Episode 49 - Deante' Squared ft. Deante' Hitchcock

Summary

Podcast Summary: Grits and Eggs Podcast - Episode 49: Deante' Squared ft. Deante' Hitchcock

Podcast Information:

• Title: Grits and Eggs Podcast
• Host/Author: Deante’ Kyle
• Description: Deante’ Kyle raw and unfiltered. Talking pop culture, current events, conspiracies and anything else he can think of.
• Episode: Episode 49 - Deante' Squared ft. Deante' Hitchcock
• Release Date: February 4, 2025

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Introduction and Guest Background

In Episode 49 of the Grits and Eggs Podcast, host Deante’ Kyle welcomes his guest, Deante’ Hitchcock. The episode kicks off with a brief musical exchange before transitioning into a more substantial conversation about Hitchcock's journey in the music industry. Hitchcock clarifies his association with Spillage Village, humorously stating, “I am actually not part of Spillage Village. They're my dogs” (03:24).

The Intersection of Fatherhood and Music

A significant portion of the discussion centers around how fatherhood has profoundly influenced Hitchcock's artistry. He reflects, “Any new thing comes with the pros and the cons. Fatherhood turned me up. It put the battery in my back” (12:20). Hitchcock elaborates on the challenges of balancing a demanding music career with the responsibilities of raising a child, emphasizing the shift in his priorities and daily routines.

Impact of COVID-19 on Their Careers

The conversation touches on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their music careers. Hitchcock recounts, “By the time this happened, everything shut down. It was a real depressive time for me” (14:41). The pandemic forced them to cancel planned tours and reevaluate their professional trajectories, highlighting the resilience required to navigate such unprecedented challenges.

Southern Lyricism and Atlanta's Hip-Hop Scene

Kyle and Hitchcock delve into the richness of Southern lyricism, particularly within Atlanta's vibrant hip-hop scene. They discuss the balance between maintaining lyrical integrity and adapting to the prevalent trap music trends. Hitchcock asserts, “If you ain't finna bring no bars to the table, you ain't the same” (24:34), underscoring the importance of skillful wordplay in Southern hip-hop.

Crafting Lyrics and Songwriting

The duo explores the intricacies of lyricism and songwriting. Hitchcock shares his approach to maintaining depth and emotion in his verses, stating, “Music has to make you feel something. That's the goal” (61:10). They discuss the significance of hooks in songs, with Kyle noting, “If you're gonna be wordy, you gotta know how to be simple” (59:44), highlighting the balance between complexity and accessibility in their music.

Collaborations and Dream Projects

Collaborations are a recurring theme, with both hosts expressing admiration for fellow artists and envisioning potential dream projects. Hitchcock reminisces about the Revenge of the Dreamers sessions, describing the synergy among artists: “We were in the same room, everyone had the same goal to make some good music” (32:37). They also discuss hypothetical collaborations, expressing interest in working with R&B acts and other lyrical powerhouses to push the boundaries of their musical expression.

The Legacy and Impact of Their Music

Kyle and Hitchcock reflect on the broader impact of their music on listeners. Hitchcock emphasizes the personal connections his songs have fostered, “Folks hit me up saying, you saved my life” (105:44). This segment underscores the therapeutic and motivational role their music plays in the lives of their audience, reinforcing their commitment to creating meaningful art.

Reflections on Great Rappers and Influences

The episode features a passionate discussion about legendary rappers and their influence on current artists. Highlighting figures like Jay-Z and Wale, they debate lyrical prowess and the evolution of hip-hop. Hitchcock shares, “Nobody can rhyme Enemy in Hennessy that many times” (96:16), praising the technical skill of established artists while also highlighting the need for originality and emotional depth in modern rap.

Notable Quotes

• Hitchcock on Fatherhood: “Fatherhood turned me up. It put the battery in my back” (12:20).
• Kyle on Lyricism: “If you're gonna be wordy, you gotta know how to be simple” (59:44).
• Hitchcock on Musical Impact: “Folks hit me up saying, you saved my life” (105:44).
• Kyle on Southern Hip-Hop: “No, bro, it's some motherfuckers down here really putting it down with the lyrics” (26:32).
• Hitchcock on Songwriting: “Music has to make you feel something. That's the goal” (61:10).

Conclusion

Episode 49 of the Grits and Eggs Podcast offers an in-depth and candid conversation between Deante’ Kyle and Deante’ Hitchcock, exploring the intersections of fatherhood, artistry, and the evolving landscape of Southern hip-hop. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful reflections, the episode provides valuable insights into the challenges and triumphs of maintaining lyrical integrity while navigating the demands of a music career. Whether you're a longtime listener or new to the podcast, this episode serves as a compelling narrative of dedication, creativity, and the enduring power of music to transform lives.

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Note: Timestamps refer to the conversation segments and are indicated in parentheses throughout the summary.

Transcript

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. Woke up in the morning and to.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

God be the glory Thankful for another day to tell my story Put my.

[Deontay Kyle]

Opinions in the universe and let them.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Orbit I'm from the dirty south with a dirty mouth my knee orbit miss things things on me like a Norbit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Had to refuse them cause my bitch.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

No rest fusion she gorgeous as I.

[Deontay Kyle]

Dab my sons up and kiss my.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Daughter forehead tell them we gonna get this money to my POC Morbid remember living in apartments now we playing mortgage you ain't got to like a regardless baby I'm blessed and I keep that blick with me. We like grits and eggs as you sip your coffee flick your cigarette and let a V. Yeah, we back. Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, we back. Grits podcast. I'm your host, Deontay Kyle. But who's behind the camera? Big ice cup. Oh, the ice in the building, baby. Yeah, we got it in here. As always, deontay deontay kyle.com for all emails. 657234 eggs. If you want to call in deont.com we got new merch.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

A movement without a plan is just a trend. You know what I'm saying? Real civil rights of you. Yeah, yeah, I know everything. Everything I do from now on in black and white. Look, look. Dollar sign. Grizzly podcast. February 8th. By the time this l. You got.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Two days, nigga, on that cash out.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah. Go blow a bag on this, man. Drive your ass all the way to Jackson. Catch a bus, catch a Uber, walk Black History month. Walking to Jackson. March, nigga. March, huh? Make Martin proud, huh? Really, really be about that. You be talking about boycott. Boycott all transportation beside the feet. Pete and Pat. Look, if you can't. If do you have to come. Look, if you still want to support but you can't afford the merch and you can't make it to the show. Grizzly next podcast patreon. $8 a month. $8. That's all it is. $8 today. Deontay squared.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

I mean, you done seen the man rapping his ass on. Yeah, you know where he from.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Hey, be south side, huh?

[Deontay Kyle]

He started in New Atlanta Tuesday. He was really giving y'all the bars every time. We got Valentine's Day coming up. We got a little special something dropping for you.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We dropping all year.

[Deontay Kyle]

Spillage village.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, yeah, huh?

[Deontay Kyle]

Grammy nominated. Talk to these folk, man. We got Deontay Hitchcock in the building. Come on, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Deontay squared.

[Deontay Kyle]

We really went. Deontay.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

Know what the going on, man. Know what going on what's up with you, bro?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I can't call it. Everybody say enjoying the day. Glad to be here, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm glad you're here. Glad to be here, bro. You know, quick little rundown. You can give us a little quick biography and then you do any plugs you want to do real quick.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What crazy is, folks did be asking me about this. You had just said in the intro too. I gotta put it on record. I am actually not part of Spillage Village. They're my dogs. Yeah, my dog.

[Deontay Kyle]

We.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We talked about that on Twitter and he was just bullshitting around with it. That my dog. But I'm not officially you. I mean, shout out to Spillage Village, though, my nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

You might well be. You one of the best. You one of the best.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Them some rapping ass, man. Shout out all of them. Got them. But yeah, you know what I'm saying. Born and raised. Big gry, baby. You know what's going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that's how I like putting words together, bro. That's it. Bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Bro, you one of the best doing it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Appreciate that.

[Deontay Kyle]

The conversation we've been having. Of course, you know, you called it. I'm your namesake.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

So, you know, we gotta be locked in with you and shit. It ain't nobody really doing it better right now. Especially like, we talking about young and still establishing themselves, putting the words together.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Appreciate that shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

You that man, bro. You the man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And I had a lot of, like, people that helped me get to this point, you know what I'm saying? Not only, like, career wise, but just life wise, you know what I mean? And I gotta think in that aspect. Like, my uncle started me with the music. Uncle Marlon. He started me. Putting me onto that. He was writing my raps when we first started. I ain't even. It wasn't even no that. I just picked up like, 11, 12 type.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

About to say Real Deal.

[Deontay Kyle]

N. He the real.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on. When you said that, child. Like, hold on, man. Come on. I. With Shad. Come on, man. But yeah, n. I about to say my uncle was putting that together for me. We had a group, whole little group. You mean called the Tainted Click.

[Deontay Kyle]

Okay.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah. I was Dirty D. Dirty D and Nasty Noon. Unhygienic, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like just some dirty ass.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That started all of this, you know what I'm saying? Through the span of, like, life, I had a whole bunch of, like, English teachers throughout my life who helped me, like, really fall in love with just literature and, like, putting shit together in the way that I do it now shout out to Ms. Moss, Ms. Zachary, Ms. Ruffin Johnson, Mr. Antoinetti. I feel like I'm missing somebody. I'm gonna be mad about it. Oh, no, no, no. Ms. Walker. And they said, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, man. Hey, look, the power of a teacher, bro, it really go undermined. One of the things that made me fall in love with just writing in literature in general, it would come from a teacher, like, just recognizing something and then just pouring into you so, you know, as quiet as kelp. We know, we know all you rap niggas. Teacher said you ain't gonna be. We know, we know they said you weren't gonna go nowhere.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Terry, that man should have been fired, boy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Nah, that's a bad.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Damn.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, bro, that's a bad teacher, bro. Tell me ain't gonna be shit.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You gonna pay my tax dollars for it, nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, man, look, bro, that nigga Biggie was lying when he said that, man. Man, I ain't going to lie. New York teachers are different, man. Look, as far as, like. As far as, like, you from Atlanta. Yeah, this. How did that environment shape you as an artist? Like, because if your uncle starting you out with the rapping, do that help you fall in love with it? And then the environment just kind of pour into, like, it informed the messaging.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, for sure. All right, so, like, all right, so I think most got down, you know, black kids got down. We fall in love with hip hop early. You know what I mean? Even if we don't know it's love at the time, it's like, nigga, I enjoy this thing. Like, I enjoy outkast. I enjoy. Even if it's just my uncle playing the shit, my pops at the time, like, playing this shit, or my mom, whatever the case, just riding in the car, it's like, I like this shit. Shit sound good. So I already had, like, an affinity, you know what I mean, for the music, but it wasn't something that I actually saw myself doing. And even at the time when we started doing it, I still didn't see myself doing it. Like, I said, it took going and actually learning more in school and actually being like, oh, okay, this actually cool. They coexist together, the music and being able to put the words together in this type of fashion. It's like, all right, cool, cool, cool. This help. So that shit actually helped me build it up. But I always had the love for it, you know what I mean? Even if I didn't know it type shit. It wasn't nothing that we necessarily was introduced to. We was just around it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. I mean, it's always been a part of what we do. I think it was important for you, though, to emphasize education as a part of like. Because you are real wordsmith. Like, I was. I was watching the freestyle the other day where you was just going like, you started off w. Heavy out of the.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And I was like. I was like, love alliteration, bro. But it's something so specific about it where it's like, this is a literary device, bro. You don't know this without some information or education on literature and just having a love for words in general. But then two, it's like you would feel like just using one letter would limit you, but you could put such a message using one.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's hella words, bro. Like, first off, shout out to Cassius. That's a feature called Red Eyes. Y'all go play that. Shout out to my boy. But yeah, like, it's just too many words to choose from, bro. Like, right, we got words. You can spell cell five different ways. Like, nigga, what the fuck sale? And all that English is stupid, bro. So you got words. I got down. Start with that. Don't even make sense. Like knife. Knife should be an end. Pterodactyl got a pee on it. It's like we talk about it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Do the knowledge on the KN. Just saying Col. Yeah, bro. That make no sense. Makes no sense at all. That made no. No possum. Makes no sense. Why we got just threw the O like it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'mma him up with this one. Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm going to go crazy. Watch this.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Like, it's a fun. The VP don't make no sense.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But n. Bro, like, this just fun, dog. Like, and I. Like I said I was telling you before, I don't do it as much anymore and I need to get back to it. But I love reading. I mean, Harry Potter had me in the chokehold when I was a kid. I mean, come on, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, I think. I think we was all like, really hooked on the Harry Potter and then the movies that came with it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Crazy, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Top. No, take it back. I f to say top five franchises ever. But I'm wild. It's not that, but phenomenal.

