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00:00One-on-five, one-to-bounce. Detroit Stowback for your Poppin' RV. It's your boy Showtime,
00:03the czar. In studio with me, I have a special guest, man, heating up these Detroit streets.
00:08One of the Young Flyers guys in the game right now. Flyboy Rich, what up, though?
00:12What up, though, my guy? What up, though?
00:14Man, appreciate you for stopping in today, man. How are you?
00:17Good, man. Good. Early in the morning, trying to grind.
00:19Yes, always. Gotta stay on your grind, man. Got you.
00:22Let's start from the beginning, bro. Talk about how you got into hip-hop and the rap game and
00:26all that type of stuff, man. Talk about your beginnings for me.
00:28Uh, beginnings, man, I got into hip-hop just at a young age. I was producing and stuff. It was me,
00:33uh, my people, John Boy. It was a couple of us. We was producing. We started in the basement for real.
00:38And then I kicked it off with Kid, the producer. And then I talked to Christina Campbell. And from
00:42there, it was moving on up, man. Okay. Um, talk about some of your musical influences that you had
00:48as a young. My musical influences, uh, the Tupacs, the Waynes, the Jay-Zs. It was just more so the
00:54business mindset, so the Jay-Zs and stuff like that. The Jadakiss. More so the lyricists and
00:58stuff like that. Okay. Nice. Um, cause I hear that in your, in your raps now, bro. You don't, um,
01:04you have a, you're a lyricist. You think that is falling off in the hip-hop game right now,
01:09especially among male hip-hop artists? I think it kind of fell off for real. It ain't
01:13been too much lyricism to it. They don't think you can do like lyricism and make bounce,
01:17you know, pop music and stuff to make people dance too. So I think. Why do you think that is?
01:21I don't know, bro. I think like, I think they just veered away from it for real. Like they just
01:25gave up on the lyrical side of it. Yeah. But you still type to, you still like to keep that going,
01:30man. And I'm, uh, and I like that about you because listening to your music, it's a lot of,
01:35you know, you're not trying to make the hot record. You're trying to make the right record,
01:38if that makes any sense, man. No, thanks. I appreciate that. You got a, uh, six album,
01:44uh, EP or, or, uh, album out right now. 313 to 330, 330. I guess that's how Ohio say it. Is that
01:51it? 330? Yep. Yep. Yep. All right. You and, uh, Sean B., what made you want to do a collab project?
01:54Uh, so me and Sean B., we started working together through my guy Keith. So, uh, they was working
01:59with Benny the Butcher, them team. So shout out Benny the Butcher. Nice. So we all was chopping it up
02:03and politicking. So we all was working together and then that just made us do a project. Now we working
02:07on the project with Roc Nation. Nice. How'd that come about with the project
02:11with Roc Nation? Uh, Roc Nation, it came through with this lady named Krista. I met her at Pierre's.
02:16I was in Fort Wayne and, um, I was doing some stuff with Vezo and all of them. She invited
02:19me out and stuff like that. So then I got a situation with Roc Nation. Then I ended up getting
02:23a situation with Empire as well. So shout out Waleed and Ghazi too. Okay. I'm glad you brought
02:28that up, man. Cause I seen on your profile, you got a whole bunch of different, like, I guess,
02:31record companies that you working with, bro. So is that, I ain't want to, you know,
02:35Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you explain that just a little bit, man? Cause you had a, uh, cause
02:40Dope Boy-ish, that's, or Dope-ish. I'm sorry. That's you, right? Yeah. That's my record label.
02:45That's your record label. Okay. Talk about Dope-ish. Why? So Dope-ish records. Um, I made,
02:49I made that about, I want to say like five or six years ago. I started with an artist named
02:53That Boy Hen. We did the song named Adidas. It blew up pretty good on there. Yeah. So after
02:57that, I started talking to a few people and, um, Empire just gave me a label deal. So with the
03:01label deal with Empire, it just came with, just came with that. I talked to Waleed and Ghazi and
03:06we ended up having a distribution deal through the label. So are you signed to Empire and Rock
03:13Nation or it's just deals with all of these different? Yeah. I got all, um, all my deals
03:17is like nine, nine, what's the name? So nine exclusives. Got you. Yeah. I can move around.
03:22So I kind of don't got that like tied into kind of deal. It's the, so do you want to get signed
03:26to any of these labels or do you like the independence of being able to move around
03:31like that? It just depend on if they give me the right situation. Like we working on some
03:35bigger situations. Like, I don't think I'd rather be, I think they see me as more than
03:39an artist. And I feel like the same way. Cause I move around kind of more. I do like a lot
03:42of the business side of stuff too. So I feel like they see me doing more so a bigger role
03:47than an artist. So I feel like it's going to be something bigger than that.
03:50You dropped a record earlier in the year called False Idols. Can you talk about that record
03:55for me, man? Uh, False Idols was just basically talking about people who praise the wrong stuff
04:00or praise the wrong people. They ain't not seeing like, uh, behind the covers type of stuff.
