Jakarta Slim on Being Muslim, Being Friends with Doknow & Losing His Best Friend

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jakarta Slim talks about his upbringing, family life, his new rap career and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 1:00 - T-Rell is confused how Jakarta is Asian and Muslim 3:42 - Dealing with being Muslim during 9/11 and when they k*lled B*n L*den, singled out in school for being Muslim 7:22 - Jakarta started drinking in 9th grade 11:03 - Hiding his drinking and smoking from his Muslim parents 12:38 - Doing bad in school and being forced to go to continuation school 14:11 - Malt passing away during a July 4th shooting led to meeting DoKnow 20:08 - DoKnow and Jakarta became friends in the wake of Malt passing 23:15 - Connecting with Cypress Moreno and MixedByMarv. Blowing up off a snippet of his song “Lotus” on DoKnow’s page 27:15 - Feeling like he made it when he was able to charge $300 for features 31:28 - Jakarta never did any tagging with DoKnow. Jumping out of DoKnow’s car when he tried to trick him into participating 33:30 - Finally gaining some momentum with the music. Recording with Cypress, Suede and Rucci and getting ready to put out an album this year 34:22 - Growing up on battle rap. Taking music classes taught by Dumbfoundead and Anderson Paak 35:40 - Working at a mosque. Getting crazy rac**t calls after 9/11 38:24 - Everyone thinks Jakarta is Mexican 41:53 - Jakarta sings a corrido. Explains why he’s able to sing corridos without knowing Spanish 43:40 - Reacting to Bad Bunny kissing a dude on stage 47:35 - T-Rell says DoKnow is scared of RJ 48:33 - Having songs with Yhung T.O., Bravo the Bagchaser, and OneTakeJay 50:56 - Not that interested in chains and jewelry 52:35 - Not revealing too many real-life details in his music ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yes, sir, we are back with another interview and T-Rubble here just doing nothing bothering Gina
0:07.8	Bastide Trevor, so I was like you want to do the interview with me? He's like I'm down groove
0:16.0	Introduce yourself. Yeah, man. What's up, man? It's he real. I'm here with my boy Duno and we got my boy
0:22.1	Jakarta in the
0:24.1	Big deal did. Yeah, I was doing this my real homie you guys
0:30.3	Like around the minute you're just like
0:33.2	Are you nervous right now, bro?
0:41.9	It's not even hot in here, bro. It's fresh bro. He's
0:45.9	I
0:56.5	Will we just started where we started
1:01.7	I like I like the glasses to be honest. I think he's grounded. Oh
1:08.7	Look at our glasses I look Asian this hill I like
1:11.9	Bro you're not Asian bro. Yeah, I'm for sure definitely Asian. I brought he introduced you as Egyptian
1:27.9	You grew
1:30.7	And then you said he was like you know what he practice
1:34.3	What's it like Muslim no no like he was fasting
1:40.7	Because he's Muslim yeah, Asian yes, you could be Asian and Mexican and Catholic
1:48.4	He made food Muslim is not a country
1:56.7	Muslim which I was Buddhist I didn't know that Buddhist
2:00.1	Here's country's okay anyways
2:03.1	He could take it. Yeah, okay later on let us know about you let them know about you where you from how you grew up
2:08.7	Where's your family from everything how many siblings mom and dad whatever yeah damn, uh, so
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