[Deontay Kyle]

I don't know. Top five, like, book to film.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we can go with that.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. Book the film for sure. Would you say, like, even when you was like. Like you said, even when you was doing with your uncle, it's like. It's even though he writing it for you. When did you start pinning it yourself?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I really, I can't remember like the specific date type shit, but I know. All right, so I used to play football when I was a kid and then one day I just realized I wasn't gonna be taller than five'five so I just stopped that shit. Yeah, but I used to be really, really competitive in that aspect. And like cuz the dude was writing with me. No, he used to write his own shit. And he was like. Might be two years older than me maybe when I can't remember. Whatever case. But he was older than me. So I always like looked like, okay, I'm trying to get them out. Wrap him on some.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

At this point. But I knew if I'm not writing my own shit, I ain't never got no claim to that. I can't say, yeah, I got you on it. Even if I performed it better. You know what I'm saying? Performance is a very, very important aspect of what we do. Type shit. But when we talking about like real MCs type vibe, you can't really say you that unless you writing it yourself. And I'm saying even at the time, if I didn't, I didn't look at it specifically like that. Cause I'm not thinking about the whole MC shit, but I am thinking like, I want to be the better one in the group type vibe. So it came to that. It was like, I just wanna figure out if I can do this shit myself.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And yeah, just turn it in that shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Are you doing the full one with that shit?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Type shit. You know what I mean? Like shout out to ump.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, shout out to ump. Man, I. One of the things that I really like because if people just only listen to you freestyle, they don't know how like much emotion and like just like personal experience. I. I would almost say like a lot of your albums or your just your bodies of work in general is like time stamps of where you are. And there was a pivot when you became a father.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And as a father myself, it was like really, I resonate with it a lot because it's like I know them new dad feelings. Yeah, I know that. I know them relationship feelings for real. Like where it's informed by like, if I'm gonna talk real, I gotta talk about what I'm living for real. But it's also like extremely relatable. So even though you are a wordsmith, you are a very like present artist. And like I'm. This is reflective of who I am and where I'm at right now. Even in how you attack social media, how do you feel like being a father informed you as an artist? Did it. Is it a. Is it a growth or is it just, like, a pivot into a different direction?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I think both. For real. For real. Like, any, like, new thing. You mentioned shedding a lot. Even in the convo when we was talking, like, before the mics cut on type shit. I feel like it's the good and the bad, you know what I'm saying? There are certain parts of me that had to die when I became a dad, but there are other certain parts of me that were. I never knew about. Yeah, I mean, I was sitting in the darkness this whole time that you came to light with that type of transition. So I think the music has to reflect that in any aspect of life. Like, whatever got down. Big moment, a big transition that I'm going through. It always comes with the pros and the cons. I mean, fatherhood turned me up. It put the battery in my back, bro. Like, it was a point in time. All right, so Covid happened what, 2020. That shit was, like, really? Around my birthday, shit shut down. We had a show with Mareeba, and that night we went to, you know, where Jack's Pizza and all that used to be. We was at Jack's Pizza, and they shut down the first NBA game right after the show. My birthday is. It was either the day before or it was that day. I can't remember, but I'd say we had been on six tours before that point. We was getting ready to drop the album. We ain't had no album. I was just a whole bunch of mixtapes, all that. So we done did the whole tour shit. Now we getting ready to do our first headline tour. Whole world shut down. Everything. It was like that sent the. Into a real deal tailspin. It was a real depressive, like, time for me type. And to go from that straight into parenthood, once everything started to open back up, I was. I ain't gonna cap you down. I ain't never been more excited than when Shota told me she was pregnant. But then once the reality set in, it was like, damn, that takes. And it. It's gonna require different things for me. Like, time. Time don't exist no more, bruh. Like, especially when he was first in this motherfucker, it was like, dawg N, I can't be out all night. I can't just have. I gotta have some type of, like, structure to my life at this point like n. If I say I'm gonna be here at 4 o'clock, I gotta be there at 4 and I need you to be there at 4 to all that type shit. It's like everything gotta work and function smooth. Cause nigga, I gotta go back home and take care of my loan type shit. So like we had a tour that was lined up literally right after he was born. He was born on January 27. The tour was supposed to start on February 2 that time. So I couldn't even go. So all that, she was like, okay, this is gonna require, it's gonna require a different set of like choices and a different type of intention because you know what I'm saying beforehand. I'm invincible.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I ain't really got nothing nobody got an answer to about my decisions in my life. All that it's like I can make. I ain't wearing no seatbelt in the car. If I die, die, it, I don't care. Like it's a fact though, it don't matter. Cause now I can do whatever the fuck I want to. And like my schedule as an artist too, like I haven't really had to have any type of like really like blocked out schedule in a long ass time. I've been doing music since I dropped out of college and I've been blessed enough to like support myself off of that. So my schedule's been really, really sporadic at times. I mean, as an artist. So out of that shit was really a wake up call for a nigga. For real. That shit changed a lot.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think you don't hear that, you don't hear that like in art, in especially rappers about. You'll hear a brag about being a dad, but not detailing the rigorousness of being a present father. Now me never, you know, like I had never had like any ascension into fame or notoriety. So I just been being a dad since I was like 21.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

So the sleeplessness and like, bro, you just like, you don't even remember what it's like when you could do whatever you want. It's just like all you know at some point is like if I'm needed, I'm there. And that should become an ethic.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

But also I will say this, it, it does inform how you're approaching everything too because even though you are assigned to rca, you have a very independent field. Because the grind now like I'm doing this, it's bigger than me now. It's for gotta be this, for my last name, gotta be. And I say this Anytime that an artist will reach out to me, which it happened a lot. Like, how do I. What strategy should I take to attack social media? Because nigga think I got like a secret sauce. Like, I got social media figured out. But I tell them, like, go to Deontay Hitchcock page and watch how he promote his music. Because you don't. It ain't no budget. The phone. You even hold the phone in your face and just rapping and it's like you got your jit with you and you just doing your thing. But you done really like figured out how to like make quality content without putting out. Just using the resources you got. Yeah, and it's like. But it's noticeable, bro. And it's important because I think that there's a. There's a certain aspect that TikTok brought to it where it was like, just keep doing the same thing over and over and over until it strike. But I think you've always found very creative ways to promote your music and your verses without it being redundant and repetitive. Like, I'm always interested to see what you're doing. And then there is a certain, like the passion, the passion come through in your verses. It's certain grit to it. Seeing your child with you, like, to me so important, bro, because it's like, yeah, I know that, bro. I know that. Like, I'm not gonna. I, bro. People will invite me places, like, oh, we got this studio space, we want you to come record it. My son with me. And they'd be like, who, you know, my son a little bit taller than me. So they be like, who this grown man? Like, my child. My child, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

He's 36 year old in here.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's exciting to be able to like, I just want you with me. You know what I'm saying? And I think it's important in the aspect of artists to be honest about like, who they are and not like shy away from the details. Because I think the bravado don't lean to fatherhood. You gotta be. You gotta be single and willing to do whatever. Like even canceling on the tour. That's such a. That's integral, bro. You know what I'm saying? You could be thinking career first, but you thinking future first. Like, shit, I ain't never gonna get experienced the first days of my child again, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And that was the whole thing, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Don't get me wrong. Like, there was certain days I was like, damn, did I make the right decision? Did I? You know what I Mean, out of that type of shit. But, bro, I think with fatherhood, you know what I mean? Granted, I'm only like three years in. I think you see the fruits of that, you know what I mean, as you keep going down the line, you know what I mean? So that's different. I don't know, bruh. Like, all of this shit, bruh, the whole thing, bruh, is messy. All of it, from fatherhood to the even going down to the promoting on social media. All this shit, bro. Like, most of that shit. Not even most of that. All of that shit that you seeing now. And it's like me posting every day. I'm doing it day by day and going. And it's like, it's kind of allowed me to fall back in love with the thing that I was in love with in the first place. You know what I'm saying? Whenever you get. Whenever your hobby kind of like becomes a job and you put X and O's and numbers with it, it take a little bit of the goddamn passion out of it. Cause it's like, shit, nigga. Now it's like there's something that's attached to it. It's like, I need this to survive, nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

I got this.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Pays my bills. So it's not as fun as it used to be, because it's necessary at that point. You know what I mean? But, yeah, I'm trying to get down, really just fall back in love with the dogs. Like when my uncle started me doing it and when I started to do it on my own, like, right now, myself really, like, damn, I really like doing this shit, bruh. You know, I'm saying once you get into a certain position and it's other people, like, whether they funding you, whether they helping you do this shit, they start to expect, like, okay, you know what I'm saying? We need album got to be out now. We got. We need a hit. We need all of this. And it's like, damn, bro. I just really. I miss having fun with this shit. Whatever the nigga Drake say, moment I start having fun with, I be done with. And it's real. Cause it's like, once you stop having fun with it, folks can tell. And at that point, it's like, nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

Well, you just found it in like, okay, this is a hit. It's formulaic. This is the hit. This the type of beat I need for the hit. I gotta do this. And what. What? That beat is like 12 words or less.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Like, all that set up, the formula, all that shit. It's like, you know what I'm saying? Don't get me wrong. I think rap music, shit, music in general has allowed a lot of people to find a means to an end where they wouldn't have had one before, you know what I mean? So shout out to whoever doing it for that reason type shit. I can't take nothing away from that. But at the same time, don't get me wrong, like, I got bills to pay, right? I am in it with the. I want to say expectation, but the intent to get paid for what I think that I deserve, what I'm worth, what I work for, but that's not. That's not the purpose of it, right? You feel me? I feel like these are timestamps in my life. Like the last album that we put out. I want my son to be able to play that shit when he's going through a similar situation, when it's time for him to have his kid. It's like, you know what I'm saying? Me and your mom's relationship, we definitely made it. We definitely made it. But we had our ugly days just as much as we had our good ones, right? You feel me and you gonna go through the same shit too. And I mean, when you approach that, come talk to me, come forward with me, we gonna have a conversation, we gonna figure it out, and I'm gonna help you whatever way I can.

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't gonna lie though, bro. Like, hearing how vulnerable you was about, you know, the thing is, I think the expectation of a rapper because it's commercial, you know what I'm saying? The commercialization of hip hop lends it to me and, like, everything gotta be good. And I think the most important part of the album to me was that, like, you talk about, like, the ebbs and flows of relationships. Even when these babies come like you in your mind, you think it's gonna be a fairy tale. In reality, that shit hard, bro, because they changing, bruh. I done went through this shit like, three times. I'm like, damn, bro. Finally somebody made an album. Well, I can, like. I can hear what I'm going through in the music. And not. It's just like, fuck my baby mama. Like, bruh, it ain't that, bro. I wanna be with.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But, nigga, it's hard, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's hard. And then you like it. Add an extra layer when you bring a child into it, you know what I'm saying? And I think as men, too, I think it's acceptable for us to take our career over our family, like, well, he just trying to get some money to provide for the family. But it's like, hey, man, I mean, the presence is. The presence is the most important part. You know what I'm saying? Like, shit. Like, you in here, bro. You see my kids comfortable. They come in here, they say, hey, they what's up? Cause it's like the presence there. Like, I know I'm safe.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

They know their father. Yeah, they know you're comfortable.

