Boss man D-Lo just stepped into the Ebro show.
What up, sir?
What's going on?
Hey, man.
Second sit-down.
New album.
We back.
Walk like, talk like.
Listen, I'm loving the music on this go round, bro.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
I appreciate it, bro.
No, you have not lost a step yet.
Can't do that.
You came out the gate firing.
Yeah.
Still firing.
Um, I would love to hear from you.
I mean, when you out here getting this music together, cause musically, I feel like you ain't you know you still picking the right things.
Yeah.
So is that you all you?
You got a team that helps you pick what's the, what's the recording process.
Um, it's a little bit, a little bit of both.
I see.
Yeah.
Sometimes I get help, you know.
But I ain't gonna lie, I write all my music.
Yeah, I know that part, but I mean the beats, though.
The actual selection of the Yeah, my team.
They kind of send me beats that they, you know, I already think that I would kind of make it a little easier.
I've always wanted to ask you this.
I meant to ask you this last time we sat down.
You talk like one of my, you rap like one of my uncle's talks.
It got like it's always like it's kind of like a question, but you're talking greasy at the same time.
Did that come from somebody in your family?
Like when you was coming up was there OGs around your way that kind of had that little slick talk to it.
Is that what originated your style?
Like everybody, like all my homeboys, like older than me, you know what i'm saying.
Like so the people you hung around was already hanging around 10, 20 years older than me, like yeah, so i don't know, they just always told us like, get money.
Like i'm saying yeah, get that money, keep that motion.
Yeah that's, that's the coolest thing i have that's.
You know what i'm saying?
That's right.
You have so many amazing features on this Chicken Talking project, Chicken Talking Bastard.
Where'd you come up with that title for the album?
Because you definitely always talking about your chicken and getting your money back.
You know how that chicken go.
Protect your chicken.
When I made that Chicken Talking Bastard, like the actual song.
Yeah.
That's when I'm like, I ain't going to lie.
I'm just going to name the whole tape.
They saying you got the song of the summer.
And the summer hasn't started.
Do you agree?
Hey.
That that's what they saying.
That's what they saying.
I don't think I dare.
Better go listen to that tape.
That's what they better do.
We don't listen to that chicken talking fast.
Now, have you ever actually thrown a motion party where the guest list, you got to have motion.
Your algorithm got to be popping.
Yeah.
You got to have money.
You got to have certain money.
Is there an official motion party?
I say my birthday bash in Orlando, we ripped out.
Motion.
We ripped it.
Motion.
Period.
Period.
Line around the block.
Everywhere.
On every block.
What's your on the cover?
Is that your car?
Nah, it was already there when I got there.
That ain't my car.
Are you a car guy?
Not like old school.
I ain't gonna lie.
I'm more of a new, up to date, foreign type of guy.
You got any couple side, they all right what you talking about.
Sometimes you know that culling it, yeah i got, i got the black badge okay, but you know you get a car.
And then the 26 came out and they The 27 came on.
Then you get the 28, the 20.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, it's just a car to you.
It's a car.
Now, do you flip your cars?
I only have one car, so I'm really just asking questions.
Do I sell them?
Like, do you keep it for two?
Like, I don't keep my car longer than two years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's probably what I'm on.
That's what I'm on, yeah.
I had him a year so far.
Let me go into your profile on Apple Music.
Here with Boss Man D-Lo on Apple Music.
New album out, Chicken Talking Bastard.
The features are phenomenal.
G Herbo, that ain't easy.
Facts.
Love G Herbo.
Trey Songz. the baby, the OJ, the juice man, that big dog status, that got me hype when it came out.
I thought that was a good, you knew him or y'all just connected recently?
Had you known him for a while?
I ain't know him, but I used to always be on bruh music.
You know, bruh take me through the trap.
Yeah.
Once I got down here, bro, like, hey, I want you on this.
He like, shit, let's do it.
Say what?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, OJ the Juice, man, ad libs is... When you hit that mailbox, you know what I'm saying?
Because you writing, so I know you're publishing. know you're getting that money with with your songwriting yeah you know i mean and that's one of the things that hip-hop too i don't think it's enough attention is the real writers yeah the people that's really writing they definitely gotta give them people they real credit bro that's that's creativity for real you know what i'm saying yeah not saying that the people you know that's you know getting their songs written not creative but it's like it's different it's different yeah for somebody to sit down and actually take their time and come up with it on their brain and you know what i'm saying create a song from scratch Put something in the universe that hadn't been heard before.
