No, John Burke, coolest podcast in the world.

And I am honored today to have my man Raz B sitting across from me. How you feeling, Jay? I'm feeling blessed and happy to be here. Thanks for the invitation. Hell yeah, man. I'm excited to have a conversation with you. Nah, man. Let's jump right in, man. Salute to you like we was talking off camera man, a little over 10 years now. Yeah. You know, you definitely be looking out for the underdog.

So, you know, just want to salute over 10 years now. Yeah. You know, you definitely be looking out for the underdog.

So, you know, just want to salute to you for sharing your platform. You still feel like the underdog? Not me. I wouldn't call myself an underdog. I just noticed that you, that you allow for a lot of up-and-coming artists to come on your platform. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of how we got going in the first place. I think that's that's dope because like you're the people champ.

I appreciate it.

I was just checking you out.

I'm all right.

Go ahead.

Hell yeah, man.

So let's go uh all the way back to the beginning

tell us a little bit about where you're from just for the people who are not familiar with your come-up story

and everything were what's up everybody out there my name is demario monte thornton publicly known

as rasby of the legendary group b2k i I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. My mom, my dad went to jail at a very young age. I grew up without a father. You know, my mom moved to Oakland when I was about eight and a half months. Oh, okay. Would your dad get locked up for? Oh, shit. I don't know. I don't have to look. I have to look that up. But you never had a relationship with him?

I don't have a relationship with him now.

He was out of my life for eight years. So, you know, grew up without a father. But so in Ohio, till what age? No, it's about like, like my mom brought me to California to Oakland about like 10 months. Oh, okay. So super early on.

Yeah, super early on right there.

Probably there for about a year.

And then my mom moved to Los Angeles where I grew up on 10th Avenue,

Slosh and Crenshaw, right?

Definitely.

So you don't really have a lot of memories of up north?

No, not at all, not at all.

...