[Deontay Kyle]

Exactly. So I think more than anything, it's like, it's. It's two things, right? The fatherhood part resonate with me too, but also like, man, know where you from when you start rapping.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

So you can't. Can't mistake that.

[Deontay Kyle]

You can't mistake that. And it ain't even about the bravado or the trap or the nothing. It's just like, bro, no, I know smart niggas from downhill, they get in the mix, but they also got a good head on their shoulders. And I got a. And I got a goal in the passion, and. And I'm doing all of them simultaneously. And it's like, you. Hey, bro, I'm glad we see our name.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You say, come on, Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, go on, man. My boy, really? My boy. Like, we really. You know, I'm your name. Say you mine. Shit, I couldn't make it right all.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

The deontay around the world, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

Come on. You talking about that's. I mean, that's f though, bro. Like, I think one of the things that is particularly, like. I don't know, it just stick out to me a lot. It's like, bruh, niggas do not put a lot of. I think the southern part of it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think the southern lyricist is like the thing of a past where it's just like, now we just known for, like, this thing, like, we just known for, like, turning up and it's like, no, bruh, it's some motherfuckers down here really putting it down with the lyrics. That's why I made the Southern alchemy thing. Like, bro, we gotta highlight niggas that's out here. Like, really? Niggas that could get on the alchemist beat go crazy because people was talking about, like, people was mentioning certain artists. I'm like, no, nigga, I think you missed the fact that I said an alchemist beat. You gotta rap if you ain't finna bring no bars to the table. Like you. If you ain't really skilled in this thing that we love. The reason why we fell in love with Wayne was The bars. If you ain't skilled in this thing, bro, I'm not thinking about you, bro. You can't rap on no Alchemist beat, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But the thing is, for being from here down, like, I feel like we've seen a lot of people who can exist in both of those spaces. I mean, even when I'm thinking about, you know what I'm saying? Like, we are known for being goddamn super trapped, super party, super high, that type of shit. But there's certain people who can exist in both of them space. Like nigga 2 chain got the best verse on Mercy. He on that Big Sean Autumn, niggas and shit like, bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

And he inspired the whole. He inspired the whole concept because he was on Alchemist beat with Larry June and he was holding it down. But anybody that ever listened to, like, if you listen to Cody and Cowboy, just listen to the intro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What are we talking about, bro?

[Deontay Kyle]

That's a lyrical, bro. Go listen to so help me God. Go. So help me God. Go listen to Vampire. Tell me that's not a lyrical, bro. And he very astute. Yeah, he's an intelligent. And where he from?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Southside. Okay, okay, Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

Okay, Come on, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But I have all that shit. It's like, bruh, I can do the trap shit because you know what I'm saying, n live that life where I'm from, I can rap charismatic out of this shit. It's like bruh out of the variables. Like matter. When you mod on the rapper. You put a rapper in a lab, you gonna sprinkle all that shit in on some powerful girl shit, bruh. But yeah, him, everybody say, going back to Luda, Luda got the same bag. It's like I could talk to the hoes. I go crazy with that. I could jump on anybody featured, spank that motherfucker, spike them, bruh. I can make a solid album. Exactly. Creative, all that shit. It's like, bruh, I feel like Atlanta for a long time has had all of those things, you know what I mean? Like, I know the. I guess the picture that's painted of the city now is like mostly leaning towards, like, the trapping out of that shit. But those same artists that were cut from that cloth to the artist I was talking about, prior still exist and we still here. I mean, I feel like music changes like every seven to eight years anyway. Like, you start to see got down go a different way. Yeah. Because too much of one thing leans it back to the other way. Exactly. Pendulum.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, it depends.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But Atlanta is just so happened to Be been at the forefront of that for, like, the last 20. I'll say. 20 years. Yeah, like.

[Deontay Kyle]

Well, that's the thing about TI though. TI is the forefather. Like, the face of trap music. Yeah, but this a lyrical, bro, for sure. I mean, count them out. Go listen to an intro. That boy barred up him. He do the traditional intro, straight bars.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

No hook, and go crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

And go crazy, crazy. And if we want to talk about lyricism, and we talking about Southern lyricism.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on. Who you finna say? Come on? Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm gonna say you. I'm gonna say you, because I want to know what that Revenge of the Dreamers three sessions was like.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy. I was gonna say Young dro. Shout out to Young dro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, man, we. No, come on, listen.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, come on, come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

We was doing the top five. We was discussing the top five. Atlanta. We'll get that one, man drove Mana.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

P is shouting.

[Deontay Kyle]

Bro. That man is the king.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Like, passion fruit, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

That said the Chevy Blue light world win.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

See through Chevy. Little buddy set my rain car.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

The 800 Benz. Look, this ain't the Sonic. What are you talking about? That man different, bro. He said he had a man in the trunk that. Just talking about the bass going crazy. He foolish with it. I think he. He wanted the people that made like, the flamboyance of the city. Like. Yeah, we know like that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

They just a little black boy, white boy swag move me and all this. It was the stupid fruity sweat.

[Deontay Kyle]

Exactly. It's a. I remember a in jail. Like the said he had an underwater gun. He shoot you with a sharks be. I was like, okay, that be listening. That drove up. He really. He. He really got the best thing smoking going in his head right now. But it's like the say, like, future, like, impossible and make it sound so good.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Painting pictures, bruh. It is vivid. Like, you can see that in your head, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Exactly.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You're a secret agent.

[Deontay Kyle]

Always talking about. He speak ratchet. He a different type of bro. What you was gonna say to be on the water. No, look, he was battling for suits, bro. I had put my suits up on this. Cause we in the cell all night. He wanted to win. And. And. And, bro, look, he in the cell rapping all night. And I'm like, no, but he really fire. He has an eight. Listen, dog, I had. I had four suits left. I put all four on him to make eight. And I was like, bro, you didn't eat either. No, no, no. We was up in there we was two trays a day. You know, Douglas county don't even get no sandwich, just two tray a day. So I said, bro, I said, bro, tomorrow you gotta win that battle, bro. We up. I said, if you win, though, we finna eat good in this. We got all the, we got all the goddamn sides. We ain't got enough suits. Look, bro, that told that. I got an underwater gun, I shoot you with a sharks be. I said, yeah, we won that one.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We eat.

[Deontay Kyle]

We finna eat.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Valhalla, we going. We straight, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think I, I, I think he a personification, though.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, you got to be from Atlanta to understand like this in Atlanta.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Cuz we don't even roast the same down here. Say any tr. Real the way DRO Rap is the way roast, they'll say anything.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What the. Did you even pull that?

[Deontay Kyle]

The funniest shit I ever heard. There's a say, you know. Shut your cocoon pie head ass. That don't make sense, but it's funny, bro. But with them, like, that's a very, you know, Dreamville is very like Southern lyrical powerhouse. Right? And you, you and them sessions.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know what I'm saying? Like, what was that experience like for you? Like, is it, Is it. Did you feel like it's an iron, sharp, iron type situation? Yeah. Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right. So the crazy thing is like, so I can't remember the exact day. I know it was like January of that year type. It's probably January 2018, if I'm not mistaken. They, they had announced the first golden tickets and all this. And they announced they were gonna be in the city. Out of that, I ain't getting no ticket. The first day, I was like, these in my backyard. Ain't saying. Ain't nobody told me nothing. Now that I know all these, like, I know J, Earth gang, Black, all these that got their tickets here. I'm like, I bet. So that day, I remember sitting down, I wrote like 10 verses. I was like, yeah, you gonna feel it. This everybody type. The next day I got my ticket. Literally the next day it was like, all right. I took that as a sign. Like, it was like, bro, no matter what the happens with anybody else, no, keep doing what you do and the universe gonna reward that. You know what I mean? If I would have sat down and I didn't write them 10 verses that day, man, I got no ticket, you.

[Deontay Kyle]

Know what I mean?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

So I took it as that type of sign. But actual sessions themselves, bro, that Imagine got down being in this, we in this Recording. It's like we in an even, like, smaller room type shit. We did ptsd, the song that made it, and we look like a closet. I talk about, like, 10 of us in. That nigga was holding the fan, sitting in the corner, holding a little fan. And bruh, it's hot as 10 in that bit, going crazy. Cam Obi was sitting at the computer going crazy, making a beat. And we back there just trying to figure it out. But the next door is Ti Cole. Swiss beats go down the hallways. Ari, Lennox, Jid, whoever, the wale, everybody in the same building you just keep mousing on. It's like magic. Real deal magic, bro. Because everybody in here with the same goal just make some good. I didn't feel like it was. No, I'm saying my uncle got us. Not the same uncle, but he got the same. It was like when ego steps into the room, God leaves. It's like, bruh, wan. No ego in that was just in that. Like I said, Ti Tiana did everything. Everything he. And that with folks he probably don't know from a can of paint. Making music.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's like, bro, the goal is just to make a fire song. Whatever the come from it, it's good. It's good. If it's not, I'm gonna go to the next room and try it again. Everybody was in there on the same type of time, so it felt like the Iron sharpens iron type shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. I think for me, the idea, like, we ain't gonna be no dead horse, but the concept album for me is just, like, from a fan perspective. And then I think the closest thing we get to that is Revenge of the Dreamers, because it's like, you could see it in it, like, everybody just want the best product. We ain't worried about who on it. If you got the better verse, then that's the verse that go. It don't matter if a nigga know you. If. If you outrap. If you outrap Ti in this motherfucker, guess what?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You gone on the project.

[Deontay Kyle]

And the thing is, is, like, similar to what you were saying before about, like, your passion turning into your career, I feel like even in a situation like that, tip probably like, bro, I just want to come in here and rap without the. I didn't did everything, bro. Like, I don't. I don't have to go through the ringer. So, like, I'm back to, like, rapping for the love of this shit again. And then you mentioned, like, getting back to the space of the love again. Like, I think what we so critical of a lot of times is, like, outsiders and, like, commentators, so to speak, is that we're critical of the people that we feel. Like, you don't love this shit. Like, you phoning it in, bro. Like, I know it ain't no love in this album. It's a playlist. Like, I want to hear a conceptual album. I want you to put your emotions and your feelings into it. And even though Revenge of the Dreamers sounded like it was a compilation of artists just doing their art at the best possible level, like, it didn't even have to be the concept. The concept is, like, we all some rapping ass niggas, and we f to make a rapping ass album for our rapping ass fans, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I don't think people even going into, like, the creation process, I don't think niggas had to worry about the possibility of what you just saying. Like, it just being. This is gonna be a playlist album type shit because niggas had such such a, like, reverence and respect for Cole. It's like, I know you're not gonna put out no bullshit like that, right?

[Deontay Kyle]

Right.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We coming into this knowing who's at the. Who's spearheading this whole thing. It's like, all right, bruh. We know this finna be fire. We know we all fire. And we know he gonna make sure whatever it turns into is gonna be amazing. It's gonna represent that type shit. Nigga, we was in there one day. It was me, shmin, buddy. It was a whole bunch of people in that room. But the room is set up to the point where it's like, the door is right here, but it's a space behind the door. So if the door open, you can't see who's sitting behind that. Why is Chris Bosh sitting behind the door? Chris Bosch. Sit back there making beats. Making beats. I was. Oh, yeah, bro. Yeah, bro. Yeah. This ain't real, bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's. I think I would ask you, though. It gotta be. It gotta be like a real. You know what I'm saying? Every rapper's supposed to feel like they. That.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

But to be invited to that session, you gotta be like, man, I'm dead. I'm really. I knew I was. I knew I was him, but, boy, I'm him. I'm in here.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That, like, I compared to, like, going to the league, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? You play. You play sports with your folks that you grew up with. Type aau. That type of Vibes at the school, Whatever the case, you know what I'm saying? You got like two or three of them that, you know, gonna make it to that next level and go to the league type. And it's like. But once you get to the league, everybody that.

[Deontay Kyle]

Exactly.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We all that. So who really that. And it's like.