Exactly.
All them songs you just named, that's from scratch.
Yeah.
That's me being drunk.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
That's me being high, just chilling.
Talking with your friends, talking shit.
That's it.
Shit talk.
Did you ever think that shit talking was going to pay the bills like it's paying right now?
No, sir.
Absolutely not.
When you was in school, was you the type of kid that got in trouble for playing too much?
A lot.
A lot.
Talking too much?
My mama tell you that right now.
Just playing, clowning. referral is suspension, it just don't stop.
And now look, all that talking paid off, moms.
You got my YouTube table to give moms a crib?
Hell yeah, come on, man.
One of the first things I did.
There you go.
Crib, cars, you got all that.
I just don't post all that shit.
Yeah, of course not.
Yeah, that's how people get to praying on your downfall, until you show them too much.
Nah, yeah, you can't show them too much, for sure, for sure.
Then people be going, you know, they got room to talk about this and that.
All of you been in, I ain't on that.
Are you, your rap styles?
We was talking before we got going, because you got patterns.
Like, I don't know if MCs and rappers are paying attention to what you're doing.
You know, because I don't really you know.
Look, there's a lot of artists out here that's putting out recording material.
You know, it's not everybody I'm sitting with.
Cause some people is doing the same thing as the next cat is.
You know, it's like I ain't really got nothing to talk.
I've always been intrigued with you which is why this is our second sit down of how you're approaching rapping.
The patterns you use, the space that you give in a record to just let it breathe.
I can hear when you punch in.
I can hear when it's all like nah, I'ma just do this as a straight take.
Ain't no punch-ins, I'ma just let it breathe facts, the different pockets you choose rhythmically.
You know all of that.
I'd love to hear you, as a hip-hop fan, as somebody who grew up studying this to whatever degree you did like, who were you first inspired by to put pen to paper like the first, the prior, the first artist that listen to ever was probably like Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, you feel me?
But it's like where I came up with mine is just because all that you just named that's very important.
You know what I'm saying.
Pockets and the beat, everything matters, you know what I'm saying?
But really, I get mine from just researching everybody.
Like, every artist.
Like, my biggest thing was I don't want to sound like none of y'all.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't want to sound like nobody.
So that was like My biggest thing was I don't want to sound like nobody and I'm going to be talking about emotion.
You got to be catchy.
You know what I'm saying?
Because you got hooked.
Music is supposed to be fun.
People are supposed to want to recite it.
It's supposed to be fun.
People supposed to want to sing your songs loud.
If you rap it too fast, they can't catch it.
You know what I'm saying?
And if you're using these diabolical ass words, they ain't gonna catch it either.
You know what I'm saying?
It's too damn long.
I don't know.
That's just me, bro.
No, no, no.
That's real.
You got lyrical rappers, bro.
You can go listen to them.
You know what I'm saying?
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Other people is for other people.
That's right.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, I think that's the beauty of hip hop.
Facts.
Right?
The beauty of hip hop is you could say, look, I want to be in this super hyper lyrical box.
I want to be in this lane, I want to be in that lane, and then there's some people who maybe want to jump.
You got your options.
You got R&B.
Wayne will do it all.
Wayne will be, you know what I'm saying?
You can go listen to your R&B.
You got options, bro.
You can't expect one artist to sound like You feel me?
You can't expect one artist to sound like NBA young boy Usher and Kendrick Lamar.
You feel me?
He only gonna sound like whoever he is.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, but also too, what I'm hearing you say is you specifically understood your assignment and you carved out what was best for your voice and what you was trying to do.
How much hitting and missing or how much missing did it take to get to the sound that we hear today?
I first tried to rap and shit in 2019, bruh.
I ain't seen no results.
Like I ain't get, first of all, I ain't get a paid show until from 2019 to 2024.
So five, it took five years to get $2,500 paid back from the rap game.
Yeah.
Imagine how much I done spent.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I went to prison and all about rapping, like i was on probation rapping.
The police ain't like me, just from.
You know what i'm saying, what i'm talking about.
