- 4/23/2025
Tyla Yaweh Sits Down With Joey Franchize And Babs
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00:00Wild 94.1, wild94.1.com, Joey Franchise, Babs here with my dog, right up the street, 407 Zone, Tyler Yahweh.
00:07Mr. Yahweh himself, Rager Boy, what's going on, Tampa?
00:10Dude, Rager Boy, new album out, man, Heart Full of Rage 2.
00:14Man, first of all, how you been? It's been a minute.
00:16I've been amazing, blessed. Can't complain.
00:17We just talked about hanging out at the Super Bowl in Tampa when it was here.
00:20That was a minute ago, now I'm a dad.
00:21You're a dad now.
00:22You know, shit done changed.
00:24You still look cool, man.
00:26I bet it's like.
00:26You're like, fly as hell, as ever.
00:28That feels good.
00:30I needed to hear that, bro.
00:31Come on, man.
00:31For real, you look great as well, dog.
00:33You got to speak them positive affirmations, my dog.
00:36Look at that watch. Can I touch it?
00:38Like, it just, it's like.
00:40Yes. Oh my, oh my God.
00:43Yes.
00:44Oh, rich bitch. Instantly, I feel like.
00:47That's what happens when you drop the hits, you can get stuff like that.
00:49Yes, okay.
00:51Oh my God.
00:52How much is this worth?
00:53That's probably like 80K.
00:56No, I'm just playing.
00:57You wasn't going to go too far.
01:03So tell me, the new album is here.
01:06Summer Vibes is a great record.
01:09I saw the video.
01:10I mean, obviously, it gives us all the summer vibes that we needed.
01:12I feel like we had a real, like, crazy summer record.
01:15Right.
01:15Except for, like, you and Chris Brown.
01:17Oh, man.
01:17Actually, he's on the album, too.
01:19That's my dog.
01:20So tell me, like, you know, I want to first get into, like, going into this album.
01:24What made you make it a sequel first?
01:27And then, also, like, you're so eclectic with the way your production is.
01:33Thank you, man.
01:34You know what I mean?
01:34There's something for everybody on there.
01:36So just explain to me that, plus your process of, like, putting the songs together.
01:39Well, if you know, I worked on this album for, like, four years and scrapped it a few times, like, three, three, four times.
01:47Changed the name.
01:48And then, for some reason, like, everybody kept asking for, like, where's Heartful of Rage 2?
01:52Where's Heartful of Rage 2?
01:54I'm like, you know what?
01:55I'm going to make this my first album name, even though it's a sequel, you know?
01:59So this is my debut album, and I've been working on it so hard and just trying to find myself, really.
02:05Like, I went through really dark times and weird times because of the pandemic and not knowing if I was ever going to drop music again.
02:13And I just found it, you know?
02:15I wanted to be in a place where music can, my music will be somewhere 30, 40 years from now.
02:21And I love that I searched, the soul search so much, and I took a little bit of every, like, piece of artist that I love, that genuinely love within myself, and I put it into this album.
02:33And it sounds great.
02:35And, you know, I was sitting with it again last night just to refresh myself, you know, for today.
02:40But, man, like, I really feel that, you know, some of the pain in there, too.
02:44You went through something personal, too, during this process, you know, in a relationship, right?
02:47Yeah, definitely.
02:48Actually, it was, like, during my birthday, like, I was, like, going through a crazy breakup, and that's, like, the worst time, to be honest.
02:55And I was, like, finishing up my album, and I had to turn in my album.
02:59So it was, like, a lot of pressure on me, but I had to get that out.
03:02That was a song stuck in Touchdown, too.
03:05If you listen to Touchdown, like, I was, like, I guess she went to Tulum or something, and I was going over here, and she was, like, put your location on.
03:14I was, like, nah, turning it off.
03:16Screw that.
03:16This is a rap.
03:17It's a rap.
03:17It's a rap.
03:18It's a rap.
03:18It's over.
03:19It's done, you know?
03:20So, like, did she feel some type of way that songs were about her in the breakup?
03:24Nah, she loved it.
03:25That probably put fuel in her guys on the fire, like, yo, he made music about me.
03:30It's about me, everybody.
03:32Now, I know how long, right?
03:35That's about me.
03:36Did you say her name specifically in some of the songs?
03:38But people know if they know.
03:39Yeah.
03:40If you know, you know.
03:41Now, how long does it take guys to get over a breakup?
03:44Because I know for me, like, if I'm with you for three years, it's going to take me, like, at least a year to get over you.
03:49I'm still not over it.
03:50Aw, man.