[Deontay Kyle]

I bet it's one of them situations.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, bruh. It's like you can't step in here feeling like you step into it. Definitely feeling like you that. But you can't step into it with, like, just a arrogance about it. Like, y'all everybody in this go, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Everybody. Everybody in this go. Everybody got different styles.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Everybody.

[Deontay Kyle]

Because, like, your style ain't Buddy style ain't J style ain't Earth game way of doing things. And it damn sure ain't nothing like what Wale bringing to the table. And then cold. Just cold is cold. You know, you gotta be a dog. I. I remember watching some of those documentaries, and. Cause I was like, damn, Buddy on damn near all the songs, but it was like he was present.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

He was in that, like, same way we talking about New York. That energy was electric. Like, he going in the room, like, all of us, for the most part, we sitting down, we writing. And Buddy coming at a. Off the little Gullah. Gullah type. He. And that. The beat playing. He just saying the hook, top of his lungs. Like, he just walk in the room. It's like, oh, yeah, I got something for this. Go crazy. It's like actually counter fire. Go put that.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything he just did, it's one of them. Like, you done caught you a zone. Yeah, I know as a rapper, like, how often do it hit you where just like. Like, you. You just cool, and you ain't thinking about rapping. And then bars just start hitting, hitting, hitting.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

So I got, like, words going through my head all day type, right? But I think at this point, I, like, trained it up. So I ain't never really. I ain't never really wanted to have to, I guess, rely on inspiration type. Because, I mean, I know that coming and go and it could be fleeting, but me and some of my partners, this is probably like, right after the pandemic started, we started doing, like, a verse a day. It's like, just to make sure. You mean on the technical aspect that just come, you know? I mean, why are you comparing? It's like, y'all will never hear the bad that came from that. Because I ain't gonna put it out, you know what I mean? It's like, if you go to a new home, a model home that they building type shit, we turn the water on and that motherfucker get brown. You know what I'm saying? You gotta let that shit flow for a little bit. You get all the stupid shit out. You get all the dirty shit out. But then once that motherfucker clear and it start coming, y'all gonna hear all of that shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's what we putting it out.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's like, just to keep doing it. Cause I know that every time that I catch inspiration, my life might not mirror that same thing. I might not be able to write. I might be on tour. I might not have the same goddamn access to a studio, whatever the case is. Like, so just trying to make sure. I make it a habit to do it every day. So even if the inspiration ain't there, I still got from when it was that I can get now you.

[Deontay Kyle]

I mean, hey, they real, though, because we. Bro, we just talked about that, bro. Like, we having more guests. You know what I'm saying? And. But the original formula is what got us here. It's just me and him. It just me camera in there. He ad living doing his thing from behind the camera. And I remember one of we was like, when we started the Patreon, somebody had messaged me, and they was like, man, when are we gonna get you just back on the camera? And I said, damn, the guests are cool, but we gotta crank it up. So we got a guest on Saturday, Sunday, we gotta record a dolo. It's like, the more successful you get, the more work you gotta do, and you gotta be prepared for that. It's easy to say, like, because we don't have some bad episodes. We didn't have some episodes. We just, like, this ain't coming out, bro. We got to scrap him. I'd have been in the midst of an episode.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Talking crazy. Big cat. Like, wrap this up some. We'll review the next day. Like, man, we can't put that out. But it's, like, necessary. It's necessary, but I don't understand why. Like, there's an aspect of, like, even in podcasting, you know, there's an art form to talking. You know what I'm saying? If you're gonna be good at it, you gotta do it a lot. That's just the fact of it. Right? But I think also, too, like, there's, like, some, like, nobility niggas finding being unedited. But that's stupid. Like, this is art.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

You ain't never watched A movie that wasn't edited, you ain't never heard a song that wasn't edited. Your favorite show was edited. If you putting out a production, edit your shit. Like, make sure it's the best possible thing. Cause like, you ain't real. Just cause you said some up and didn't take it out. Like now you might be a little stupid because you had every opportunity. That's just like when people put out bad advertisements like. Or like Gucci put out the. The. The ski mask with the red lips. It's like, who, bro? This. First of all, nigga had to sketch this. There had to be a sketch first. Every time I see a production be fucked up and insensitive. You wanted it to be that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You had to went through a channel of people, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, it's a lot of emails attached to it. It's a lot of editing. It's a lot of eyes been put on that and you still put it out like that. That's on you. You. You want to play the fool or you just think you could do anything and ain't nobody gonna say. And I think a big part of like, what you saying, sometimes you turn on that faucet and round. It have been plenty of times, like we don't record it on a Saturday and like, man, today just ain't it. Yeah, we'll come back tomorrow and do it again. And we come back, we come back next day and niggas be like, bro, this one of the best episodes we heard. Because you got to trust.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Like, you had to put up the bad jumper to learn how to put it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Exactly, bro, you see we was breaking today. Some days you're going to come in Bradley, bro, I always try to think about who I want to be as far as a baller. Like, you can't be Kobe until you like Alan Houston. Like, you got to be an Allen Houston. You got to be. You know what I'm saying? Like, you gotta be like the. That he got all the potential, but he just ain't working hard enough. So like, if Kobe is the pinnacle of like hard work and success shit, when you was Latrell Sprewell, when you. You ever been in your Lamar Odom bag, you know what I'm saying? Like, you work your way up. It's the work you put in, but it's also like, shit, bro, I fucked up today. This shit ain't hitting on nothing tomorrow. If we. If you a rapper, you supposed to be all ego. You ain't supposed to say it's a bad verse. But the humility. Say, man, that's some. You know what I'm saying.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Bro? Yeah, bro, I don't know.

[Deontay Kyle]

This. This up my reputation, for real, you know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Never hit.

[Deontay Kyle]

But I think it's good to know. I think everything you put out is the best quality to you and to the people that's fans of you and to the people that's just. Even if they not all the way in tune, they follow you because they fuck with you. Lyrically, there's an expectation that you gonna be the same or better. And they don't know the behind that. It's like. It's a lot of bad shit that come along with that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's bricks, bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's a lot of bricks.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

A whole bunch of bricks. But gotta stay in the gym, bruh. I think that shit, it shows over time, you know what I mean? And you look at it when you in the midst of it and it's like, bruh, this shit don't. It ain't doing nothing. But then you get two, three years down the line and it shows who the fuck was doing it and who wasn't. I mean. Cause even if it's just the consistency aspect, I like, we got shit lined up right now for this year where I could put out six projects if I want to. Dead eyes. Just like. Because we've already done that work behind the scenes to be able to have enough shit that I feel like is at that level where I want to put it out, right? It's even more shit. It's six more projects of bullshit, right? Never see the light of day, bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

Right.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You gotta. Gotta understand the Germany got down. Get that shit that way.

[Deontay Kyle]

I was thinking about this. If you. Any lyrical rapper is gonna pull inspiration, like lyricism inspires lyricism, right? How long. Who. Who did you sound like before you sounded like Deontay Hitchcock?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Cole. Cole, yeah. I'm about to say Cole and Wale. Actually, I had a big Wale phase.

[Deontay Kyle]

So then how did. So, okay, we circle back. Yeah, that gotta be surreal. You in the studio with niggas that you like, they the reason you here. That's crazy type shit. How long. What point did you feel like? Do others say, oh, now you sound like yourself now? Or do you get to a place where you like, Nah, I'm myself now.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I still every now and then get the three stacks type vibes, but I think that's just. Cause Atlanta, it's the twang, you know what I mean? But I think as artists, I mean, we don't never necessarily stop getting inspired by what the fuck inspired us. So I do. I do see pieces of my favorite artists in certain shit, and I feel like every artist kind of is that they're just a culmination of all of the things that they love. We just put that shit together, you know what I mean? Got a homegirl, she gave me this book. It was like, great artists steal. And at the time when I first saw the title, I was like, hell, nah, get this shit the fuck out. I ain't stealing nothing from nobody.

[Deontay Kyle]

But you come to find it. It's just the realest shit ever. Well, it's just because it's like, I. My theft don't look like everybody else.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Stuff, because, nigga, it's a amalgamation of all of this shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's all it is. All it is is inspiration. Yeah, like the. The only thing I can do is put an original story to the plot that's already been being built the whole time. I can't tell you how to sell crack no different. I can just tell you my experience with selling crack. We've been talking about selling crack for a long time. I can't lay a down no better than the last few. I can't the no better than the last few. All I can do, I can just.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Do it my way.

[Deontay Kyle]

I can just do it like me. You know what I'm saying? But even then, even when you come out, even when you start out, even when have recognition like this five, this Deontay Hitchcock is here. The comment is going to be full of. He sound like this. He sound like that. He be. I think if you from the south, if you from Atlanta specifically, and you got any lyricism, the three stacks is coming. But like, what a fucking honor.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You know, that's a great company.

[Deontay Kyle]

What you talking about? A that ran through Bowling Holmes.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Amazing.

[Deontay Kyle]

And the grass was purple.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

Was running through shirt the whole hood chasing everybody. First of all, nigga too fast down the hill and going home.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Hopped in a Cadillac.

[Deontay Kyle]

Uno do Tracy never seen a pimp on the microphone break a sweat. Listen, bro, this first of all, he was dry hair running. I was like, damn. How this the Silk Press never got sweated out, bro. It didn't frizz. It didn't do nothing, bro. Georgia Heat Nah, that's when you know.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

James bus.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hopped into emergency. Look, bro, I'm telling you, dog, like, it's such great company to be in. I know we just talking about, man, I'm scared Killer might had a bad verse hands Down. But then, dog, the. Him. The intro he gave, though, it's like, God damn. How do you start a song off that good?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy and the.

[Deontay Kyle]

Got the little skeleton like they really.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Doing circus and a hook that hard.

[Deontay Kyle]

The first front pick like Michael Vic. That's what got. I ain't gonna lie. Michael Vick was so tough at the time. That's what got.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yo, that put that turban on, man. Went to start with Erica by doing them, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm telling you, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'm telling you, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm telling you. Nah, that's the boss Roddy Rich was talking about. That's the boss Brody R. Talking about.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Who? Doc J. Electronica.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, no, it was. But the Baby Dads, she got Elite. Baby daddy Elite. Crazy. Put them on. Put them on. The song.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Them three.

[Deontay Kyle]

Three, three 16s of fire. Huh? You got a kind of crazy 16 to her all Stars. You got to have a crazy 16 to get Erica. You know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Gotta have a nice 16. I'm talking about you gotta. You gotta follow JLA. How you follow three stacks and DLC and sh. And sh. Use the AI to recreate his voice. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's all right. I ain't see this.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, man. They was trying to say that Scarface should do the same thing, but I'm like, let Scarface rest, man. God damn. Yeah, his. His jersey is in the rafters, man. Let that man be. The was rapping with Tupac. How much more you want out of, bro? Tupac was hanging from a. Tupac was Jesus on the. On the light pole.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

God damn.

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't even had a budget for them.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That in Hail Mary used to scare.

[Deontay Kyle]

The out when the died in the pool. I said, I never plan to play. I'm never playing the game under the. I'm never. I'm never playing the Nintendo again. NBA Jam all died in the pool.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Spooked out.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, I don't even like water no more, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Cell therapy hit me the same way, though.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You creep me the out.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think it was the. I used to pay. I. I mean, I be telling this all the time. I know I sound like a broken record, but like, bro, I used to remember songs so well that I just rapped the songs like they like. Like. I'm like the bus stop radio. I'm just telling you. I know all the words, bro. I ain't missing a beat. I got the flow down pack. That's really what made Me want to start rapping. I was like, bro, if I could do this with other. I know I could pee in my own. But I think that CEO was like, I don't know if they trying to keep us out or keep our ass in.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I was like, hold on, hold on.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm too young for this concept. I'm too y'all for the concept, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What you mean, consciousness? Just start.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I came online. Hold on. Who was that peeking through my window? I turned into the Manchurian Candidate. For real Woke me up. No, for real. That was my zeitgeist. For real, bro. That was my zeitgeist. Hold on, what you mean, man? Keep us in if we trying to keep y'all out or keep our ass in. Oh, we in prison. Oh, it's a real project. Break down the word project, brother.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's a project, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

Look, bruh, you projection. You're projecting the insecurity of poverty while being a test subject out the US Government. Oh, oh, J. Reed hit you with that too. Now, J. Re said that wall. The wall with mad dead niggas every day. I thought I was going die, B. Like, where he was from Akron. To keep us in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man. Yeah. When. When start talking about walls.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Turning a brother polite.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hey, look, hey, look. One thing you want to keep away from a conscious is a wall. Because the metaphor is a gonna come. I ain't gonna lie. It's a lot of on the block. It's a lot of. It's a lot of consciousness. Hey, you. You put a beat on that put, brother.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Thank you. Do the knowledge.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got to do the knowledge. I'm telling you. Speaking of that. Oh, you know, we know it's gonna be Valentine's Day for sure. And we know you said you got six.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, but what's.

