Mellow Downs

And I remember, because when I was signed, I did a deal with Def Jam and Universal a few years ago.

They were like,

i don't know it was just like trying to package me for an american market and i think that's where that's what went wrong is like trying to change somebody not change me as who i am but in terms of like how i like what i'm talking about and this and that and i feel like the the that pops off here is always the stuff that comes from here

our world and i feel like that way is a good way to start in terms of like getting our stories out there because we're trying to like you know contribute to our backyard right now and then whatever comes after this cool but then there's also some artists like semper and little bubble gum and uh nine lives who are just cracking it in the states too but they've just got like this internet market that's gone crazy so um

yeah in terms of like i don't know how you can help but this is a good start but like nah for real i think i think also just like that i know it's always brought up but like not the tall poppy stuff but like people talking down on themselves it's like that's why i love the youth that i work with is like if they make something crazy they'll rub it in your face and i'll be like

Yeah, and what?

Yeah, Melo, I killed John Everest.

And I think that's the kind of culture that we need to be creating in order to be able to be seen in the international market.

It's so humble.

I don't know man like I've noticed that even in the industry like coming through and then people supporting me and I'm like oh my god I got support from my idols these guys that guy and then as soon as I get to a certain level to echelon yeah I stopped seeing the shares and I stopped seeing the little comment I'm like oh what have I done to you man shit I'm just trying to get on like you but

um for me my best thing is like even myself i have to swallow my pride a little bit and support other other people outside of my like i know it's like i'll be like i'll know this body of work or i know this highlight of this person's mean and inside i'm like no i don't want to do it because i know i might i might give a little bit too much but then i'm like nah

so you go dead right so i just like swallow my pride and i support like even my own friends sometimes i'm it's not jealousy but it's on some time of some type of like competitive thing where i feel like sometimes if you want to share someone's thing you're like oh that's going to dim your light a little bit but i feel such a big playing field for all of us and everyone's different in their own lane so i'm trying to embrace it and i'm learning myself

no no i'm with you on that and i feel like it's um it's a it's a buzzing one too but then sorry if something's trash it's trash as well of course but like people call me up oh that was trash yeah i'll take it you know like and i think that's another thing is like people call it like oh they're always trying to tear me down it's like brother that song is kind of trash

But sometimes we just got to be honest with ourselves too.

That's the worst, bro.

I'll see, like, in the comments, I don't even look at TikTok anymore, but I'll see some of the comments and then it'll be like something, something, 685, and I'll be like,

It's my own people, man.

Is it because I'm light-skinned, brother?

No.

But it's always like that, eh?