing that you can always guarantee Almost. That there's going to be almost no fights.

[Mario Neal]

Is the vast majority of your fan base Spanish speaking Americans?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So like every show you. You know who's showing up?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, like my people, like, yeah, like my kind of fans, bro. Like, and that's what. We're doing a tour with those at the Malipas because I feel like they have the same fan base. Like, it's people that, it's young people from the U. S that they grew up over here, but they, they speak Spanish in their house, you know. But they also go to work and they listen to rap, they listen to, to, to country, to all this kind of other music, you know.

[Mario Neal]

What about doing a tour in Mexico?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, we're working something for next year.

[Mario Neal]

Awesome.

[Alex Legato]

And we'll be there in Mexico too with the tour.

[Thomas Dopas]

Question, since you've seen both sides. Oh, wait, you say you haven't gone back to Mexico yet, huh? Wow, what a long.

[Alex Legato]

Well, your whole family's here. My whole family's here, yeah. No reason.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, I totally feel you then. Yeah, but what have you noticed from. If you haven't done this Mexican, you haven't gone the tour yet. Oh yeah, if you're gonna go tour, it's the first time going.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah. Wow.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, damn.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. No, people's being waited in Mexico for us, bro. Like, like, like you don't know. Like, we get so many calls like to, to work in Mexico.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, you were born for those, like out of the music town. You're Dustin back on Twitter.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn, had a coco hand again. What the. That's tight as hell. Also need some money for that. So what have you noticed from the difference? Like, I'm sure you get fans at your shows that are from Mexico. They drove or flew to come to the show down here in LA or something. What do you notice the difference? Like, I see Mexico, we culture. I see American, we culture. Mexico's starting to like, get on the wave of like. Yeah, no, we did. We were dead.

[Alex Legato]

No, they're on it, bro. Like, yeah, like you'll be surprised, bro. Honestly, you'll be surprised. Like, I remembered a few years ago, like one of my buddies, he hit me up like somebody a company wanted to gave me, give me a. A press. To press weed, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, to press weed. And yeah, we went. It was right there by my house actually in Corona. So we went. Yeah, they, they, they treat me really nice, bro. They gave, they gave me a press and then they told me the, the. To buyers, for them it was Mexico Yeah, like the. The topic really? Yeah, like the most people buying presses for this food was people from Mexico, all that they're on it. And bro, like people all the time tells me and I, I know people here. The. The. They be getting. They be smoking the same, you know, like they be smoking the same hash hours over there in Guadalajara. Like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh yeah. Oh that's awesome. I've been seeing it, dude. Cuz I get tagged on a lot. I mean. Yeah, I get tagged in so many DMS with people smoking. I don't know what the. It says. Hit me with a paragraph. Like I don't know what it says. But in the. They seemed hyped as in the videos. I'm like probably positive. But it's always from like Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, South. Like it's all South America, dude. I just feel like there needs to be a. A type of event out there because I think. I think thousand people for sure will show up.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

[Mario Neal]

Do you have some places in the world?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yes, yes. But I'm talking about like Latin America culture.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

That shit's frowned upon. Do you ever go back to Phoenix?

[Alex Legato]

All the time. Yeah. Yeah, I love Phoenix, bro. One of my favorite cds to be honest.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, I never been. I passed through, got some gas and left.

[Alex Legato]

No, no, it's. Phoenix is badass.

[Mario Neal]

It's beautiful. I drove through, there was a lightning storm going down Tabletop Mountains.

[Thomas Dopas]

It was a lightning.

[Alex Legato]

Honestly, my. My dream was to make it in music and go back to Phoenix, you know. But then life changes, you know, I have kids now and then can uproot them and. Yeah, no, no. Well actually I. I have two kids with one and then another one with. With my actual girlfriend right now. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's hard, you know, like for me to be coming and going. But yeah, I love to live in Phoenix and a small kind of weed.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, as long as you can. Yeah, I think pretty much moving anywhere is like. Well, I have weed.

[Mario Neal]

Phoenix has weed and open carry. Right?

[Alex Legato]

The weed is not that good to be honest, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Too dry, huh?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, honestly. Yeah, I. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't think it's a thing. No, it's. It's. Cuz honestly, after smoking CWD like you go to the rest of the US bro. Like it's. It's not the same.

[Thomas Dopas]

Not even close.

[Alex Legato]

You know, like only if you're going to get the things shipped. Whenever we smoke something good out of state is cuz they. They bring it from Slate, you know, like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Or it's hash.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, good hash. Here.

[Thomas Dopas]

We was ugly. That's why he made ash.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Honestly, I never. I don't think. I never. I never tried some good weed like outside of California.

[Thomas Dopas]

Once I tried it, it was in California though, but from somewhere else, which was weird. But it's from Maine. That little baby. That random ass state over there.

[Mario Neal]

So we called our shitty. If it was shitty, we'd be called it Zona. We had good. And Zona.

[Alex Legato]

And Zona.

[Thomas Dopas]

I have no idea. I just called it sucks if I don't buy weed from him anymore.

[Mario Neal]

Damn. I never really thought about it because that was like saying Arizona had shitty weed.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, Zona. That's why you called it that. Like errors.

[Mario Neal]

Like, how would.

[Thomas Dopas]

Arizona's not known for the fire.

[Alex Legato]

Let's go for Arizonas. Yeah, Arizona is going for Arizona.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wait, live in Arizona. Random question. Is Arizona iced tea just like the most popular drink out there? What a random question I have to ask.

[Alex Legato]

I never. I never had the drink.

[Thomas Dopas]

What? Yeah, bro. It's all a lie then. Never mind.

[Alex Legato]

No, yeah, for sure it's a lie.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. Shit's not great, but it's good sometimes when you need a swisher. Only like, I'll get Arizona too.

[Alex Legato]

That's.

[Thomas Dopas]

That was my.

[Mario Neal]

I saw a commercial where they're like, we won't raise our prices for inflation or whatever. I respected that. That.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, hell no. Every store has a $25.

[Alex Legato]

Are they still $1?

[Thomas Dopas]

It says 99 on the camp. I always get charged $something everywhere I go.

[Alex Legato]

$130.

[Thomas Dopas]

Every liquor store I've ever been to, man.

[Mario Neal]

Totally get.

[Thomas Dopas]

Nobody abides by that.

[Alex Legato]

Hey, but that's. That's sick though. They. They keep the prize, you know. It's a play up price. Honestly. A doll they can't even produce. Getting out of high school, you know, going to the 7 11, getting a bagel. Arizona. Exactly. Getting ready to walk home, you know. Oh yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right. Oh, so growing up, you. You moved to California. You said you were 14.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so you're making music. You're out here in what city?

[Alex Legato]

Santana.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, okay.

[Alex Legato]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. So you're in Santa Ana.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

You're out here, you're obviously making music. But are you making music where enough where people like, oh, that's what makes music. Or you just doing that by yourself?

