RJMrLA celebrates a sold-out show after a decade in the game and shares his renewed passion for giving back to the community. He opens up about wanting to create jobs, shows love to his fans and team, and emphasizes the importance of West Coast artists hitting the road to build real momentum. RJ also reflects on how the pandemic stalled a lot of careers and highlights the organic wave he’s riding now.
00:00Everybody coming to the show, so after 10 years, after 10 years, people still coming to the show to see all me, it's crazy, man, it's crazy, but I love it though, you know, now that I'm thinking about the next 10 years, I think I'm going to do this more, I think I'm going to, you feel me, do more for the community, do more for, bring more jobs to my people, you feel me, I want people to be
00:29satisfied with what's going on, congratulations, congratulations, my mom's going to tell me, look, you got to say, that's mom, hi mom, your fans love you, that's my mom right there, but I do love my fans, but all my fans, I wouldn't be here, it's all family, you know what I'm saying, they know my fans are my family, let me go my drummer right here, shout out to my drummer, EJ, man, what's up, man, talk to EJ, that's what they don't love, yeah, your boy got a damn out, man, your boy got a damn out, you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying,
00:59how do you feel about West Coast rappers who are putting in the groundwork, doing stuff for the, for the homies, for the, for the neighborhoods, but they're not getting the recognition as the mainstream, quote unquote, West Coast rappers that are getting, you know what I'm saying,
01:13West Coast artists, we kind of like spoiled with the love that we get over here, and we don't really like take off, we don't really go touch the people, we don't go to Texas, we don't go to Florida, we don't go, because it's like, so, because everybody come here, you know what I mean, like, Florida come here, you know what I'm saying,
01:31overseas come here, it's like a, it's like one of those places, you know where everybody goes, so, I guess, go with that, I think as West Coast artists, we need to just go touch the people more, you know what I mean, get your little bag together, you know what I'm saying, go to Texas, go to Atlanta, go to New York, go to Florida, go all, go hit the chilling circuit, you know what I mean, you gotta just, you know what I mean, go step, you gotta go step, put your other groundwork in, that way, people gonna like tap in and be like, oh, I know him, you know what I'm saying,
02:01that's such a, that you can just carry it on, you feel me, that's what I feel like, like, even my, artists like myself, I got so spoiled with just being out here, you know, even though I've been on, I've been to Japan, you know what I'm saying, I've been all over, all over the U.S., you know what I mean, you know what I mean, but, and then another thing too, um, COVID hit, people forget about that, people forget that we was in COVID for a whole year, locked up, for real, we couldn't go nowhere, so they kind of like put a damper in, put a little slow, you know what I'm saying,
02:31it slowed up a lot of people's movement and momentum, you know what I mean, so we have to start over again, so, like, people forget about those years too, you know what I mean, I think we was almost, like, you know what I mean, like, jumping up, like, about to break through the ceiling, and then, COVID said,
02:47put your other thing real quick, you know what I mean, you got a little bit more time to do, you know what I'm saying, so, but, I think right now, man, we're just working, I think, like, this momentum that I got,
02:55it's going crazy, you know what I mean, you can't pay for this momentum, you know what I mean, you can, but it ain't gonna be organic.
