This is Mouse Jones from BET Social,
got my man...
Kyle in here, and I just pulled up.
Milly, sturdy, nah it's all good.
My bad, sorry.
Forget my handshake, you got a sturdy!
I'm tryin' to get my milly rock more sturdy.
Listen, I'm from New York,
I understand if won't dap me
to make sure your milly is sturdy.
-Exactly, right! -Aight, I appreicate that.
-Thank you. -That's like if I'm in LA
you come to see me, give me a dap
and I'm hittin' this move right here,
Yeah, this shit.
Let me me lil'--
Yo, all people in LA just dance like this.
That's how you can spot an LA dude,
if he's in the circle dancin' by himself doin' this.
I had no idea what I was doin' either.
I was in the spot, just doin' this.
And everybody was just hypin' me up
so I thought I was doin' the right thing.
So, first off, what the hell is Kyle day,
and how are we celebrating this?
Okay, so, where I'm from, Ventura, California,
the 805, the whole county actually,
it's not just the city of Ventura,
it's the whole county by the way
Shout out to the whole 805,
the whole county.
Whole 805, April 29th is super duper Kyle day,
and I was doin' my show, in Ventura,
and then
Mambo came out and presented me with
a certificate that the county of Ventura had said
April 29th from here on out
is gonna be considered super duper Kyle day.
And how you celebrate that,
I just told people that on super duper Kyle day,
if you can celebrate it
on behalf of me,
just go out there and help somebody out,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Make somebody's day better.
You know? 'Cause I say,
as it being super duper Kyle day,
all of us are superheroes,
'cause we all have the power
to just better somebody's day.
So, that's how you celebrate it,
you just gotta go out there and
do something nice for somebody.
Now how do you do that LA
when everybody real tough?
Oh how you do that out there?
-Like how you do it? -They be tough!
How you compliment them, 'cause I'd be scared,
they be like here with it.
Nah, you know what, everybody in LA
got a super tough,
I mean you say LA, people in New York
got some tough-ass exteriors,
Some real talk about LA right now.
Yeah, but everybody in LA,
you know what, you just gotta be real
and they might look extra tough,
but you say somethin' to them they be like,
yea, you know what bro? Thanks bro.
Yeah, you know my stance is right.
-Like you know, hey thanks, -Right there, right there.
You know what I'm sayin'? Thanks for that.
You know what I'm sayin'? That's all you gotta do.
No, you know you're from LA
and you got seaters but if you can stand like this-
Can we see the--[laughter]
Yo, this, officially means you're from LA.
The more you can do it too,
like this is natural, this shit don't even hurt.
Like, so real like, if you can do this, you're good.
This means you're really from LA.
If you ever see somebody standin' like this,
Right there
They gotta be a crip or a blood.
Or, you should call a exorcist.
-Or a exorcist, yea. -Somethin's goin' on there.
Right, so easy,
in LA it's all about the walk-up too.
It's all about the... you feel me?
Ok long glide, long glide.
Long steps, like--
[Laughter]
Alright, so 5/18.
5/18 baby!
Light of Mind.
You gon' spread some light.
Yes.
Now, the record with you and Khalid,
I heard you say that,
-It's called I Miss Me , - I Miss Me , yeah.
I heard you say that you wake up every day
and you listen to that.
Straight up.
Why is that record so important?
Man, you know what, to me specifically
when I hear that song, I'm like,
it's almost like, it's one of those songs
that I feel like I've been waiting to make my entire life.
-You know what I mean? -Mmmm.
One of those songs I really feel like
has this undeniable energy
that no matter where you at or
what type of situation you're in,
you're gonna play that and
you're gonna feel better.
You feel me?
And on top of it, just like the message of it too,
I feel like it relates to a lot of people,
it called I Miss Me , and it's talkin' about
you know, somebody who feels like they
lost touch with themselves, you feel me?
And throughout all the other relationships
they're trying to maintain.
And it's talking about getting back to loving
you know, the most important friend.
-Which is yourself. -Yourself.
And yeah, I feel like that message
is really important to a lot of people
who, you know, who are maybe going through a hard time
or losing touch with that.
So how do you specifically, or
how do you specifically, stay so positive
right now where it's like all your contemporaries
and your peers, or a lot of them,
Yea.
are leaning into the fact that they are dealing
with mental health, dealing with depression,
and not the happy side of it?
Yeah, nah I try to just relate to them and be like,
Yo, I feel you too, you know what I mean?
I feel exactly what y'all feel, like
times are hard right now, it's a weird, dark time.
I feel how people, you know, can be in such a harsh place.
I think, like I said, I think it's all about
how you deal with it.
You know a lot of people will turn
to whether it's drugs, or substance abuse,
or a lot of people will turn to trying to find
someone to vent their anger on,
and both are ways that you're gonna
you know, subdue your sadness
for a short amount of time.
