(Jingling)
- Yo, Trent - Teezo.
How you doing, man?
- Oh man, I can't call him man.
Look at my boy, acting like Kerwin Frost.
Man, I see you.
- Man, you shopping with Kerwin Frost.
- That is true. That is true.
But yo, so today T, I didn't even come looking
for the regular regular.
- Man, this is perfect.
- T. - Yeah, this is perfect, man.
- It look like jumped off fax machine, man.
I can't wear this man.
- Nah, this is you, man.
This is rock star, you know, with the nails,
I know you go crazy. This'll look perfect for you.
- How much you want for it?
- You a friend of mine, so let's do a hundred. Call it even.
- A hundred. - Yeah.
- T, we're in a back alley it smells like urine and oil.
- Right. - Fifty.
- All right. - 50, I'll take it right now.
- All right, I'll do 50. - 50?
- I'll do 50. - All right, man, but look,
I'm not even looking for clothes today, man.
I got a gig in 20 minutes. I need a bass.
- You need a bass.
- A bass.
- Psh, it's just like... - I know you got it.
I know you got it back there somewhere.
- Yeah, I got something. - You got everything.
- I normally just got the clothes.
- I know.
- But I just got something off the truck,
fresh off the truck. Check this out.
- Whoo. - That's the Fender Meteora.
- That sound exotic.
- Just came in. Apparently there's three of them
in the world.
- You got one right here.
Bad, but yo, T. I got one more favor to ask you.
- Talk to me, Teezo.
- I need a band.
- A band?
- A band.
- I need a guitar player, - Guitar player.
I need a piano player, and a drummer.
- And a dr...and a venue, right?
(both laugh)
- Nah, man, just a band. You got that in the shop?
- A band?
- Yeah.
- Psss, come on, man. Of course, I got you.
Fellas. It's show time.
See that?
- Yeah, I see.
- What's up, man.
- There you go. You should be covered, T.
- Yo man, Trench. As always, man, thank you.
Yo, you need any tickets for the show?
- Yeah, let me get a plus one, please.
- Make it plus ten. I'll see you later, all right?
- I'll see you later. You crazy pinheaded bastard.
- I go by the name of Teezo Touchdown,
weighing in at about 409 pounds of heavy metal.
Little disclaimer, I ain't perfect.
Neither is the music, but we gon' jam. Damn!
Say (long ascending glissando)
hey! 1, 2, 3, 4.
("Bad Enough" by Teezo Touchdown)
(alt metal intro music)
(metal beat begins)
♪ 1, 2, 3, and ♪
♪ Are you gonna get down? ♪
♪ Are you gonna quit now? ♪
♪ Crying on a Greyhound ♪
♪ Heading to your hometown ♪
♪ He didn't want it bad ♪
♪ Enough ♪
♪ Actin' like a trick now ♪
♪ Need to have a switch now ♪
♪ Need to have a sit-down ♪
♪ Let's plan it out, new man in town ♪
♪ That wants it bad ♪
♪ Enough ♪
♪ You didn't want it bad ♪
♪ Enough ♪
♪ Give 'em a break ♪
♪ Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪
♪ Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪
♪ See she gettin' thick now ♪
♪ Wonder who she with now ♪
♪ Haha, buddy, sit down ♪
♪ All them nights you left her up alone ♪
♪ All the times that you did her wrong ♪
♪ Now you got her scrollin' through her phone ♪
♪ Have you ever went home and heard your lover moan? ♪
♪ Because you didn't want her bad ♪
♪ Enough ♪
♪ You didn't want it bad ♪
♪ Enough ♪
♪ Now, I'm no preacher ♪
♪ If anything I'm just a walking billboard ♪
♪ This how you know that whatever you pray for ♪
♪ It's gonna work, how bad do you want it? ♪
- "Bad Enough" is the story of coming
fresh from LA
and being scared of going back home and just,
not knowing what was next, but just taking a leap of faith
and saying how bad do you want it?
And that was just a little message to me
to say, yo, how bad do you want it?
So before if I'm ever waking up for a flight
or something and if I find myself getting ungrateful,
I think, how bad do you want it?