03:51Okay.
03:51It's cool, though.
03:52Like, I'm over it now, but I'm not over it.
03:54Did you have to block her on social media out of sight?
03:57Okay.
03:57I never did.
03:58I ain't petty.
03:59Well, you know, I don't want to be seeing you and your new significant other.
04:03That's why I just be blocking my...
04:04You're going to have to see it all.
04:06Live with that.
04:07You're going to have to, yo.
04:09How do you, like, put yourself in a, like, block that out to, like, get in the studio and go do your day-to-day stuff like this?
04:16I think it motivates me to go even harder, to be honest.
04:19And I guess it helped me make incredible music going through those, like, that whole thing.
04:25Like, all those conversations and different emotions, I put that straight into the music and the creation of this art that I have.
04:35So I love it.
04:36I love every process of it.
04:38Now, do you actually write or do you go in and do punch-ins?
04:42Uh, punch-ins, sometimes it comes straight off the top.
04:45And then we write.
04:46And then I have a few homies, like, my homie Lucian.
04:49And I have one songwriter that I always work with.
04:52And we go back and forth.
04:54Like, we just freestyle.
04:55Like, I have a melody.
04:57I put a whole melody.
04:58He's like, bro, you should say this.
05:00Or then I'm going to be like, nah, I'm going to switch it up and say this.
05:02Like, and I don't mind because that's my dog.
05:05A lot of people are not really open to having songwriters because they think it's, like, all of it.
05:09Like, I want to do it myself.
05:10But nah, these are people that have ideas, too, that can make hits.
05:14And I don't mind making a hit.
05:16Now, I heard you say, like, you scrapped it a couple of times.
05:19How did you know, like, how, how, what is the feeling you get when you know this is the one, this is the project that I'm going to put out?
05:26Well, it was just, like, I wanted to, like, like, one of my managers said, we had too many chefs in the kitchen.
05:32And I felt like it was so, it was just too many.
05:35It was like the album was going too many ways and, like, oh, they wanted me to sound like this or they wanted me to sound like that.
05:41But I wanted to sound like myself and I didn't want to sound like anybody else.
05:45So I was like, you know what?
05:46Nah, we get, get this out the way.
05:48We're going this path right here.
05:50And honestly, I make thousands of songs and you never know.
05:55It might come out in the next three, four years from now or next five years.
05:58It might come out tomorrow.
05:59So you just never know when that song is going to come out.
06:03So some of those songs I had to throw out, I'm like, yeah, this is not, it's not for this album, probably for the next album.
06:09Or it's probably for another single.
06:11You never know.
06:12One thing I was talking about Babs about, because we were just talking about, like, you know, artists who've, like, kind of came and gone.
06:18Right.
06:18And they had, like, that one hot summer and they just, like, kind of filtered out a little bit.
06:22I ain't going to say no names.
06:24It's Fetty Wap.
06:25But, yeah.
06:26For example, he's a good.
06:28Free Freddy, man.
06:28Yeah, yeah.
06:29Yes.
06:30Free Freddy.
06:30But, like, my thing was just, like, I feel like for him it was more so putting one hit after the hit.
06:36Too much out.
06:36And I feel like he threw all his hits all out at once.
06:39And I feel like with you, you've had, like, Hi Right Now, Stun On You, All The Smoke, Tommy Lee.
06:45Like, you've always kind of spaced out a lot of your hits.
06:47Has there ever been one record that you left off this album that you're like, damn, you know what?
06:53I have some songs that I just know that's going to be stadium records.
06:57Like, I see it.
06:58Like, when I hear it, I'm like, yo, people are going to, this might be my Grammy right here.
07:02You never know.
07:03But it's a time.
07:04Everything has its time.
07:05And I'm patient.
07:06I'm very patient with it.
07:07So, when that moment comes around, I hope everybody hears it.
07:11Facts.
07:12Now, I want to know about your studio process.
07:15Because, you know, I know a lot of artists, they have to go into the studio.
07:18You know, they have, like, their weed.
07:20They have their strippers standing in front of them.
07:23Like, what is your motivation in the studio?
07:25Do you just go by yourself or how?
07:27Well, I have, like, a dope studio we go to.
07:29It's called Avex.
07:30It's like a mansion, like, pretty much.
07:33And got a pool.
07:34Got the little catering situation going on.
07:37And, like, mad Celsius, alcohol.
07:40Like, whatever you can smoke in there and stuff.
07:42Right.
07:42So, it's just one of those situations.
07:44Like, I'll probably go during the day or I might go during the night.
