Belly

0:03Well, welcome to the studio, Belly. For Belly, yes, Belly, what are you going to call these? Whatever you want. What do you like? I like Belly. You like Belly? That's where we got a tattoo on your arm right there. But I got a Belly something. Oh really? So it's confusing for everybody. So it's been going on man. You just told me, that is a nice watch. Thanks. You just told me you've been in Miami recently working on your desk. Yeah. So what's going on with that? I'm just working hard, trying to out do the last album. That's going to be hard. That's not going to be triple record. No, I'm going with the single this time. But I still got the split concept going on which is, you know, the album is called Seven. Right. So it's like seven days and seven nights. Seven songs for the daytime. Seven songs for the nighttime. You know, it's getting something to be a little more relaxed.

0:48Exactly. More relaxed, you know, more of the stuff that you can play if you're driving home from work or driving to work. And then the nighttime stuff is obviously... We've got to get fuel pounds in the hips. You know, the stuff is going to get them all hyped up. Right. I just like to vibe there. I traveled a lot and that was probably the number one spot for me in terms of making music. You know, it was just the vibe there. So it was so perfect for me. It's always hot. It's always hot. You know, you step outside the studio and you see palm trees and all types of things. Those are bikinis, ox up. Yeah. And bikinis and roller skates. Bikinis is a fascinating company. Not roller blades. Roller skates are four wheels. Oh yeah. Well, they do have hockey down there. It's like, go San go. Yeah, of course. Go.

1:33I'm a Habs fan. But nonetheless, you wrote a song for the Senators a couple of years ago. Yeah. You big hockey fan? Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not a huge hockey fan. I'm a big Senators fan. You know, like just being from the hometown. Yeah. I get behind anything that's from Ottawa. Back to the new record though. And my, who's working on it? I hear a lot. I mean, you just dropped a new single hockey little snoop. Yeah. So I got... I got a lot of horses on there. Right now with Snoop. I just got Sarani on the remix. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. He just jumped on, did a whole full out reggae remix. He did like a hook and a verse and everything on it. So we got that. I've been really focusing on production for now. Before I go and, and, you know, start looking at features. Mm-hmm. Like my formula is I like to have a song.

2:18At least figure it out before I say I'm going to put this person on it. I'm just, yeah. I don't just get like a beat and be like, okay, I'm going to put this person on it. You know, I finish the record first in terms of what I need to do. And then I say, hey, you know, it would be perfect for this. So and so. Right. How far will you use the record? It's been a long time to make it. I'm doing a lot of, you know, I'm taking a different approach this time. How so? I think I'm taking my time a little bit more and I'm really, you know, I really raise the bar for what can actually make it on now. Mm-hmm. Well, good. Yeah. I'm going to wrap a lot of music and that's why I got like five mixtapes coming out. Yeah, I heard this one coming out soon. Yeah. I got, you know, one with DJ Smalls. I got one with DJ Warrior. Me and Big Mike are working on something.

3:03Me and Self are probably going to be working on something. So I'm working with a lot of different DJs. And it's all basically stuff that I did that people would appreciate and love, but it's just not ready to make it to the masterpiece. The masterpiece. Like maybe we should call it seven, the masterpiece. Yeah. That's actually good. Thank you. I'll take like what? Two percent royalties? No, I give you two percent on the DVD. Yeah, DVD. I like that. Let's play a song. Let's play that new single Hot Girl. I tell people about writing it. You said it's Hot Miami. These girls are on the road. Yeah, actually it's Hot Miami. Nah, it's about the Hot Girls out there, man. Because you know, everywhere you go, like people think it's like, oh, if you go here, there's so many Hot Girls, or if you go there, that's not true. You see Hot Girls everywhere you go.

3:49And you know, that's what really inspired the song. You know, beautiful girls. I want to go back to history of violence because it's just one hell of a tune. Like it's just, I love, you can make war from peace, but not peace for more. Definitely. What's your favorite lyric ever wrote? Is that one of them? Is that one of them? History of violence is definitely like a lot of people. Everyone of gravity is two at least. Pardon me? Someone of gravity takes two lyrics, but you probably get asked about it a lot. Yeah, lyrically I think, yeah, definitely. A lot of people. Appreciate, you know, that song and the honesty of the song. Is more stuff like that coming up in this new record? Yeah, definitely. But you know that the follow up to History of Violence is a song called Future of Hope. Okay. So it's like, you know, just to show people that it's not just about the History of Violence, it's also about the future that we hope to have, you know.