[Alex Legato]

No, at that time when I. When I. When I moved back to. To Santana, actually my neighbors used to play music too. But like pretty super low key. Like they would. They Wouldn't work much, to be honest, but. But from them, like, people got to. To with me, you know, like with them, I met this guy that he actually will work a lot, like in the bars and stuff like that, you know, so he saw me.

[Thomas Dopas]

He.

[Alex Legato]

He saw me that the. That I could play the. The guitar, and he. He got me with him. So he started giving me like, little work here and there. After that, I met my other homie that plays a tuba. Then I started playing with the homie, the pleated tuba at that time. And then after that, I met another good musicians. And I was honestly, like, I was just meeting people, you know, meeting new musicians all the time.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's in high school.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, until I got to the time. Yeah, during high school. And then we just get together, you know, play some music. Then when I got out of high school, that's when I started actually gigging. Like, okay, like, playing in. I made my own groupo at that time with my two homie that I had, my coding player homie that I had. We started making our own little thing right there, you know, for like two, three years, playing on quinceaneras and all that. Then I met my. My. My. My partner right now, Ramon, at the studio that I told you. And then from there, bro, like, we. We recorded a live album with all my songs. And honestly, bro, like, when we did that album, like, we never did it to try to live out of music. No, no. Yeah, we were trying to make some money, but not like this, you know. Like, we were just trying to be the group in LA that we. That had a lot of chamba in la, though. We were trying to make it in la. Like, we were trying to have a lot of gigs, you know, like two quinceaneras on Saturday, two parties on Sundays. Like, we wanted to be that group because there was a lot of people working like that at that time, you know, but charging. Not that much, but we wanted to charge good, you know, so we did this live album, bro, and. And my partner posted it on. On YouTube. And that blew up. You know that? Yeah, that blew up. After that, we. We did our first record deal.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn. Off the YouTube. Album drop.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Was there like a lot of videos or just the audio?

[Alex Legato]

It was just audio. And then we did official video. It has more than that by itself. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Damn.

[Thomas Dopas]

You say it has mad views on the first one?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. More than 100 millions.

[Mario Neal]

God damn.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wait, you get. You get monetized off that, right?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Let's go.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right.

[Alex Legato]

No, yeah, we make A living out of it, bro. Like that, that's what I tell, you know, like now we. It's cool to make a living out of, you know, like. And we honestly never did it with that intention. Like just one of the. Yeah, good girl in la, you know, but also feel like a good thing. And this is my musicians, you know. Like these fools are beast, bro. Like my lyrics with this fools is like the perfect match, you know, because this fool's. I got the same instruments for music and Ortega but like I was. It doesn't sound like nortega, you know, like oh, this sounds. I don't know how to say it, bro. Like it's a different style, you know, like it's like a flowing style. Like, like. I don't know bro, it's just different style but with the same original Mexican instruments, you know? Yeah, just give. Giving it a whole different sound to it. And then the lyrics talking about the head sometime trapping, you know, and this and that. Yeah, yeah, it just makes something a cool style.

[Thomas Dopas]

I mean what a, what a wild moment to like I remember my homies like hey, you should make weed on your phone. I go that would be fun. And then turn a bunch of your home. I'm gonna upload it to YouTube. Was it instant? Like you posted like Dan. Next day we have.

[Alex Legato]

Honestly like I didn't even know. I didn't even know like he posted it, you know. Like all of a sudden people started tagging me on Instagram at that time, like posting the beat, the, the video, the lyrics. And I was like oh like that's cool, you know. And then that's when I started getting into YouTube. I saw YouTube and then that was going up quick, bro. And it had. All of a sudden he had 100,000 views like in less than a month. We were like, what the. Like at that time, like I told you our, our music wasn't doing that good, you know. Like right now, 100,000 less than a month. You're doing super bad to be doing those numbers, you know, like cuz there's way more people listening to now. But back then, bro, that was good. I remember we used to do a barbecue every 100,000 views, you know, Cuz it was so cool for us. Like, oh, like another 1000 views on this song. Oh, you know, let's do a barbecue. Like we used to do this for, for the, for the first few hundred thousands, you know.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Alex Legato]

And bro, like, but right now like shit's way different, you know. But, but yeah, like when that went on YouTube like started popping. Then we started touring. You know like people started calling us for out from out of state like to go play Chicago with the Dallas or first sold out was or, or very first of doubt ever it was in Chicago. And that was a few months after dropping the the first album.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know there's such a big Mexican community in Chicago. I didn't know until this Ken told us. I didn't realize that in Chicago has.

[Alex Legato]

A big ass community. And honestly bro, like you'll be surprised everywhere, bro. Like, like I told you we had this smo tour with it, I believe almost a 50 states. Oh wow. And bro, like sometimes I was surprised like because I will get to the town and there was nobody, you know, like and then I will get worried like what if people doesn't show up to the event? You know, like I don't see where is people gonna come from, you know, like I don't see nobody. And bro, at night fool back, you know bag with, with, with with people, bro, like you'll be surprised. There's Mexicans everywhere, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

They actually just spawned. They just popped up right now.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah, dude. So what? Like that's why I always tell, tell people like just make. If you make stuff you like it, just do it. You weren't like, oh, we got to make it back off. You didn't even think they like, oh, if we do, that'd be cool.

[Mario Neal]

I love that.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, that's how you have to start.

[Thomas Dopas]

Things, I think if you really like them.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Or you be making music like, well, what's popular right now? And then your lyrics like, oh, how are we going to make more views? What are we going to do? And then it's different.

[Alex Legato]

You just overthink, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Not the same anymore.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

You probably still have hella fun. You're like, yeah, I'll go to the studio. Most artists like I'm not going to the studio if I'm recording. Like I'll just get high there.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah. And honestly bro, most of the cool things had happened on a day that I don't have to go, I didn't have to be there. And then like I was there. Like for example, my last good song that I dropped it was like five months ago. I want to say it's called on the Gas. And bro, that they're super, super really good. And it was on a day that I wasn't even had to be there and another homie was recording there and I just went smoke one, you know, and I started Writing the song. He was there. I was able. So you don't like this song? Do you want to do it together? We did it. That. She has more than 50 million plays right now on Spotify, so that. That did really good. You know, it happened on a day that I didn't have to be there. You know, I was just chilling. So most of the time happens when you don't plan it. I feel.

[Thomas Dopas]

Well, yeah, like, with most good things, man, people didn't like, yo, I'm gonna start playing football. I need a college, a scholarship in 10 years. Like, no play football anymore, right?

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, no, he was the one kid that the coach was actually driving by while he was out playing and saw him and stopped and scouted him.

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you from that music town in Mexico? I think you look like it.

[Alex Legato]

Let's go.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah. So people in town where you're from must be excited. Like, yeah, another one. We got another one from the town, man.

[Alex Legato]

Hell yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

What's in the water out there? For real?