07:47And then, like, I'll have a bunch of different, my producers there just cooking up.
07:51Like, so now it's just, the process, I guess I'm getting a little bougie with it.
07:56But, like, back in the days, I would just be by myself.
07:59Or I remember times riding my bike to the studio at, like, 1 o'clock in the morning
08:04just to get this idea out paying $30 an hour.
08:07So, it's just, it's whatever I'm feeling, to be honest.
08:10Like, sometimes I'm by myself.
08:12Sometimes I got a female with me.
08:14Sometimes I got the homies with me.
08:15Sometimes I just got my producers.
08:17That's it.
08:18That's all I want in there is just my producers.
08:20No one else.
08:21It just depends.
08:22Sometimes I just record by myself.
08:24You know, I record myself and call it a day.
08:27And I didn't know you were from the 407.
08:29Yeah, I'm from Orlando.
08:30Out to my springs, baby.
08:32Get it right.
08:32Have you ever had any, like, Florida man moments?
08:35Because, you know, I feel like everyone in Florida has.
08:37I had a Florida man moment last night.
08:39I'm not even going to lie.
08:42So, I don't know if I want to say this, but this lady at McDonald's was being so rude to me, bro.
08:48Like, I was like, yo, why you, like, you came at me and I was being the nicest person.
08:53Was it, like, a patron or just someone that worked there?
08:56I don't know what was wrong with her, man.
08:58Oh, yeah.
08:59I didn't throw the Sprite out there.
09:00I just dropped it.
09:01Oh, okay, yeah.
09:02She, like, handed it to me.
09:03I was like, ugh, and then left away.
09:06Well, I feel like ever since I moved to Florida, I've been having a lot of Florida man moments.
09:10But I'm going to tell you off air, so.
09:12Tell me a Florida man moment.
09:13No, you got to share a Florida man moment now.
09:16Okay, so, one time, our previous afternoon show, they played it on air.
09:20But the hurricane was coming, and my alarm started going off on my phone, and I was on 275, and they were, like, shelter in place.
09:28So, I called 911, and I was like, hi, I'm on 275, and I don't know what to do.
09:33And they're like, uh, what?
09:36And I was like, the hurricane's coming.
09:38I don't know what to do.
09:39They're like, just get under a bridge and, like, stay there.
09:42So, my Florida man moment was calling 911 because a hurricane was coming.
09:46And they were like.
09:47What are they going to do?
09:48I don't know.
09:49I don't know why I called 911.
09:51It was just, like, a thing.
09:52But, yeah.
09:53Why didn't you call?
09:54Like, I would have been like, yo, get your ass off the damn highway.
09:56Yeah, I mean, I didn't know what to do.
09:59We're from Florida.
09:59It just ended up.
10:00It's instilled, man.
10:01It doesn't matter.
10:02And then my wig came off on the news.
10:04So, I've got a lot of, like, you know, Florida man moments.
10:07Jesus.
10:08Hey, man.
10:09At least you ain't scared to say it, man.
10:11Now, where's your favorite spot to go eat at here in Florida or even in Orlando?
10:17Like, if someone was from out of town and they were like.
10:19My mom's house.
10:20Okay.
10:21My mom's.
10:22But, no, this is a place called Flyers.
10:24And it's, like, fried chicken and everything.
10:26Like, soul food.
10:28We jamming.
10:30Jamaican spot.
10:31Hey.
10:32This is, like, Mama Pop Cuban spot.
10:35That's so fire.
10:36Like, oh, my God.
10:37The Rosca Boyo.
10:39All that.
10:39Plantines.
10:40Now you're talking my language.
10:41Come on.
10:41Yes.
10:42Come on, now.
10:43Come on, I had lunch.
10:43I love good food, though.
10:45Like, I like tasting foods all around the world, you know?
10:48Do you like Cleo's, the strip club in Orlando?
10:50Nah.
10:51That's it.
10:52I'm not going to Cleo's, man.
10:54My sister was a bottle girl.
10:57Cleo's.
10:57You might have to keep a Cleo on you for real.
11:01Yo, so, you know, going back, getting back to the album, you have Tommy Lee leaving a voicemail.
11:10I know, I mean, obviously, the record was crazy.
11:12I mean, you know, him being, in a way, an idol to you.
11:16Definitely.
11:17To him give you, like, voices, like, what's those conversations like between y'all?
11:20Oh, man, insane.
11:21I guess he's like me when I'm older, pretty much.
11:26Like, just a free spirit, young at all times.
11:29Get lit.
11:30Like, don't care what he's going to say.
