It's your boy Joe Moses man and I blew it bad
For the ratchets waving paranoid future back on brazii and my biggest song. All right now RJ car stop it
So my last regular job was 99-cent store it was just too much labor
Wasn't for me
less money too much labor picking up
fake soda cans
And all the type of stuff like that. So one day I just didn't come in
They called me to come in and I didn't come in. I was about 16 years old. I was my last
job right after dumb
Losing a job getting fired. I got caught up. You know, I
Went to jail for like 12 residential burglaries in a bank robbery
And when it's a termination conspiracy terrorist threats all type of stuff and I ended up doing like three years eight months
When I when I got out it just helped me being in jail. It helped me like for meit like
All that time I wasted so I just you know, I was just on the page where it's like, you know
What if you're gonna do this?
So you do you're gonna do that and when I got out I just was more serious
I was more focused like I ain't gonna waste none of my time. I wanna hang out with my homies
I wanna do nothing that I got out and I just told my homies like look it's the pace that I'm on strictly on this
Like I'm strictly on rapping y'all on this and that's what we own if y'all ain't on this thing, you know
Y'all go your own way
And since I was the person I was like not to my own horn, but my homies they respected
That was like let's go we strictly on this and most of my homies came with me and they've been with me ever since
My first notable hit was was a song called
Sitting on my face. It wasn't even on the radios like a street song
So let me tell you let me get up in it. I should do concerts every Tuesday. I still fight like all my homies
It's just used to be all like dudes there till I had to start like getting smart like there's no girls here
So like one week like I took off and like next week
I'll fight it like probably like 50 girls and I performed this song and like
You can see it was like a different vibe from having
You know
More guys there or more girls there because you know when you young you don't understand it the format of music at that time
That's what made me realize at that point of time. It made me realize like
Girls need to be my fanbase morning guys
Music influenced me a lot because I wanted to be a rapper so bad and because I wanted to rap so bad
I think I read more books and just to
formulate my vocabulary and and be more creative and
It helped me stay away like in jail. You got to be an easy reader, but I always wanted to be a writer
My first big rep check was not even from a big record labels from an independent label
It was from some people that we just met that was in Vegas they flew us out to Vegas
We had the meeting and at the meeting it was like the father
That was like older and it was like a son that was like younger that one you can just tell his father and his grandfather
had all the money and they just wanted he just wanted to be in the business and he
Just wanted to sign the artist and I guess like that reached out to me
And I thought they was like playing for a minute. But um we went to a car lot. They bought me two new
that's when they bought me a four-door new six 650 right off the spot like straight to the car lot new 650
The next day this was probably like on a on a Tuesday or something like that. The next day was like a
Wednesday we went out to eat. They treated me out to eat
We signed the deal. We I was so anxious. I didn't even sign it. No lawyers. No anything
I was like I was so happy like, you know, I mean I was young, you know, I mean and um
it was like for a ticket, you know, I mean they gave me probably like
$400,000. I ended up buying a house in Vegas staying in Vegas
Going back and forth from Vegas to LA
I ran probably through that
$400,000 party in Vegas. I rent through that partying like a
month and a half I
Bought a truck my little brother a car. I had a 650 we got a rose for the team
So when I heard my first song on the radio
It was up on the north to
South to dejected ones they played in I knew it too
It's like one of the best feelings it was called go girl, and I was on it
DJ monster was on it, too
And it was just like one of the probably the best feelings for me and my crews we've been grinding so long. I
Literally was hustling at that time
I literally took all my money and went to stars and stars was like the biggest strip club and I lay in gardena
At the time and I literally blew like 10,000
New years, we blew like 42 racks in the club for New Year's
Oh, I think I got that on film too. All gold bottles. We went crazy. I bought something for a girl
I think she went out of town with some other dudes or something like that
I felt goofy, and I wanted to take the watch back
Something like that
I'm like when you get back in town you bring me that I don't even think it was far
I think is probably like 4800 or something like that
So going into that situation I left for another situation and I signed with Waka Flocka and
Signing with Waka Flocka, they gave me everything that I needed
You know
I mean and I ended up being with them for a couple of years being with Brick Squad Gucci Mane ate all day
They say southern people say they always took care of their own plane tickets and all that. I ran through that money to and
after that deal
You know I'm saying I ended up being with Akon and at that time it was a rough time in my life. I was fighting
Just got with Akon. I was fighting a case and a compeiied all my lawyers. He gave me a bag and with that bag
I took it and I start flipping it and started investing in business and stuff
One thing about making money and when you in this game when you understand this game
You understand that you can always make more money. So it's never no regrets. I've always noticed that I can make more money
My family didn't treat started to me different - my dad died and I was like there
I'm not even oldest but I was like the like the backbone of the family along with a couple of my other brothers
but it's like me it's like I'm the one who bring all our ideas together like
Mexico let's go here like
Let's let's not pack. Let's go here. Like that's the type of person in my family
So my mom she like she had called me for like just certain things and like, you know
You know son, you know my birthday coming up. I'm like mom
I know your birthday coming up, you know, I mean what you want to do, whatever she want to do, you know, I mean
So just stuff like that my family for us on a rap tip. I don't treat me different
They treat me as the same so I still gotta take the trash out of my mom house
I still probably if she cook I gotta wash the dishes, you know, I mean, she's still the same vibes like, you know
I mean they still treat me as a as a normal person like
Family, that's probably haven't been around me. They treat me different like
You know, I was at the job, you know I'm saying and it was like Joe Moses. Yo cousin
I'll be looking at him like bro. I ain't Kanye West bro. I ain't the Kardashians, bro
I'm not that big like can I get a picture with you to show people that I'm related to you? I would like bro
I'm not that big I'm big but I'm not that big so, you know to people that that didn't grow up around me
You know I'm saying
They probably treat me different to people that grew up around me. I'm the same person. I'm still showing up
To family functions. I'd rather be around family to be around industry. So that's just what type of person I am
On a positive note music helped me open a nonprofit organization
I just did Community Day when I really figured out that music was my life when I created a football league in
my community called the LA Chiefs and I was like
You know what? This is like the best job when I got my first couple of plaques
I was like, you know what I'm going straight with this. I ain't going jumping nobody else Lane. I'm just gonna focus on this I
Got enough music to drop a project every day this year no cap. I got about three hundred and some songs. I
Got about a hundred probably features from different artists. I
Got a mixtape with Doug. I got a mixtape with with Ty a mixtape with RJ
And we're just working you can expect you know my clothing that's my clothing line right here
It's called koteas that mean West Side and French
Whatever should where's your Moses and I blew it back