Jakarta Slim talks about his upbringing, family life, his new rap career and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 1:00 - T-Rell is confused how Jakarta is Asian and Muslim 3:42 - Dealing with being Muslim during 9/11 and when they k*lled B*n L*den, singled out in school for being Muslim 7:22 - Jakarta started drinking in 9th grade 11:03 - Hiding his drinking and smoking from his Muslim parents 12:38 - Doing bad in school and being forced to go to continuation school 14:11 - Malt passing away during a July 4th shooting led to meeting DoKnow 20:08 - DoKnow and Jakarta became friends in the wake of Malt passing 23:15 - Connecting with Cypress Moreno and MixedByMarv. Blowing up off a snippet of his song “Lotus” on DoKnow’s page 27:15 - Feeling like he made it when he was able to charge $300 for features 31:28 - Jakarta never did any tagging with DoKnow. Jumping out of DoKnow’s car when he tried to trick him into participating 33:30 - Finally gaining some momentum with the music. Recording with Cypress, Suede and Rucci and getting ready to put out an album this year 34:22 - Growing up on battle rap. Taking music classes taught by Dumbfoundead and Anderson Paak 35:40 - Working at a mosque. Getting crazy rac**t calls after 9/11 38:24 - Everyone thinks Jakarta is Mexican 41:53 - Jakarta sings a corrido. Explains why he’s able to sing corridos without knowing Spanish 43:40 - Reacting to Bad Bunny kissing a dude on stage 47:35 - T-Rell says DoKnow is scared of RJ 48:33 - Having songs with Yhung T.O., Bravo the Bagchaser, and OneTakeJay 50:56 - Not that interested in chains and jewelry 52:35 - Not revealing too many real-life details in his music ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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