11:32He's going to speak his mind no matter what.
11:35And he just sends me random messages sometimes.
11:38Like, you don't know what you're going to get out of him.
11:40And he's just a good person, man.
11:42It's amazing to know that a legend like that, like, messes with you and then just like, yo,
11:48I'm going to keep that and keep going with that.
11:51So, shout out to Tommy Lee.
11:52What's the wildest thing I've ever done, like, hanging out wise?
11:56Well, I was at his house.
11:57Like, his house is insane.
11:58Really?
11:59His house is crazy.
12:00And we got drunk, very drunk.
12:03You know?
12:04Made some music.
12:05But I haven't had, like, a crazy wild moment with him yet because we're always on the road.
12:10So, when I get a chance, we're probably going to share that moment.
12:15That's fire.
12:15Now, what would you tell your younger self, like, before you got it popping in the music industry,
12:20knowing what you know now?
12:23I couldn't tell my younger self nothing because I did not listen at all.
12:27So, I couldn't tell him nothing.
12:29He was going to keep going regardless.
12:31But I still feel like I'm still that person no matter what.
12:35Like, I'm hungry for this and I want to make this dream to, like, a crazy reality when I see it.
12:42And it's starting to happen in front of my eyes.
12:45It's cool, like, on this album to see the choice and selection of people you had featured on it.
12:51Like, obviously, Dej Loaf, Toosie, you got Tide Alassane.
12:54Great record, by the way.
12:55It's, like, y'all going back and forth on it.
12:57Chris Breezy, you know, what's that?
12:59Like, I know you guys are, like, cool now.
13:01You guys hang out.
13:02Like, was it, are you that person that'd rather be, you know, with the artists, like, one-on-one
13:08as opposed to, like, guys just, like, sending verses in and stuff like that?
13:11All these records was all organically.
13:14They all, like, friendships and just not, oh, calling managers and doing this.
13:19It just happened.
13:20And, like, organically.
13:21And with me and Chris, we've been friends for a while.
13:24Like, we really met during the pandemic.
13:27And ever since that, we've just been cool as hell.
13:29And I never tried to get a record out of him.
13:32Never been like, oh, listen to this.
13:34Send you this.
13:35And, like, never bothered him.
13:36One day, he just calls me to pull up to the crib.
13:39Has a dope studio.
13:40And, like, I just started playing my album for him.
13:44Like, after he was recording, I was just like, yeah, get the Ox.
13:47Play your album.
13:49Like, played the first song.
13:50He's like, man, this is, he walked back in the room like, this is crazy.
13:53Second song.
13:54You two for two.
13:55Three for three.
13:56Four for four.
13:57And then City of Dreams popped up.
13:59He was like, why you didn't send me this?
14:00Like, why you didn't send me this, bro?
14:02Like, you got the session on you, had the session, pulled it up, and he recorded it in 15 minutes.
14:08Damn.
14:09He's a genius, man.
14:10Super genius.
14:11Like, and being in that position, it just didn't feel real at all.
14:15Like, I'm like, bro, I watched this guy from 106 and Park.
14:19Used to try to dance.
14:20I can dance, but, like, really wanted to dance like him.
14:23Wanted to be just like Chris Brown, you know?
14:25Who didn't want to be like Chris Brown growing up?
14:28And now that's my peer.
14:29That's my friend.
14:30And it's amazing.
14:32Like, we talk almost every day.
14:33Like, just texting, calling.
14:35He just calls me.
14:36Like, he's in Jamaica right now.
14:38He wanted me to go out there, but we on this promo run.
14:41So, it's just, it's a vibe, man.
14:43Sometimes it doesn't feel real.
14:45That's like the homie.
14:46And I think we can definitely tell that you have genuine relationships with these people.
14:49Because you could tell in the music, like the chemistry, whether it just, because, you know,
14:53sometimes this stuff sounds super forced.
14:55Yeah, forced.
14:56But with this, it sounds organic.
14:58So, I love that.
14:59That was my whole thing.
15:00Like, honestly, I'm not one of those people that just like, oh, I want to do a song with this person.
15:04I got to meet that person because music to me is so magical.
15:07I got to be in a studio, which I got to vibe out with you before we get in the studio.
15:12Like, the energy just has to be right and cohesive.
15:15Does AI scare you?
15:17No.
15:18Because, like, I see a lot of, like, you don't know what's real and what's, like, fake anymore.
15:23I think AI is pretty cool.
15:25Well, that's the internet.
15:26Like, look at the internet.
15:27You don't know what's real or fake.
15:28It's perspective all day, you know.
