I don’t have the ego that most rappers have.
You know most rappers are like, “I’m a rapper.”
Me, I’m a human being.
That’s how I like to think about it.
I always have this doubt, even with this show, you know.
I know it’s silly to think, but like I just always have this thing.
I’m like, “Is anybody going to show up to my show?”
That’s like the most important thing in the world, I think, is chasing your dreams
I dropped out freshman year from this school called Redlands East Valley.
Not ‘cause I was stupid just because I just couldn’t sit there and...you know if something
doesn’t resonate in your head you just can’t do it.
Like I don’t know how to tie my shoes.
A million people have tried to teach me how to tie my shoes.
It just don’t resonate in my head.
Same with school, so it just never was for me.
Yeah I dropped out, and then I started playing video games for like, the whole duration of
high school.
So I thought I was gonna be a professional gamer or something my whole life.
Yeah and then I wanted to get in photography.
Met Steven Cannon.
Everybody. Make some noise for fucking Steven Cannon!
I wanna say something!
Wait, I wanna say something.
If it wasn’t for this man right here, I wouldn’t be here.
Well Xan was like, he was first in line for one of my shows.
When I was first coming up and shit.
At first I thought he was annoying.
‘Cause he was like, “Yo, smoke this blunt with me.”
I’m like, “I don’t really smoke."
My boy Aris brought him on as a photographer, then I befriended him.
Then somebody stole his camera at one of my shows, so he started rapping after that.
Shoutout to that guy, whoever stole my camera ‘cause I wouldn’t be here if he didn’t
steal it.
Xan didn’t try to be a rapper.
He kinda just did what he wanted to do.
And then, people saw what I see.
But I knew he had that star thing.
His smile, his vibe, his energy.
Whenever he was around me I was like, “I know dude is gonna be something.”
I used to go to sleep at night telling my girl like, “Shorty I think it’s ‘bout to be crazy.”
Rest in peace Lil Peep.
That shit is a real fucking epidemic.
These laced Xans and Xans in general, they’re out here ruining people’s fucking lives.
Everybody, I need your phone lights up right now.
Everybody put your phone lights up.
Way back in the day when I was still addicted to Xanax, which I'm not no more, I wrote a
song called “Betrayed” ‘cause I was like, "Man, this Xan shit has really fucked my life up."
And it was like that song was inspiration for me to just quit that shit.
I quit Xans probably like, somewhere between eight and ten months ago.
I can’t say eight to ten months ago because I was off a Xan when I made “Betrayed.”
But I had stopped abusing the hell out of them.
I was going crazy.
‘Cause that song just started like really speaking to me.
When it started doing good I was like, “Damn. The people really like this message."
I was already planning on quitting but it gave me more motivation, like the fans relating
to it, to kick the shit.
Xanarchy was never like a Xan movement.
Like, “Do eight Xans.”
It was never that.
It was just, I wanted to make a clothing line and Xanarchy just sounded tight.
But then I’m like, “Now I have this brand that I could turn into a movement.”
And that’s how the anti-Xan movement, you know Xan-archy.
Like, chaos.
Xans are chaos.
Man, the fans.
I love them.
I love the fans to death.
Like it’s so crazy because four months ago, seeing him not even have headlined shows to
now selling out shows all across the country is just amazing.
I’m so proud of him.
This is really a dream come true.
This wasn’t expected.
This wasn’t planned.
It just kinda happened.
How the fuck y’all feel New York?
Me and my dad used to clean streets.
So we were just getting by.
I was dirt poor, living in a shitty house.
And that was like two years ago.
I mean, three.
Started doing photography, camera got stolen, you know.
The rest was history.
Yeah no I used to record in like a trap house garage, in like North Hollywood in the Valley.
And I made “Betrayed,” “Slingshot,” like all the songs that blew up and shit.
So that goes to show you, if you have the right engineer, doesn’t matter where you’re at.
You can make super hot flame shit.
There's two types of people in the world.
There's people who want to live a regular life and people who want to live their dream
and do their dream job.
I think option number two is way better.