Episode 497

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13th Dec 2024

Trap Dickie: The Preacher's Grandson Making Waves

Trap Dickie, an emerging artist from South Carolina, takes the spotlight in a riveting discussion that transcends music and delves deep into personal narratives, regional pride, and the changing landscape of hip-hop. The episode opens with a vibrant introduction, celebrating Trap Dickie's rise and his deep-rooted connections to Dallas, where he shares his affection for the city and its vibrant music scene. With anecdotes about his upbringing in Carolina, he paints a picture of a place where respect is paramount and community ties run deep. Trap reflects on growing up in a modest environment, influenced by his grandparents, and how those experiences shaped his art and ambition.

The conversation further explores the evolution of music culture, particularly how social media and platforms like TikTok have transformed the way artists connect with their audiences. Trap discusses the importance of grassroots support and how the internet can both elevate and complicate an artist's journey. His thoughts on the youth culture of today reveal a poignant understanding of the pressures and influences young people face, especially in the context of violence and crime. Trap Dickie's perspective as a father adds layers to this conversation, as he emphasizes the need for role models and positive influences in a time when the youth are often led astray by flashy lifestyles and misguided aspirations.

As the discussion progresses, Trap shares his experiences in the music industry, emphasizing the significance of collaboration and community. He inspires a vision for a united Carolina music scene, where artists uplift one another rather than compete. This camaraderie is vital for breaking through the barriers that have historically kept Southern artists from gaining mainstream recognition. Trap's passion for his craft shines as he talks about his upcoming projects, including his anticipated tape 'The Preacher's Grandson,' hinting at the personal stories and artistry that define his work. This episode is not just about music; it's an exploration of identity, community, and the power of storytelling in shaping culture, making it a must-listen for anyone interested in the dynamic world of hip-hop.

Chapters:

  • 00:00 - Introducing Trap Dickie
  • 08:50 - Awakening Through Adversity
  • 10:40 - The Rise of Trap Dickie: From the Streets to Stardom
  • 21:52 - The Carolina Connection
  • 33:45 - The Evolution of Trap Dickie: Music, Family, and Future Aspirations
  • 44:15 - The Future of Carolina's Music Scene
  • 50:53 - The Evolution of Hip Hop and Gatekeeping
Transcript
Host:

One real life street star.

Host:

Everybody give a round of applause, man.

Host:

We got a motherfucking up and coming legend in the building, man.

Host:

Trap Dickie in the building, man.

Trap Dickie:

What?

Host:

What Trap Dicky?

Host:

The touchdown in Dallas.

Trap Dickie:

Detail.

Trap Dickie:

Definitely D town.

Trap Dickie:

Definitely.

Host:

Hell, man, you gotta tell me, what are you doing out here?

Host:

First and foremost, man, to be honest.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna expose too much, but I love Dallas, though.

Trap Dickie:

I been coming out of Dallas.

Trap Dickie:

I just started showing my face in Dallas, though.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I got a couple family members in Fort Worth and stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

So this ain't my first time in Dallas, you know, I know about I35 all type of I40 all.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Host:

Oh, shit.

Host:

He tapped in.

Host:

Yo, that's crazy.

Host:

All right, real quick, just on some Dallas shit, what's your favorite?

Host:

Do you got a favorite Dallas song or song or Dallas Fort Worth song that resonates with.

Trap Dickie:

I Heard.

Trap Dickie:

I heard.

Trap Dickie:

I like the song from Strap.

Trap Dickie:

You know, RP Strap, he had a song called I Heard that would really tune me all the way in in Dallas.

Trap Dickie:

I was like, let me see what's going on in Dallas.

Host:

Oh, now that's.

Host:

I ain't gonna lie.

Host:

That's crazy.

Host:

Rip, BFG Strap.

Host:

I watched them boys grow up in the game.

Host:

Interviewed them when they were super young, man.

Host:

Definitely shout out to them.

Host:

But first time on the couch, man.

Host:

We gotta get the backstory on Trap, because you been.

Host:

Man, I ain't gonna lie.

Host:

You one of my favorite new artists that came out, bro.

Trap Dickie:

And I just.

