The Hilltop Glove Podcast | Holidae X

[00:00:00] DJ And?: Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Hilltop Love Podcast, love, love. Today we honestly, with Mr. Holiday, X Holiday is a rapper, producer, veteran, comedian, and podcaster. As a child, he turned to a male. He turned to male role models in sports and entertainment. He spent a lot of time growing up teaching himself how to dance, rap, and entertain.

[00:00:20] DJ And?: His first crack at music was in a talent show in the eighth grade. While holiday was into sports and academics. It was his passion for poetry and regret and regrettable, inability to sing. That turned into rap. As he progressed through high school. He began making trips to Augusta, Georgia to perform in talent shows and compete with other acts.

[00:00:39] DJ And?: Some of which were famous by the early two thousands. After high school, he joined the Navy as an avenue to learn about his country. In 2007, he started his record label Southern Comfort with his childhood friend, JC and Stags. In efforts to grow the label, as well as bridge the cultures of Atlanta and Charleston, he continued to work with artists as crafter [00:01:00] skills.

[00:01:00] DJ And?: In 2015, he started the Distraction Network where art, politics, sports, and all other outlets of cultures come to listen to points of views, as well as bring their own. He is also the member of the Discussions podcast, where guys from different walks of life discuss current events. He is also the owner of the studio that we happen to be at.

[00:01:21] DJ And?: Shout out 

[00:01:22] Ta-Myia: and the sponsor, the podcast sponsor of the podcast. 

[00:01:24] Mic: There's so comes through all the time, all the time, show up and we appreciate him. 

[00:01:29] DJ And?: Tell show people show up. Yeah. But thank 

[00:01:32] Holidae X: you. Who on that even joining today? Right here. 

[00:01:36] Ta-Myia: Let's wrap up 

[00:01:37] Holidae X: is the hardest website. 

[00:01:39] Ta-Myia: This is, this is the hardest person to find any information on it.

[00:01:42] Ta-Myia: I was like, okay. What am I going to say? I'm just gonna find what I can. Oh, they said 

[00:01:47] Holidae X: fuck the algorithm. I don't like it. It's the reason for it. I don't like it. So I work for I can't say who I work for, but I work in cyber security. About 2013, once I started [00:02:00] realizing that they were starting to copy the internet every day I deleted everything that I had off things on I wanted.

[00:02:05] Holidae X: Because when you talk to people about what you do, true, nobody believes it unless they can see something. Right? True. So what I used to do was I talk to people about the stuff that I do, and if they don't believe in the get ke say, show me. And then I go show 'em. But if you don't type everything in exactly the right way, that's See it.

[00:02:21] Holidae X: Right? There you go. Ah, there you go. So that's a old reverb nation out there that some people can find. They can't find the YouTube. Nope. Nope. But it's, it is done like that on purpose. I have my own because. Everybody wants to get an algorithm. I'd rather for people to come to my website. Yeah. So smart, smart.

[00:02:38] Holidae X: When I sign off, I just say, you can find everything that I do@distractionnetwork.com and it's because I don't want, I don't want Yeah. Because when you do stuff, like I got friends that have podcasts on iHeartRadio. Yeah. And they're like very liberal people. Yep. Anti, well, very pro-gay and anti-guns and all this stuff.

[00:02:58] Holidae X: And then they're like, Hey, we're gonna roll to [00:03:00] commercial, and then there's a gun commercial that come up. Oh, 

[00:03:02] Ta-Myia: I've never thought 

[00:03:03] Holidae X: about that. Yeah, you do. So I like way y'all do it. I actually, I took all my stuff off it's purpose that way. I moved everything to free our heart. So even if you listen to my iHeart, there's no commercials.

[00:03:14] Holidae X: Oh. So, but talking to STAs in the way that y'all do things with Hilltop and get. Local people that you actually like? I think that's the route down. I'm may end up going. Yeah. Once I get some time. I'm about say 

[00:03:26] Ta-Myia: every day. You do? 

[00:03:27] Holidae X: Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I ain't mention I'm in the doctor's program. Like what? 

[00:03:31] Ta-Myia: Can't, ain't I can't find.

[00:03:34] DJ And?: I know. I mean, I know, but Yeah, it's not, you can't, I really stalk 

[00:03:38] Holidae X: people. Yeah. It's in information insurance. Okay. I'm like three months away from a doctor's. Congratulations. But I quit. Congratulations. I took a year off because I had like, Three uncles and a aunt die two years. Hard to hear. I was like, I'm gonna take some time off.

[00:03:51] DJ And?: Be with family. Huh? Be with family. That's a lot. Take care of 

[00:03:54] Holidae X: family. That's what I told them to be with family and take care of the family. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But I was like, ah. Every time [00:04:00] somebody dies, it's like up to me to do something. So, yeah. 

[00:04:02] DJ And?: Yeah. I was about to say, yeah, you're the responsible party now.

[00:04:06] DJ And?: When's 

[00:04:06] Holidae X: your birthday? Well, if you live it right. September 12th, Virgo. I already knew that. But still in the podcast when something people came, you didn't get the Oh, I knew she was the Virgo. Yeah. When you said it 

[00:04:15] Ta-Myia: was up to you, that means you work hard. People know your work ethic. 

[00:04:18] Holidae X: Yeah. And they do that, you said, and they do that.

[00:04:21] DJ And?: Hey, that's why I always trusted and I always knew who you were as an individual. You're always solid. And I know just for our audience, since it's gonna be hard for them to find you on the inter web because you 

[00:04:32] Holidae X: explained, 

[00:04:33] DJ And?: just tell them a little bit about yourself, specifically what it was like growing up in 

[00:04:37] Holidae X: Batesburg.

[00:04:38] Holidae X: Leeville, Batesburg, Leeville, South Carolina country as heck. 

[00:04:41] Mic: So sure as fuck Poultry Festival. Shout out to the poultry post. Shout out 

[00:04:45] Ta-Myia: porch Chicken. Chicken is chicken 

[00:04:47] Holidae X: is chicken, bro. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We actually did a, a big show at the Porch Festival year one year, but we're talking about eighties and nineties base bur leeville.

[00:04:54] Holidae X: So it was like empty, really 

[00:04:56] DJ And?: empty. Said in what, what words? So up empty. 

[00:04:59] Holidae X: Yeah, [00:05:00] empty. So we're next to a, a fully black town. So I about Yeah. Explain it to you. Explain that. I talk about this a lot. So on one side of base Burro, Leeville, it's a white town called Gilbert. Very hick. Confederate flags everywhere.

[00:05:14] Holidae X: Flying high. The other side, black as hell. Po ass rich brain. Mm-hmm. I love y'all Rich Brain. I think. So you are like in between a very white town and a very black town. And Base Bear Leesville is split on Leesville. At one point it was a full White Town base. Spur was a black town. Yep. And basically it's a lot of, I talk about it sometimes on Facebook when I go through there.

[00:05:40] Holidae X: When Black History might come around, I remind people of the history. But Base Spur was a black town. Leeville was a White Town, and they start integrating intermingling people from a place called Sandhill moved more into Leesville. Then Base Bird and Leesville started when it came to politics, it was too many black [00:06:00] people in Batesburg.

[00:06:00] Holidae X: So they merged the towns. It wasn't nothing because it wasn't because of they wanted to have more of a say in what's going on. These black people got too much power to stay now. Mm-hmm. So let's me, these towns to take back over, wash it out. Back when segregation ended, that's what it ended when they came back together, right?

[00:06:18] Holidae X: Yeah. Yeah. They burned down the all black high school I heard about because it was the new high school. Yeah. And they was about to move all the white people to that side of town. And the state was like, no, we not gonna give y'all any money. But if they would've left a high school there, then that side of town would've kept being enriched.

[00:06:36] Holidae X: Right? 

[00:06:36] Mic: Mm-hmm. And, and do who, who do you want selling the land for the new real estate developments? Yeah, because I'm from, I'm from Gilbert originally. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 

[00:06:43] Holidae X: So that's Oh, you from Confederate Flag Country. Oh yeah. See and that's the history of Gilbert. I knew I didn't, like you

[00:06:48] Mic: said, I'll do this. My folks was from Florida. They just showed up day, well we gonna live out here away from the city. Mm-hmm. 

[00:06:54] DJ And?: I remember we used to go out by just quick, sorry. I remember we used to go out to Mike's house back in the day I was in [00:07:00] in high school and they'd be like, Hey, make sure when it's dark that y'all get, go straight back.

[00:07:05] DJ And?: Go straight back. Don't stop nowhere. Just go be straight back home. Real. You about 

[00:07:08] Mic: high school? No, I was out on 3 78. I out near Lincoln, so. Oh, okay. So yeah, I was, that was a good away from Gilbert proper. But I mean the history there was that like Gilbert was so clan that like everybody, I 

[00:07:18] DJ And?: saw 

[00:07:18] Holidae X: Klan marches, everybody got ran outta Gilbert's.

[00:07:20] Holidae X: A teenager. I watched Klan marches. Yeah. I used to, I used to run by beat Rodney King. Mm-hmm. They did the Klan March from Main Street Base, the Main Street Leeville. And that's the first time I seen like. Strong straight up hoods and shit. Yes. I'm talking about the fear in black man eyes. Like I didn't know that black people was scared of white people like that until, until I saw them scared as hell when 'em Klan marches came.

[00:07:41] DJ And?: Yeah, I thought it was, I, I remember I didn't, I remember when we first moved up to Columbia, Lexington area and I was at Lexington High. Running track and I did distance, so it'd be me, a bunch of skinny white boys and two Asians running through, running in the back woods. And I I didn't know that the, the [00:08:00] grandmaster of the Klan Yeah.

[00:08:01] DJ And?: Lived down the road. Yeah. So we were running, one day, we were running by their house and we seen like the little clan man and the, the little cross. And then all the people were like, Hey, we need to hurry up, let's run quicker. I was like, wow, what's wrong? They're like, nah, we need to get y'all outta here.

[00:08:14] DJ And?: We just really didn't know where we were gonna pop out at. We ran like eight to 10 miles Right. For training. Mm-hmm. And we just popped up right there at house. We had turned that thing back around there, hustled back down up here. I didn't know what was going on. I just moved up there. I didn't know it was exactly what was popping.

[00:08:26] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. 

[00:08:26] Ta-Myia: But yeah, life was in danger. 

[00:08:28] Mic: Yeah. And you know, like for people that ain't from South Carolina, like, like, South Carolina is not what everybody says, but also it's like way 

[00:08:36] DJ And?: Absolutely. What everybody says. Yes, 

[00:08:38] Holidae X: yes. Yeah. They smiling your face. 

[00:08:41] Ta-Myia: That's what they do. Y'all is a producer to you guys, you know, clearly popping out songs.

[00:08:47] Holidae X: That's why I tell people about South Carolina. It's like, so in South Carolina it's the racism, but it's smiling Your face. Racism. 

[00:08:55] DJ And?: Yeah. It's polite. It's polite. Yeah. It's 

[00:08:57] Holidae X: polite. And they learned that in South [00:09:00] Carolina. They learned that if you're smiling while you're racist, people let you go a lot farther.

[00:09:03] Holidae X: Oh yeah. So yeah, that's what happens. You got an old school smile in your face. Racism down right down here. Damn. That's a good point. Now I finished my alcohol too fast. Yeah. 

[00:09:14] DJ And?: Wait, wait, what you saying that And tell us about that. Just growing up, how was it as as a student growing, going to high school before you, before you 

[00:09:22] Holidae X: left?

[00:09:22] Holidae X: Base birth high school was boring to me, so I was like, like on some real shit. I was like a, a nerdy thug. I was 

[00:09:28] DJ And?: about to say, because you were always very intelligent, bro. That was never saying 

[00:09:31] Holidae X: that I was the guy. Do you remember the, I wanna say it's jump rope for heart, but it was like these little feet that you put on the wall.