[Deontay Kyle]

What's the most recent upcoming project?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We got something coming out this month. I mean, it's February 1st. It's coming out this month. You know, we'd like to get into the. You know.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know what I'm saying one thing. Hey, that's what get thrown off by you, though. They. If they listen to music, bro, this barred up then go like, damn, damn. I ain't think I was gonna be talking about my girl. Damn. Got me over here. My feelings. Let me go put this on. Hey, you wanna. You want to play the. You sent to me?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

For sure.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, let's do it. Hip hop excited. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, you know. Yeah. We start talking rap you, it's like, you good. Not in that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay.

[Deontay Kyle]

But I'm just saying because he, like, kind of cut you off a little bit.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay.

[Deontay Kyle]

When you talking.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

So I'm just trying to get him for sure.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right. Did you feel that, though? He know that, like, I'm gonna be critical of it. So he got to be aware.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, that's what this for.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. The iron shot for. All right. For real, we're gonna play this. What's the name of it?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Runaway Brad.

[Deontay Kyle]

The runaway bride baby.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Fast as Andre.

[Deontay Kyle]

Deontay his cop Runaway bride man she.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Was my east side runaway bride baby can you stay tonight? Visit it in my sleep I don't want to say bye Stuck in this crazy life I say I do, I do, I do, I do, I do if you say I do, I do, I do, I do Forever my fiance.

[Deontay Kyle]

If you talk good and you fool.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay I ain't no organ done I can't get no hold my heart Every time we be together that gets toe apart we ain't never seen together Think this know it's art I'm a doll, she a do how we know it bar baby girl if I turn out this cod then we shooting a POV and that's on God I want nothing on you like bov you promising that you ain't gonna run from me you yo we gonna see turn that ass around Imma hold you down Word the pop oh hey, back it up, back it up, back it up. Hey, crap. Participation, please. Clap it up, clap it up, clap it up hey, shout it hit a poet no election perfection Meet me at the altar with your best friend get blessed in east side Run away bright baby can't stay tonight visiting my sleep I don't want to say bye Stuck in this crazy life I say I.

[Deontay Kyle]

Do.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I do, I do if you say I do Forever my fiance okay. Be nothing more than exactly just what you are Fake happiness cause you missed out on some real doing all of that acting Be nothing more than exactly just what you are Fake happiness cause you missed out on some rich I love this is what I call you Cause the word I made it harder Remember I'm somebody son and you somebody daughter My father was a rolling stone he pat me down his coma for me to figure out and rap about on every song I wanna, I really wanna I got to have her, love her but my abra cadabra as soon as I stab her Be glad to come see you when that feeling on your mind Mr. Emotionally unavailable hit me Anytime.

[Deontay Kyle]

Pull a late night and they get to it. You remind me of a song girl that make music. Oh, man. I had asked Akeem the same thing that was Runaway Briance. I ain't a candidate, but it's a honey bun day. But look, I'm gonna ask you the same thing I asked him. Being such a lyrical artist, did it take you a long time to get into the place where you was able to make actual songs?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Because if you started off like, you know what beautiful thing, now that we. We know in hindsight you started out as a performer.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Facts. Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know what I'm saying? But of course, like, once you chose your lane, you have an affinity for the lyricism that just is. That's just a nigga pinning it. We ain't think about no hooks, no name. How long do you feel like it took you to get to a place where it's like I can make a song like a structure.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Long ass time. So when I started music, when my aunt started me, I was what, 11, 12. I probably did it for real times about I say 14, 15. Then I started like ticking and dancing because the hoes like, oh yeah, we like that. Okay, cool. This one?

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I ain't pick back up again until I was like. Until I went to school, college. When I was down there Southern, I picked it back up for real like 19. And then from there I felt like I was still just real heavy on a right 124 bar versions. Yeah, I'm the greatest, like the bird, but the hood spread out like, I feel like maybe 2017. We went out with Rhapsody. I mean, I had a couple songs for sure, for sure back then, but the hooks went strong. And I was seeing it at like the shows. Like folks was there for show for the bars because they had a Rhapsody show. They come to see raps type. But I'm noticing like I'm trying to get folks to sing along with the hooks, you know, saying I'm the opener. So I'm still trying to get them get folks to sing along in certain ways. I'm doing a call and response type, but was so wordy, it was like, I can't pick that up off first listen type. And I'm like, okay, all right, I'm peeping that. And my manager, he real heavy into songs. He love rap too, but his fight for like Stevie type vibes. Like what the song sound like.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What does the song make me feel that like, I think being a rapper, being clever, you know what I'm saying? It Comes with so many things. It's clever story, storytelling, wordplay. All that. All of that is definitely like put that in the gumbo pot for sure. But what be making folks stick is that hook. Is that hook good, bro, I ain't gonna lie.

[Deontay Kyle]

I was thinking about it and you said, what make that. What make it stick? And then I just thought about this on stick by Jid, who was a lyrical ass nigga and used one word because it's because the hook really do inform the performance.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Shout out to Kenny Mason too. Cause that's him on the hook.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, okay. Kenny.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yo, Kenny.

[Deontay Kyle]

Kenny. Shit. I had to put Kenny on the deluxe.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I saw him on the deluxe. Cause I saw the comments. I was like, put Kenny on there. I need some.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, they wasn't fucking with me for that. But I think to. If you gonna be wordy.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Deontay Kyle]

You gotta know how to be simple. I think tde. Yeah, they mastered that. And I think you listen to the stories about schoolboy Absol Kendrick talking about how top dog was. Was like hook first.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, they got them boys on a real.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, they on a regiment. You know what I'm saying? They over there breeding pit bulls for.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Real push ups and six months my runs. Come on.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, you got to get in shape over there.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Different.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, cuz. Don't you, bro? Ascension. Like a crazy ascension. So with. With getting more into like the songwriting aspect, the hooks and. And that being the more important part also too. Like shout out to Rhapsody for sure. Like, that's got to be. That's got to be like a crazy way. That's. That's for a lyricist. And then somebody can appreciate it wherever it come from. I mean, she wanted the best.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

This is first tour ever. She was like, come on. Yeah, thankful.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's game recognized game right there for sure. Yeah. Gratitude.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Shout out to RAPS. GQ2GQ was on tour. That's another one of the hip artists and that I met on Twitter.

[Deontay Kyle]

Okay, cool. Yeah, dude, when you start getting away from okay. Cause it's. It's. It's a toolbox, right? Like I got the lyricism down back. I know I'm a rapping that nigga. If we want to move more into like the song structure and like really focusing on the hooks, does that inform how you choose your production?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

A little bit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I bout to say I ain't never really been super, super duper picky about shit. Like even to this day, like I go on YouTube, if I ain't got nothing in My files that I'm like, I'm fucking with this today. Like, specifically, I go on YouTube and just search for like 2, 3 hours type shit. So I've started to get. It's a little more selective with how I pick. Cause usually it's like, I can rap on anything, bro. Yeah, I don't care. We yodeling on this. I can rap on it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, exactly.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah. It's like, I like to pick. That evokes certain emotion. You mean, whatever the emotion is that I'm going for for the song. It's like, I'm saying, I might add some. I might get. I got a partner who plays strings. Come on, pull up. Yeah, I'm a home girl. Do some BGVs, little background vocals, all this. Come on, pull up. Like, add all this. Cause like, it's just niggas who can rap the greatest verse in the world. And it's like the same shit we was talking about outside. It was like, you see that monkey jumped through that ring of fire, nigga. It's like, amazing. Nigga can't do that shit six more times, bruh. I'm not impressed no more, nigga. Like, I need something that's gonna keep me here. And I think music has to make you feel something. That's the goal of that shit. Whatever it is. It's like, bruh, I need some type of emotion to attach me to this song. Yeah, I mean, that's I am talking about. I ain't gonna go on it on camera, but, yeah, I need some type of emotion to keep me to it. That's why, like, I feel like it's a lot of Southern artists who really do well that shit for me. What I'm looking at folks like Crit Boy. My uncle, he was staying with us. I think I was either in seventh grade or 11th grade. I can't remember which one or two. But he had dropped. Crit was here at that time. He put me on that shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's so crazy, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I was like, bruh, something on that much. Something. I feel like a slave in that. I was like, this means something to me.

[Deontay Kyle]

What, bro? No, but that's. But you don't. But you don't heard your elders, him like that in the church. And then it's. It's striking, man. I'm telling you that, bro. You'll be in the church with your grandma and old folks start Hemingway and you be like, damn, God really in this single tear? No God really in this bitch. The lights. The lights got brighter. The lights got Brighter. No, I'm saved. For real.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But it's. But it's that it's a striking accord.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's a vibration though, bruh. Exactly.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

When we talk about like, you know what I'm saying, Niggas can make the hits and all that. And like that shit is amazing because I think the. The greats did both you. I mean like your Wayne's and Jay Z's all that shit. They learned how to do both of that. But the folks who just make the hits, that's why the only be here for that period of time. Cuz like if I come Back to that 10 years later, I don't even feel this. I'm not the same person no more. And there's no emotion in this to attach me to it no more. I can go back and play Crip with right now.

[Deontay Kyle]

You can't.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And I'm. I'm still going to feel the same way. I felt about that then.

[Deontay Kyle]

Some do understand. But see, think about. Think about the complexity of somebody like Big Crit that's making the beats and he a rapping ass and he could formulate a great song because that kind of Cadillaca has so many hits on it. That last bit and dope that is cold as bro. I'm really. I really like do champion him is like man bro, if we're gonna talk to south like in the last 10 years. But he gotta be on that Mount Rush one bro. He do it all.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Everything.

[Deontay Kyle]

He do it all.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

He does it amazing. Amazing. They got one of the best double albums, double designs of all time.

[Deontay Kyle]

I can't remember this house. That's a lot of songs.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

This is not easy, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Cause I. I understand what you were saying earlier about like having all these throwaways. Yeah, but to be. But to be able to. You. You picking 30 songs.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

30 ball.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, a 30 ball. And. And they slap on your head top. And 2. The songs that you don't like ain't even bad songs. They're just preference came out my uncle just had passed if they killed me on Monday. It's some out here you have cold but you. You gotta understand too. Like all of his is all feeling.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And. And it's southern and he not hiding it. But he also like. It's very poetic. Yeah but then it's like damn.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Making the beats.

[Deontay Kyle]

Making beats. He's making the beats.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Rapping circles around all this like it's called br.

[Deontay Kyle]

Ain't nobody responding. Mount Olympus was like nah. Let. Hey look, this is in the spirit of competition. Then Shouted, got on BET Awards, occupational propeller in the cop suit and talked about police violence, man, this man is not the same as the rest of these, bro. He cold. If we. If we can talk about greats and stuff like that, and we talking about dream collaborations with Deontay Hitchcock. Where does Does Crit fall on there?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And we did a joint with Crit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

By say on. Yeah, it was west side Boogie.

[Deontay Kyle]

Damn boogie.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Cold as hell.