Host:

Nah, what that shit that you, bro.

Host:

Your flow is crazy.

Trap Dickie:

That's what's up.

Host:

You got that bounce in your flow, you know what I mean?

Host:

And I ain't gonna lie, bro.

Host:

Like, that Blue Devils, man, that turned me all the way on to you, bro.

Host:

I was unaware.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

That's what's up, right?

Trap Dickie:

That's what's up.

Host:

But I definitely want to go through the backstory, you know what I mean?

Host:

Like, just talk to me about Carolina growing up, you know what I mean?

Trap Dickie:

Oh, man, like I said, it sounds just like what it is, though, man.

Trap Dickie:

If you think about it, it's the country.

Trap Dickie:

It's definitely the country.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

It ain't a lot of interstates and stuff where I'm from.

Trap Dickie:

The interstates actually in where I'm at, like, around my area, the interstate's kind of, you know, i20 go all through here by i20 in where I'm from.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So single rows, you know, Not a lot Of Walmarts where I'm from, only one Walmart in my city.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

I know a lot of places in Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

There's only one Walmart in the county.

Trap Dickie:

You get what I'm saying?

Host:

Damn.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Host:

They gotta be a treacherous ass.

Host:

Walmart.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

They number 7,000 people where I'm from.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You know, it's like I tell you before, though.

Trap Dickie:

Carolina's big on respect.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

We open doors.

Trap Dickie:

Excuse me.

Trap Dickie:

Pardon me.

Host:

Right?

Trap Dickie:

We feel me.

Trap Dickie:

Big on respect.

Host:

Where we from right now?

Host:

You know, growing up, man, what was some of, like, was there any songs that stood out to you from Carolina that y'all grew up on?

Host:

Like, out here, we had young, you know, like, certain people.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, we only had one song.

Trap Dickie:

South Carolina never really, though.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I can't act like we ain't had songs that blew up and it was like a Carolina thing.

Trap Dickie:

Like, Petey Pablo, the only person to spit North Carolina and go on and raise up.

Trap Dickie:

But Lil Rue, he had a song called Nasty Song before Gotcha.

Trap Dickie:

But you really couldn't tell nothing was from South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

It's Carolina now.

Trap Dickie:

North Carolina, we here.

Trap Dickie:

But as in South Carolina, it wasn't like no anthem coming through in a long time type stuff.

Host:

Got you.

Host:

That's crazy.

Host:

Cause I know, like, for us, right?

Host:

Like, if they Southside, the realist, drug dealers, killers, like, if that ring off in the club, everybody gonna turn up.

Host:

Like, that's like an anthem damn near for us.

Host:

So you saying y'all never had one of those growing up?

Trap Dickie:

Petey Pablo, the best I can say, though, like, when you say, you know, take your shirt off, twist around your head like a helicopter, you know?

Trap Dickie:

So I can't act like Carolina ain't never had one.

Trap Dickie:

Petey Pablo definitely gave us a big hit for the Carolinas, you know, for sure.

Trap Dickie:

Me growing up, me growing up, I definitely heard Petey Pablo going crazy.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

So, like, let's say early life, you know, you get into the rap.

Host:

Like, what?

Host:

When did you start getting into the music?

Trap Dickie:

Part of it, you know, Like I said, my grandad pastor, my grandma, she always had the music bumping through the kitchen every time we got to clean up on Saturday.

Trap Dickie:

Music bumping, old James Brown, outkast, all type of stuff, right?

Trap Dickie:

So I been listening to the music, into the music.

Trap Dickie:

But as in rapping?

Trap Dickie:

I didn't start rapping until, like, age 21.

Host:

Oh, damn.

Trap Dickie:

So, yeah, my brother, the rapper, I just chased behind his Dreams and stuff.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

So what's the story behind that?

Host:

Is your brother, like.

Host:

Is your brother still rapping with.

Trap Dickie:

He just be in and out of jail.

Trap Dickie:

Like, he the one, my brother.

Trap Dickie:

Actually, he the one.

Trap Dickie:

He just bad, like, hardheaded, you feel me?

Trap Dickie:

You know how it is in the streets.