4:38It may be a bomb will change. Hopefully not yet. I'm still waiting for it. It's supposed to happen right away. It's still early for the man. I know. People got to let him rock and roll right now. Exactly. You know, he's trying to stir things up. And you know, once you do that, it's going to be a lot of people to try to go against you. But once everything settles down, then we can make an opinion and be like, yeah, he did his job and all he didn't do. Right. Exactly. Like in the midst of all the controversy. Like, you can't do the same. Not yet. Are you living down there? Are you still living up here? Um, legally, I'm still living here. I'm still living here. I'm still living here. Yeah, I'm a Canadian. No, I'm playing, man. I go down there for like a two month, three month period to the time. Mm-hmm. And I come back and, you know, do this.

5:23I go on tour and, you know, I go see my mom and my family and all my friends and all that. And then I spend a couple months here, and I go back. Yeah. Well, speaking of tour, Buster Rimes. Buster Rimes. Today's the first day. Yeah, yeah. Buster Rimes, man. One of the most explosive electric performers in the hip hop. Can you wrap as fast as you can? Can anyone? Wow, I think I can. Yeah, I think I can. Yeah, I think I can. Yeah, I can. I want to see a freestyle speed battle tonight. Man, listen, don't tempt it really. I just have to. I want to see it. I want to tempt it. No, you know what? I'm definitely excited to watch in a show. I really want to watch a show because he's just somebody that gets so hyped that you can't help but get hyped. I think you could not even like Busta Rhymes and you'll just still get hyped and go home.

6:11He's as a performer, he's amazing. And as a rap artist, he's a legend. It's an honor for me to be on the tour. Do you listen to him as a kid? A lot of? Definitely. He does it in new school. Yeah, he said it. It's a sob story, man. No, I'm right. But it's not just a boss. It's a show that's a belly show too. So what can people expect tonight? A lot of new stuff? We're going back to that. I'm going to do the half and half. Yeah. Half iced tea, half lemonade. I don't want to give them a lot of the stuff that they look like. They love and a lot of the stuff that made me who I am right now. And I'm going to give them a lot of the stuff that's not even released yet. Cool. So people that are at the show with their cameras might get a little... That'd be on YouTube tomorrow. Some YouTube action. You know, my new single would be in perform. Five questions, one more answer.

6:57Roder Studio. Why'd you have to do that? Studio. Pocket Biggie. Biggie. I just say Biggie because it was the first album I officially bought. First one or the second one? No. Snoop Dogg was the first album that I ever listened to. I did a pop album that we ever owned. And my older brother bought that. The Biggie album, I dragged my mom into a H.M.V. I was probably 11 years old. And I bought Ready to Die, which is the first album. Yeah. And that thing changed my life. Were you listening to hip hop before that?

7:42Yeah, that's where you were. You were more of a rock kid. Like I was kid from Ottawa getting to hip hop. Hip hop is everywhere. It's everywhere. You know, like it's number one. I never had a problem with rock or alternative or none of that. You know, I always liked Nirvana, Kurt Cobain and all that. You know, I listened to that as a kid too. But what really took over in my life was the hip hop. You know, and like I said, my older brother bought Doggy Style when I was like really, really young, you know. And I knew that album from, you know, front to back. And then I went and bought Ready to Die. And same thing, I knew that album from front to back. I still listened to Ready to Die. So today. No, it doesn't. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? It's been like almost 15 years. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.

8:27Your brother's a rapper too. We'll go back to five questions in a couple. What's he up to? My little brother is crazy. Yeah. You got two brothers. Which one's the rapper? No. My brother's an older brother. My youngest, youngest brother is a rapper. Mm-hmm. You know, the truth. That's what we call him. Yeah. The kid's been rapping since he was like nine years old. You know, he saw what I was doing. He was so, you know, infatuated by it. He was like, you know what, I gotta get into this. Mm-hmm. And he's a monster. He's a beast. Like, I'm just keeping him in a cage right now. Just waiting to release him on the world. He's working on a mixtape on an album. You know, you can catch him on my mixtape. On everything that I'm putting out on my album on there. On the masterpiece? On the masterpiece.

9:12Cool. In fact, the five questions, most important thing to song. Melody lyrics are cadence. Lyrics. Song you've written your most proud of. I'd say it's the real balance. Cool. One word, belly. Have the scribe belly? One word? Yeah. We're bellius. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it too. I appreciate it too.