You say how great you want to be, or how bad do you
what are you gonna do to get to that achievement
that you want, you know, kick out.
So the year is 2019.
I'm just coming back from LA for the first time.
I'm still smelling like Palm trees.
And then I come back down to Beaumont to the reality.
And my pops picks me up from the airport.
Before we even go home we pull up to a pawn shop.
Go to the front of the pawn shop,
I guess he already been planning on it,
handed the guy some money. He handed over a bass.
My dad looked over at me and said, few words, he said,
"Play this".
And ever since then, I've been picking up the bass.
And that's what I've been running with.
Damn!
Say (long ascending glissando)
hey!
I think confidence, happiness, creativity
all comes in waves.
If I knew where to find it, I would probably overdose on it.
I'm just steady searching for it.
If I knew where to find it, trust me, I would be there.
("Rooting For You" by Teezo Touchdown)
♪ I got a girl that go to Graham ♪
♪ She said she wanna pledge ♪
♪ I can tell 'cause her dorm room's red ♪
♪ Said she need $200, I'ma send her 2000 instead ♪
♪ I wanna see you shine baby ♪
♪ Shine baby, shine baby, shine ♪
♪ I wanna see you shine ♪
♪ She love me for who I am ♪
♪ Could have a dollar to my name ♪
♪ She could give a damn ♪
♪ I said I need a couple dollars ♪
♪ For a new guitar and a new amp ♪
♪ Don't you wanna see me shine baby ♪
♪ Shine baby, shine baby, shine ♪
♪ Don't you wanna see shine? ♪
(metal progression continues)
- So, "Rooting For You" was the first song that I wrote
on the bass. It's very, very simple, very repetitive,
because I was just starting out. But that was the first time
that I was able to actually play and sing.
"Rooting For You" is about just being a cheerleader,
being a supporter, you know, like I'm rooting for you.
Like whatever you're trying to accomplish,
I'm there rooting for you.
Just rooting myself on, rooting whoever on.
I'm very supportive man. Support feels really good.
I just know what it feels like to have support,
so I'm always trying to reflect that back on the people.
So I'm rooting for you, whatever you're aiming for,
I hope you hit it.
What I look for in an instrument?
Definitely, definitely looks, not to be vague,
but I definitely want something that looks cool.
And if it's loud. Has to be loud.
Fender means the first.
You remember a lot during your journey
or it's good to remember a lot during the journey,
and one of the things that you remember for sure,
are the people who are there early.
So when I hear Fender, I definitely think early.
I love the cut. I love the cut.
It's very smooth.
Like a 1964 Impala, or something.
Raise your right hand.
Now repeat after me.
I
will keep the mid
off the streets.
That was good. One more time.
I
will keep
the mid
off the streets. Damn!
Say (long, ascending glissando)
hey!
("The Mid" by Teezo Touchdown)
♪ Get the mid off the streets ♪ ♪ Get the mid off the streets ♪
♪ Get the mid off the streets ♪
♪ Quality ♪
♪ Over quantity ♪
♪ You a wannabe ♪
♪ You a mini-me ♪
♪ You a pipsqueak ♪
♪ You officially the mayor of mid ♪
♪ This your city ♪
♪ And it's filthy, we gotta clean up the streets ♪
(heavy metal rocking)
Ladies and gentlemen,
on the keys,
Brother Preach.
And on the drums,
Brother Peanut.
And last but not least,
on the guitar,
Jared Soloman.
♪ Get the mid off the streets ♪
All right, it's cool to be going through the motions
of getting to to wherever you're getting.
But if you're just gonna, you know, halfway do it
then you might want out been doing it all.
So "The Mid" for me, means mediocrity.
Basically just ridding myself for that.
Just being honest with the stuff that I put out,
what I'm working on, how I feel about my day
and just being honest, like yo, if it's mid,
you might as well not even put it out.
I think what people see just a very extreme form
of trial and error. I'm not afraid to try.
I'm not afraid to fail, and you know whatever sticks
I keep, and whatever rolls off I roll off.
So my influence just come from bumping my head
a lot of times, and yeah, not being afraid to get back up.
(metal song ends)