You know i'm trapping, i'm talking about it.
They want me off the street like it's going to be a lot of hitters.
It's going to actually be more misses, you understand yeah, but when it started hitting his hidden facts oh, i want to talk about uh uh, mr tendonism and yeah, and y'all linking up and and and that relationship, because i thought that was dope man.
You making sure you looked out.
You know what i'm saying.
That was real dope.
Uh, this oj the juice man, though.
Let's get this on, even that third verse, Right?
Tells me you study hip-hop and music.
I'ma give you some sauce, right?
This what everybody out there too like.
And we talk in motion, right?
You see how I said, Like, once I realized, like, the music ain't for me.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it ain't for me.
You want it for the people.
Yeah, it's for them.
So, it's like, you notice how I said, I can't fit all of this in no wallet, boy.
You know what I'm saying?
When I first said it like drunk, I said some shit.
Like You know, like I can't fit 250K in no wallet boy.
But everybody ain't got 250K.
So I'm going to say I can't fit all of this.
So really, anybody can say that.
You got 1,000 ones, 100 ones.
You know what I'm saying?
Whatever it is.
Yeah.
Like, just I don't know how to.
Put it in use for everybody.
There you go.
Think about others.
Think about others.
Facts.
That's one-on-one sauce right there.
That's a lot of sauce I just dropped buying.
He trying to give you the motion.
He putting you on.
Walter Johnson, Mr. Tendonism.
We gon' play the record with you and Boss Man Pac on here.
You showed a lot of love to bro, to Mr. Tendonism.
And the reason I bring it up is because there was all this on the internet about the place I don't know the name of the restaurant, yeah where he was at, and then the white folks that owned it was basically, you know, jealous of the, of the motion.
He was getting that motion to do it man, and then, and now he's not there, but i see people making sure that he's still getting highlighted and still, and you're one of those people Yeah, and I don't know the whole situation with whatever they got going on, but you know what I'm saying.
From my point of view, look, like, Unk moved on, and man, you need to support Unk, man.
Tendonism out there, man.
Yeah.
Good meat.
Yeah.
Good meat.
And he getting a lot of new restaurants and endorsements and things like that.
I wish I could say that he was all good.
But like you're saying, let's make sure he's all good.
Yeah, for sure.
Because it seems like he's getting uplifted by the community, and that's what you all want to see.
Yeah, you got that boy Cartel Bo out of Texas doing something.
They shifting for that boy, for sure.
They making it happen.
There it is.
Let's get to this 10.
Talking about them quality meats.
You know what I'm saying?
Quality meat talk.
Tendinism.
Unk got it going on now.
Yeah, man.
Quality meat right there.
We all like it.
Boss Man D-Lo, Boss Man Pac.
Tell us about Boss Man Pac on there.
I never seen his name before.
Yeah.
That's my brother from the trenches, you feel me?
But I ain't going to lie.
I ain't going to lie.
I'm going to say this though, because you ain't wrong.
But everybody say Pac.
It's really Pac.
Pac.
It's really Pac.
But it look like Pac.
Yeah, because we grew up on Tupac.
For sure.
So I see why people would say that.
That's right.
But we'll get it right.
We'll get it right, though.
I just want everybody to know out there, it's Boss Man Pac.
There you go.
I want to talk about this G Herbo record, Ain't Easy.
I love G Herbo's work as well.
How did you guys link up for this record?
My label had sent it to him.
And really, he really just snapped.
So I was just like, fuck it.
He on this bitch.
So y'all ain't never linked up?
Yeah, nah, we got video done, ready, all that.
Okay.
Yeah, that my dog for real.
We done met at shows and all kind of shit, though, before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good dude, man.
Yeah, for sure.
And been working for a minute, too, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Because I'm sure you seen his come up since he's like 16.
Yeah.
Moving.
Yeah.
But that's...
You know that work gonna pay off, bud.
Yeah.
That work gonna pay off.
Thank you for coming by.
Nah, for sure.
And always showing love to our shows, man.
Thank you, man.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
And please, you know uh the, the quality material and the way that i could tell you actually love the music making process.
Yeah, you know what i'm saying never lose that man.
No, that's the.
You know, no matter where the game goes, When you got motion, when the motion slows down, you know what I'm saying.