Trap Dickie:

You got the hard head once and I was.

Trap Dickie:

I'm the big brother.

Trap Dickie:

I'm the oldest.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like, you know, like, not saying punishment, just showing.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if I could do it, I know you could do it.

Trap Dickie:

Cause you rap better than me.

Trap Dickie:

I'm just rapping about what we do, right?

Trap Dickie:

That's right.

Trap Dickie:

Like that.

Host:

Yeah, man.

Host:

Like, you know, growing up in the streets, you know what I'm saying?

Host:

Like, everybody from the bottom, bro, you know, like, coming up, like, what was your main goal, main objective?

Host:

You know, like.

Host:

Cause when I feel like, you know, my mom and them is from Africa, Right.

Host:

So when we came, we was like at the bottom, one bedroom, four people sleeping in the bed.

Host:

And nigga, when you.

Host:

That broke shit, you just trying to take anything to get some bread.

Host:

You feel what I'm saying?

Host:

Like, for you, was it like that or was it like more so?

Trap Dickie:

Like.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, no, I'm not the one that's gonna tell you that.

Trap Dickie:

I struggled growing up.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I surpassed it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, my mama had me at 15.

Trap Dickie:

My daddy died at 17.

Trap Dickie:

But I'm a grandma's baby.

Host:

Oh, that's.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I lived with my grandparents all my life.

Host:

Damn.

Trap Dickie:

Until my Grandma died at 14, when I was 14.

Trap Dickie:

But I ain't.

Trap Dickie:

I can't act like I missed a meal or anything.

Trap Dickie:

She always had food and all.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't never seen her work a job or nothing like that.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So I knew granddaddy paid some bills, but I ain't never miss a meal or nothing until I got older, right?

Trap Dickie:

To like 14, 15 when I actually jumped off the porch.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

So other than that, I was living good.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't had the clothes.

Trap Dickie:

You know, old people ain't buying no damn Nikes.

Trap Dickie:

Hell no, I ain't getting no Nikes.

Trap Dickie:

You know, grandma gonna have you in.

Host:

There watching soap operas.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

I'm watching stand up comedy.

Trap Dickie:

Got on K Swiss as, you feel me?

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Nah, K Swiss was flying.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

That was my thing.

Trap Dickie:

Rockawell.

Trap Dickie:

Rockawell.

Trap Dickie:

I had the Rockawell outfits and shit.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Host:

So, like, growing up, did you.

Host:

I know you say you ain't get to rap until 21, but when you Actually finally got your feet in the game.

Host:

Did you start off?

Host:

Was you good?

Host:

Was you, like, what was your process of getting into the actual art form?

Trap Dickie:

I really can't say.

Trap Dickie:

I would know because I started off like a little advance.

Trap Dickie:

It was like a cheat code.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I was.

Trap Dickie:

I was so deep in the streets that everybody knew my name and knew who we was.

Trap Dickie:

So I couldn't act like I came in just a rapper, a new rapper.

Trap Dickie:

I came in selling out shows.

Trap Dickie:

My first show was sold out.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Host:

Damn.

Host:

Oh, you had motion like that.

Trap Dickie:

But my first show was sold out.

Trap Dickie:

My first show.

Host:

That's crazy, bro.

Host:

So let's talk about that.

Host:

So you had motion before the music, right?

Host:

I feel like in this day and age, right, it seems like a lot of niggas try to do the music and then get the motion.

Trap Dickie:

Nothing's wrong with that.

Trap Dickie:

Like, nothing's wrong with chasing dreams.

Trap Dickie:

Like, just promote yourself.

Trap Dickie:

If that's what you got going on, that's what you got going on.

Trap Dickie:

Like, nothing wrong with that at all.

Trap Dickie:

I wish I would have started like that so I could have had time to protect.

Trap Dickie:

Like, how you say?

Host:

To get the energy.

Trap Dickie:

Not just protect the energy, like, protect the people that was around me.

Trap Dickie:

Cause I was so far in my motion, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, when I started rapping, I just.

Trap Dickie:

Didn't you feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I was rapping just doing what I wanted to do.

Trap Dickie:

I had already had the motion.