[00:09:37] Holidae X: Yeah. Jump rope, rope for heart. How far you're right. That's crazy. So I would be in the second week of school and I'm the only foot that's at the end. So I've read all the books. Wow. And to the point where the teachers would start thinking I was lying. And they used to sit me down, they used sit me down in the principal's office and ask me about these books.

[00:09:53] Holidae X: And I used to tell 'em about 'em because they was like, how did you read this many books? I said, well get outta school at three. I didn't do nothing [00:10:00] but read all day. I read my history book by the third week of school. Does it take you to read a book? 

[00:10:04] Ta-Myia: Teach? Yeah. 

[00:10:05] Holidae X: So, so. Like I was a nerd, but I grew up in Leeville Gardens, which is one of the hoods in Leeville.

[00:10:13] Holidae X: So I had to fight every day. Yeah. It didn't matter. And then it was like, oh, if you can't beat the nerdy kid up, then there's nothing wrong with you. And so I'm fighting every day and they couldn't beat the nerdy kid up. There was one dude and I give him a shout at every time I talk about it, but James Cook.

[00:10:27] Mic: James Cook. Where you 

[00:10:28] Holidae X: at? James Cook. I'm six foot now. James Cook, they called him Dre Bly. So he's like, he, he wouldn't be afraid of me telling the story, Matt, about me telling the story. But Dre Bly has a name. He went in New Bad College. He was like the best corner we had for a long time in football.

[00:10:42] Holidae X: Yeah. But he was like, I think I was at this time about five 10. He's like five, four. Wow. But that nigga used to knock me the fuck out. 

[00:10:51] Ta-Myia: Wow. All the time. He's the only 

[00:10:53] Holidae X: person. Me, I would fight and I would give anybody them hands, but when it came to him, his hands were so heavy, man. They used to, he like,[00:11:00] anyway, that's a real thing.

[00:11:01] Holidae X: It's a real thing. Real thing. So being a nerd, growing up, like a nerdy thought type person I was always mingling with everybody. So, and I was the class clown. And so it is kind of weird. Like I get laughed at, I get laughed with, I'm laughing at people and it was just a whole bunch of fun. School was no problem for me.

[00:11:20] Holidae X: I didn't have to read, I think the la other than like reading history and stuff of fun. Mm-hmm. Any kind of like actual work that I had to do when opening a book. I didn't have to start doing that until like my last few classes in my master's program. Wow. So it was like, because everything is just natural.

[00:11:37] Holidae X: Like everything feels like common sense to me. It just make logic. Yeah. 

[00:11:41] DJ And?: So 

[00:11:42] Mic: you know what that means, right? You, you get yourself tuned out and synced up how you need to be. Yeah. I guess it just flows to you. It means you working some things out. 

[00:11:51] DJ And?: Yeah. 

[00:11:51] Holidae X: Yeah, right. It started getting harder once I started having kids, but yeah.

[00:11:54] Holidae X: Yeah. Well, yeah. That's 

[00:11:54] DJ And?: part of too. 

[00:11:55] Mic: Yeah. 

[00:11:56] DJ And?: Yeah. Children. Children change that up. I heard 

[00:11:58] Mic: they 

[00:11:59] DJ And?: some of [00:12:00] your energies a lot. I keep hearing about it like they suck it outta you. I heard have it. I They can change your They ain't never killed yet. Oh. Good job. Look. 

[00:12:07] Holidae X: See, that's why I look Ain't

[00:12:08] Ta-Myia: over. Y'all look burn out dying. They ain't 

[00:12:12] Holidae X: Tamaya. I'm just 

[00:12:13] Mic: saying. Yeah. You know there was also like this, this art tour that's been going on. Yeah. 

[00:12:18] Holidae X: He, both of 

[00:12:19] DJ And?: them are like, they'll do like 

[00:12:20] Holidae X: 900 different things. Yeah. I run around all day. Right. I believe it. I've been, I'd say I didn't take on mouth off yet, but I'm gonna take some time off.

[00:12:28] Holidae X: 'cause I feel, I feel the burnout coming. 

[00:12:30] DJ And?: That's why I need to realize, I need to figure out how to, how to take off time. And you take care of myself when you do that. 

[00:12:35] Mic: Right? Because I've been trying to experiment with this. Mm-hmm. 'cause I think my preferred method is to pour a hundred percent in and then take the long break deep.

[00:12:42] Mic: Right. But that doesn't work when you have like, you know, multiple things. 

[00:12:47] DJ And?: Yeah. Overlapping jobs. Overlapping, 

[00:12:49] Mic: yeah. Daily activities. Yeah. You can do that if you, if you freelance in 10 99, you get done with a project and get a big check, take a break. 

[00:12:54] Holidae X: The way I do it, that's how I, so my cyber security to work, that's a nine to five.

[00:12:59] Holidae X: So [00:13:00] I do that nine to five every day. That's part of my routine. My kids, I don't skip on my kids. My kids get morning time for me, they get evening time with mama. Oh, okay. Smart. By the time I get off of work, it's up to me what I want to do. So for the past, Two months, it's been, I ain't got school to do. I'm going to the gym.

[00:13:19] Holidae X: So I just go to the gym, show my stress. But for the past month, my daughter's been trying to get me to write a song for him. So I've been coming to the studio for about an hour before I go to the gym, but I won't give it more than an 

[00:13:30] Ta-Myia: hour. Okay. So you block, you cut it off at a certain time. 

[00:13:33] DJ And?: This seems to be a thing.

[00:13:35] DJ And?: This, this is 

[00:13:35] Holidae X: thing for M&m. They say Eminem go to the, go to the studio at nine and leave at five, block a job, whether he finished song or not. So I got that from him. Smart. From listening to what they said about him. Hmm. 

[00:13:45] DJ And?: That's one thing about successful people do, how they, I will say this, you darn memory is pretty damn good.

[00:13:51] DJ And?: Yeah. You don't forget shit because like I've known him for a while and I'm telling you just like I don't have to be around him all the time. Whenever I pop back up, I'll talk and et cetera. We'll, [00:14:00] we'll link back up, but the, their memory's impeccable. And just from everything that you do, how do you, how do you keep everything in order?

[00:14:07] Ta-Myia: He's a Virgo. Stimulate. You don't, nah. 

[00:14:11] Mic: Life all over the damn. Yeah, that's 

[00:14:13] Ta-Myia: what I'm saying. Virgo are really structured Right. But we still have chaos in our mind. Mm-hmm. But we organize our everyday life. Right. 

[00:14:20] Holidae X: I, I have a morning routine 'cause it's, I wake up early enough so I ain't gotta deal with people for about an hour.

[00:14:26] Holidae X: Smart. I need an hour. I need at least an hour. So wake up four 30 that's Mark. I wake up at four 30. I do my meditation, I do my schedule. I go look at my schedule, make sure I ain't missing anything. Then I go wake the kids up. So I'm taking that, that's how 

it's, 

[00:14:41] DJ And?: I'm 

[00:14:41] Ta-Myia: taking that. You know, it's so crazy.

[00:14:43] Ta-Myia: It's like I've been getting, like, something has been waking me up at four in the morning every day and I'm like, it's that fucking yoga. What is this? Like, this is, is not me. But I don't know. I know you're right. I know you're right. Fucking yoga, I'm, you feel the sun coming? Something is telling me to just get up, wake up and becausecause.

[00:14:56] Ta-Myia: I don't like to deal with people in, in the morning time either, so I'm like, maybe it's telling me to [00:15:00] like, just get up and just take that as your time. Wake up. Yeah. To actually What time you go to bed? Like around like 

[00:15:06] Holidae X: 12, one? I ain't watching the name. Okay. 12 one. I ain't watching the name. Y'all, that's me too.

[00:15:12] Holidae X: Yeah. So you only get like three, four hours of sleep just like me. That's, I am. 

[00:15:15] DJ And?: Y'all operate pretty well off 

[00:15:16] Holidae X: of that? Yes. No, I do. I'm about to ask. You 

[00:15:19] Ta-Myia: already know I sleep, like take my naps. I, I 

[00:15:21] DJ And?: take naps. She needs to sleep. I don't You be operating well off of that. Mm-hmm. He sound like Mark Walberg. God darn.

[00:15:26] DJ And?: I'm looking at this man's schedule, right. Martin Wahlberg, he wakes up at 4, 4 30 every morning. Mm-hmm. He does his routine to start today. This is hilarious. This is weird. This must really work. I think I may have to try to do this. It really work. He does that part of routine deal himself. You talking Marky Mark Marky Marky 

[00:15:40] Mic: as Mark.

[00:15:40] Mic: Mark, mark, Renaissance man, Fort Jackson back in the eighties. Yes. I got, I got very interesting stories that, I mean, there's second hand, but I could probably tell him, I can probably tell you to 

[00:15:51] DJ And?: tie one of them in time. You got time about, but yeah, he gets up for, and he does his hour to himself. Mm-hmm.

[00:15:57] DJ And?: Whatever he says it may be meditation [00:16:00] or, or yoga or just, yeah, drink, drinking baby's blood or whatever. Something weird like that. He does that. 

[00:16:04] Mic: Sorry, mark. No, no. You 

[00:16:06] Holidae X: could be a really great guy. Allegedly. 

[00:16:08] DJ And?: Allegedly. And then after, after that is completed, he'll get his meal in. Then he goes to do his, his gym work.

[00:16:16] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. Because, you know, he takes his supplements, whatever, does his gym work. And then after he finishes up that gym work, he'll see the family and then he goes to, Whatever the work is for the day. Okay. He gets back in the evening, he has a small, like he has his lunch in the midday, like small lunch. And then when he gets back in the evening, he has his dinner, he does his wind down, sees the kids, does whatever he needs to do with them, puts him to bed, slows down at seven.

[00:16:38] DJ And?: By eight o'clock he'll be getting ready to get in bed. Doesn't mean he's going to sleep. Mm-hmm. Because I remember back in the day, pastor tells us, get, get, just be in the bed. You don't gotta be asleep or be in the bed. He really practices that he'll be in the bedroom area. He may not go to sleep till later on that night, but he gets in the bed around that time and he'll be back up at 4, 4 30.

[00:16:57] DJ And?: Yeah. And I'm looking at that. That's not the first part heard. I was like, [00:17:00] gosh darn. 

[00:17:00] Mic: This thing must work. I mean, if you, if you live it right, it must work. And your body, part of it's what you eat too. It is what you eat. Yeah. Because yeah, if you're breaking down stuff, it's very hard for your body to break down.

[00:17:09] Mic: You will 

[00:17:10] DJ And?: be up. You're gonna be 

[00:17:11] Mic: up or, and use the, or you're just not like you had 10, 12 hours of sleep ain't going do you. Right. 'cause you, you're expending so much energy, digestion. You fruit. True. Yeah. Eat steaks and porks and things. You know 

[00:17:22] Ta-Myia: that, that heavy meat, heavy meats of 

[00:17:24] Mic: the mammals, 

[00:17:25] Ta-Myia: the ma duck 

[00:17:26] Holidae X: cans of porks.

[00:17:27] Holidae X: The only meat you should eat is women. Ooh. 

[00:17:29] Ta-Myia: Spicy. Spicy 

[00:17:31] Holidae X: and chicken. And chicken and chicken. 

[00:17:33] DJ And?: Chicken, chicken. I like the fish. The like, like, 

[00:17:37] Holidae X: oh wow. Lord Jesus. Y'all wander about me, right? Huh? Y'all wander my mouth out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You good? You good? You 

[00:17:42] DJ And?: good? Oh, sorry. Lord Jesus. That was funny though.