04:04So I just wanted to bring it to the light. Nice. Um, now you talk a lot about business,
04:09man. I see you got your hand a little bit of everything, man. Why, why was business so
04:13important to you, especially when it comes to it? Because a lot of people don't know the
04:16business aspect of it. What made you want to take a deep dive into the business aspect of
04:20hip hop? I started, so it, it really came from me watching the, um, bios and documentaries
04:26that are all the old people like the, uh, TLCs, the 3LWs and stuff like that. And seeing that
04:31they didn't know the business side of it, like how to get the royalties and how to get your LLCs
04:35and you know what I'm saying? EINs and all that kind of stuff. So that's what really made me dive
04:39deep into it. And then working with all these labels and stuff, I started taking the classes
04:43and, you know, jumping in with them and stuff like that, getting into the hip hop fraternities and
04:47stuff like that with Pimp and Ken and all them. So they kind of was schooling me and teaching me
04:50more of the game too. How important is it to know, um, I guess the ins and outs of the hip,
04:57because you see people getting into bad deals all the time, man. How do you prevent yourself
05:00from doing that? Like people always want to just do the music, but then there's a whole nother side
05:04to the music. Man. Yeah. For a fact, you got to learn that part, but the main thing, you just
05:09got to focus on that part. Like you got to have that focus on it. I know I talk to a lot of artists
05:13and they be like, man, I just want to do the art side. Somebody else handle that. But I'm like,
05:16shoot, you want your money from the art too. So you don't want to deal with that. Cause in the long
05:20run, in the full times, like say like about a year or two from now, you see, um, some blowing up,
05:26you done did about 30, 40 million streams. You done did about 40 million on YouTube and stuff like
05:30that. Now you like, hold on, where my residuals at? You ain't did the business side of it. And
05:34somebody else got all your money now. How important is ownership in music? Very important.
05:39Definitely get your publishing. So why do they sell that? Yeah. Why do they sell publishing? Why do they
05:42sell their royalties and stuff? I don't understand why. Some people sell a certain part of publishing.
05:47So they got publishing deals now, like, uh, they're, you can give them like six songs and
05:51they'll give you a certain amount of money, but you still own, um, you still keep royalties from
05:55certain parts of it. Okay. So some people do that too. And they know they going to push the
06:00song more cause they got it now. And do you own all of your music and publishing rights and all that
06:04stuff? Sure. Okay. So how, if artists wanted to find out how to do that, man, what, what do you suggest
06:09an artist does to, uh, educate themselves on royalties and ownership and all that type of
06:13stuff, man? Where is this information down for these people? Man, I would really say Google it.
06:17And, um, AI is your best friend right now. For real, you can AI a lot of stuff and they're
06:21going to give you some tools for real or just hit me up. I, I be telling a lot of people stuff all the
06:26time and I be holding classes and stuff too. So they learn. Really? Yeah. You go to class where?
06:31Like a, uh, yeah, I be doing them at club tank. The old boy. Nice. So this is a class and they can
06:37just go and learn about, you know. All right. Uh, I want to ask you about your podcast. All right.
06:41Tell people the name of it real quick. Uh, the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's not my podcast.
06:46That's my people podcast. I will tell you about them. Uh, people of Detroit, but I got the one
06:51Mike on wheels that we working on. Nice. Okay. All right. What made you want to,
06:54do you want to step into the podcast game or you said you, you starting it? I think I am about
06:58to step into the podcast game. Yeah. Yeah. What made you want to do that, man? I heard, uh,
07:00Tyler created says too many podcasts. So now it's like, but I, I like hearing hip hop artists
07:05talk about their experiences. So some of it be lessons and stuff in there. So I feel like,
07:09I feel like it's different. Um, like what, what he's saying? He like, it's too many podcasts,
07:13but I think it's like the person that's doing the podcast really. You know what I'm saying?
07:16It's like, if you're coming from artist to artist and an artist telling people.
07:19But see them, the people that can talk about it. That's what I want to hear, man. Yeah. That's why I was like,
07:23I feel like I should do a podcast because it's like an artist doing the podcast.
07:26It makes more difference. So, um,
07:30what are you going to be teaching some of the,
07:32some of these classes that you have on there on the podcast, man,
07:35about the business aspect of it? For sure. I'm definitely going to be
07:37teaching them some gems. I'm definitely going to be dropping gems in there all the time,
07:40letting them know one of the episodes might be just full of gems.
07:43Nice. All right. Um, a couple more things, man. Um,
07:48do you have any new projects that you want to talk about coming up, man,
07:51that people should know about or be on the lookout for, man? I know you just dropped one in April.
07:54Talk about some of the projects that you got coming up.
07:55Uh, yeah, I'm working on a compilation with, uh,
07:58rock nation with is me shine P and my guy, AP Philippe. So we just did a deal with
08:04rock nation right now. So we're going to drop a compilation with them.
08:07And then I'm doing something with empire right now too. I'm working on. So I don't know the name
08:11of the project yet, but I know it's going to be a big project I'm working on. So I got a lot of
08:15classics on there for sure. Fire. And is there anyone that you want to work with
08:19in the city or outside the city that you haven't been able to work with yet?
08:23In the city, it's a few people for sure. Uh, payroll, I want to work with.
08:29Skilla, I want to work with for sure. Nice.
08:32I think we'll do a dope track and a cash kit. I want to work with.
08:35Nice. Nice. Big, a lot of lyricists, man. The lyricism is big to you.
08:38Mm-hmm. And I see that, man. I hear that in all your music,
08:41man. And I love that about you, bro. All right. Flyboy rich, man. Tell them how they can find you.
08:45Tell them all your socials and stuff, man, so they can tap in with you. Stay tapped in with you
08:48with everything you got going on. Oh, man. If you Google Flyboy Rich,
08:51everything should pop up. But Instagram at you know, flyboy, U-K-N-O-W-F-L-Y-B-O-I.
08:58Everywhere else, Flyboy Rich, man. Just put it in. You're going to see it everywhere. Spotify,
09:01Apple, Tidal, everywhere you can search up. Go look international.
09:05Flyboy Rich, man. Showtime is all right. It's one on five, one to bounce. Peace. Yep.
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