Hopefully you're seeing some of the cats that's been in the game a long time, when they not at the highest heights and then things slow down a little bit.
But the love of the game and doing shows and putting out good material to fans, they gonna be there for it.
Yeah, sometimes, I ain't gonna lie, You have your little days, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
We all human.
It ain't going nowhere.
There you go.
It ain't going nowhere.
These features you have, Trey Songz, DaBaby, O.J.
The Juice Man, Y.K.
Neese, we're going to get to that.
What's some collabs that you would like to see yourself be able to and people you'd like to be able to link up with in the future.
Future project.
Well, shit future.
You just said it.
Trying to get bro on one for sure.
Matter of fact, we got something cooking.
That's a possibility, but we're not going to give too much away.
Yeah, we ain't going to say nothing about that.
You know what I'm saying?
But I ain't going to lie.
I kind of want to.
Just how I ripped it with Trey Songz, that kind of made me like yeah, I ain't gonna lie, that RB, that RB mix, like I don't know.
I just feel like you can't beat that bro.
That's always been a home run.
Somebody singing on the hook with that rapping on the, yeah on the on the verse, and come back to that.
Yeah, can't beat that bro.
Would you do a full album like that?
Yeah yeah, hell yeah yeah, with male and female singers for sure, for sure, That shit sound good bro.
I'm going to lie.
No, listen, since forever, man.
Hip-hop and R&B, you know what I'm saying?
Whether it was RB singles on hip-hop beats, whether it's a rapper on the verse RB hooks, whether it's an RB song with a rapper on the verse, whatever.
It's gonna do it every time.
It go together, man.
Ain't no hip-hop without the R&B.
Period.
We don't have nothing without each other.
You know what I'm saying?
And I love the fact that you open to doing that, because that Trey Songz is fire.
That bitch hard, boy.
That bitch hard, boy.
Official single with video and all that?
All that.
We getting all that.
We gonna get all that, for sure.
Because before we got this album, you had given us eight songs.
Mm-hmm.
That's why I put 20 of them on that motherfucker.
Right.
Because you was like, we're going to tour, do shows.
We all going to live with this album.
2026, right?
I'm dropping another one.
In 2026?
Yeah, I ain't bullshitting, man.
I had them chilled a little bit because I was just on some other shit.
I dropped consistently.
Rob Markman Yeah.
How many things you got in the bag for the next thing already?
I ain't going to disclose that.
Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
It's the right thing to do.
Everything ready.
Okay, that's good enough.
I just want to make sure I'm overly ready.
Do you got show plans?
Do you like touring?
I'm going on tour most definitely.
Yeah.
That shit raw, bro.
You love it?
Hell yeah.
But I ain't going to be tired as a motherfucker.
Yeah, it's hard.
It's hard.
So it's like when you get off, you know, that's one of the things.
When you get off tour, you're like, whew, damn.
But then when you be...
You know, six months off tour, you like, damn, I need to go back on tour.
That one of them type shit.
You gotta be, did you ever play sports back in the day?
Yeah, I played basketball.
So that's what touring is.
Touring is like, it's a workout.
It's like a season.
Like, oh, you know, for the next.
That's where I lost my damn weight from.
That shit.
Touring.
Yeah.
Because you got to be full.
You got to eat food right.
You got to get your rest.
You got to get on stage, get the people to show.
Because look, if you don't build a touring business, You can't just, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, you can't.
That's the most important part right there.
You need that.
That's what's going on.
You know what I'm saying?
Keep rocking for 20 years.
20 years.
Still making money.
You see Juvenile Manny Fresh out here still smacking them. yeah yeah oh you see what hoes just did you know jay-z i mean that's you know you know that's goat though yeah yeah he getting to it yeah hell even kanye they try to they try to do kanye dirty he's like yeah watch this he performing on the damn globe or some ain't it That boy.
He was like, I can still do these shows.
You know what I'm saying?
That's hard.
He got some cleaning up to do but, you know, look to be able to get back out here after what he went through.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, he did it to himself, but still.
It said something about touring and how important it is.
That touring was very important.
Get out here and collect it.
Gotta sell them tickets, man.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for coming through.
I appreciate you.
There it is.
Chicken Talking Bastard, Boss Man D-Lo.
It's the Ebro Show.
Go get the project.