[00:17:45] DJ And?: Alright. And so, of course you being one of our sponsors on our show, of course you made that disclaimer. Part of the reason you're able to do that is because you're an entrepreneur, you do own your own business. Three and three, that is right. Gosh, 

[00:17:57] Mic: three, unless you figure out how to do it, why, why [00:18:00] just do 

[00:18:00] DJ And?: one.

[00:18:01] Holidae X: How about 

[00:18:01] Ta-Myia: three? Not 

[00:18:02] DJ And?: another three? 

[00:18:03] Holidae X: Man. It's for, it's for reasons though. My clothing line and apparel is because I have a niece that's a very good artist. Smart. I see. And I wanted to show her how to monetize her art. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, so she has an outlet. Y'all, y'all interview Mo I always say her name wrong.

[00:18:20] Holidae X: Moro Mosaic. Moro. 

[00:18:22] DJ And?: Mosa. Yeah. Yeah. 

[00:18:24] Holidae X: Hey Alex. She is? Yeah, Alex is, Carmen is my niece, but Carmen looks up the Alex. I was about to introduce them to each other ' cause I introduced Alex to a few people around here for podcasts and stuff like that. Oh, cool. But I was about to introduce them to each other, but I just never got around to it.

[00:18:40] Holidae X: Like, she started getting real attitude, got real busy real fast. Yeah, I see that. And then like Carmen started getting busy and then I started getting, no, my schedule stayed the same. I was about to say you were still doing together. Yeah. I couldn't get no more busy. Yeah. I'm actually, I have more free time now than I did up like, up to about December.

[00:18:59] Holidae X: Wow. [00:19:00] Yeah. 

[00:19:00] DJ And?: So you had a little bit of chance to 

[00:19:01] Holidae X: slow it down. I have one day stuff that Sunday. 

[00:19:05] Ta-Myia: My God, it's, everything is coming back full circle. We're just talking about this on the last episode. Yeah. Oh, 

[00:19:10] DJ And?: mm-hmm. But yeah, with the young lady, just the idea of the savage Have 

[00:19:14] Ta-Myia: a day honoring. Honoring that day.

[00:19:16] Ta-Myia: Well, the one before that, yeah. We were all talking about how work-life balance, like being 

[00:19:21] DJ And?: entrepreneur, balance and Sunday balance, and Sunday everybody's, that's Sunday. No one touches that Sunday. Oh, 

[00:19:24] Holidae X: well my Sunday is when I do most all my business work. Well explain that. It's still to yourself. Yeah, but it's to myself.

[00:19:32] Holidae X: But I'm doing, I'm doing my podcast. I'm making sure all my books is right. I'm talking to the accountants and stuff like that. So, you just ain't out the field. It's my myself day. He ain't out field, out the field. You 

[00:19:42] DJ And?: ride, you weren't riding around 'cause 

[00:19:44] Holidae X: you riding around a I'm riding around and getting no, no crack sales.

[00:19:46] Holidae X: Look, look, he got that rough rider

[00:19:47] Holidae X: sales, none of that. No crack sales. None. I don't do none of that on Sunday. But see this is, that's what Monday through Friday that I heard the other day. 10 to two. 

[00:19:56] DJ And?: Hey, y'all catching between 10 to two. Leave him alone. He 

[00:19:58] Holidae X: the onto the [00:20:00] stop sign with the on it. Oh Lord 

[00:20:02] Ta-Myia: Jesus.

[00:20:02] Holidae X: But yeah, I. 

[00:20:03] Ta-Myia: I didn't know that. I mean, I just, I just looked at the necklace and I was like, oh, okay. And you do music. So I was like, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. It 

[00:20:10] DJ And?: do, right? Yeah. Come on. What, what were you gonna say? 

[00:20:12] Mic: Oh shit, I don't even know that.

[00:20:14] Mic: Oh, it's about self-care. It was about self care. Yeah. It was, it was you know, I, I got, I got other day jobs where I'm periodically do listen to conferences and things. Somebody was talking about self-care and the lady that was presented made this point that self-care is not necessarily sitting and having a bubble bath and having your mimosa if that's not what the fuck you need to have happen.

[00:20:32] Mic: Mm-hmm. Oh. If every morning when you wake up, you are stressed out about the shit that you need to do in your life, that is not your job. Mm-hmm. Then maybe your self-care day is doing all of that shit. Yeah, maybe your self-care day is getting all your shit in order so the next week you ain't gotta worry about it.

[00:20:47] Mic: Mm-hmm. Because it's all structured 

[00:20:47] DJ And?: probably. I like why that sound 

[00:20:48] Ta-Myia: right? That's what I do. 'cause remember y'all kept telling me, y'all, you need to take a break. Slow down your health is important. I'm sitting at home still on my laptop, like, yeah, this is me taking a break. Right. Oh, 

[00:20:58] DJ And?: I believe you. I [00:21:00] believe you.

[00:21:00] DJ And?: I 

[00:21:00] Ta-Myia: can't just sit and watch tv. Like, I'm just like, oh my gosh. People really do this. Like, it feels 

[00:21:05] DJ And?: like a waste. 

[00:21:05] Ta-Myia: Yeah. I feel like how could we get so much done? I, 

[00:21:08] Holidae X: that's originally why I went to podcast. See, I was like, wait a minute. They got all this e s, ESP N stuff on podcast. 

[00:21:16] DJ And?: Yep. 

[00:21:16] Mic: Listen. Yep. Listen, I ain't gonna sit, watch the bullshit.

[00:21:18] Mic: Listen, I ain't listen to it and do my damn job and 

[00:21:20] Holidae X: keep working. I started with his and hers, Jemele and Mike. Yeah, man. And it went away. Well, because they are I know about their people. Yeah, you Right. Which is 

[00:21:31] DJ And?: is a good reason. I mean, you're good reason, 

[00:21:33] Holidae X: you're so fooled with it. The weird thing is about their people, the one that everybody was complaining about so much is still with e s, espn.

[00:21:41] Holidae X: I know. 

[00:21:41] DJ And?: I know. 

[00:21:42] Mic: I know. 

[00:21:43] DJ And?: I know exactly who you, I know exactly who, yep. Baldheaded ship's for. Yep. Mm-hmm. Still with it. Who? Who owns E Ss P N Disney. Oh. Oh, do they? Disney owns E S P N. Yep. Oh yeah. They took on their ship couple years ago. They, they 

[00:21:56] Mic: own, they own everything. Marvel two, don't they? 

[00:21:58] DJ And?: Yep. Mm-hmm.

[00:21:59] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. [00:22:00] They on 

[00:22:00] Holidae X: that one. They, you wait until you see Wolverine do Sports Center. Oh 

[00:22:03] Mic: my Lord. Jesus. Wait, wait. They, they own the Star 

[00:22:05] DJ And?: Wars and stuff too? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They got that too. They got that little films. Yeah, they got that too. They, they own that. Let's play some football.

[00:22:12] DJ And?: They own all of 

[00:22:13] Holidae X: that. You got your, your screen table on what? One minute. Yeah, man, it's real quick. ' cause if I don't, 

that's 

[00:22:19] DJ And?: the it thing. Yeah, man. If I don't, if I don't, I gotta get it to go blo because I like you log back in. I don't want my stuff just 

[00:22:25] Holidae X: on It is I, I did that when I got kids, like I said at the one minute.

[00:22:29] Holidae X: So I could walk away, say soon. You got kids, you walk away, they the, oh snap. 

[00:22:33] DJ And?: Close that off. Close it out. Yeah. Now of course this all leads us into asking you about 

[00:22:40] Holidae X: finding your voice. I can't talk about my pen size on the podcast. Dang, bro. Dang. Skipped that 

[00:22:44] Ta-Myia: question. Can't skip that one. He can't talk 

[00:22:46] DJ And?: about what his panties size, he can't talk about that on the, oh, 

[00:22:48] Ta-Myia: shut up Tamaya.

[00:22:50] Ta-Myia: I'm like, I did not put that question on there. Like, y'all, you play too much Steve Virgos. So play too much. 

[00:22:56] DJ And?: Alright, so, everybody that we spoke with today, [00:23:00] and this is interesting, everybody is an entrepreneur in their own right now. What gave, now I said, this is weird for me to ask you this, but yeah man.

[00:23:07] DJ And?: What gave you your voice and your confidence to perform? 

[00:23:09] Holidae X: I have a voice in con

[00:23:11] Ta-Myia: Why did what? What made, what made you 

[00:23:13] DJ And?: wanna 

[00:23:13] Holidae X: put out. So music. I originally wrote poetry. That's how I remember. Yeah. In the ninth grade, I had a poem published in on the state paper, but no one noticed. Mm. And I was like, I should be like the bees knees at school right now. Like all the teachers know, but none of the students know.

[00:23:33] Holidae X: Mm-hmm. The people I grew up with, the people I see every day don't know when I walk outside, there's a sl. You know what I'm 

[00:23:38] Mic: saying? 

[00:23:39] Ta-Myia: Yeah. 

[00:23:39] Holidae X: I was like, oh shit, niggas don't read. Nope. And then I was like, I guess I'd be a rapper. I guess I start rapping. Like that's really what flipped the switch. I start writing poetry and start rapping.

[00:23:50] Holidae X: You, you are a problem 

[00:23:51] DJ And?: solver. You found the media? Oh, most definitely. People, most definitely. 

[00:23:55] Holidae X: Yeah. I, I did a lot of that. So the voice came first? Yeah. I started [00:24:00] performing. I think my first performance was eighth grade, but it was just like, I'm going to go have fun 'cause everybody is going to have fun.

[00:24:05] Holidae X: Yeah. Let's let some people laugh at me. And I think I did, I forgot Joe, remember what song I did, but I did it, I did some song, whatever, ninth grade. I rem no mo mind and no problems with some people. And I wrote, I rewrote all the verses for everybody because I was like, we ain't got no real money, so we can't be talking like they talking like, throw your guy.

[00:24:26] Holidae X: Thank you. Wait, from side to side Side, yeah. 

[00:24:28] DJ And?: Can't say that. 

[00:24:29] Holidae X: It don't make no sense. I forgot what my verse was, but it was like I forgot what it was. But anyway, but yeah, I did like the biggest small verse. No, I did the mace first 

[00:24:38] DJ And?: Mac. I was my guy right back in the day. 'cause Hera, he rapped slow enough for me to understand.

[00:24:43] Holidae X: Yeah, he ra like he was on down, he had down syndrome. Yeah, he did. That's what people 

[00:24:46] DJ And?: used sell as high. Yeah. My name. You remember like he had down syndrome. I was like, man, 

[00:24:50] Holidae X: that's so mean. Yeah. Hollywood gotta get a case. See 

[00:24:54] Mic: I just, I just figured he was like the most blunt in the whole 

[00:24:56] DJ And?: time. That's what I thought.

[00:24:57] DJ And?: I thought he was like, oh this. I was like, well [00:25:00] 

[00:25:00] Mic: maybe now 

[00:25:01] Holidae X: you're not crossed over. No longer blunt PhD niggas holding me down Two me two the game. Mad on the loo

[00:25:07] Holidae X: music. Dego MAs. There go your cutie. Oh. 

[00:25:10] DJ And?: Oh. Those a jam. I used to dance that all the time. Shiny these suits and all that. 

[00:25:14] Holidae X: Yeah. And now they laugh at the dudes who shining the suits. Man. They, they was trendsetters. They were, I won shiny suits. I was in my 20 See. 

[00:25:21] DJ And?: Shiny suits. Matter of fact, we 

[00:25:23] Mic: was talking about the mortgage company earlier.

[00:25:24] Mic: Yeah, that's what I was doing 

[00:25:25] DJ And?: with that mortgage company. Yeah. Chinese suits. Yeah. 