[Alex Legato]

No, bro, it's a cool. It's a cool time right there, bro. A lot of talented people right there, bro. You know, there's just. I feel like there's not a lot of opportunities over there, you know, but what. Whoever gets out of there. I feel like there's a lot of people, like everywhere, bro. Like right now. Oh, now. And there's like, the exposure for the people is insane, you know, And. And that's where you notice, like, oh, there's people that has talent everywhere, bro. Yeah, there's a lot of people that can do it, can make it. We can make it happen now, bro. Like, we all got the same tools, you know, like, same time nowadays. Like, you got a phone. That's it. We all got the same tools, you know, there's no excuse.

[Mario Neal]

Are you like, business minded? Do you have that side of you too? Or you just a straight up musician? Is there things like business things?

[Alex Legato]

I like business. And yeah, I like. I like, I like doing investments.

[Thomas Dopas]

But.

[Alex Legato]

But I feel like I. I spend more than what I. What I get, you know? Like, like me and my partner, we. What I meant is, like, I like my car too. So I be like, the car like, doesn't give you no money back, you.

[Mario Neal]

Know, you spend so much money on.

[Thomas Dopas]

Car, so it's not an investment.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, like, no, the car is. No, but what's your favorite car? My favorite car that they.

[Thomas Dopas]

You drive.

[Alex Legato]

I have. Let me get my.

[Thomas Dopas]

No, go.

[Alex Legato]

Go for it.

[Thomas Dopas]

What fell? Oh. Oh, you gotta grab that.

[Alex Legato]

My favorite car.

[Thomas Dopas]

Bro, like is usually I like investments.

[Alex Legato]

But also mainly cars.

[Thomas Dopas]

I do cars. Oh, it sounds like a gambling addiction.

[Alex Legato]

That's what it is. What I think it is, bro, to be honest. I like Mustangs, bro. I like muscle cars.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh really?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, older. And I also like building cars. So I feel like that's where. Where the thing is when you started building cars and then takes a long time to build them and a lot, lot of bread too.

[Thomas Dopas]

This F's got stupid sick show cars. I bet the way you say it's a lot of garages. You guys have glass floors and so like what kind. What year Mustang are you talking.

[Alex Legato]

I have. I have. I have a few fox bodies.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, sick. Like 90s.

[Alex Legato]

I have a 87 and 89 and a 91. And then I have a 2016 for the track. Actually suited for the track. And then I have a. My favorite one is 65 that I build it. Everything bro, from. You did it. Yeah, we did it.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

And It's a widebody 65 with the 408 stroker engine. Yeah, I really like that one.

[Thomas Dopas]

Most casual. I got a fleet of sick ass. That was my favorite car until I was like 10. And then I real. And then I found Novas. Oh, I love Novas. But Mustangs was my. As a cat thought they were the coolest. Like the. Like the 64, 68, 8. That range. I thought they were the coolest thing in the world.

[Mario Neal]

Dude, is that what you exclusively drive?

[Alex Legato]

No, no, for my daily. No, for my daily I. I have a. A Raptor.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, like a truck?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, a truck. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Sick.

[Alex Legato]

That's one thing.

[Thomas Dopas]

Trucks and horses.

[Alex Legato]

Trucks, trucking horses.

[Mario Neal]

Every driver horse, a horse, A lot.

[Thomas Dopas]

Of them inside of a tr.

[Alex Legato]

No, bro, I really, really want this horse, bro. Like I'm really trying to get this horse.

[Mario Neal]

It's got to be a lot of maintenance take care of.

[Alex Legato]

Well, I guess actually, actually one of my. One of my. This is why I want to get it. Cuz one of my good friends, he has a rancho, you know, he has. He. He has spots. He already has horses, you know, and he told me, he's like, oh, you know what if you buy one, bring it here and then just pay my compa. A monthly fee, you know, and. And so you can feed him, buy him food and then for. For him to walk it around every day, you know, I'm down for that.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh yeah.

[Alex Legato]

Oh yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's like a garage fee for your classic cars.

[Alex Legato]

It's like a new something, you know, like Netflix or something.

[Mario Neal]

It's like both of ours, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Just keep it in your house, you feed it.

[Alex Legato]

It's like a new subscription, you know? Yeah, different.

[Thomas Dopas]

Different horse.

[Alex Legato]

Horse.

[Thomas Dopas]

I love that, dude. So wait, you're clearly. I mean, you're only, like, into mustangs. That's your. But you build cars. Do you have a place here in LA that rebuilds older cars?

[Alex Legato]

No, I have actually a few. A few homies.

[Thomas Dopas]

They do a great job.

[Alex Legato]

I have somebody for everything. Yeah. Like, I have somebody that works on. On. On. On the engines. I have somebody that works on the body, and then I have somebody that tunes them.

[Thomas Dopas]

They, like. Would you say one of your cars is like a show car? Are any of them like. Damn, that shit's.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay, so that's. This is my question.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

I have a 86 Monte Carlo. I got it rebuilt. SS it's super sick. Who cares? Guy it off. Oh, he didn't do. It's like this. If I dumped this ash everywhere and I just wiped it like this and I cleaned the table. He didn't rebuild my. It's like, look at all this dirt over here. He didn't do a good job. It's dead in my garage right now because they rewired. They did something with the wire, with the alarm, and it keeps draining my battery, but I have to leave it plugged in. I don't want to deal with that.

[Mario Neal]

It took, like, two years to do it.

[Thomas Dopas]

So what I'm saying is, I'm asking everybody that's in the cars, do you got a guy that can fix my.

[Alex Legato]

I have the perfect guy to fix your guard.

[Thomas Dopas]

Thank you.

[Alex Legato]

I do, honestly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Thank you. I just want to pay somebody to do it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

And nobody seems to want to do that for me.

[Mario Neal]

I've known you for five years.

[Alex Legato]

I got the perfect guy for you. Yeah. He'll rewire everything and. And nice. You know, because that's. That's dangerous, bro. Like, that's one of my. That's one of my worst fears, bro. To be honest, to get one of my cars caught on fire, because I've seen it so much, bro, like, on this, like, on the customs cars, bro. Like, I seen so many cars caught up on fire, bro. But that's when they do. Honestly, like, a car, bro, is like. Like, you can go buy any car, you know, to a dealership and, you know, she's gonna be good and has warranty, you know, because, you know, the dealer is. Yeah. You know, but when you're building. When you're building a car full, like. Like you're doing everything. Like once, once you take everything, everything from the car, the shell, you're doing everything, you know, so you gotta make sure you do everything right, because this is your life right there, you know?

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, I got my car back before the guy was gone. Out of the parking lot that gave me my car back. I was pressing the button to move my seat and I heard and then I went. Exploded the motor under my seat. I was looking down going, what the is that noise? And I had high top vans. Thank God the exploded and shot it all over the back of my feet. Shards of old plastic. Like the motor popped. Yeah, because they did something with the wiring and it like over char.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So I need help is what I'm saying.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, no, my car is in my car. Don't drive the thing no more.