But how I deal with it is just try to keep myself
in a positive mindset,
remind myself, you know, why I'm blessed.
Remind myself, all the good things I do have going for me.
Remind myself that it could be a lot worse.
You feel me?
All you gotta do is watch a couple documentaries,
you will see, shit could be a lot worse.
-And it is, for other people. -Absolutely.
And it's like, when you remind yourself
of all that stuff, it's like
how can you not smile?
You feel me?
How can you not be in a good mood?
So, take a lil' different..
Take a little different, switch!
[Screeching noises]
We out!
We're not pullin' up,
we just pullin' over,
-Aight, yeah. -No but,
so I know you're close friends with Chance the Rapper,
and last week was kinda rough, you know,
seein' all the public scrutiny he had to go through,
and you just, this year closin' out
your Coachella set.
Look how epic we is, look!
This was your first time, right?
That was my first Coachella, yeah.
And you get to share with your friends.
And bro, you know what dog,
that's my real brother, 'cause it's like
even when, no matter what,
when he says he's gonna do something for me,
-he always comes through. -Right.
Out of today's crop, he's my favorite.
Yeah.
So, you guys havin' that bond,
havin' that close connection,
how rough was it to watch, you know,
the scrutiny he went through,
for just defending his friend last week?
Yeah, I mean, you know what?
I feel like as long as somebody's like down
to voice their opinion and they're not afraid
of doin' it, this scrutiny does not matter.
Internet scrutiny, it does not matter.
If there's anything that is fickle as hell,
it's internet scrutiny.
I don't think it's that like, not important,
but I just don't think it's that detrimental to somebody,
you know what I mean?
So here go, this is the deepest,
this is the toughest, this is most hard hitting
-question I got, aight? -Hit me, hit me.
So just, take this in.
Aight, get ready.
I know you into Pokemon,
almost as heavy as I am.
In that, right, in us bein'
two young Pokemon masters,
If rap was Pokemon,
-I'ma ask you this, -Which Pokemon would I be?
-No! Forget you! -Okay, okay, okay.
-You're the trainer! -Yeah yeah yeah.
Who's Pikachu?
In rap, who's Pikachu,
who's Charmander,
who's Bulbasaur,
and who's Squirtle?
Wow.
In rap right now.
This is a really epic question,
because it has so much to do--
I have to combine Pokémon elements
with like, you know what I'm sayin'?
Damn, this is so hard, I'm tryin'
to equate it, I'm tryin' to match it up
to like who got the, you know what I mean?
Who's like water?
Who's like water? Who's like water?
Who just the like, you know--
I'ma say, to me, Chance is Squirtle.
Chance is Squirtle, you think he's just like water?
I was thinkin' Chance is more like Pikachu,
'cause I feel like his music is just hella,
you know what I'm sayin', electric,
and him as a performer is kinda electric
he can go anywhere.
You know what, Drake is Squirtle.
-Drake is Squirtle? -Drake is Squirtle.
'Cause he can bounce from this to that.
Chance is Pikachu,
so now we need Charmander and Bulbasaur.
I'ma say Travis Scott is probably Charmander, na meen?
That's a strong one.
Like fire, you feel me?
And Bulbasaur, Bulbasaur is for sure SZA,
can I put her in this too even though
-she ain't singin'? -Sure!
She's gonna be beefin' with you
because nobody want to be Bulbasour growing up.
Oh you don't think so?
Bulbasaur was the last-- No one ever picked Bulbasaur!
-You always traded him -Bulbasaur's fire!
You woulda traded for him like, I'll take him.
I'll take him, sure, I'll trade him after.
'Cause you know what I mean, after her
music is just like, and that's my friend.
She's so down to earth, you feel me?
Yeah, I don't know, she just more like Bulbasour.
Just like, earthy.
So we got Travis Scott as Charmander,
SZA as Bulbasaur,
Drake as Squirtle,
Chance as Pikachu.
Boom!
And here go the biggest question,
who would you pick
-To start your own gym? -For my own Pokemon?
Who would you start your journey with?
Damn.
Honestly, as a Pokemon lover,
you gotta do Pikachu,
-you gotta pick Pikachu. -Mmmm.
You feel me? You gotta pick Pikachu.
That's the staple one.
Well Kyle, I appreciate you comin' out.
Hey man, I appreciate you too bro.
-5/18! 5/18! - Light of Mind.
Light of Mind.
That's my album release date and my birthday, so--
-Oh, that's your bir-- -It is.
So if you don't get that,
I'm gonna be deeply offended.
So, 5/18, okay?
This is Mouse Jones for BET Social
with Kyle, he just pulled up.
I pulled up.
[screeching noise]