15:29So, I think AI is dope.
15:33Like, I love science.
15:34I love technology.
15:36And we're going in a world that's tech.
15:38So, why not accept it?
15:40Well, I don't want these AI heifers taking my radio job.
15:43Because, you know, a lot of AI are becoming radio personalities.
15:46For real?
15:46Yeah.
15:48Yeah, that is scary for y'all.
15:49Yo, they did a whole, I remember I saw something on YouTube.
15:51They did, like, a whole Drake album and AI.
15:54And it was lit.
15:55That was fire.
15:55That shit was fire.
15:57Hey, man.
15:58Yo, if they do an AR album with my voice, I better own it.
16:01That's all I'm going to do.
16:02As long as I can make money from it.
16:04No, I feel you on that.
16:05Now, you know, we were doing this Hip Hop 50 thing.
16:09And I was talking to, like, Cordae about, like, his greatest, like, his moment.
16:13Music-wise, like, it don't even got to be hip hop.
16:15But, like, you know, being in this game, like, what is probably the most, like, historic moment to you?
16:20Like, this was, like, the most fucking epic shit ever.
16:23Mm, that's a good.
16:25Well, when I met Billy Joe Armstrong the day I met him, you know, and then got to put him, like, do us, like, pretty much he's on high right now.
16:33Because with Khalifa, like, pretty much used his melody of Broken Dreams in the song.
16:39So, like, when I met him and then I showed him the song, I was like, I can't wait to work with you one day.
16:44And he's like, well, we already worked.
16:46I'm like, for real?
16:47He's like, yeah.
16:47Like, we're going to clear the song.
16:49We're going to make this happen.
16:50And made it happen, got in the music video.
16:53Then ever since that, we, like, stayed cool.
16:55Like, Green Day is, like, a big inspiration to me.
16:59Like, my sister got me every Green Day album for Christmas.
17:02Wow.
17:02I jammed that to the CD scratch, playing my first act guitar, trying to play it, breaking screens and everything.
17:10So, to be in that moment, I was like, yo, this is, like, real deal manifestation in my eyes, you know?
17:15That's fire.
17:16I love the manifesting.
17:19Do you just say it in your head or is there, like, a process that you go through?
17:22I speak that shit into existence every single day.
17:26Like, I keep saying it, I keep saying it, I keep saying it, I keep saying it, I keep saying it until it comes true.
17:30I like that.
17:31I have to do that every day.
17:32You have to.
17:33Do people just call you just to feel positivity?
17:35Yeah.
17:36I don't really answer my phone like that.
17:38I feel like I should call you more often.
17:41Nah, I always just give my friends, like, good energy.
17:44Wake up happy no matter what.
17:47Even if I only got, like, an hour of sleep, my energy is going to be up and just ready and active.
17:53And I want to give that to everybody in the world.
17:55And that's why I have Rager Boy, release all good energy, rage, you know?
18:00So every single day, I just give you love and light.
18:04Anybody in Florida you want to collab with that you haven't collabed with yet?
18:08Rod Wave.
18:09Yeah.
18:10That would be fire.
18:11Me and Rod Wave would be dope together.
18:13Well, you know he, like, he listens to the radio.
18:18For real?
18:18Yeah.
18:18You know, like, some crazy birthday party here.
18:20Hey, shout out to Rod Wave, man.
18:22If you hear my music and you like it, let's collab, man.
18:25We get the meat.
18:26Let's make it happen.
18:27Yes.
18:27We're going to manifest that.
18:28Yes.
18:29Let's make that happen.
18:30Let's make that happen.
18:31Keep it real Florida, boy.
18:33Love that.
18:34Well, thank you so much for coming by to Wild 94.
18:37Hey, man, come on, man.
18:38This is my dog, man.
18:39This is my brother.
18:39We've been doing this for a couple years now.
18:42It's time for you to have a baby.
18:44Hey.
18:45Don't speak that.
18:47Don't manifest that yet.
18:50I'm cool.
18:50Join the dad club with your ears.
18:52Hey, I would admire having kids, you know, but not right now.
18:56Who else?
18:56You know, all these rappers out here, I'm not cheering, you know?
19:01They are your sons, okay?
19:03They're my cheering.
19:04Well, there you have it, man.
19:07Heart Full of Rage 2 out right now, man.
19:09Man, amazing album.
19:11I love, like I said, just how eclectic it is.
19:15My dog, Tyler Yahweh.
19:16Tyler Yahweh.
19:17There it is.
19:17My dog.
19:19Yeah.
19:19Yeah.
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