[Thomas Dopas]

And then you know what? And then I was driving home and I went like this to turn and it went. He goes, oh, yeah, you driving pin broke. And I go, you didn't replace it? Oh, no, we. We didn't get it in time. So that's why I don't drive it. Because the steering wheel doesn't go left to right. Goes up and down too. So when I'm turning on a big turn, I have to hold it down. I drove a hole. Like a boat. Like a boat.

[Alex Legato]

I have somebody's Ana bro that will. Will take care of all the animals.

[Thomas Dopas]

Car.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, He's a really good guy and he works really, really clean on everything. Like, super. Nice. Good, good work, you know.

[Mario Neal]

Did you live in Santa ana in like 2013? 14? Yeah, the whole era of like all the mom and pop little dispensaries and business parks. I live in Irvine, so I used to go up Red Hill.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

And they're all along this little stretch that was legendary. They're all gone now. They're all corporate spots.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

Marty's from New York were like when he came here, he's like, you can buy weed legal, not get chased. So he's like, soon as I like weed shits.

[Mario Neal]

Like I was buying dime bags and twenties and like I'm a daily out there.

[Thomas Dopas]

Going up there, easy, different. Just same country, different coast. Like how privileged we are over here to be able to smoke weed.

[Mario Neal]

Santa Ana's a Spot.

[Alex Legato]

Hell yeah, Mr. Nice Spot, my boy, to be honest. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Mr. Nice Guy did a commercial for them. Mr. Nice Guys or something, right? Is that what it's called?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, Nice Guys.

[Mario Neal]

Did you ever go to a spot called Rascals? OG spot on Main Street.

[Alex Legato]

Wait, Rascal OG no, no.

[Mario Neal]

It's like, literally just the OG Spot. Oh. Shop in Santa Ana, to be honest.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right, well, nobody can see it, but you guys pulled up pretty heady, I guess some people would say.

[Mario Neal]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

So davin's part of your life, obviously. I know. People will know. It's a. What is this called? Banjo. What?

[Alex Legato]

It's a banjo collab with. With Hoover.

[Mario Neal]

Can we bring it?

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, yeah, yeah, bring it.

[Alex Legato]

It's a b. Collab with the. Who is it collabing with?

[Thomas Dopas]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I think he's going to put that down first.

[Alex Legato]

What do you think, bro? When you take hits on. On a Harry like that, don't break.

[Thomas Dopas]

It, don't break it, don't break it. Don't cough with it in my hands.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

If you move your water. I got you. How prepared now?

[Alex Legato]

The home is prepared. Wow. That thing he has the Mexican. The Mexican dragon.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, is that what this is?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

I almost don't even want to, like, press it. Oh, my God.

[Mario Neal]

Can you describe to the audience what you're seeing here?

[Thomas Dopas]

It is fear. Kept doing. It's some lady doing the, like, the P symbol cross leg inside of, like, this big winged contraption with the Mexican dragon and, like, a bunch of stuff that you would make sushi with, like, a bunch of, like, curls of avocado and eyeballs. I don't know what to call it. It looks like a psychedelic trip that you see on shirts.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, you go, you go, you go, you go. Oh, me? Yeah. Where's the cap? Perfect.

[Thomas Dopas]

Never dab in this position. It's very awkward. I took a knee earlier. John Laffey has cookies in his mouth or something.

[Mario Neal]

Healthy John.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, my God. Okay. I'm just afraid, like, my watch is gonna slip off and crack this thing or something dumb here.

[Mario Neal]

Is this like, one of many ridiculous pieces that you guys have?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, yeah. This is one of many. I thought there was only one that's was like, wait, I've hit that thing before.

[Alex Legato]

No, these guys be pulling up to the house with crazy pieces, bro. I've been scared to die with them, to be honest.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, my God. Okay, so while this nail's heating up, you like dabbing?

[Alex Legato]

I like dabbing. Yeah. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

You got a rig set up at home, I'm assuming.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay. When for me, I took one. Hold on. This is so I can't even see your face. There we go. I was talking through the glass. I took it down for the first time. Oh. Took the couple dabs, didn't dab again for like nine months. I hated it, Couldn't stand it. I was smoking like ounce joints. Not like I was like too high. The high was disgusting. Like, to me, the 2013 was red hot. Shatter.

[Alex Legato]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopas]

Shatter titanium caps. Remember all that?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

The first time my dad was not fun. And then I just fell in love with it for you because you said not took a hit and I was hooked for you. The first dab you took, did you with it? Was it something that you just stayed away from or you did just go all in?

[Alex Legato]

It's because. Oh, it's been changes, you know, like my. Like my. I feel like. I feel like there was a change when I learned how to dab the right way.

[Thomas Dopas]

Right.

[Alex Legato]

The right way.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yep.

[Alex Legato]

And before, you know, like before it was hot dabs, you know, like super hot. Titanium shattered since, you know, it hurt. It hurt, bro. Like, he's. Yeah. Like, it wasn't a cool high, you know, it wasn't gross. It wasn't enjoyable. Like, it was just like. Like I feel like we just. All your pressure going to your head, you know, like had us. That. But then after, like when I. I found. When I found out about hash and. And then rosin. Right? Rosin, you know?

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, get stuff like this.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it was different now, you know, like. Yeah, it was. It was just a big change, you know, like when I actually find out, like how it was to be done. Yeah, like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like me, I really like it, you.

[Alex Legato]

Know, Especially because I got kids, bro. Like in the house, you know, it's pretty convenient for me, you know, like, bro, I go to my garage and I take three. Three fat ass dabs, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn. For every child.

[Alex Legato]

And then I go back.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, for real?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, bro. Yeah. So it's. It's better for me, you know, And I give. I be high as you know, so.

[Thomas Dopas]

Isn't it so much funnier? Cuz remember when you get high, like, they like, all right, it's Christmas time. Get high and go back in. Like, nobody look at me.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

And now you're like, nobody even knows. Can't smell.

[Alex Legato]

Exactly, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, I dab at the. Well, now. Now everybody's chill. My family, they're like, I dab in the. In the kitchen and on Christmas. But before. Oh, sneaking sucks. Gotcha. Ready? Can we get Marty set up?

[Mario Neal]

You'll be all right. You were ripping earlier.

[Alex Legato]

How about this?

[Thomas Dopas]

How about have somebody come over?

[Mario Neal]

I could. I could move too. I mean.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, yeah. Huh?

[Mario Neal]

I could relocate. I could move.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, yeah. How about that? Yeah, we'll leave this here. Then we'll have Marty stand by me. John, take this somewhere down the neck. We have to clean that a little bit. I'm so nervous of this thing. Sorry, one second.

[Alex Legato]

Boom.

[Thomas Dopas]

Forget.

[Alex Legato]

Okay.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yo, you roll around with a carpet is epic. You pull that out, fools think you're Muslim or praying, and they all.