[Deontay Kyle]

More Black Superheroes is.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's a certain group of people who got, like, songs that I wish I would have made boogies on there. It's not on More black Superheroes, actually. Am I tripping? Is it on more black superheroes? What's up with John? He got. I'm tired of. I'm tired of questioning God Real. I want to get murdered already.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, that ain't.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That ain't more Everything for Sale. Yeah, that. Yeah. I was like, bro, I wish I made that song. That's a perfect song to me. I love that song.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think the COVID to Everything For Sale, it's just like, you don't have to gang bang to understand it. Niggas got an all red dicky suit, Cincinnati red, white gloves. That's such a cold image, dog. So, yeah. So let me not make any assumptions and then let me go for you. If you have any dream collaborations as.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

An artist, dream collabs. I talk thug. I've been speaking this to power for the longest, bro. Those pockets are so crazy to me. I'm a dancing ass nigga. You know what I mean? So I really like when somebody can get into them grooves like that. And dug. So my partner, he's that nigga's manager. Yeah. I mean, he wasn't always his manager. Like, he started as the videographer type shit, you know what I mean? So we trying to. I know I got to get my ducks in line before I come and present it, but yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Quick question, quick question, quick question. I was having a conversation today. Does in a. He's in a predicament as an artist where the thing we love about him is who he is and where he from. Speaking of that. Yeah, but I said that I feel with Beyonce putting such a highlight on country music, and then we got easy breezy, beautiful thugger girls. He may take the pivot. If he pivot into another genre, that may be his only way to really still express.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

Because it's not rapping. We know him a lot of, nigga, and we know he also, like, he's all around. Like, he's a natural, bro. He's so good at music that it's like he can do anything. And I don't think rapping can be his outlet going forward because he ain't.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Be able to do the same thing.

[Deontay Kyle]

He ain't gonna be able to do. It's not free.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I don't care. I take gospel Thug. If that's all we got. Hey, look, Kirk Franklin, Thug.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever we can get. You know what I'm saying? That tight shit.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But now he bruh. Even the shit he got, it wasn't easy breezy cover girl. But I mean, not easy breezy Thug girl. But it was a joint he had. You heard the climax. Joint with Black.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. That was on. On the Run.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, on the Run.

[Deontay Kyle]

Slap on. Yes, Slap on, cuz. He had that with Jaden Smith on there. Crazy.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

We was on tour with Black around the time when that dropped. I used to play that every night at the end of the show. Bro, what the is this? What the. I finally wouldn't listen to it. What not. This is out of here. Crazy song. He talented as bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Talent. No, Black is. Well, two. The thing is, is, like, I think it get overlooked how, like, great of a rapper he is.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You talking about Black? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

I mean, Thug just. I don't think anybody can deny his artistry. I was. We was. We was going, bro, I'm telling you, literally having this conversation with somebody today that's just as much of a Thug fan as me. Because we was like, where he gonna go with it?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And. Cause I was telling him, like, the verse he had put out, baby.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah. I was like, I don't like it. Cause it's like, Thug ain't got. Thug ain't a supreme flexer, though. Thug is. He got to do everything or he can't do the thing.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I feel that.

[Deontay Kyle]

I don't want to hear just the flexing, cuz it's like, damn, bro. I know. Why you doing it? Like, but I was talking about Webby off of Jeffrey, and it's like, bro, we politic, by the way. Like, he just. I told me. I'm face it. It's like that so hard. But it's like, damn, is he gonna be too restricted? Yeah, but then, you know, speak. I mean, Thug, one of the best from Atlanta. So this week, in that top five. Top five. Top five, we gonna go to top five best Atlanta rappers. What I buy Deontay Hitchcock.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay, okay.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm gonna pop them off. I'm gonna Pop them off. Now. This is just an honorable mention. This ain't got nothing to do with rankings. This is on personal preference. I'm putting Trouble in the honorable mention.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right, Little Trouble, rip to the.

[Deontay Kyle]

Boy, RP Trouble, Scoot. I'm gonna go in reverse. Okay, I'm going number one. Outcast.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

As a unit.

[Deontay Kyle]

As a unit.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

As a unit.

[Deontay Kyle]

As a unit. Okay, I'm going number two. I gotta go ti. I gotta go to ti. Number three. I'm going Future.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay, number four.

[Deontay Kyle]

Number four. We go. Jeezy, I ain't mad at all.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And I tell you why.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm gonna say. And I'm. I'm. And I'm gonna put him over number five. Just cuz of some places where my life took me on a personal level while I was listening to. Because number five is ludicrous. And I know y'all know I'm a known ludicrous hater, but it's because the made number one spot, and I was mad at. Cause y'all never seen this rap on Rap City Basement and Technique ass up. But yeah, I would go, yeah, yeah, we're gonna put ludicrous at 5. We're gonna put GZFO. Hold on. Can we put GZF 4? He's from Hawkins.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Look, bro, if Jeez ain't on the list, then straight up, cuz.

[Deontay Kyle]

Look, want to talk about thug motivation 101. But. But I'm talking about the recession. I'm talking about the recession. Isn't this crazy world? I was like, the world ain't crazy. The world crazy for real. Talking facts. I'm selling good men. I'm selling the best men. I'll sell the best meat. I might get some meat. Look like some loud. I'm selling it for $10 a gram. Tell the AZ pack I'm not hip to AZ, bro. This is 2008, man. 18. You were 15, yo. The original going through.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right, all right, all right, all right. So we got. We got. Got a similar list. For real, for real. All right. So if I'm going my one spot. All right, so it might be a little disrespectful as I'm thinking about it a little bit more. I'm gonna go one A, one, B. You know what I mean? We gonna put Cass as a unit as well. We gonna put Future right there. How about say, Real Deal? Yeah, how about say Dungeon Family, baby? For sure. And he the consistency, bruh, from Monster on when he was like, yeah, these niggas finna drop me off the Label type shit. Hit that switch. Ever since then, brid been open 181B future cash ti for sure. For sure. At that two spot throwing the three.

[Deontay Kyle]

You cheated. You cheated.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You cheated with the 181B.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, look, bro, I just cheated. It's real, though, because I ain't going to lie. I put Tip at two and Future at three.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But damn, bro, I was a future. Did too much, bro. Bro, listen, dog, it's too much, bro, all right?

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't trying to break your up. I ain't trying to break your up. Ahead, go ahead. Go ahead. You finished. You finished.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, sh. For sure. Sure.

[Deontay Kyle]

For sure.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You mute. Did you mute your mic?

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, I mute my. I told you, I'm in control, bro. I'm really the alchemist over here.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Let me shut the. I can make it happen.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah. I got to God down. Let you get your off 1a 1b cash future.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Cash future. So 2ti 3. I'm going to go Luda. I'mma put Ludo right there. Everybody say Luda is. I was on the same way with you. When he got down, started to I fill her up. Balloons test me. Guns get drawn like cartoons. It was like not really fucking with that. But prior to that, I mean, you gotta respect it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's like can't do nothing but respect it. Jeezy got the greatest Atlanta album of all time. Hawkinsville or not. That's everybody. I done said on the list already. I put any of their albums up against Jeezy. First joint stacked.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Stat, bro. He got five singles on that.

[Deontay Kyle]

Are we talking about and it's hard to do and also too for a T.O. hey, look, bro, I know in the Boys in the Hood song y'all want to champion Jody Breeze, but it's taking too long to lock up. Bring it back, bring it back. You a shout anyway. Oh, my God, that looks so good at rap. Don't even know I've been whole thing since 94. Man, we ain't tripping. We'll swap it out. If it's still in the rap, we'll swap it out.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hey, let me hop about the shower and get myself together. I'm gonna need about an hour, man, he a different bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I can't ban the snowman, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

He man, them was getting us banned from school with the snowman shirts.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I had the bedazzled mother straight from the goddamn D mall.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm wearing some shiny Rockaway pants with that, bro. If you go all black, if you go all Black tea, shiny snowman. It's. It's silver, boy. Then you got a shiny jean pants, son.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Hit you. You f. To implode. Hey, yo. Oh, crystallized.

[Deontay Kyle]

See you this funny because you gotta know exactly what I'm talking about. First of all, you can't wash that shirt. You watch that. It ain't. It ain't. It ain't shimmering no more. That bit dull. Matter of fact, it ain't even no snowman, though. What is it? He melted. If you move a certain way, then you might blind a pilot. Might not. For real, I'm telling you, you got. You got a shiny rock. You got shiny rocker wear jeans on.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I changed the angle and took down a Boeing 747 calls 911.

[Deontay Kyle]

Really tell the about air quality. Smithereens switch my. Like a magnifying glass. I. I'm up out here. I burn a hole in the right now with this Jeezy shirt. That's a terror. It's an act of terror.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Terrorist killed billions.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right? Jesus was number three now when he brought up the shiny cuz. Look, bro, I used to have those shiny rocket wear pants on double cuff with black forces. And I was like, first of all, bro, I'm so fresh, it's unnecessary.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

In sixth period cooking.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, the sun that came out. God damn, I got a burn mark on my stomach. And they walk in the building steam.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Aura, nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

Aura. Look, one of the real aura. That's the real aura. I ain't going to lie. One of the best parts of growing up in the south around that age is like gang banging not really being a thing. You could just wear any bandana. You with your. Yeah, around 2008 and that was over with. Like you wear a band.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You had like the clicks and before went tripping on that nigga.

[Deontay Kyle]

Ain't care nothing about none of that. Oh my God, bro. Implode on the Snowman 747. That's the funny man. All right, you had Jeezy at three, who had four Jeezy. Three. Yeah. Cause you had one A1B. Then you had no, Jeezy was four because you had TI, then Ludacris, and then Jeezy at phone.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Spot. Yeah. How about tell you, Mr.

[Deontay Kyle]

I crank my car with the tip of my fingernail Gucci.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That man.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, classical Gucci. He love that fire Br. That is hard, though.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That fire as hell. Like Tommy Lee and Pamela on the camera. I'm another animal.

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't going to lie. Let's keep it a bean. Let's keep it a bean. Let's keep it a bean. In a time where was heralding Lil Wayne as the king of hip hop. That Gucci.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Come on, you finish. I know what you finish.

[Deontay Kyle]

That Gucci. Oh, we don't want no problems. He was smoking his ass spike, that boy. Yes.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Had to go back and add a second verse. Man, man, look.

[Deontay Kyle]

East Atlanta Hammer bandana on car antennas. No, we do not top the strangers just cut off these Gucci on the dangerous cocaine club. You think I'm an Eagles fan? Tony Br. Make you never breathe again. That. Kill that. Kill him again.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Gucci.

[Deontay Kyle]

The money is the verse, nigga.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Fuck this shit.

[Deontay Kyle]

I hated that he came back in. He was hating. He was hating. Nigga gonna say Gucci who? Gucci who? Yeah, Gucci mane. Shout out, my nigga. Nah, he smoked your ass, bro. You ain't think he was gonna smoke you like that. That boy like that. Why?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Why not? Got spanked by a handful of. But Gucci, it was.

[Deontay Kyle]

It was. Bro, listen, bro, we was on the. We was at the corner store arguing about this, bro. Playing this out loud out the car like. No, bro, listen on that. Listen to it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I tweeted that like two months ago or maybe a month ago, something like that. Niggas was on my ass. Nah, nah. I down this here.

[Deontay Kyle]

But Goosey ran to L's on his future. Cause on the. On the white boy wasted. Ply. Smoked him. Pl.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Underrated, bro. I. I think Pl had had a really good run.

[Deontay Kyle]

Listen, I was just telling the other day, we got to get Pl. His flowers.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah. N. For sure.

[Deontay Kyle]

You got to. Pl.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Had a run. For real. For real. Say real test me was crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Before I sell my soul, I lose everything. You can lock me up crack. I'm going get out and do the same thing. You talking about evil. That his Bible, bro. Evil Kirk Frank.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yes.

[Deontay Kyle]

Reverse on hood. Damn. Ipo. You could tell I said I was feeling that at the time. I was really on probation when they draw, so that would hit different for me.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Evil Kirk Franklin.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, that's a Evil Kirk Franklin, man. You got a solid top five, bro. BK you got one. Oh, we done covered. It's. Yeah, we done covered.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I feel like.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah. Atlanta is like.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, it's like. You know them.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, you know? No, I had to throw trouble in there just because Edgewood was such a good album.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And I feel like not enough people have lived in Edgewood. Like, who? That hit me, Sam. All right?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You gotta hit me, because I don't even know who that is. Put me down. Nah, about something for me. I know about big uncount.