Trap Dickie:

So if I feel like if I'd have started rapping first, I would have been able to put certain, like, energy towards certain other things than just focusing on my emotion.

Trap Dickie:

I would have really cared about rapping.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

So let me ask you this.

Host:

Like, you know, with the Streets, man.

Host:

What are some of the lessons that the Streets taught you?

Trap Dickie:

You feel like all lessons, man.

Trap Dickie:

The Streets gonna teach you all your lessons.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta just make sure you look at it as lessons.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Like, Streets taught me a lot.

Trap Dickie:

For real for.

Trap Dickie:

Taught me everything I know, like, paths of life.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I ain't never go to college, but I graduated high school.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like the Streets taught me so much.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Taught me how to be humble, taught me how to mind others, respect people.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Don't take your life for granted.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, you could die them all.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, for real, for real.

Host:

So I know you, you know, through the music and all that.

Host:

You talk about being shot, you know what I'm saying?

Host:

Like, around what age frame was it 21?

Trap Dickie:

I got shot and started rapping.

Host:

Okay, okay.

Host:

So the getting shot, did you have, like, one of those awakenings?

Host:

Like, man, I gotta switch it up.

Trap Dickie:

Or was it definitely?

Trap Dickie:

Definitely.

Trap Dickie:

It was like being at the wrong place, wrong time, walking through somebody crossfire.

Trap Dickie:

Like, getting shot by somebody that normally didn't mean to shoot me.

Trap Dickie:

Like, just all that type of thing.

Trap Dickie:

Like, man, you could.

Host:

You.

Trap Dickie:

You could die for real.

Trap Dickie:

Being in the wrong spot.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like, it really woke me up.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if I die just being in the wrong spot, why continue to do the things that I know can get me killed?

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So, like, you almost losing your life, not doing nothing or in no harm, or you not harming nobody, it's like, damn, you could lose your life to anything in a car accident, anything.

Trap Dickie:

So I had to tighten up real fast.

Host:

As black men, do you think we focus too much on chasing the bag and not put enough in the spirituality?

Trap Dickie:

Oh, man, hell yeah, man.

Trap Dickie:

My brother over there right now, I get on his ass so bad.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you can't cherish the money.

Trap Dickie:

You can't believe the money is what it is.

Trap Dickie:

Like, the shit gonna come.

Trap Dickie:

Money gonna come when you do the right things.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

You can't believe that the money is what it is.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you can't believe that you can't live without this paper.

Trap Dickie:

You feel like if you supposed to have this paper, this paper gonna fall in your hand.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

So I definitely try to tell people, please don't praise the money.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know how the scripture go, but I know that what my grandma always told me, you praise.

Trap Dickie:

You praise the money, you're gonna be the brokest nigga.

Trap Dickie:

So I try not to praise the money at all.

Trap Dickie:

At all.

Trap Dickie:

I tell all my niggas, don't praise this money.

Trap Dickie:

Don't praise these hoes, man.

Host:

Man say, and I be, look, my man right here.

Host:

We try to tell this nigga, man, sometimes chasing their women, that's a distraction that should have thrown you completely off your square.

Trap Dickie:

I tell my brother the same thing, man.

Trap Dickie:

Not saying.

Trap Dickie:

I got a bunch of kids, a bunch of women in my early life.

Trap Dickie:

That's why I think I'm at the stage now where it's like, I don't really care for it though, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, I was on a basketball team.

Trap Dickie:

I won talent shows before, so I was kind of lit, really, growing up, real life, a lot of people knew who I was, so I don't really got time to chase the females and stuff right now.

Host:

Yeah, that's hard.

Host:

That's hard.

Host:

But, man, let's talk about first show.

Host:

So, like, what was, like, your first song that you dropped?

Trap Dickie:

The first song that I dropped was when I had got shot, so I still had the eye patch on and the cast and stuff.

Trap Dickie:

So the first song I dropped kind of went everywhere in the local area.

Host:

It was like, oh, yeah, it turned up quick.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, it got turned up real quick.

Trap Dickie:

Nobody would believe I was rapping.

Trap Dickie:

It's like, my brother was the rapper.