[Alex Legato]

Damn it.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh. But yeah, five times a day. Oh, that was good. All right. Yeah, we're gonna have that. We'll have Marty come over here. Yeah, let me know when. Okay, back to what we were saying. You started dabbing. Once you start getting it normal, getting it right, then you start realizing. So for people out there, right, People might follow you. Like, oh, I love we talks about weed. Like, dabbing. I never tried dads. That fool takes dabs. Right? So for people out there that don't know dabbing, I like to say, like weeds drinking beer. If you want to take huge bombs instead of chugging a beer, dab is like taking shots. Like, chill out. So some people smoke weed and go off, crush this, and they take dabs. Never want to dab again. That's what I did. I was like, oh, dabbing. I'm gonna try it. I went red hot. Got the spin. Trying to watch Breaking Bad. Hated it. So for everyone else out there, dabbing, like, when you actually started realizing, oh, this is real dabs, do you find yourself. For everyone out there, do you find yourself smoking less weed because you're dabbing?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, like me, like, I haven't bought weed in years.

[Thomas Dopas]

You smoke ash, man.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, like, honestly, like. And like, I don't buy weed. Like, I hate rolling woods too, bro. Like. Like, I don't know. Like, I just rather take a bath, you know? Okay, but if they were rolled already, if somebody. Yeah, if somebody has a wood. Like my homies, I know they smell good too, you know, So I. I have homies. Like. Like Jay, you know, Like, I've been kicking with him every time he goes to the house. Like he has a wood or something. Like, I'll still hate it, you know, but it's not your go to. It's not something that I'll. I'll. I'll be looking for, to be honest.

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you. Are you rolling around, like on tour with a Puffco, with a rig or with anything?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, see, I'm seeing.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's just. It's so much easier than this, but. Ah, it doesn't even compare the rip off this thing.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Not to knowing, but I'll still take.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Actually, the new Puffco is cool, bro. Like with the big chamber. The chamber, you know, it rips. Honestly, it rips. It's not the same.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's not the same. But there's still a great alternative.

[Alex Legato]

And honestly, like, me, like, I don't like him that cold.

[Thomas Dopas]

It was cold, right? That one was cold, right?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so too, I like him a little bit hot. Not really hot like the homie.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wait, did you just rip off this earlier? Yeah, that was dark as hell. I was like, damn, who is this hot as hell, right when I was down already. Oh, you can see the ring of heat. Yeah, yeah, I saw it right there. Okay, so like, how much better ring? You can see it though. How much. How you think you're going through? Like, all right. No, not on tour. You're busy on tour.

[Alex Legato]

Oh, come here.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, say you're at home and you're like, oh, the kids aren't even here.

[Alex Legato]

Are you going?

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you flying through jars too? Yeah, this way, this way.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. When. When I ain't got nothing to do. Like, yeah, I'd be diving in the.

[Thomas Dopas]

House just non stop, huh?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Just because it's a good pastime. Yeah, that's what I like to say.

[Alex Legato]

I dab, honestly, I dab what I have, you know what I dab what I. How much you got?

[Thomas Dopas]

10 grand. I like that.

[Alex Legato]

I'll grab what I have. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Wow, that's a great thing. If you smoke a lot. I'll smoke whatever I have.

[Alex Legato]

And I can also go three, four days with no ding too.

[Thomas Dopas]

You know, people always. You're addicted. Like, I don't think you understand. I'll smoke two grams right now, but I'll go two days.

[Alex Legato]

No, if I want. That's. That's. That's why I say, like, I die what I have, you know? Cuz honestly, like, bro, like, that's why I don't, like, I don't like sometimes getting a lot because, like, I don't know, administrate myself, you know?

[Thomas Dopas]

You guys, I just picked up and realized, whoa, I. I just stood up to my mom and dad.

[Alex Legato]

Shut the up.

[Thomas Dopas]

Conquer my beers right now. As a kid.

[Mario Neal]

What's your favorite to watch on YouTube?

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn, that was like, guilty face.

[Alex Legato]

Like, for bro. Like, Honestly, I love YouTube.

[Thomas Dopas]

Is that your main.

[Alex Legato]

Nah, lately, Tik tok too. I like tik tok, you know, so quick you can find a lot of. You know, like in middle of the.

[Thomas Dopas]

Night they show you some conspiracies and crazy.

[Alex Legato]

Anything, bro, you search anything on tik Tok bro. And then you're talking or you're talking about something like me and you were talking about something right now. And then I go to Tik Tok and he's there.

[Thomas Dopas]

Give me a million dollars.

[Alex Legato]

Oh, yeah, right.

[Thomas Dopas]

Just got a zel transaction, dude. I'm telling you, these. I feel like they can see more than they say. Not even hearing. The other day he brought up a car. No, his phone brought up. No, we saw the car. We went, what is that? We saw this crazy ass car. And he scrolls for ad for that car while we're still at the stoplight. Like the thing. Saw it from my camera in my car. I don't know. Yeah, that shit's creepy, dude. You can't do nothing in your car. It's like Black Mirror can't even sell drugs in a new car. For real. Think about. They track everything in your computer. Like, oh, you went to this house eight times this week. So coke. Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

They can put together a whole timeline of your activities.

[Thomas Dopas]

And yeah, the cops do it. They can give it to the for. For a case. That's not fair. That's why this full drive 91 Mustangs.

[Alex Legato]

Y.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's just me, no sky then.

[Alex Legato]

Yes, sir.

[Thomas Dopas]

All right. Yo, real quick, what's the show called? It's from Mexico. It's a show where everyone's like 30 to 50, but they play like 8. 8 year olds. Come on. Everyone's a grown adult, but they all play full like little kids. The guy with the red hair, the freckles.

[Mario Neal]

Thank you.

[Thomas Dopas]

So I was talking about that show once with my homie from El Paso and he's like, that's my uncle. I'm like, no, it's not.

[Alex Legato]

No.

[Thomas Dopas]

And I was like, that guy with freckles that my grandma watches, shut up. And he pulled a picture. I'm like, oh my God, that's him with no wig on. And it was the same guy. I'm like, oh, my God, he passed away. I'm sorry.

[Alex Legato]

No, he hasn't.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, the guy with freckles.

[Alex Legato]

You did already?

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. Long.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. I didn't know.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, I'm sorry I broke your heart. It's new to me. So just happen.

[Alex Legato]

No, they didn't know he. That he. He died.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, I brought it up. I was like, you see that guy passed away. That's so sad talk.

[Alex Legato]

Everybody.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, I don't speak Spanish.

[Alex Legato]

Every Mexican. Yeah, for sure.

[Thomas Dopas]

I just remember my grandma, everybody laughing like, he's not a kid. I. I was a kid. Like, that's Not a kid. I don't know that. And then the one blonde lady, the blonde judge lady that speaks Spanish, my.

[Alex Legato]

Grandma, just the out of her.

[Thomas Dopas]

She's so mean. She'll put you in your place, though. Hey, man, my grandma put subtitles on sometimes for me.