[00:25:27] Mic: I was wearing shiny suits. 

[00:25:28] Ta-Myia: That's how you was making new deals? We was wearing shiny. 

[00:25:29] Mic: Yeah. I was in high school making like we, we, we, if if you bonused mm-hmm. You'd get like an $800 check. Woo. And we didn't know what the fuck to do with it.

[00:25:37] Mic: We 

[00:25:37] Ta-Myia: piss sell crack. Well, oh, 

[00:25:39] Holidae X: double your money in, back your money in three hours 

[00:25:42] DJ And?: the next. Alright. Okay. There's that. Yeah. We could, 

[00:25:44] Holidae X: that could done that. Could that. 

[00:25:46] Ta-Myia: So I wanna know like how did you become Ruff Ryders a part of that. Oh. So can you talk about that? You know, I don't know what, what you can and 

[00:25:53] Holidae X: cannot say.

[00:25:54] Holidae X: I could talk about Ruff Rys. Ruff Ryders is when I moved to Atlanta, I moved to Atlanta too. Basically I [00:26:00] was I have to tell the story from here first when I was in Charleston. Yep. We were doing three shows a week. Up to three shows a week. But the way the circuit is built here in Charleston, you gotta spend money first.

[00:26:13] Holidae X: You don't get any money back because they're like, oh, you can get the door. But if you're paying $2,000 a night and you only get in the door, then basically the first a hundred people is your recoup. Mm-hmm. So you don't get none at the bar, none of that. You still gotta pay the dj. Right. So we we're doing three shows up to three shows a week, and I say up to three shows a week 'cause, but we were doing up to three shows a week and still barely able to pay bills.

[00:26:41] Holidae X: Southern Comfort, well, I mean southern com, my version of Southern Comfort. Yep. 'cause we have the full version and then we have the store where y'all split off with fresh ink. Mm-hmm. And basically I kept Southern Comfort and kept moving. So I wanted to find out why, why, like, what is it really like?

[00:26:59] Holidae X: 'cause I got [00:27:00] France in Atlanta. I basically sit around all day like bombs and be spending money like crazy. Didn't make any sense. So I went to Atlanta to find out what was going on. I clicked over a manager there, start going around, meeting people, learning about how it works in, in Atlanta. So it's basically a clit time.

[00:27:17] Holidae X: But the difference, yeah, the, the, the biggest difference is they support each other. Like, you can cross clique. Yeah. Yeah. It's all around. If you're from Decatur, everybody supporting Decatur. Everybody's supporting Gwinnett County. Like when what's the three boys name that's now two boys? Migos. Migos.

[00:27:34] Holidae X: Migos, Migos. If, if you, if you anywhere in Atlanta, they all support each other. Like it is the big thing. Support is the biggest thing. The circus is, you know, grad Street. You ain't gotta know Greg Street. Gotta make sure he hear your name 'cause he was the link to the radio stations. Ah get you a stripper friend.

[00:27:50] Holidae X: ' cause business is conducted in the strip club in Atlanta. Yeah. That is special. Make sure your shit is heard by the strippers. You know what I'm saying? Doesn't matter what you did. I [00:28:00] had my studio, I had a studio in the apartment complex in one of the, you know, the garages in the apartment complex? Yeah.

[00:28:06] Holidae X: On the 

[00:28:06] Ta-Myia: side of me. 

[00:28:07] Holidae X: Yeah. Yeah. I had a back door to go that bitch. And when you walked up in here, I, I soundproofed the whole wall, built a little false floor, built a false floor top 'cause somebody else lived up there and built the studio in that. So in the middle of Atlanta I had a recording studio.

[00:28:22] Holidae X: God did that. And that's, that's kind of stuff. But as far as becoming the Ruff rider I went to a, so when you move to a town the, the dude I moved up there with I moved, he was already there, was the manager, but me and him fell out. So it was just like, basically I'm sitting in the Atlanta by myself, so what's the thing that I know how to do to meet, go to school?

[00:28:43] Holidae X: True, true. So I went to a nerd, nerd, nerd. Everywhere I go, I have to be in some type of school. Yeah, yeah. I don't, I can't find my balance unless I'm doing something nerdy and something artistic. That 

[00:28:56] DJ And?: really is 

[00:28:56] Mic: your thing. Like that brain activity is part of the balance. Mm-hmm. Like for [00:29:00] me too, also, like self-care is also like, like I gotta have new inputs.

[00:29:04] Ta-Myia: Yeah. I told somebody, this, one of my friends she's at, I was like, I think we get turned on by education. Like information. Yes. I think that stimulates us. Like we have to, that's where work 

[00:29:14] DJ And?: I can, that's your energy source. 

[00:29:16] Holidae X: Yeah. Mm-hmm. And being in those studios, a lot of, one of the things they say is never meet your heroes.

[00:29:22] Holidae X: Yeah. Like because they disappoint you. And I was being disappointed in a lot of studios because it's like, oh, you're not the person. And I had to learn that like it's entertainment. So we not 

[00:29:35] Mic: all that person all the time either. Yeah. Like every now and then we get sneak up and be that. Yeah. Yeah. That person.

[00:29:41] DJ And?: But it ain't always there. You can't always 

[00:29:43] Holidae X: be I am there at nine 5% of the time though. 

[00:29:46] Mic: I mean that's, this is why we're having this conversation. 

[00:29:49] Holidae X: We're asking you. We, 

[00:29:50] DJ And?: we need to change. We 

[00:29:52] Mic: need, I found that suspicion the first time I met. Well, the first time I met you most recently. 'cause apparently we met back in the day.

[00:29:57] DJ And?: I haven't put that together. Yep. And 

you 

[00:29:59] Holidae X: just [00:30:00] think back in your head as somebody that was wild and crazy and basically when it screaming loud, my voice was a lot higher pitched. My voice ain't started. You just riding bikes. You still riding bikes? I still ride bikes. Still got three motorcycles now. Hey, teach me how to ride bikes, man.

[00:30:11] Holidae X: I have one that I'm selling. 

[00:30:13] Ta-Myia: Look at 'em. Gonna shoot me, right? She was not about to have that conversation. This 

[00:30:17] Holidae X: gonna hear this. If you come down, I'll teach you how to ride a bike for Thank you. 

[00:30:21] Ta-Myia: He gotta come down here though. Let's see how many times he comes down here. Down. 

[00:30:25] DJ And?: Watch this. Come watch this.

[00:30:26] DJ And?: I'm, I'm gonna get my brother around other 

[00:30:28] Holidae X: this summer. Every that's part of my morning. When I wake up in the morning, it, it is like, can I find a way to get to a motorcycle ride? I'm gonna look at the weather. You feel good? Do I have to have the kids with me? See? So I, so I woke up this morning ready to ride.

[00:30:42] Holidae X: I had on my motorcycle boots, I put on my jeans. That's why I'm wearing jeans right now. 'cause I usually wear jogging suit on Saturday. And then I went in, in my motorcycle booth, went, did yard work real quick, went and took the trash out and stuff like that. Then my wife's like, are you still taking Charlie with you?

[00:30:56] Holidae X: I was like, shit, I did say I was gonna take the kids with me. All right then I [00:31:00] thought it was raining. I said, well, all the kids coming, but my wife got a free day today. 

[00:31:03] DJ And?: Good man. 

[00:31:04] Holidae X: Good man. But Ruff Ryders. So when I was at school, I met a Ruff Ryder. He was a Ruff Ryder motorcycle division. So Ruff Ryder has, they had four pillars, four, four divisions.

[00:31:14] Holidae X: You have dog motorcycle, they call it the hood Nigga. The thug nigga, whatever. That's what DM X is the person, and then they had like a car division. So, The only one that's still standing right now as far as I know, is the motorcycle division, right? Yeah. Like the one that's standing strongest is what I'm gonna say.

[00:31:33] Holidae X: It's the motorcycle division. I draw the motorcycle division. It's not real. Yeah. Yeah. Not that because I have two, two masters, but they're not like Ruff Ryder. Right. Related. I have like probably the Fliest truck. Yeah. And the Ruff Ryders dying here, but they ain't doing no forest, no cars and stuff. Like, hey, I ain't ditching no Ruff Ryders though.

[00:31:53] DJ And?: No, no, 

[00:31:54] Holidae X: no, no. Bad words. Rider Gwinnet, how organizations 

[00:31:57] DJ And?: grow and 

[00:31:58] Mic: build and you know, like we always [00:32:00] try to build organizations and we are always looking for the magic sauce that keeps things together. 

[00:32:04] Holidae X: Yeah. But I do like, I like the Gwinnett County crew that I'm with. I haven't transferred to Port City.

[00:32:10] Holidae X: I like Port City, but I'm the kind of person that I'm loyal, so Oh, that's where you were? I joined Gwinnett County. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna stay with Gwinnett County to Gwinnett County, say, Hey, you can't be here no 

[00:32:20] DJ And?: more. Makes sense. I mean, that was where you 

[00:32:22] Holidae X: underst in. That's why I do everything. That's 

[00:32:24] DJ And?: good question.

[00:32:25] DJ And?: Very good question. Now I had to ask this, this is a good point. 

[00:32:28] Holidae X: What made you, before you hold, decide that? Before you do that, lemme see a watch. I like that dog. It's green, but same patches though. You know what I'm saying? This's my 

[00:32:35] DJ And?: favorite color. So my, my Rashid got me this for my wedding gift.

[00:32:39] Holidae X: You married? Yeah. I'm joking. 

[00:32:41] Ta-Myia: Bother me man. Bother so serious. She's, yeah. You ain't no bro. Why you bothering? She was right here. 

[00:32:47] Holidae X: Yeah. 

[00:32:48] DJ And?: He already met, he already did last night bothering me. Where she at? Rashe was supposed, rashe was supposed to come. That's why I want him to come today because she can be his son.

[00:32:56] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. August. He's gonna bring August up with him. I don't believe he could get up [00:33:00] here today. You, Rashid 

[00:33:01] Holidae X: didn't touch me. Like, oh, I 

[00:33:02] DJ And?: need to, he, he definitely, I need to, yeah, he definitely needs to be talking to you. I'm make sure that we, that he gets your contact. 

[00:33:09] Holidae X: Before I leave. Yeah, because I've been to y'all house in let, I know that one time for like 13 minutes, but still, yep.

[00:33:15] Holidae X: You came for 13 minutes. 

[00:33:16] DJ And?: And normally you just see us here in Charleston. But yeah, he came if he Yeah. To see where Pop Yeah, where pops and stuff. Yeah. He done been to the house. Yeah. So, I, I got this question too. This I'm happy that you asked this question. What made you stay in Charleston 

[00:33:30] Holidae X: after leaving the neighborhood?

[00:33:31] Holidae X: That's where my kids are. That's the only reason why I'm here. That's why I asked. Figured you back to Atlanta and going back. There's no, like, when I came here, it was a bunch of decisions that I had to make when I, when I decided to be a family man. One was, if I'm gonna be here, I'm not doing music anymore.

[00:33:48] Holidae X: That's why I asked that I'm not doing music because it's a waste of time to do it here. Mm-hmm. When there's no platform. Right. Yes. I've been retired. I, I say I'm retired from rap, [00:34:00] so I've been retired for 10 years now. Mm-hmm. And there's a lot of artists that come through here with skill. That's a lot of artists that I see on YouTube from here with skill.

[00:34:09] Holidae X: Skill. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody's gonna hear from em. Mm-hmm. Ever. There's no camaraderie here. There's no platform here. So I'm not doing music here. So I stopped and I still got skills. So I know about once a year somebody asks me to get on a track and I'll sit down and I'll eat 'em up on a track and then they'll be like, I mean, yeah, I want to use this, wanna use it?

