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2025 BET Awards Media House.

Now, we're talking to the biggest stars today, bro.

No, they're only.

That's all we need to talk to. That's here. That's it. Hey, look who we got in here with us now, brother. Lefty Gunn play. Lefty Gun play. Best Latino artist, you know, I'm Cali. Now, I said it a little louder in case they ain't hit. Hey, the best Latino artists in all California. Yeah, for sure, man. I'm the one.

First of all, congratulations on all your success, bro. I appreciate you. Congratulations on y'all's success, man. Thank you, man. How you been to dust and tall the newfound fame? It happening so fast, but, you know, I'm learning as I go, and I feel sometimes I've got to get burned to learn from my... But, you know, I learned from other mistakes too, but you either got it or you don't.

Yeah.

Amen. And I feel sometimes I got to get burned to learn from my, but, you know, I learn from other mistakes too, but you either got it or you don't.

Yeah.

I got it.

One thing that made people really connect with you who may not have been familiar with your

movement is, bro, you drop a lot of real last interviews and you say about real shit.

Yeah, you got to keep it authentic, bro, But it really, yeah, some people know me just from the interviews and then they'll tap in and see the music, but some people know me for the music and tapping with the interview. So it's kind of a win-win situation. The songs are hitting a million and the interviews are hitting a million. Yeah. You just dropped the album not too long ago. You can't get right, produced by Problem and Mike and Keys. Oh, that's how? Yeah, and I got a couple billboards and, you know, all around the city and the game, you know, the games on there, Tide Dollar Sign, R.J. X4. Just at times. Yeah, yeah. Let me ask you this. How did you, what was your introduction to the music? Dr. Dre. There's some Dr. Drake when I was young. The chronic album or the two? Yeah, I remember being a little 2001. 2001, okay. He's been a little kid and just hearing it, you know, M&M. 50 Cent, you know, a lot of 50, I feel like 50 cents has got a lot of West Coast in him, you know. Dr. Yeah. East Coast, but he's a West Coast sound to me. Yeah. I can definitely see that. The first 50 cent, like before Dre, like these mixtapes, I was like in New York, but then Drake got him on the

with those beats

yeah that's the one that's the man right there

did beat from Dr. Dre. Yeah so that's

you want one of them from Dr. Drake? Oh I got one

with uh uh I always rap to big eagles

and with Scott Storch and I actually went to

Scott Storch's house and he made me the beat and that's

Lord forgive me for my sins on the number it's the first song on can get right and he remade it with

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