[Alex Legato]

Like.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, that's what she said. Or they'll come out for like DNA. It's like a. Yeah, it's like a big ass courtroom. Don't let you sock each other. I've seen get socked in the face on that show. That's the only two shows I know.

[Alex Legato]

That's it.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's all I know.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, that's louder also.

[Thomas Dopas]

She watched Just Mad.

[Mario Neal]

So it's like Jerry Springer meets Judge Judy basically, is what I'm hearing.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's not like she lets him duke it out, but sometimes she like, you're a piece of mom. But like not cussing. Yeah, they go hard on that show.

[Alex Legato]

It's a crazy show.

[Thomas Dopas]

It is a crazy show, dude.

[Alex Legato]

And then at the end, she. She always wraps it up with the gifting them like a gito sangu.

[Thomas Dopas]

What's that?

[Alex Legato]

It's a little car where you. Where you can sell sandwiches.

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you shitting me?

[Alex Legato]

No, it's for.

[Thomas Dopas]

She gives them that. I've never made it to the end.

[Alex Legato]

At the victim. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Then I'm sorry your uncle did that. Here's a. Here's a ice cream truck.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

No matter what the case is, she's.

[Alex Legato]

Getting a taco truck after this.

[Mario Neal]

Yeah, that's a tight gift.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's a part of.

[Alex Legato]

You know what?

[Thomas Dopas]

If I had that in my house, I'd ride around that to the kitchen and back.

[Alex Legato]

It'd be kind of hard, Kaya.

[Thomas Dopas]

It would be kind of hard. My homie. This dude rented these like dinosaurs here. Like Jurassic Park. Like robotic, but they look real. But like they're like car size, like this size. A little bigger, but you can get on and ride them. I want so bad, dude. I have no use for it. But like, I would love to be like, hey, come in. I'm on a triceratops going slow as. Walk with me to the kitchen.

[Mario Neal]

One just walks past in the backyard. You don't say anything.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, we all take mushrooms. I just set that to Rome. What? What? Dinosaur? Oh, man. Dude, sometimes we take mushrooms on this show and it goes south so you don't do it anymore. But you said. Was the last time. You said, what two years ago where you could have had one. Have you ever had an actual good experience on them? That was your only time?

[Alex Legato]

No, no, no, no. I did one time old, but that was. That day was worse, bro. I did one in Big Bird. So me and. Me and three homies, we rented a cabin. We wanted to go do shrooms over there in a cabin by the lake and everything, you know? Cool. We get there, like, kind of late. We actually got there early, but we couldn't get the cabin until we find another one. So when we got the cabin, it was late already, bro. Like, talking about, like, probably like 10 it. We. We ate the shrooms or sandwiches and.

[Thomas Dopas]

Then peanut butter sandwiches.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why it's so good then, bro. We. We started chilling, making some music, right? And. And it was me and my. My homie was playing accordion and two other buddies. And then one went to sleep, and then the other one wanted to drink. And we didn't have nothing. All shrooms on shrooms. Yeah. But it didn't hit it yet, you know, like, we were good yet. Like, we were good. So worst decision, bro. We. We. We. We went to look for. For a store.

[Thomas Dopas]

I know in Big Bear there's, like, two stores that sell alcohol.

[Alex Legato]

We got lost, and then when we got lost, the shroom said up there.

[Thomas Dopas]

At night, were you walking?

[Alex Legato]

No, we were driving, bro.

[Mario Neal]

Nowhere.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it was annoying. Yeah. Knowing was a nightmare, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, oh, it sounds like a nightmare.

[Alex Legato]

Like, three hours lost. Imagine. And we were just going around.

[Mario Neal]

What did you have, like a gps?

[Alex Legato]

No, bro. Like, no service, no nothing. It was like. It was like 2, 3 in the morning, you know? Like, it was like in the middle of the night, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like, and one homie's back at the spot still.

[Alex Legato]

One of the homies is sleeping.

[Thomas Dopas]

He thinks you guys are dead. Oh, if you woke up, like, you're gone, doors open.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. No, we get back, and I was still sleeping. Yeah. How'd you make it back? I don't remember, bro. Honestly, it was just a nightmare. It was a nightmare feeling like, to me, I didn't want to be there. I wanted to get out of there. I don't know why I was so much thinking at that time that I had a warrant. Oh, yeah. I don't know why was my.

[Thomas Dopas]

The paranoia. I know I have a warrant.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. Like, I don't know why, bro. Like, I started thinking and overthinking that, like, do I have a wine? Like, have a wine, Damn. I do have a wine. Like, damn.

[Thomas Dopas]

I. I was convinced you. Yeah, I remember just.

[Alex Legato]

Just repeating that all the time as.

[Mario Neal]

You'Re driving Tripping out.

[Alex Legato]

The food was just lost, you know, the. The driving was. It hit on him too. And that was on his own thing, you know, he said he never heard me anything. Yeah, he's lost.

[Thomas Dopas]

Just a.

[Alex Legato]

Scared. Yeah. No. And after that, when I got. When I got back there, when I. When we finally get back to the. To the. To the place, I was still like for an hour still inside the car, like, damn. Thinking of my warren, you know, like, how the. Did I get worn? I decided to just get out. And then I don't remember this much, but they. My homie said that after that I went to the. To the balcony because he had like a little dot for the lake. And then I was just chilling in there like an auto, you know, like, just chilling, watching everything at night.

[Thomas Dopas]

Well, I'm sorry. You only remember the shitty part. Yeah, I heard. I was all peaceful on the water.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Yeah, bro.

[Mario Neal]

So there was no warrant?

[Alex Legato]

No. There was no war. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

You made up a legal paranoia.

[Alex Legato]

No, bro, but this time I remember this like two years ago with my uncles. That was epic, bro. Like, we always laugh about the day because it was just funny, bro. Like. And then at the end, you know, how does she gets you, like, like on your feelings, you know, like, that should make sure you're thinking about everything. Yeah, you think of. You're thankful about everything and you feel so good, you know? Well, same thing happened to him, you know? But when he was finally coming down already, like, I told him, like, what's up? Oh, no. You know what, bro? Something that I want to tell you. Like, this uncle, he likes to sing, right? And we. When he got over annoyed and praying and all this, it was a deal. Please relax, you know, because my. My sister is up there. Like, I don't want to be. To be scared.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, from that story earlier.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he was like, okay, okay, he will start to relax, right? And I start. I grabbed my guitar, bro, and I started jamming. I was like, what's up, people? Like, sing one. You know, like, you get down because he gets down. Like, do you know who Chalino is? Sanchez. He's a big artist in Mexico. Well, whatever he. The way he sings is like, Chalino. I was sing a Chalino song. And he's like, no Chalino song. No, because right now he was so religious, you know, so he didn't want to sing no corridors. And then I start. I was like, okay, wait, I'm. I'm gonna throw you a beat and just get down, bro. This started getting down you should record that. My brother did, bro. My brother recorded a audio, man, because he, he sent that to my, to my, to my sister, you know. He wanted my sisters to hear that, bro. Like, he was getting down, I swear to you. Like something crazy, bro. Like he was just singing.