[00:34:33] Holidae X: And we just put this on the remix, so, and it'd be like that. So, but why? Yeah. Coming back here, but my kids, you think it's 

[00:34:40] DJ And?: not gonna work. You think it's gonna make you look good?

[00:34:42] Holidae X: Around syllable Watch. Like I, I 

[00:34:45] DJ And?: know. Yeah. Tell Yeah. I dunno. You up. Oh no, go 

[00:34:47] Mic: ahead. Yeah. 

[00:34:48] Ta-Myia: Was saying everything else earlier. Go ahead. Should I give 

[00:34:51] Holidae X: you a topic? Oh, nah, I ain't about to freestyle. I ain't about, ain't about free. Yeah.

[00:34:57] Holidae X: Shit. Nothing comes to mind though. Yeah, [00:35:00] well, meant 

[00:35:00] DJ And?: to be, ain't doing it like Yeah. You had no reason. I'm about to playing something.

[00:35:04] Holidae X: Gunshots screamed through the sky. Sparkers. Glisten. Just listen to the ghetto as it goes. Crucifixion in the sky, Mars, the rain washed away. The blood stains full of cocaine like Eddie Kane's membrane and life is Charlotte Baby. Blossom some seeping through this grave and travel through this battle.

[00:35:17] Holidae X: Shape the truth. I like rattles while you seeping. While the secrets are seeping through the drains of the sewer, but everyone is focused on who shoes the cooler, I need to move the Mars so I just fuck around and die. Ash, the RNs letter of crossing. Buy and bye. Paint pictures of these creatures that send in my head, seep it through the airway.

[00:35:33] Holidae X: Let seep through your head while I'm speaking from above with black doves and bats and crows and blue birds ing songs from the world. Spiritual guidance. That's the vibe. Anyway.

[00:35:42] Holidae X: Yeah. And then I used to get off, like fresh out the lounge, money in my pocket, money in my wallet, on some money in my sock shit. I'm definitely bawling like a joint to combine my swag stood out like I'm acquitted for my crimes. My goatees Taliban man all out saying like LeBron, my Perry yellow frame sent a letter from my [00:36:00] son.

[00:36:00] Holidae X: My do tag shining my shoes is authentic and when they, when when they're painting pictures, best believe that I'll be in it. So I like to rap in syllables. Okay. Great example examples. Perfect. Yeah. So whatever I do, I rap in syllables. I, I can't do, I mean, so when I write for my daughters and stuff, I do the swag out things.

[00:36:19] Holidae X: You swag out like I, I say Migos 'cause that's the one I always go back to. ' cause they're lyrical, but they still swag it out. Everything out. Yeah. But I can't rap like that at all. I, but I do it for like when I write, like I'm writing songs for my daughters now and I'm teaching them how to rap it. So when I'm doing it with them, are you teaching 'em, I show 'em 

[00:36:36] DJ And?: your way or the swag out way.

[00:36:39] Holidae X: So they tell me what they wanna say. I let them write it out so they rap it their way and I pulled the some words from it and changed words up. So that's still sound what they wanna say. Right. But it flows on whatever beat they, so really helping them with Roger. Yeah. So they, they, they sound like they want to sound with the beats that they choose.

[00:36:59] Holidae X: It sound It is [00:37:00] more newer beats. So it basically, they ride it out like Migos. 

[00:37:04] Ta-Myia: That's what I say. That kind of goes into our, our next question, learning to teach. Like why do you think it's important to teach the younger generation lessons that you've learned? 

[00:37:13] Holidae X: Because we got a whole work going on right now where a lot of people don't want our kids to know anything anyway.

[00:37:18] Holidae X: Reach, tell me. The first thing we need to do is, as adults is be role models to our people, to our kids, to our gen, to the next generation. And we actively right now are in a point where it's going to be it. I don't wanna say it like that. I wanna say it like, when we grew up, we knew as kids, There was a lot of information that we wasn't gonna learn at school.

[00:37:42] Holidae X: Mm-hmm. And our parents knew we weren't gonna learn it at school because they just went through the first part of the civil rights movement. Mm-hmm. They just went through the inter segregation and on the Black coast. So, and that stuff wasn't in books. They knew. Yeah. Yeah. They knew they, that we wasn't gonna learn [00:38:00] anything unless we teach it to ourselves and our kids.

[00:38:03] Holidae X: And for a while we was bamboozled might be right. We, we was thinking, and I, I was part of it too, because I used to be like, oh, ain't nothing really wrong with white people. Like, so, but it, it came back, back, all the way back around to where, Nah. We, we were just, I mean, all, I ain't gonna say all white people are bad.

[00:38:22] Holidae X: All white people is not bad. I don't either that at all. Mm-hmm. But I believe, I believe I ain't the best person. Right. Shut. I believe the culture of America is, is stemmed in white supremacy. And the only way that our kids is gonna keep growing, it's if we teach 'em. So when it comes to music, when it comes to history, when it comes to arts, when it comes to basically mathematics, like we gotta teach our kids.

[00:38:46] Holidae X: ' cause you'll see at school even something that has a definite right answer and the wrong answer. Mathematics, like more attention is paid mm-hmm. To the people that looks like the teacher. And, and it, it is a, and it's the reason [00:39:00] why those people are put in those positions because you show favoritism.

[00:39:03] Holidae X: You naturally show favoritism to the people that remind you of you. One of 

[00:39:06] Mic: the first things we talked about was, was, was you doing the accelerated reader and crushing your records. The first thing they did is want to know why you were Cheese squad? He's like, not this nigga. 

[00:39:14] Holidae X: Yeah. Literally. I don't even say nigga that much, but, but for that it makes sense.

[00:39:18] Holidae X: Yeah. That was perfect. It makes sense. Yeah. But that's really what, what was going on. It is like, nah, ain't no way, ain't no way that you could be out here breaking my 

[00:39:26] Ta-Myia: stereotype from a single family. 

[00:39:28] Mic: My prejudice, my prejudices, my prejudices are not, imagine my worldview not being correct. God 

[00:39:35] Holidae X: could be wrong.

[00:39:35] Holidae X: Lemme so that about baseball Leeville. Yeah. They used to make us sing Dixie and in our school choir all the way up until about the fifth grade. Look at somebody's, you know what D is? No, but I, I wish Sound good Billy. I wish I was in Dixie. Hooray. Hooray. He knows 

[00:39:52] DJ And?: it so I know he ain't lying. Oh, hold on.

[00:39:53] DJ And?: Oh no, no. 

[00:39:54] Mic: The 

[00:39:55] DJ And?: full lyrics 

[00:39:56] Holidae X: Dixie. Hooray. Hooray. Hooray down south and [00:40:00] Dixie, hooray, hooray, hooray. Down south and Dixie. Anyway, it was a song about how they love living down South, the Southern way, the southern way, the right way. Yeah. Where Cotton's grown and like it was, it was a, and you know your place.

[00:40:16] Holidae X: It's a super, yeah. You know your type 

[00:40:18] DJ And?: thing. That's how I remember the song. So you know your play song, they used to play it at the. Washington Commanders games. Mm-hmm. That's, I was correct on that one. I didn't say Oh, now, because they changed it. Yeah. The command, they, they used toing it at their games.

[00:40:33] DJ And?: The, the, this is one reason why you have a lot of folks south. I used to always wonder why people who lived down here, why they live, why they watch nothing but N F C East football. It's the way that the stations used to work. Mm-hmm. Out. That's why you have Cowboys fans down here. Mm-hmm. Eagles fans and giants fans.

[00:40:50] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. But then you have the rare Washington DC team fans. Mm-hmm. And you're like, where did y'all come from? How does this make sense? Because like back in the [00:41:00] day, the Dixie thing, that was them, that was the southern team, even though they were in DC Yeah. And 

[00:41:04] Mic: you remember, like growing up, all the youth baseball league around here was.

[00:41:07] Mic: Dixie, 

[00:41:08] DJ And?: Dixie, Dixie Baseball, a fucking Confederate flag. It's called Dixie Baseball. They, 

[00:41:12] Mic: they just changed it a few years back. Now it's a confederate flag with baseball's instead of flags, so they ain't quite a Confederate flag.

[00:41:17] DJ And?: Oh, 

[00:41:18] Mic: Dixie League baseball. Yeah, that's baseball. That's Gilbert. 

[00:41:21] DJ And?: Yep. That's it. Is 

[00:41:22] Holidae X: They were, Hey, you have a one token black guy on the team. Mm-hmm. Well, my 

[00:41:25] Mic: graduating class was 200 people and there were three black kids, four black kids, and geographically like, like he's right. It shit had more, Gilbert should not be that way, but the reason is 'cause shit got real fucked up in the fifties and sixties and they burned everybody out.

[00:41:39] Mic: Yep. That's, that's 

[00:41:40] DJ And?: the truth about Gilbert is that's what happened. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. Like it made no sense for there not to be. Any black people there. Yeah. Like you said, like he was trying to tell you like there's a, a large mass of black people right here, but then immediately across a dirt road Right.

[00:41:53] DJ And?: Or a train track turns completely white. Completely white. Part of that 

[00:41:57] Mic: also is 

[00:41:57] Holidae X: you, you grew up on the wrong side 

[00:41:59] DJ And?: of the time. Lexington County. [00:42:00] Yeah. Lexington County. So Lexington County 

[00:42:01] Mic: at that point in time was Wow. Our old friend. Wow. Sheriff Mets. Who went to jail for one year. Yeah. For racketeering.

[00:42:11] Mic: Yeah. Because he went to San Jose and said, I'm going to report your employees to ICE if you do not pay me money. Yep. Which is mob shit. Yes. And that was Lexington County and that was what Lexington County was. Yes. Yes. The whole time we grew up we knew 

[00:42:24] DJ And?: it. Yes. So anyway, he done put all that's no, he 

[00:42:27] Holidae X: got political.

[00:42:27] Holidae X: We got you done. Put so many of our folks in 

[00:42:30] DJ And?: jail. God darnit me my fault. Yeah. They don't like that. You 

[00:42:33] Holidae X: know that. I've been in jail more times still than I've been in Lexington County. Really? Yeah. I been jail 14 times in one year because Lexington County is, damn. You sound like Dennis, 

[00:42:41] DJ And?: Rob. Wait, wait bro.

[00:42:43] DJ And?: Ben Wallace's status with the technical fo, how did 

[00:42:45] Mic: you 

[00:42:45] Ta-Myia: end up, I say I 

[00:42:47] Holidae X: got the same charge for all of them. Really? Wanna know what that charges is? The charge assaulting police officer. Yo, you assault him 14 times. 14 times. I got, explain this one to the. I [00:43:00] cannot erase one. So you could scroll down far enough.

[00:43:02] Holidae X: You'll see my mugshot, the one if you know my real name. The one you don't, you don't know your real 

[00:43:07] DJ And?: name. I do. Y'all don't. Ha 

[00:43:09] Ta-Myia: I'm teasing. I'm teasing. 

[00:43:10] Holidae X: But yeah. Wait, just, it was, it was basically once I started I started rapping full-time. Got in the Navy. Mm-hmm. Started rapping full-time. I had a, I had a red Cadillac and what I did was I wanted everybody to like the Cadillac, so I didn't go.

[00:43:26] Holidae X: It was a lot of people around here doing like Skittles and Reese's pieces. I remember them times. Caprices. Capris and stuff like that. And I was like, I'm not doing that. I got a Cadillac. This bitch about to be sexy. So I found the paint, man. I painted my red Cadillac all black. Put flakes in it. So it was like Rainbow Flakes off, threw it 20 inch Chrome worms sat down on it.