[Deontay Kyle]

I mean, I heard his name, but I don't even know why you putting him in there. All right, well, we're gonna take it 16 times.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

God damn.

[Deontay Kyle]

Not at one time.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's even worse.

[Deontay Kyle]

God damn. What did he do to make.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Is that mad? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

That refused karma. That's why he can't get shot 16 times.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Is this 16 different occasions?

[Deontay Kyle]

Shut up, bro. 16 different occasions is crazy. Just what was popping once and going. It was s. He got shot 16 different times.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, yeah. Nah, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, so it wasn't just 16 bullets.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

No, it's 16 different. Yeah, n. Bro, he did whatever they say he did. He did it.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hitman sent. Oh, now he's a literal hitman. Then once you see him, you'll see why. No, I'm cool. I don't even want to know what this. I don't want to put in face to the name. You buster from Augusta? Yeah. That's. Who made that? That's Hitman. All right, well, yeah. Shout out to. Is he still alive?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Shout out Hitman. It's crazy, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

We got. We got to stop saluting 50 cent for 9 times against shot 16 different occasions. Not even 16 bullets. 16 occasions. Want him out of here. That hard to kill. That real song. Steven Seagal. I think I heard the song Stepdaddy. Yes.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Let me hit you right back. I'm in a interview.

[Deontay Kyle]

Why the because you know what's so crazy? You know what's so crazy? Only. Only like a. That gets shot that many times. Never make the song that you think they gonna make. It's always.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Tell us why they tried to kill you.

[Deontay Kyle]

You over here on girl protection. Yeah, for sure. If we could get to know Deontay Hitchcock in three albums, D. Shout out tonight got a Not even being hospitable no more. Said that question. You know where I'm from. I getting to know me, yo. The river that turned the bottom. Yeah. And they can turn to Walker Flock. Hold on. First of all. First of all, let's talk about Walker Flocker. If I'm shopping with Walker Flocker and he answer the phone and say, what the you want? I be like, nah, I'm scraped, bro. I'm scraped. I don't even want the weed, bro. I'm scrap. I'm scraped on the weed, bro. You too aggressive, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Bad review on yo.

[Deontay Kyle]

This is one star experience for show, bro. Rude, bro. What the you mean what the I want, bro? I'M putting money in your pocket. Trap phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would come to get some drugs. You mean. What the. I want how much money you could have had with you know what? Me and my little $100 stay over here. You know what I'm saying? Damn. I want an ounce. I'm straight now.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

No more supporting black business.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right, hold on. Let's stop right there. Let's stop right there. Let me change. Let me change. Oh, we got that. What you thought was short on the sounds? Hold on. What you want to chop and screw it? Hold on. What you got? Hold on. Got somebody.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Hold on. Oh, me too. Oh, no, it's not. Turned into a super village.

[Deontay Kyle]

You can't ban the snowman. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a f. We really got the whole little. I want to talk about Roscoe Dash.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Waka flocka.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay.

[Deontay Kyle]

Wale Wale smoking everybody.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'm talking about everybody.

[Deontay Kyle]

Look my no hands and no darlings. I know the dance and I'm with Roscoe. I'm with Waka. I think I deserve a chance. I'm a bad mother. Go ask him up. Oh, y'all handsome up. I slang that wood. I just done Chuck.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I said yeah, yeah, yeah. He cooking quiet as kept, bro like be sleeping on Wildland like that. That whole cold Kendrick, Drake, that's. We went on tour with that bruh. Why they got so many hits, dog?

[Deontay Kyle]

Man, look.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

And I'm talking about them folks out there. They singing everything back to bruh.

[Deontay Kyle]

There's some niggas out here that we don't recognize because we thinking about. We don't think about, like, hits in the same way. We used to listen to the radio.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

But he got the raps, too.

[Deontay Kyle]

Is it bad that bro, that you couldn't escape that or lotus flower ball. You couldn't escape it. Heat rock bruh. Bruh. That hit the streets like real crack, bro. Listen, it was a time like 09 couldn't shake that. You throw that bruh everywhere. He was everywhere. And then it's like. I think he get lost in the mmg.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Not for sure.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, a lot of times get lost in a controversial with a label.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yo.

[Deontay Kyle]

And it look like like, because like try to paint Wale as a complainer. No, he's a real hit maker.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

And the. What was the mixtape about? Nothing.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, with the war. The war on that. Oh, my God.

[Deontay Kyle]

Posse cut that Wale got some bro is a rapper and rapper quiet as kept one of the freshest niggas to ever be In a rock game.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Easy.

[Deontay Kyle]

The real sneaker head of the rap game.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Easy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Great locks. Great locks. Great locks. I was just saying, like, if we gonna give it up to something, you know what I'm saying? As a fellow Lochtarian, you know, quality haircare. Nah, they all the same size. They all a palm roll. Nah, he got good palm roller on his team. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great symmetry. The symmetry is crazy. Good kicks, good fittings. All right, let's get up out of there. Shout out D.C. shout out my in D.C. wearing New Balance. Yeah, yeah. I with y'all. Shout out to hood Rich Pablo one.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

A that single handedly ruined his career by posting him a picture of him getting jumped. I never seen a lip that big. You remember that? Yes, man. Bro, before that, Pablo was the. That my. Yeah, that my. That my. They're my. I was like, oh, he. He the next up.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Then he get jumped again a couple times.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, no, no, no. That was the. That was the. That was the snowball shit. It's like, bruh, because if you gonna post your lip that big, nigga feel like they do anything sweet at this point. No, that was a clean shot. Yeah, that was a. You didn't think you was going to get hit and you got hit. You wasn't even on defense.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Crazy. That was snapping beforehand too. Let me text a. Now it is 702.

[Deontay Kyle]

Oh, damn. All right, all right, all right. We ain't got to do the emails and call ins. I mean, we. We recording tomorrow too, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

About ask no questions.

[Deontay Kyle]

Well, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about emails and call INS for the part. But we do have some questions in front of fans. Yeah, I'm turned up, nigga. I got the microphone. I'm like most deft with the microphone right now.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Go into the cashier. That's your money.

[Deontay Kyle]

I want everybody in Atlanta right now. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I got you. Everybody in Atlanta right now, if you listening. Going to the local corner store Going to the American deli and tell them niggas fuck the 10 minutes I want the cash right now. I want the wings right now.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That money is your money.

[Deontay Kyle]

That money is your money. Going to the chat casting spot Slap papi in the face. Take the money, take the money.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Flex is good to get smoked.

[Deontay Kyle]

Nah, n gonna die around with that, man. Poppy gonna pull a machete out. Chop your whole hand off. Chop your whole hand off. Nah, you're never gonna see that hand again. Jamaica store like that Fire for That.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Never be seen again.

[Deontay Kyle]

Fire for that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's over.

[Deontay Kyle]

First of all, you going to Jamaica so there's nobody in there. Yo, yo, I ain't gonna lie, bro. I don't want to hear nothing else about black owned business because we let from other places get away with murder. We let. We let Chinese people just. But what you want, what time to be like don't even speak to you. You supposed to know what you want when you pull up. And it's just 10 minutes. That could take 30 minutes. You don't even care. They said 10 minutes. Used to spend time for them. Cause you want them wings bad as Jamaicans. They could just be rude as there's nobody in the store. But you go in the city transit and then you mad. This got an attitude. First of all, this ain't a family owned business. Well, first of all, Jamaican ain't got no attitude.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

They're just in the back.

[Deontay Kyle]

You gotta hold this shit up like yo. Nah. But you, you. How much is this? They act like you, you act like you get. They act like you getting on they nerves and shit. Like you inconvenient. Bitch. You don't own the business, you don't want to own the stove. Damn, I wish I ain't want nothing from this. Now question.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

How we feel about Jamaican Mac and cheese?

[Deontay Kyle]

It's garbage. Terrible. No, no, listen. African American Mac and cheese. African Americans are in charge of the Mac and cheese. Now. If we want to start talking about fish, we start talking about oxtails.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Completely different.

[Deontay Kyle]

Now we have a whole different conversation. If we want to talk about rice, we're going to go take that thing to. To the motherland. We're gonna take the rice to the motherland. We're gonna let y'all do that. Yeah, yeah, we want that Joo. But when we go Mac and cheese, collard greens. Leave that to the. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, question from the fan. We ain't going. We don't like to name the fan specifically to protect their identity.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Put them names out there, man.

[Deontay Kyle]

We ain't doing they. The first thing they say is the top five alltime rappers all time. Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Dead or alive type.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It could be dead or alive. They say all time Wayne off time. Wayne at one, Wayne at one.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Stats at two.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hold on.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What you got?

[Deontay Kyle]

Said Wayne at one for sure. And those words in my mind I said, got somebody I thought about Wayne Wonder, Jamaican store, everything. Color, color, little ice cap.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Did y'all see? It was like a tik tok. It was like Jamaicans trying to make sad music N they came the poom Poom make me send, bro, I gotta find the video. This shit funny.

[Deontay Kyle]

Send that to me, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What?

[Deontay Kyle]

Sir, your Poom Poom Bring it live. Bring it live. I ain't gonna lie. I thought, Tristan, if you want to cut this out, you can't. I told Shorty. I told Shorty from Toronto that she wasn't even present. It was just. It was just really good.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Nigga just had to get that off.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know, they heavily influenced by, like, Jamaican culture. I was like, your Poom Poom bring life. I was like, I can't get this off in words. I'mma text. She said she was. She was like, oh, my God. Heart eyes. Oh, my baby. Yeah. Block that like a week later. No, no, man, look, you a sick n. I pointed that to the 40 yard line. That bitch got too far up the field. He was too close to touchdown.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

A scumbag. Good Lord.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hey, man, God ain't finished with me, man. Go ahead. Top five. All right. This getting off the rails.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Really needed these last though.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Real healthy.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know, once we get through the interview, we just do some. That what I love. You know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'm good too. My boy, he ain't even made it to the crib yet.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right, we got Wayne one for sure.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Wayne, Wayne. Do I. Do I need to count cast again as a unit type vibe. Cash as a unit. My. I feel like it's real got cliche. The average. I got pocket three. I know Pac wasn't the best, like, technical rapper, but if we talking about.

[Deontay Kyle]

Like, it's just passion, bro. Nobody more passionate than that, cuz.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Nobody else rhyme Enemy in Hennessy that many times.

[Deontay Kyle]

Listen, bro, that I'm the reason. The reason between him and Bruce Lee. That's why I drank Hennessy. Bruce Lee don't know.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I was like, hold on, bro. What?

[Deontay Kyle]

Look, son, look, son, I'm telling you, bro, I'm leaving breadcrumbs for, man. I. This what I do. I'mma put you on.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Say, bro, I'm confused.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, Bruce Lee was like an avid Hennessy drinker, bro. Hennessy? No. Avid le. No. And also, like, we'll get it to.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Show about say my ears perked up.

[Deontay Kyle]

Putting on every day, every day. Got to do the Knowledge.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It's Black History Month.

[Deontay Kyle]

Happy Black History Month. Just Chinese New Year. I'm just saying. The Knowledge. Shout out to Drake.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right, man. Never getting the OVO feature now.

[Deontay Kyle]

My bad. My Bad. My bad, my bad. Nah, nah, nah. We meant that in a good way. Forward. My boy, man. He a solid nigga, man. He a good man, bro. You know what I'm saying? His thoughts and opinions. The thoughts and opinions on the Disney podcast is of our own, you know what I'm saying?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

For every named deontay, all the deontay, it's even wilder.

[Deontay Kyle]

Even wilder to this day.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, boy.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right, let's get that intro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right, all right, all right.

[Deontay Kyle]

Number four. Number four. Number four. Number four.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, man. Number four. You know what I'm saying? We gotta take a trip up north, boy. Ace to the izzo. Yeah, man, how about to say he.