[Thomas Dopas]

Sing.

[Alex Legato]

He was singing about God, but with my beat, you know, he was going at it and then it was like five minutes of damn. Wow. Like everybody in the room were. Was like, damn, Theo. And then was feeling, he was feeling everything, bro. It was a crazy day for my uncle. At the end, he tells me like, hey, like, you know what, I'm leaving, you know, And I was like, why are you going? He's like, I'm leaving back to my house.

[Thomas Dopas]

I was like, what the.

[Alex Legato]

Like, you live here, you know? And he's like, no, I mean to my, to my house, to Mexico, you know. And I was like, what the. You going to go back to Mexico? He's like, yeah, he started getting his feelings because he's. He's over here with. He has kids over there, you know, and a wife over there. He came to work and so he, he. He got him his feelings, you know, that he misses his kids and all that, you know. So he's like, you know, I'm back. And the funny thing is like. And I was. He doesn't have a car. You know, he didn't have a car at the time. He didn't have a car at the time. And I was like walking and he's like, yeah, I. I can walk in here.

[Thomas Dopas]

Stubborn high ass.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, he was too high. A little bit.

[Mario Neal]

Some forced gumpture, like.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, I guess I'll just. No, but after that he took a nap, I guess and then wore off. Then when he woke up, he was my little cousin in the couch. I guess he woke up and when he woke up, finally, like in the middle of the night, he will come a little cousin. Like he. He asked my little cousin before asking him anything, he gave him a bagel kiss to my, to my little cousin, like. And my cousin was like, what the. And he's like, like, I'm. He thought he gotta die, you know. Oh yeah. He was. What the. That he asked my little cousin like, hey, what was that? You know, like, I'm glad I'm not there, you know, like, come. I love you so much.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, what was his trip like?

[Alex Legato]

He had a baby egg trip. Yeah, definitely try to walk back to.

[Thomas Dopas]

Mexico and thought he died. That's not a mushroom chip I've ever had.

[Alex Legato]

But bro, like Like, I told you, he ate a lot, A lot of shrooms, bro. Like, I, I. I heard what you got to eat is like an 8, right? Like 3.5. So you can have feeling it.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

You know? But, yeah, he had way more than that, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

Definitely.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, he had way more than that. Yeah. No, and. And I don't. I don't know if you remember I told you that the homie was waiting for me in the house, for us to. To all eat. Eat the shrooms, you know? Well, my uncle started getting. He started getting on a. On a mood that he thought that my other homie was a bad person.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, weird.

[Alex Legato]

He was weird, you know? And my other homie, bro, like, my other homie is big, bro. Like, huge, you know? And then me, I started tripping. I was like, what did this? When the, when the shrooms hit on this fool. Damn. Like, I'm gonna stop it. It's gonna be hard for me to stop this food, you know? This. This was huge. And then, like, my uncle will go to him, and he will be like, what are you doing here? He was telling in Spanish, like, over that, like, he would ask him, like. And then my homie would look at me like, what's up with your uncle? It's happened to me before. No, bro, this thing was crazy, bro. And I. I got to the point that I told my homie, like, fool, do me a party, you know? Like, I'm gonna have to separate you guys, you know? So I grabbed my homie and I put him in that g. Like when dogs are fighting. Okay, so when I put this in the garage, bro, like, my uncle was like, yeah, yeah. Like, get out of here. You know, like, still food. Like, it's. It made me feel, like, kind of that way, you know, kind of embarrassed of a homie.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

My uncle wasn't a whole movie dog. Like, my uncle was, like, feeling like. Like he was a good one and he was a bad demon, you know? Like, yeah, like, get this demon out of here. You know? Like, and when he was walking to the garage, he was like, wow. Like, get out of here. You know? Like in Spanish, this. Yeah, he was saying, like, yeah.

[Mario Neal]

You.

[Alex Legato]

Know where you came from? Leave. That's what he was telling you. And then my homie was just like, you know, I waited out at that time, the shrooms didn't hit much of my other homie, you know, so he wouldn't go to the garage, bro. My other homie had a trip to in the garage. That's when I finally wanted to enjoy my. My high. When. When my uncle started kind of going to sleep, I went to the garage, my other home. And then when. When I went to the garage to see what's up my other homie, no other food was having on a good ass trip, bro. Like when I got there, like he was scared. And then the funny thing is the next day he told me. He told me what he was thinking, you know. So I got there and. And then I was. I was kind of cool, you know. So I grabbed my guitar and bro, like I remember this, this is. This. This was probably the crazy thing for me in this trip. When I grabbed my guitar, bro, I started singing some songs and what I was playing like Duffel wasn't liking it. You know, it was making this feel move like a. Like a octopus when you believe, you know. And he wasn't able to tell me, you know, he told me the next day, but right there he wasn't telling me anything. I was like, why is this movie like this? You know, I was just looking at it. I was keep singing it, you know, like, why is this moving like this? And bro, after that like I just. I got. I got up and then I. I grabbed my backpack because I had something in there. And then I wanted to raw join and I put some music in there, bro. And then I started. I started talking to these food like, what's up? We're like, my bad about my uncle. And he's like, no, no food on trip or anything. Well, whatever. The next day he tells me like, nah, f. Like I had a super bad trip. When you came in, he told me that, that he's super a favor of. Of heights. Right? You know, so behind my house there's a Vegas hill. So he's saying that when I got in, he was. He was thinking that I. That I was going to tell him like, you know what, we're going to go and we're going to jump over the hill with his backpacks, with the parachute. You know, it was my backpack. It was my regular backpack. You know, I just went and opened my backpack. And then when he saw me like, oh, this gonna tell me to do that. And then he started that. He started that. He started melting. You know, he started melting like he's one of those. And then like after that he was good. He was being acting normal. Then that when I started playing the guitar again, he got the same feeling of melting and that I wasn't stopping that he really, really wanted to tell me to stop, but he couldn't.

[Thomas Dopas]

Mushrooms Are fun sometimes, man.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

I was just singing. You're dying. You melting into a puddle.

[Mario Neal]

It sounds like a horror comedy movie. Damn near. Everybody goes off into these bad trip.

[Thomas Dopas]

Weird just shoots into everybody's bad trip in the room.

[Alex Legato]

No, but shrooms are crazy, bro. Honestly, like I, I, I feel like, like on a good session of shrooms, like you can let a lot of go.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh yeah, it's a, like a flush.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, it's like a flush of your brain. Yeah, yeah, I feel.

[Thomas Dopas]

Damn, that was a great story. I wish you could animate, dude. Oh, that'd be so fun. Animated. Your uncle melt or your friend melting and your uncle call him a demon. We had some good stories. I was like about mushrooms on this show. That was a good one.