[00:43:48] Holidae X: So it basically, and now I put 5%, 10 all the way around. Oh, you just 

[00:43:52] DJ And?: calling to be stopped, right? 

[00:43:54] Holidae X: Basically. No, but I always roll, I always roll my windows down. All right. Because I wanted people to see me. You [00:44:00] right. You got it to look nice for reason, like why have around can't see, and then people don't see me, so, but they knew the first time they pulled me over, they just mistook me for a dope boy.

[00:44:10] Holidae X: Oh. And then I come out the car and I'm speaking all these big words and I don't, I don't tell, I don't take shit for nobody though. I like, I I know you like I'm, I'm, I know you don't. If you look at my neighbor record, I've assaulted people in the neighbor who are disrespecting me. He's one of those one.

[00:44:23] Holidae X: Yeah, he, he's, I flip. I flip. Which it's not a step Fe Yeah. That's why I've been in a fight, got disrespected and fuck people faces up. Dang. So cops pulled me over the first time. I ain't say nothing. I mean, they let, let me go. It was nothing there. But by like, that was January, but then by the third time, yeah.

[00:44:42] Holidae X: I was like, nah. So I, you do stuff like, if you familiar, y'all all y'all are familiar with actually phosphate, you know what Charleston enough know where Ashton Phosphate is, right? Mm-hmm. No, you didn't. So for the people that know Ton Phosphate, when you get off the interstate, if you go ton phosphate to get to Dorchester Road, you're [00:45:00] talking about what, three miles?

[00:45:00] Holidae X: Mm-hmm. About three miles. Mm-hmm. They used to put them lights on as soon as I got off the interstate. Oh yeah? Yeah. And they used to go all the way down to like maybe the skating rink, maybe the Hardee's on Dorchester Road. But they used to have to follow me one time. They followed me all the way home.

[00:45:15] Holidae X: They didn't stop unless there's some lights. Yeah. Ain't no reason pulling me over. No, no, no. It was lights. No, no. I mean like But you kept driving. Yeah, 

[00:45:21] DJ And?: I'm driving because there's no reason for them to be 

[00:45:23] Holidae X: pulling over. You weren't doing anything. Why didn't you stop me? You saw my lights. The question is why are you pulling me over?

[00:45:28] Mic: Oh, sir. 

[00:45:29] Ta-Myia: Switch. Sir. Can you step outta the car, sir? Step outta the car. No, no, no. 

[00:45:33] Holidae X: The car. What did you call me as? Because my speed tell I phenomena says 45, the speed limit is 45. We think that people that are driving the speed limit are actually like criminals because nobody rides the speed limit. They ain't got nothing to worry about.

[00:45:47] Holidae X: You lying motherfuckers. Wow. That's the way the conversations would go. Wow. So, okay, understand. They used to put me in jail, impound me, and then So breaking the law by following the law. Yeah. 

[00:45:56] DJ And?: I'm breaking the law by following. He must be breaking the law. 

[00:45:58] Holidae X: He's following it. Yeah. So that, that, that's, [00:46:00] that's logic.

[00:46:00] Holidae X: The reason why I started logic. So, but it wasn't really assault. I ain't punching nobody. I ain't hitting nobody. But I did stuff like, Dumb. My ashes on they feet. Good 

[00:46:08] Ta-Myia: Lord. Like, I'm gonna get into your skin, 

[00:46:10] Holidae X: I'm gonna get you bothering me, I'm gonna bother you. That's the kind of person I'm, I don't, I don't, I don't even know if I would do it.

[00:46:16] Holidae X: I probably still would knowing that, I mean, they even shot people back then too. So 

[00:46:22] DJ And?: say yo, how they, I was about to say, you know, they were popping us, you know, they were 

[00:46:26] Holidae X: popping us, bro. You know? Yeah. So I was still like, people didn't believe it. I have witnesses to those, like, people used come back like, I can't believe he did that to 

[00:46:34] Mic: a cop.

[00:46:35] Mic: So you are, you're that you are that guy that like, if anybody got pulled up with you, they were like, I'm never fucking riding with you ever again. Lord 

[00:46:41] Ta-Myia: Jesus. Yeah. 

[00:46:42] Holidae X: Well, yeah. They used to get, yeah. 'cause they know if I'm not going back down for a cop, I'm not go back. Right. For nobody. 

[00:46:48] Mic: That's true. Oh, okay.

[00:46:49] Mic: Yeah. Fair enough. 

[00:46:50] Ta-Myia: So how did you not get kicked out of the Navy? 

[00:46:53] Holidae X: I had a really, really strong leader. Shout out to chief Harris. There we go. Shouts out. So the first time I tried to throw a [00:47:00] lieutenant over the bridge wing, ' cause he was, I had just found out my dad was sick from counseling.

[00:47:05] Holidae X: It's a good, and he was on the way pulling in. It's a, y'all know where the bridge rink is, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. I do. So when you're, when you're driving a big ship, they put the I forgot where that whole area called, quarters, quarter, whatever the place where you drive the ship at. Mm-hmm. It's on top of the ship.

[00:47:22] Holidae X: Right, right, right. Based on top. So they could see far out as far as they came. And you have the captains up there whenever you get close to land. 'cause they have to see and maneuver the ship. You have the executive officer, you have the navigator. The navigator is like the third most important person on that ship when it goes on the way.

[00:47:37] Holidae X: So I would say an admin for the navigator sometimes whenever we pulled in close, because I kept really good records. So I'm up there and he was asking me about something I put down like at a certain time and I was like, I have it right here. And he was like, you address me with sir. I was like, motherfucker.

[00:47:57] Holidae X: And it started with that one. Dang. He should [00:48:00] have did that. And as he raised his voice, I was like, see in red. See in red. Then I saw black. 

[00:48:05] Ta-Myia: I about say, did you black out? Yeah. 

[00:48:07] Holidae X: So, my chief didn't let it get up there 'cause he knew if it would've got past him I was done. So he saved me like twice. He saved me on that.

[00:48:16] Holidae X: Then Theo, which is always the second most important person on the boat, I put a knife to his throat one day. Jesus. Because his, what did he do? His clan member came out of him. Oh, see. All right. 

[00:48:28] DJ And?: See, 

[00:48:28] Holidae X: yeah. So we have late nights with Theo, and he used to so we have something called the plan the other day, which, which is basically first thing in the morning when you wake up, you see a list of what you're gonna do for that day.

[00:48:39] Holidae X: And he kept changing his mind about what he wanted on it. And I was like, are you sure this time? He said, who are you to tell me? Am I sure or not? I'm the mother, I'm the motherfucker on this thing. And he kept going in and I started flipping. Yeah. I usually don't have a problem. 

[00:48:55] Ta-Myia: Mm-hmm. 

[00:48:56] Holidae X: Yeah. So that, that's the, the only thing about me is I don't, like, [00:49:00] I can't be talked to a certain way.

[00:49:01] Holidae X: My wife talks me a certain way. If she talks to me that way, I let it slide to a point, because if I start saying things, then I gotta, I gotta go. You don't 

[00:49:11] DJ And?: take No. You, you, you're, you're the one, one other folks, and this reminds me too, this, this makes so much sense with you being from base world when you, from certain areas, right.

[00:49:19] DJ And?: You were taught or you learned to not take disrespect from anybody. At no time ever, it will not be tolerated because, 

[00:49:27] Holidae X: no, I've been to jail. Say it. I've been in the Navy. No, but just look from I'm gang activity, all that shit, like I'm out. Can't 

[00:49:36] DJ And?: at all. Because it's such a, it's such a push that if you let it keep, can't give an inch, say it.

[00:49:42] DJ And?: You can't let it fly. And look, especially with some of the racist stuff, I know you had a seat and deal with definitely cannot lit disrespect. 

[00:49:50] Holidae X: And I'll never be as scared as I like, I always go to that when it comes to it. That's that those black men, black strong men, that was scared as hell when they saw them.

[00:49:59] Holidae X: [00:50:00] Ku Klux Klans coming down the street. Yeah. I I couldn't do that. I, I, I can't ever 

[00:50:04] DJ And?: do that. I know since that day you were like, nah, I can never put my, I can't be in a situation where I'm that afraid, where I don't wanna stand. Yep. 

[00:50:11] Holidae X: I'm working on something right now where I'm trying to find out where the cop, I, I think a cop killed a black woman because she was pregnant with his baby.

[00:50:17] Holidae X: Growing up and they will not release those records even with the F O I. So I've been working on getting those records released. Hmm. Because Wait, wait, wait. Where did that occur? In Bates, 

Burville. 

[00:50:29] DJ And?: Do you know the 

[00:50:30] Holidae X: the victim? I know the victim name. She was my neighbor. I was like 12 at the time. So, so you're, you're 

[00:50:36] Mic: solving some hometown mystery stuff.

[00:50:39] Holidae X: Yeah, I think I am. No, you are. Hey, we gonna 

[00:50:41] DJ And?: have to pause just for a second. Yeah, go ahead.

[00:50:43] Ta-Myia: What y'all 

[00:50:43] DJ And?: doing? He said they doing all kinds of stuff. No, that's interesting. 

[00:50:47] Ta-Myia: You, you hit pause. No. Or just about say don't stop, don't stop the recording because you know how 

[00:50:52] DJ And?: you mm-hmm. Yep. To keep it rolling. Keep it alive. Oh wait. Good Lord. I wonder what I wanna see what I want to [00:51:00] see the outcome of that.

[00:51:01] DJ And?: That makes sense. Understand man, but like real back day, 

[00:51:04] Mic: like so much shit that Adrian has told me about, about that, that whole like, ' cause you know that strip is from Ben Satcher all the way out to Batesburg. Yeah. All of that was like, was like black 

[00:51:16] DJ And?: owned for a long time. For 

[00:51:17] Mic: real. All, all the, all the old farmland was out there and stuff.

[00:51:20] Mic: What? I mean, it was the backside of the hill. Oh, you're right, you're right. And that side of Lexington never developed, they were always developing the other side and they were always developing down 3, 7, 8. But they wouldn't touch number one down that part hit the button to 

[00:51:33] DJ And?: figure it out. It was, part 

[00:51:34] Mic: of it was like there was this, this met thing that they were doing wiggling, trying to like, Get the land to change hands before they started developing 

[00:51:42] DJ And?: it.

[00:51:42] DJ And?: What happened? 

[00:51:43] Holidae X: Just, just talking about Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Things that they do 

[00:51:45] Mic: has Felicia in Lexington County mm-hmm. And Saluta County and how all of that shit was just like, yeah, like, you know, met Sweat Jeff Racketeer and he's the only one who got arrested. Like, how do you run a criminal organization out of a sheriff's department and one 

[00:51:59] DJ And?: person gets arrest, one [00:52:00] person, one 

[00:52:00] Holidae X: person takes it 

[00:52:01] DJ And?: down.

[00:52:01] DJ And?: We know that ain't how it works. There's, you know, there's more dirt and more bugs to be found. Other than that, that make no darn sense. Yeah. And we're talking about what you're saying with that officer with. Trying to figure out what happened. He just got transferred. 

[00:52:13] Holidae X: Seriously. Yeah. That's all that happened.

[00:52:15] Holidae X: He was gone. Good Lord. We still recording? 

[00:52:19] DJ And?: Yeah. Okay, cool. I keep running. Yeah, 

[00:52:21] Mic: running. I mean that, that, that, that fucking blew line shit. That's the worst gang there is. Oh yeah. 

[00:52:25] Holidae X: Yeah. Even the Cali, I get it, is I think all policemen, like I used to say, we need more black police officers. That'll fit. Fits it?

[00:52:33] Holidae X: No, no. Especially with the stuff that happened in Tennessee, but I started noticing last year that it is basically white supremacy is the culture of America. So the police is there to protect white supremacy. Mm. So it's built into the culture and no matter what, what you are, like, we basically need to fully change all of that.