Trap Dickie:

I was the one in the streets.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like when they seen the street guy pick up a mic, it was real crazy to them.

Host:

That's crazy.

Host:

You know what's so crazy to me is, like, we starting to see.

Host:

Like, you just look at the game, right?

Host:

Usually, the street nigga wasn't the rapper, right?

Host:

But when the Street N was the rapper, he wasn't all that good.

Host:

It was like, but he's authentic, so you felt him.

Host:

But now it's like the Street N can rap.

Host:

Like, y'all really got bars and flow and cadence and shit.

Host:

So, like, it gotta be some level of.

Host:

You don't just pick up a mic and just be raw muscle.

Host:

So what did you do to get to that point?

Trap Dickie:

Like, all street niggas, like, they probably got something to say.

Trap Dickie:

They probably don't know how to say it right, but all of them got something to say.

Trap Dickie:

Like, street niggas, to me, the ones that's original real, they been winning.

Trap Dickie:

Like Eazy.

Trap Dickie:

They been winning.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, for real, Like, n.

Trap Dickie:

Been winning.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

You've been in the.

Trap Dickie:

You've been winning?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, like, for real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

Like, people can't take stuff from certain people and act like they wasn't in the streets.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Host:

Hell, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I heard people try to say, like, Biggie went in the streets, but he live right here.

Trap Dickie:

Like, how can you say he.

Trap Dickie:

Like, this is hood.

Trap Dickie:

Like, he's from the trenches, right?

Trap Dickie:

How can you not say he in the streets?

Host:

Straight up.

Trap Dickie:

So, like, some of these guys that's in the streets, we definitely got something to say.

Trap Dickie:

We just can't get out the streets.

Host:

Nah, I feel you.

Host:

What do you think is the biggest thing holding a lot of these brothers back?

Host:

You know what I'm saying?

Host:

Like, when you start to look at the music, right, and we start seeing a lot of these artists die from gun violence so young, or, you know, we see an artist get artists shooting artists, we've seen a Lot of wild shit that we just didn't see before, you know what I'm saying?

Host:

What do you think is the biggest contribution to that?

Trap Dickie:

The Internet.

Trap Dickie:

Like, they let the Internet get in there down here, man.

Trap Dickie:

Like, they know we ain't even had this 10, 15 years ago.

Trap Dickie:

Like, this strong.

Trap Dickie:

Like, how can we let what people say on the Internet affect us or.

Trap Dickie:

Or somebody else that don't know you?

Trap Dickie:

How can you let what they say affect you if they don't know you?

Trap Dickie:

Like, I don't know how these rappers be doing.

Trap Dickie:

They be beefing with other rappers out of other states.

Trap Dickie:

And I'd be like, nigga, that nigga don't know you or your mama.

Trap Dickie:

Where we from?

Trap Dickie:

Like, like I say, everything's small.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

I know you.

Trap Dickie:

I know your mama.

Trap Dickie:

Your mama know my mama.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I know if I do anything to you, it's gonna affect other people.

Trap Dickie:

So I don't think these rappers be understanding sometimes.

Trap Dickie:

Like, these niggas don't know you.

Trap Dickie:

So how can you let him get you mad he don't know you?

Host:

That's real shit, man.

Host:

So you sell out the.

Host:

You sell out your first show.

Host:

That's kind of crazy to me.

Host:

I remember them days like, shit, I used to be a producer, you know, My brother used to rap.

Host:

You know what I'm saying?

Host:

And that struggle of just trying to get your fan base up, you know what I mean?

Host:

Like, that grind, going to shows, meeting people, trying to get your fan base.

Host:

How fast do you feel like your fan base went from zero to where it is now?

Host:

Like, was it a long process or was it.

Trap Dickie:

Lord, forgive me, though, if I'm saying it wrong.

Trap Dickie:

But it's like, I feel like I skipped that process.

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, my first show was sold out.

Trap Dickie:

Like, my first Show.

Trap Dickie:

It's on YouTube.

Trap Dickie:

You can go find it.

Trap Dickie:

That's crazy.

Trap Dickie:

The crowd was saying the words since my first show.

Host:

That's crazy.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like, damn.