[Mario Neal]

What's the, what's your goals for like the rest of the year?

[Alex Legato]

So right now we're gonna start a tour on April and then until December. So that's gonna be my rest of the year, bro.

[Thomas Dopas]

How many cities do you do or how many shows you do?

[Alex Legato]

We're doing 46 shows. Yeah, 46 shows. And so that's more than one.

[Thomas Dopas]

Like that's like three.

[Alex Legato]

And I think they're adding more. More? Yeah, it's every weekend almost.

[Thomas Dopas]

Or every weekend?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, almost every weekend. So yeah, we're dropping an album too in 420. So we're just gonna be working the album the rest of the year, you know.

[Thomas Dopas]

So 420, you're doing a 10 year? Yep, the 10 year. And then you have the out, what, eight month tour?

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Are you going to Mexico this year?

[Alex Legato]

No, not this year.

[Thomas Dopas]

Okay.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, hopefully next year. At the beginning of next year. Dude.

[Thomas Dopas]

Sick dude. So once again, where can everybody find your music?

[Alex Legato]

Like I'll see at the Everywhere, bro. Spotify. I. Everywhere. Everywhere.

[Thomas Dopas]

That music's play, basically.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

We'll link in the description too, just in case. Cuz I can't spell that. But you said I don't know how to spell it.

[Mario Neal]

Mexican collab would be sick.

[Alex Legato]

Ot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

We're about to go see that fool right now.

[Alex Legato]

That would be cool.

[Thomas Dopas]

The fool's everywhere. So for you guys, new album, new tour.

[Alex Legato]

Good. Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah. I know. Like I'm saying this is. The guy was like, I mean this guy has Olympics. John was telling me about him. You never know. Go out there and do some. You guys dropped on YouTube. Who would have known?

[Alex Legato]

Right? Right.

[Thomas Dopas]

For real, A free platform.

[Mario Neal]

What do you think? What would you be doing right now if like he never posted that? Would it have Just happened anyway the same way or you just be.

[Alex Legato]

I don't know, bro. I always like music, so I feel like when the place would happens, you know, like. Bro, like we don't see it because. Because we from here, we're living in la, bro. Like, it's a pleasure, bro. Like, honestly, like, I feel like it's one of those series that has badass opportunities, you know, for people. Constantly. Yeah, constantly. You know, like the big, big things happen here, bro. And. And all you have to do is be there, you know?

[Mario Neal]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

So if you're here already, that's a.

[Thomas Dopas]

That's one check, mark.

[Alex Legato]

That's one check. More, more, more, you know, and another chance, definitely.

[Thomas Dopas]

So nice, dude.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

100. That's why I wanted my kids to grow up out here.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Mario Neal]

You don't gotta like start by trying to get there to start, bro.

[Alex Legato]

No, if you're good, like, you'll get there, you know, if you're good on.

[Thomas Dopas]

What you want and also work for that.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

A lot of talents and lazy fools that don't do it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly.

[Thomas Dopas]

One other thing to say. Yeah, for nap. Sure. Good. Too damn high off that.

[Alex Legato]

Well, just to make sure you expose your, you know, like if you're good on what you do, expose it. And that's. I feel like that's all what we have to do. Expose what we do. People likes it already.

[Mario Neal]

That's the biggest block for most people is just like putting themselves out there.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. And honestly, I feel like for everybody, bro, like, even for old artists, like, because me, I feel like I consider myself like an old artist. It's been 10 years that we've been. That we've been doing like tours, you know, so it wasn't like this before, like for us, I used to drop an album and does it. People will do the rest. And right now it's not the same, bro. Like, there's more than 20, 000 songs going on platforms every day. Your chances are less for people to listen to your. If you don't show it, you know. So what we gotta do now, to me now is a job. Back then it wasn't. Back then, it was. What I love to do is music. And me, I don't really like doing videos, dancing, I don't know, you know, like, that's a new exposure. You got to do tick tocks. You gotta.

[Thomas Dopas]

Oh, you gotta form my trends and.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. So I feel like social media is new to me. Like I gotta do it because it's part of my job now. You Know, but definitely it's not something that a lot of artists just like, you know, like. But it's a tool now and we have to use it.

[Thomas Dopas]

It's like an obligation.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah, exactly. At this point. Yeah. So pretty much that's the only thing. But we have to do it to. To show it to people, you know, because even though we got 5 million monthly listeners on. On Spotify, like sometimes they wouldn't know that we drop an album and we don't keep saying it.

[Thomas Dopas]

She's saturated too. There's so much out there. You could scroll and be like, well, I like that, man. But I just didn't see it.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Or not everything's shown on your Instagram. You don't see your post or your story. It is. It's not like you have to saturate your like over saturated. You just have to like reminders.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah.

[Thomas Dopas]

Consistent system reminders just not flood people.

[Alex Legato]

Yeah. Not to flip people, just remind reminders like you said. Yeah. Sick.

[Thomas Dopas]

So Spotify will link everything too. Just for everything. Anything else?

[Mario Neal]

Marty, this was awesome. Appreciate you coming through. This was a fun episode.

[Alex Legato]

Bye, brother.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah, do the story. I'm worried about my English. Well, you just told full stories. What are you talking about?

[Mario Neal]

Cinematic, right?

[Thomas Dopas]

Cinematic stories. My uncle, Demon hunter. Oh, what's your Instagram so everybody can follow it?

[Alex Legato]

It's Alex and also le. We.

[Thomas Dopas]

We'll link everything also, guys.

[Alex Legato]

Thank you.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah. Well, anything else you want to say before we get out of here?

[Alex Legato]

Well, just for people to remember that we're dropping an album on 420. April. On 420. Yeah. It drops I believe on the Wednesday before the 420 weekend. Cuz I believe 420 it's on the weekend is.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah.

[Alex Legato]

Sunday this time. So we dropping on the Thursday which is the 17 for the 420 weekend.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah. 417. We'll link everything. New album, new tour starts in April. Working everybody by tick. Oh, we. Yeah, we're gonna link that also.

[Alex Legato]

It's ticket on too. On Ticketon. They can find all the. All the tickets for all the cities too.

[Thomas Dopas]

Yeah. Thanks for being here.

[Alex Legato]

Appreciate it, brother.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah.

[Mario Neal]

Appreciate you bringing this wild avatar glass too.

[Thomas Dopas]

I don't think anyone's ever brought some like that over. We've had some cool rigs here. People brought nothing like that.

[Alex Legato]

Thank you, insane blesser.

[Thomas Dopas]

Hell yeah. Thanks for being here, dude. Marty.

[Mario Neal]

Appreciate you, sir.

[Thomas Dopas]

Alice, thank you for being here, guys.

[Alex Legato]

Thank you, brother.

[Thomas Dopas]

Guys, thank you so much. I appreciate this has been the dope as usual. Podcast have dope, estate.

[Alex Legato]

Perfect.