[00:52:54] Holidae X: Like it's because it's such bad, I'm not gonna say defund the police, I, I think we definitely should abolish the way [00:53:00] policing is done right now. Mm-hmm. And basically start over. Like, and I have a bunch of 'cause I, I talked to like a bunch of racist people about it too. And they go, well, how are we supposed to, how are you gonna protect the world?

[00:53:12] Holidae X: Protect us if you don't have the police? I was like, I mean, they're only protecting you property owners as long as they agree with what you doing. Yeah. Rich. Other than that we could, we could do it all different. And, and when it comes down to it, we give trillions of dollars to bus businesses and we break out, break our backs to find a way to give people money in order to do dumb shit.

[00:53:32] Holidae X: Like, Elon Musk took a whole government supported He took a whole company. 'cause Elon never really invents anything. He ain't actually running any of this shit. He doesn't invent anything. He just, basically, he grew up with enough money off of enslaving black people in Africa, South Africa that he he's able to find things.

[00:53:52] Holidae X: So basically a company came out with the technology to let people be able to use their mind to control prosthetic [00:54:00] limbs. Oh yeah. The they're coming back out. This, they're coming out, back out with the news now, but he originally, I don't know what the news was that came out this week about it, but about six months ago he was trying, no, it was about a year ago.

[00:54:12] Holidae X: He was trying to get them to only use that technology to drive a car. So, and he's gonna buy it from him. Yeah. And he got funded from the 

[00:54:20] Mic: government. Yeah. Can't his car drive himself? 

[00:54:21] DJ And?: So he 

[00:54:21] Holidae X: just wants you to drive it with your brain. Yeah. He want, he wants you to drive it with your brain. 

[00:54:25] Mic: You think you can think about being in Formula one?

[00:54:27] Mic: Just, just, you know, sorry, officer, I was, I was thinking 

[00:54:30] Holidae X: about, I was thinking too, 

[00:54:31] DJ And?: broke 

[00:54:32] Holidae X: his self. My wife sent me a dirty text and it just had me wanting to get home first. 

[00:54:36] Mic: I, I was thinking about being a law abiding citizen, so I was going the speed limit. Yeah. And 

[00:54:40] DJ And?: that's 

[00:54:41] Holidae X: how he pulled you over. That's why we pulled you over, sir.

[00:54:43] Holidae X: But yeah, that kind of stuff. But if we could bend our necks to fund that, those type I, I, I think those people have no creativity anyway. I 

[00:54:52] DJ And?: don't think, yeah. I put 'em on the same level as you with a Bill Gates, a person who's, they're basically a theft. A thief. Yeah. A thief. Yeah. 

[00:54:59] Mic: Or as we call [00:55:00] it in America.

[00:55:00] Mic: Business. Yeah. 

[00:55:02] Holidae X: Yeah. So if they could find a way to bend around backwards to do all that, they could find a way to revamp the police the way we do policing for sure. Yep. 

[00:55:09] DJ And?: True. 

[00:55:10] Holidae X: I can agree with that. I was about to get into politics to try to change some of this stuff, but I don't think that's why I should go in the politics.

[00:55:16] DJ And?: No, we can't have you up here whooping nobody ass on platform in the debate. You just go into say you that don't make no sense. You gotta 

[00:55:22] Holidae X: jack 'em up. Don't even stress those stuff out. My goons will be doing that. Yeah. That's one of the things I did like stretching. Yeah. But I can't even, I can't even stress, don't 

[00:55:29] DJ And?: even stress those stuff out.

[00:55:30] DJ And?: No, don't 

[00:55:31] Holidae X: do it. Getting married ever since. No. Stressing me. See, see, 

[00:55:34] DJ And?: this is why I'm like, I'm not, I'm, this is my first year of marriage and I'm learning. Yeah. I, I'm not 

[00:55:40] Holidae X: like, I'm still too selfish. I'm still too selfish 

[00:55:42] Ta-Myia: for, that's why I already know. That's why I said don't go into politics since you a Virgo.

[00:55:45] Ta-Myia: So I already know mm-hmm. What you be going through. I know what he be going through. I don't, I stay away from all policies. That's 

[00:55:50] DJ And?: me. Scared of you. Even you with the coaching and them that I. I am surprised you. Yeah. Didn't slapped one. Yeah, I'm surprised. Yep. She didn slapped near one. 

[00:55:59] Ta-Myia: Y'all [00:56:00] change. It 

changed.

[00:56:00] Holidae X: Did y'all change it? Nope. Should 

[00:56:03] DJ And?: it was on, ran on. 

[00:56:04] Holidae X: Oh, no. No. I, I think that's right. I think go switch 

[00:56:07] Ta-Myia: them all. So who's one artist that you would love to probably collaborate with if you were still doing? I 

[00:56:12] Holidae X: used to be scared to collaborate with Eminem, but if I was to be able to do 15 years now, I'll tell you somebody that I was, that I worked with a few times and never actually got to collaborate with Pastor Troy.

[00:56:23] Holidae X: Okay. That 

[00:56:24] DJ And?: would make sense. That would make sense. Yep. 

[00:56:27] Holidae X: I got very close a few times, but never, like, the last time is basically when I had to come back to South Carolina because long story short, I moved. You asked me, somebody asked me about moving back to South Carolina. Came up. Yeah, my daughter disappeared.

[00:56:41] Holidae X: One of my daughters disappeared. Her mom was going through a bunch of problems. I'm gonna keep it 'cause I have it in the contract that I can't talk about certain things. Gotcha. Underst for custody reasons. Understand. But basically long story short, my daughter was living with me and her mom in separate quarters.

[00:56:56] Holidae X: Her mom got us some trouble and basically I let her stay with me till she got herself [00:57:00] together in Atlanta. And

[00:57:02] Holidae X: my daughter was back in South Carolina one day when I came home. Went back, came back and got her, brought her back. And then about, I think it was like Monday, I went to work with my daughter's here, there, by Friday she was going back to South Carolina. So I kicked the mama out and then basically I would come down and see my daughter.

[00:57:21] Holidae X: But in, in the state of South Carolina, like if I'm living in South Carolina, And the mama's not. Then I get to go get my daughter. So I moved back to South Carolina and then when she found out I did that disappeared, daughter disappeared for like two years. Took me two years to find out. And by the time Wow.

[00:57:38] Holidae X: Yeah. Did that and at the same time got my wife pregnant and then it was like, it, we are going to get married. So I think we decided that we was gonna have a family, like the way it was gonna go before then, but yeah. So, yeah. But they lived here. When I originally moved here my wife was supposed to get transferred back to Atlanta and I was moving here just to basically help her [00:58:00] clean things up a little bit.

[00:58:01] Holidae X: Then we moved back to Atlanta, but then that changed. I ain't gonna get into that, but things changed. So yeah. So I was stuck here. You chose what was most important or maybe Yeah, it was. I was not gonna be I grew up with no, well, my father is still living. He's in Columbia somewhere. I don't like him at all.

[00:58:18] Holidae X: And then I have a dad, a dude that, like my brother's dad is who I grew up calling dad, so that's amazing. But he was like a rolling stone and he had a bunch of kids, like not a lot of bun biological kids, but he was the kind of person that if he was dealing with it, woman and he dealt with many women he was gonna take care of all their kids too.

[00:58:36] Holidae X: Wow. That's old school. So like, that's old school. He had three kids with my mom took care of me. He had shoot maybe like six or seven other women that he was dealing with that he took care of all their kids. Like, dang, that's old school. Don't, they don't make him sound like that no more. And I know, I know that.

[00:58:55] Holidae X: The imprint that had on me. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. I don't mess with my 

[00:58:59] Mic: real dad at all. Kids, [00:59:00] family, you know, because like, just seeing somebody like just do because it needs doing. 

[00:59:04] Holidae X: Yeah. And knowing that I wasn't gonna abandon my kids. Right. Yeah. But the reason why I didn't go to California, I had a inside deal with Interscope in 2000

[00:59:13] Holidae X: right before I moved to Atlanta 2010. So I let that fall through because the baby mama was pregnant and I was not going, going to abandon my kid. But yeah, 

[00:59:24] DJ And?: I always wondered what happened with that life choices, man. Mm-hmm. We had made life choices. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Life choices. Mm. This is very insightful to me.

[00:59:33] DJ And?: Yeah. This is a good, this has been very insightful. Man I, I got this just one last question and then, and we, we will wrap it up, but. 

[00:59:41] Holidae X: Oh, we ain't gotta wrap nothing up. I got all day. I'm like 20 minutes away from home. Y'all gotta all the ones that gotta travel. No, you're right. We gotta wrap it up because I'm hungry.

[00:59:48] Holidae X: We, we gotta travel. I'm home. Did you not eat? Yeah, we gotta travel. Yeah. Well I want some more food. Oh, look. Yeah. You should have put in the order request. I should have asked that though, because I usually do order requests. See? Oh, that's nice. You didn't [01:00:00] have your 

[01:00:00] DJ And?: order next time. Can I say this? Are located in a great area.

[01:00:04] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. I didn't. Yo everything 

[01:00:06] Holidae X: is right here. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I did that on purpose. 

[01:00:08] DJ And?: Great. 

[01:00:09] Holidae X: Planning. This, this is a wonderful spot. I actually did that by mistake, but it was on purpose. I like 

[01:00:12] DJ And?: spot. You take good. Great, great mistakes. Great mistakes on purpose. Yep. Location. I'm telling man. Location everything.

[01:00:19] Holidae X: If only, if only AC wasn't have cut out last this week. 

[01:00:23] Ta-Myia: We still good? Are we still good? It's not June. Yeah, it's not June though, right? We still good? 

[01:00:28] Holidae X: You deal. It's March. If it was June, we would've been broke a window out by nine, hurting the original 

[01:00:32] DJ And?: Southern 

[01:00:32] Mic: comfort studio Closet 

[01:00:34] Holidae X: in the closet. Y'all in the closet.

[01:00:36] Holidae X: What was the first Southern comfort studio? My closet. This is the closet In where? 

[01:00:40] DJ And?: In In Gilbert. In Gilbert, yeah. And then from 

[01:00:42] Holidae X: there, the second one, second one. The second one was college of Charleston. Charleston 

[01:00:46] DJ And?: Maybank. I'm saying Maybank McAllister. And Kevin's in the dorm room. 

[01:00:50] Holidae X: Yeah, I was in the dorm room.

[01:00:51] Holidae X: In the dorm room because he opened the dorm room. I opened the one at my house. Yep. And then we had a third one somewhere. Where's the third one? Where's the third 

[01:00:58] DJ And?: one at? 

[01:00:58] Holidae X: We had, 'cause we had [01:01:00] three. I wish Kevin was What? What? He went super. He supposed to be back by now. He went super shopping. Yeah, man. We had three and then I think Kevin was 

[01:01:06] Ta-Myia: gonna come back time.

[01:01:08] Holidae X: There you go. What was the, what was the third studio? The third studio. 

[01:01:12] DJ And?: Southern Comfort. Because you remember we had the one in 

[01:01:15] Holidae X: the I had one in your dorm room. We had the one in, started with Mike and 

[01:01:18] DJ And?: Gilbert and then we had the one in the dorm. Then the one over there. All the one, there's another because the first one was Mike.

[01:01:23] DJ And?: Mike, 

[01:01:24] Mic: yep. That shit was so damn hot because lights was the only lights in there Couldn't, you couldn't even open my bedroom. I supposed to be asleep. You know what's so back with 

[01:01:32] DJ And?: incandescent lights when it was hot. Yeah. You know what's so wild about that too? We change the colors being 2020. Hindsight being 2020.