[Deontay Kyle]

Kind of automatic, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Man, I watched one where y'all was talking about. I think he was quoting. What? What the was that? Most Kings.

[Deontay Kyle]

Listen, dog, man, I can't. I can't, bruh. Listen, I cannot count how many verses. I just spit verbatim on this.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Jay got him. So when I was heavy in my Wayne bag, started telling me he was doing the. The Gilly, and they were saying he was biting off Jay, too, at the time. So that's when I went and did my little deep dive into Jay. Fuck this nigga. But he going crazy.

[Deontay Kyle]

He's like, beating whatever. I can't hear it in my headphone. Can you hear anything?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I can't hear.

[Deontay Kyle]

Who is that, Con or K? All right, well, if I can't hear, I think we good. You. If you can hear it, that means cuz you. You insulated? Yeah. You ain't insulated?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, about. I ain't pick it up in the head.

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't pick it up neither.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All right?

[Deontay Kyle]

You trying to get me to cuss my children out, man? Damn, bro. Just want me to be down, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

See, the real deontay.

[Deontay Kyle]

Get moving in this, all right? I got. I got. I got you. I ain't know who you wanted me.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

To be, losing sponsors or not. Flippy table.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah, get some lippy, T. Sorry, not yet. Like, on.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, nah. Who's that? That was Wayne Cash. Pop Jay.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm gonna say something about Jay real quick.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What you got?

[Deontay Kyle]

So Wayne got the suffix that's slept on a lot of people don't know about, but the prefix was him doing his favorite Jay Z beats and the Moment of Clarity freestyle, he did. Okay, so you're hardy. I'm in here. Thank you.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Gangster off Eagle street, man. I don't need the hot boys. I still keep my heels.

[Deontay Kyle]

And we ain't got a squad up. I still Keep.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Damn.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Don DeMarco.

[Deontay Kyle]

I ain't even know you know what I'm saying? It gotta be a deontay thing. Let's just. We're just gonna call it.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's about say all that. Wayne, bro, I'm.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm. I'm here. That's what I'm saying, cuz. I would. I would have. I. I don't know too many. That young wheezy in this handcuff. She ain't nothing but some stairs I done ran over. I hear. I feel the player hit her stairs. They ain't saying nothing. They ain't taking nothing. Jackson, man, that nigga. I be waking up the mind with the straight fucking. She get the dick from the boy bitch. Super lucky.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

He was the. He is. I ain't gonna say. Well, he is the greatest. Like, he had everything, all the attributes. The game fly.

[Deontay Kyle]

He's a creative player, dog.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

All of it, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

He's a creative player. Cause I'm forever like Carter. Two top five best rap albums of all time. I don't care, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay, okay.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's top 10 all the time. But I wanna. But I'm in. And I'm an inflammatory. I will say it's in the top five, but it's my top five favorite.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's a little spicy.

[Deontay Kyle]

Listen, dog, every time. Just because. Think because I have such good taste.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

That they judge it. And they'd be like, well, it's not top. I'm like, no, bro. The whole time y'all been saying I have good taste, I've been talking about I like crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That Carter, too, man.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Opened up with the mob.

[Deontay Kyle]

Birdman Jr. Come on, man. That is a cold, man. No Skips.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

No None.

[Deontay Kyle]

Don't let your mouth open up. Cause you don't want to sit up. No, he's a different type of man. I don't think Carter went crazy too, though. The Carter went crazy. No Skips. Carter one and Carter two. No Skills.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Quit talking. I'mma hang it by your tongue. Yeah. Any motor mouth could get hung high. Won't with like, Fun Guy won't even hear you. Holland, quit your diarrhea. Pistol, lie inside of the armrest.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, yes. Lay a nigga down in his own mess. Don't mess. Play the fuck around with the homeless.

[Deontay Kyle]

We can leave out here armless. No, homie. Nigga, you gonna be hired. Armless with no homies.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You sleep.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm honest.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

You don't put with the caller.

[Deontay Kyle]

One is harmless. No, he just don't like, when I start geeking about this rap shit, he looking at me like, bro, you're losing the plot. But like, really, me and you haven't.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

What the shit about.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, we having a moment, though. I enjoy it, but I'm like, nah, you know this.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I got you. I got you. Listen, bring it back if it's taking.

[Deontay Kyle]

Too long to lock up. Bro, listen, bro, when we start talking that rap, I will start geeking out. But you going there with me, and we good. And he like, we're producing a show, you know? Yeah. Let's lock back in. Let's lock back in. All right, all right. Hold on, hold on. I don't even know if you got through your.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I think we baiting. What's the next one?

[Deontay Kyle]

Well, no, we good. Dream tour collaboration.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Dream tour collab.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Okay. I want to hit the road with the R B act for real. Like, we did the black joint. That might have been my favorite tour that we've been on. I don't want to go out with, like, sizzle or some like that, bro. Yeah, bro, like that.

[Deontay Kyle]

I could see that.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

Great body on that tour.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's crazy words.

[Deontay Kyle]

Edgar Allen Ho. Ed Ho is crazy. I got to put on one every day. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You Dame Lillard that. It's Dame time. It was Dame time when you just put that shot up n. Great body on her. I think we just got great body of work. Great surgeon. Nah, that was gifted. That got gifted hands like. Like the. He. Like the. Cuba Goodman Jr. Was playing Ben Carson, Shout Out, My Been Boss, and. Ok, what's your most personal song? That's a stupid ass question to ask after that. Yeah, yeah, man. Gotta understand. Gotta understand the body work. Scissors done put out, man. Real, bro.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'm saying standing the test of time.

[Deontay Kyle]

You know what I'm saying, bro? Y'all don't even know what scissors stand for. For real. What's your most personal song? Go back into the question.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Oh, most personal song probably Growing up Mother God off Better. Yeah, yeah, man. Good, good. Little tears.

[Deontay Kyle]

Hey, look, you got some. Hey, you got some teardroppers on your. Though, for sure.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

That's what this about, bro. Like, man, Kane was talking about some on this last time he was on here, and. And he was saying, like, the. The juxtaposition of people feeling like your is like the most amazing they ever heard. Folks will hit you up and be like, bro, you saved my life. Got down. This changed how I view. Like. And you pull up to the club. And it's like, damn, I can't even get in this type of. That type of. It's like, bro, I hear that type. It's the same deal was going through that. It's like, bro, will hit you up and be like, bro, you changed everything for me. You really got me out of wherever the like change my outlook on life. It's like, damn, I'm still sitting here going through shine I was going through when I wrote this ain't changed at all. But to be able to like, help is definitely like are privileged and. And blessed enough. What's. What's the word I'm looking for? I. I get to. Yeah, I get to help people and I'm blessed.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's a gratitude.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah. I think for that.

[Deontay Kyle]

I think in those moments, like in the moments where we really wondering, like, damn, bro, like I'm watching all these people take off and I'm getting. But I'm still getting these messages a talking about like, damn, bro, I'm inspired. Damn, you changed my life. Damn. This is like my therapy. Oh, I. Why he get the Reese's commercial? You know what I'm saying? But. But it's a real but. I thank God, like, no, bro, like if you. If you not in. No, it's all that. It's coming. You know it's coming.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I know, I know. I wasn't ready for certain.

[Deontay Kyle]

And then also too. You can't make this song if you ain't living like this and you really saving a life. Like, if somebody tell you you saved their life, they mean that real, cuz. There's so much humility behind it. Yeah, man. Bro, the. That's a pinnacle, bro. That's bigger than an award, bro. You saved nigga life, bro. You don't know what that man gonna go and do. Or woman.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Isaiah Rashad, I hit that nigga on the same shit I was going through. The only time I've had like a suicidal type. I mean, Heavenly father, bruh, and now Nick. Once I got the chance, I did a song with the nigga. And like once we got to actually sit down and you know what I mean, talk over the phone. Shit, I told that nigga that. It was like, bruh, I already told nobody that type. It's like, bro, I just gotta thank you. Cause that.

[Deontay Kyle]

That gotta be what you do it for. Yeah, it gotta be. That's real, bro. The last question. Well, it's two more questions. When was the last time you were inspired?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I watched a wild robot the other day. Cried three Times watching that, that turned me up.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah. Have y'all seen that? No. Go watch mine. My girl put the on. At first, I was, like, crabbing. I was like, bro, I don't want to watch this. It's literally about a robot getting dropped in the middle of the forest raising a baby geese. Sounds stupid to hell.

[Deontay Kyle]

No, not really. When you drop it like that, I know it's some real life.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Look, bro, I cried.

[Deontay Kyle]

It's called the Wild Robot. What platform is on?

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I want to say Peacock.

[Deontay Kyle]

Okay.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I might be tweaking, but I think it's peacock. That definitely inspired.

[Deontay Kyle]

That's hard.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, bro. My girl ended up falling asleep, man. My son was up watching that. I was in that. He was looking about.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I was gonna be balling.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Baller. So, yeah, while we're back.

[Deontay Kyle]

All right. Yeah, we're gonna tap in with that. This person is. What impact do you hope to leave on hip hop and Atlanta.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Ain'T even just that. It's really just like, any goddamn medium that you in, like, just create, bro. Like, I spent a lot of time overthinking a lot of.

[Deontay Kyle]

Yeah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

It was just like, bro, this got to be perfect. This got to be that. Whatever the case, it's like, bro, ain't gotta be nothing. Granted, I ain't doing no unedited out like that, but overthink yourself into never doing nothing. Yeah, I mean, you're playing some till you die, and it's like, don't never come out br. It's like what I'm here to do is not necessarily like, it ain't got to be I ain't got to be. Granted, I want to. Don't get me wrong. And I'm aiming to be on the same level as, like, the Drakes and the cast and the King, whatever the case. But as long as it gets to a point, it's like, folks hit me up saying, I say they life. He's like, bro, we talking about like, Pac had a line. He was like, bro, I might not be the to change the world, but I sparked the brain that do. Exactly. If I save the life of the nigga who cure cancer, I did. What the.

[Deontay Kyle]

I see this another thing, too. Simply put, though, right? Yeah, simply put, bro, My father would tell me all the time, like, I don't care about that podcast shit, bro. By you going and getting a trade and taking care of your kids, I'm proud. And even if. If I just save. If I just save the life of a. That just become a good dad or a Good spouse, like, bro, that matter. That's communal. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But I want to say the life of a who cure cancer.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Don't get me wrong.

[Deontay Kyle]

Nah, nah, nah, nah.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

I'm trying to turn up.

[Deontay Kyle]

We trying to turn up because he gonna write a book. Yeah. And I'm gonna be in that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to Deontay Hitchcock. But I think, honestly, like, the human condition, if you could put that in your music, like, you could put that human condition in your music, bro, you saving a lot of lives. That's just the person that told you, yo. Because that, you know, that's a vulnerable state sometimes, too. And then, you know, y'all, the idea of a rapper has a certain reputation to come with as being, like, better than standoff.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah.

[Deontay Kyle]

I don't even. I can't send this message to a who ain't gonna receive it. It takes so much out of me just to send it. So the fact that you received it and they keep you on your path, bro, that's a blessing, bro. That's God, bro. That's real too, bro. And I'm glad you pulled up, man. Like. Like, why I'ma say, bro, I know we across the country for you, but in Texas. I know it's my first time in San Antonio, but, bro, I'm telling you the truth. Yeah, yeah. Go shout out to great Popoviz. Shout out Bruce Bowen from the Corner Automatic.

[Deontay Hitchcock]

Yeah, I mean, I still gotta hit a Bruce Lee, bro.

[Deontay Kyle]

I'm gonna put you on. We're gonna tap out, bro. Grizzly, his podcast, episode 48, featuring Deontay Hitchcock. Bro, Appreciate you, bro. If you. Hey, whether you got something to promote or not, you know you always welcome. It's an open door policy for you. You my name sake, and I'm yours. Hear me? This has been Deontay Squared. Come on, who's behind the camera? Big Ice Cup Grizzly Nate's podcast. We out, baby.