[01:01:39] DJ And?: I think that's one reason I can't stand the booth to this day. It's hot. Yeah. Because it's hot and I always think back about it even now this day, like that's probably like my least favorite part of a studio. And it's not even because I'm a producer, it's just John would come 

[01:01:49] Mic: out there like, like pouring in the face.

[01:01:51] Mic: Pour sweat. 

[01:01:52] DJ And?: Yeah. Part, I hate 

[01:01:53] Holidae X: it. So if the AC works, oh, he the booth in there. Mm-hmm. Has vent that goes out [01:02:00] of it. I found it. Yeah. We at the, I was looking at it. I was looking at, I like, oh, we got 

[01:02:04] DJ And?: air in it. Air, air, yes. You don't have to be sitting in there sweating. 

[01:02:08] Holidae X: Yeah. People be saying people be taking smoke breaks in there.

[01:02:10] Holidae X: Like what? Have intake outfit with a vape pan though? Oh, you know what? I 

[01:02:15] DJ And?: want to try to do what babe? I 

[01:02:17] Holidae X: will, you know, can't smoke around recording equipment, man. No, no, 

[01:02:21] DJ And?: no, no. I was gonna, I was gonna Bluetooth and I was gonna Bluetooth strolling I was talking through earlier. That's, we thought, yeah, I could Bluetooth from man, but I don't know how we can hear 'em though.

[01:02:30] DJ And?: Mm. Everybody 

[01:02:31] Holidae X: you got, you know what if we was running through, oh, you know what? How many sockets you got? How many mids you got? Mid? I 

[01:02:38] DJ And?: have six. Well, we can, we got six headphones. 

[01:02:41] Holidae X: I have admitted the iPhone plugging in. 

[01:02:44] DJ And?: Oh. So we can hear it? What we we're good to hear. We'll, better to hear it. 

[01:02:46] Holidae X: It's your stomach.

[01:02:47] Holidae X: Okay. Oh, you want to get some chips? 20 minutes 

[01:02:50] DJ And?: so she gets eat mean? Yeah, we ain't gotta do that. We ain't gotta do that. We ain't gonna do that holiday. We ain't gonna do that. We gonna do it like that. Y'all driving back today? Yeah, but we gonna stop and grab some food. Oh, y'all got [01:03:00] out? Y'all got wrap up?

[01:03:01] DJ And?: Got wrap. Let's we get you here because we were trying to figure out what the other studio was. It was, no, he had a third one. Yeah. Where was it at? Where was it at? At my house. Is that his house? Yeah, it was over there. Off of College Park Road. At College 

[01:03:12] Holidae X: Park. It is. Yeah. So the first, oh, so y'all, so you had, so at simultaneously We had one in Gilbert.

[01:03:18] Holidae X: This was the first, first, 

[01:03:20] DJ And?: first. This was 

[01:03:21] Holidae X: like thousand. We had three at the same time one time, right? No, we 

[01:03:24] DJ And?: didn't. It was, that's our, it was, 

[01:03:25] Holidae X: it was sta The stags will know that, know that? Yeah. Yeah. Because 

[01:03:29] DJ And?: they always 'cause Yeah, because he started slowing and that's So we had our stuff. Yeah. Mm-hmm. At the college.

[01:03:34] DJ And?: Then that's when, after that, that's when we. Then that's when we transferred everything. And That's so weird. Yeah, I remember we literally like transferred everything over all the sudden coming for stuff. And then you had over there at College Park, 

[01:03:45] Holidae X: she was the holiday. I'm starting my own shit. Fuck you.

[01:03:47] Holidae X: I'm taking, I'm taking all the beats with me. You can have these 40. You can't make

[01:03:52] Mic: Spanish guitar. These 28 dash 74,000 there. 

[01:03:56] Ta-Myia: Real talk. As a 

[01:03:57] Holidae X: matter 

[01:03:57] DJ And?: of fact, you know I'm at 1 [01:04:00] 41 dash 14 right now. Yeah. People don't realize this starts at one dash one. Yeah, I got like over like, like almost like 3000 beats. And what we talking about is 

[01:04:08] Mic: mm-hmm. Campus always has serial, 

[01:04:10] DJ And?: serial numbers.

[01:04:11] DJ And?: Serial numbers for Beats serial. And if you 

[01:04:13] Mic: understand, like if you know that you like owe the stuff in the 1 28 range, there 

[01:04:17] DJ And?: ranges, 

[01:04:17] Mic: there's probably like ten one twenty 

[01:04:19] DJ And?: eight. I like the 80 ranges. I remember the seventies and 80 ranges. Different stages. Different stages. Yeah. Different stages. Different stages.

[01:04:26] DJ And?: But yeah, the one, the, the cool thing is when we had the one in the dorm, We had, we had all our vinyl right then and there. Oh. And we had, and so that was the time it, the dorm room and then the closet for recording was outside. But we had it all linked up and see you used go outside and do a little, I gotta set my 

[01:04:43] Holidae X: vinyl up now too.

[01:04:44] Holidae X: See, I saw 

[01:04:45] DJ And?: the, and you could, and the cool thing, we had a vinyl setup. We could sample live, immediately sample, take it and chop it up. This is before you were doing that. This is when ki them was like, we, y'all cheating. And so we said, we get vinyl. Yeah. We were, I didn't, 

[01:04:58] Mic: was like 

[01:04:59] Holidae X: hip hop. I didn't [01:05:00] know that's what people were doing.

[01:05:01] Holidae X: I thought, I thought that was cheating the whole time. I thought I was cheating. And then I was like, wait a minute, that's hip to be doing 

[01:05:06] DJ And?: that. I'm, that's how 

[01:05:08] Holidae X: started off that. That's part of I miss out on some 

[01:05:10] DJ And?: things. You said, no, y'all need to grab the vinyl. And I was like, it does sound better like this.

[01:05:13] DJ And?: We had so much. But like I said, man, I think, be honest with you, when we were working on music, I know for me the, my favorite time working on music. Of course I like working on music now. Yeah. But. It was that, like that 2005. Mm-hmm. So that 2006 period, it was fun, especially when we made our first computer that was associated thinking it down.

[01:05:34] DJ And?: We built the computer from scratch. Mm-hmm. We were like, we'll build a computer where we can run FL Studio on it and like for our samples. And we had it hooked up, built the computer, I forgot what happened. To it. Because I remember at first we didn't have No, at first we didn't have no fan in it. We didn't have a fan in it.

[01:05:48] DJ And?: We didn't What didn't you Mel it? Yeah. Yeah. We didn't Mel it Exactly. We didn't, yeah, we didn't know, like we were just putting it together. But we was doing 

[01:05:54] Holidae X: P four process. Yes. Yeah. 

[01:05:56] DJ And?: No, really? Yes. That as like, that's what we, [01:06:00] right, that's what was before. So you could get away with that. You can't do that no more.

[01:06:03] DJ And?: Everything, it just had a heat sink on it. Nowadays you gotta have a fan cooling system, et cetera. Right, right. But yeah, that one, because I built, after that one went away, that was pretty, it was okay. I built a really powerful one. And I actually gave that to Rashid and Rashid. That one was the one that got lost.

[01:06:19] DJ And?: Yeah, that was the one that had the cooling system in it. It had, that was dope. It had liquor cooling. Yeah, it had the, yeah, it was the dope one. Yeah. Yeah. Had dope. Yeah. Built that mo phone. Dope. I bought Little Case for, I got a Wrangler looking case because I wasnt nobody to think it was nice. We used to live in a project, it was still the spot, you know, E Gas, that shit, it looked like a normal itil, but when you turn it off Wow.

[01:06:39] DJ And?: I think said 

[01:06:40] Mic: Rah. 

[01:06:40] DJ And?: What? But that's what started it. But yeah, it was, I just remember we had so much fun because I think the more you get, like the more you got in all into music, the more you start to get influenced by other things. Right? Yeah. And so like even outta this day, like I had to go kind of revert back to the point where it's like, you know, I'm just gonna make what I just [01:07:00] want to like.

[01:07:00] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. I'm not just gonna make what something sounds like. Mm-hmm. 'cause I have the ability to do that. And a lot of producers get caught up in that. 'cause the skillset. You're like, okay, I already know these type, these types of elements. People like, let me incorporate these things. Because 

[01:07:12] Mic: that was the thing, like back in the day, somebody would be like, oh, I'm really feeling X, Y, Z track.

[01:07:16] Mic: And you would just be like, oh, I can do that. Yeah, we make that for you. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. You mean you like. Mm, 

[01:07:22] DJ And?: here you go. Yeah, like eight oh eights. Okay. Here. Like Joe, he is a bone Th Harmony fan. Yeah. We took that darn for the love of money sample and we shot him up and then we even took, look man, he took that darn sample from Biggie.

[01:07:34] DJ And?: Mm-hmm. From the weeding gen joint. He is the thuggies. 

[01:07:36] Holidae X: Right man. You know, I mean I made a song off that and I still gotta beat and I make a song off that by every three years stuff. I still 

[01:07:43] DJ And?: love that man. I'm gonna go home and listen to this just because I wanna hear what Mr. Sound sound like back in the day.

[01:07:49] DJ And?: Forget that 

[01:07:50] Holidae X: laugh. That's the biggest thing though. They got song. So on this music in motion, the hip hop version was on the radio down here. Yep. Oh, this right. Y'all will laugh y ass [01:08:00] off at y'all some hoes. 'cause I just tried to be as creative 

[01:08:02] DJ And?: as hell on that. I remember that song too. 

[01:08:04] Holidae X: How long did you shut up?

[01:08:04] Holidae X: Yo, the dude that did the master on this, he messed up on a few of these songs and put the background vocals. That's the main vocals. So he messed up, like, and then I have a chopped and screw version that he messed up the chopped and screws and all that stuff. So I gave him the, the what 

[01:08:21] DJ And?: you give the track.

[01:08:22] Holidae X: The one I gave him, the, the way I missed it down. Yeah. The, the reference. I gave him the references for all of them, and then I gave him all the stamps and he just went in the like, Crazy. Lost it. I ain't gonna call his name out, but his name is 40 Ounce. Oh. I'm 

[01:08:37] Ta-Myia: not, there we go. There 

[01:08:38] DJ And?: it is. So, but we gotta wrap up because we gotta get we hung Yeah, we, I ain't trying to get my behind whoop.

[01:08:44] DJ And?: I ain't got time for that. I don't need bruises on me. She look angry too. I y'all see trying 

[01:08:49] Holidae X: right around the 19th minute. Yeah. My face is like, well we gotta get that thing going, going anywhere for a while. I was like, one Snickers. That's 

[01:08:56] Ta-Myia: how I really am. I really am. Yeah. 

[01:08:59] DJ And?: Well we [01:09:00] wanna thank everybody for tuning in and listening to this episode of Hilltop Club Podcast.

[01:09:03] DJ And?: I'm your man. DJing what? Tamaya over here on the ones two. He's hungry. Mike's up, skip And of course, esteem Guest 

[01:09:11] Holidae X: Holiday. You 

[01:09:12] Ta-Myia: gotta 

[01:09:12] Holidae X: singing though. Don't count. 

[01:09:13] DJ And?: Don't count. Holiday. We appreciate you so much. We thank for your support. We thank you for being the sponsor of the show. We thank for letting you letting you use us.

[01:09:21] DJ And?: Use your studios here today, links recording studios. Go ahead and give 'em a drop and also make sure they have your information for contact if they do need to see you about any business. 

[01:09:31] Holidae X: Yo, yo, yo, this is holiday on the Hilltop Glove, holiday x, what they call me. You can find everything I do@www.distractionnetwork.com.

[01:09:39] Holidae X: Until next time, take care. Peace. Be safe. Peace. Peace. Holler.