Trap Dickie:

I already knew I had something going on, but it was like, to see the crowd and all that repeat some of the stuff I said in the songs.

Trap Dickie:

It was crazy.

Trap Dickie:

I'm saying stuff I shouldn't have said.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I'm watching the crowd say it.

Trap Dickie:

I'm like, damn.

Trap Dickie:

Like, ain't no way I'm here, bro.

Host:

They didn't inflate your ego just a little bit?

Trap Dickie:

No.

Host:

Niggas walked out of that bitch feeling like the band.

Trap Dickie:

It kind of made me.

Trap Dickie:

It fucked me up a little bit on some.

Trap Dickie:

Damn.

Trap Dickie:

If I got this much power, I Need to kind of switch it up for us.

Trap Dickie:

Too late.

Host:

Got you.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

If I got the crowd singing it, I got my niggas ready to do anything.

Trap Dickie:

Something gotta give for something go wrong.

Host:

Nah, I feel you.

Host:

I feel you.

Host:

But even that, you having the awareness to even think like that, That's Grandma, baby.

Host:

Man, that gotta be something Granny.

Host:

Granny probably instilled in you for sure.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Trap Dickie:

My grandma really is the one, though.

Trap Dickie:

For sure, for sure.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, she the one raised me, taught me everything.

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, I never seen her work.

Trap Dickie:

So this old lady here, every day, ass whoopers every day.

Host:

Oh, man.

Trap Dickie:

Old school.

Trap Dickie:

Get the branches.

Trap Dickie:

Nothing I can't do, right.

Trap Dickie:

So ass whooping every day.

Trap Dickie:

So I think that's what I get on my brothers.

Trap Dickie:

And everybody see that.

Trap Dickie:

I already be so focused.

Trap Dickie:

Cause shit, I came up where you can't do no right.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta do the best you can.

Trap Dickie:

Like, ain't nothing right.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta do better.

Host:

So now tell me about this.

Host:

So you start doing music.

Host:

You selling out shows.

Host:

You know, in Dallas, right?

Host:

I feel like the artists, the DJs, they had this period where they weren't seeing eye to eye.

Host:

It'd be like, you see me in the streets, I'm getting away.

Host:

But y'all not playing my shit on the radio.

Host:

Did you ever go through any of that?

Host:

Or did you get the radio player, the Support from the DJs, or how did it work for you?

Trap Dickie:

I came in rocking with the DJs, to be honest.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like.

Trap Dickie:

Like I say I came in with DJs, like, I came in having to pay a DJ to be at my first show.

Trap Dickie:

You get what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So it was like, I always rocked it with the DJs, and it was so crazy.

Trap Dickie:

The DJ I paid was one of the DJs at the radio station.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like I already had a track on the radio getting spin.

Trap Dickie:

It was just crazy.

Trap Dickie:

It was like I said, I kind of cheated the game.

Trap Dickie:

I just went for what I knew.

Trap Dickie:

I paid the dj.

Trap Dickie:

He ended up being a dude on the radio.

Trap Dickie:

So I already got a record getting played on the radio.

Trap Dickie:

My name's so heavy in the streets, so it's like other rappers hearing it in the street.

Trap Dickie:

So it was just like.

Trap Dickie:

It was like a cheat code being for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Nothing but God.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Host:

Nah, that's live, man.

Host:

Again, I'm gonna fast forward a bit to when I seen the Blue Devils track that I Can't Stand the Rain.

Host:

That was One of my favorite songs growing up, too.

Host:

Like, Missy, she one of the ones like, what made you sad?

Host:

Whose idea was that?

Trap Dickie:

Matter of fact, I think Loco from Texas, the producer is from Texas, to be real.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, Loco, Loco.

Trap Dickie:

Loco is from Texas.

Trap Dickie:

Y.

Trap Dickie:

I just thought about that.

Trap Dickie:

Loco.

Trap Dickie:

I met Loco.

Trap Dickie:

Loco just sending me samples from how you meet him to be real working.

Trap Dickie:

I see him do the big yavo and all them samples and shit.

Trap Dickie:

So I'm like, hey, need some beats.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So he ended up sending me that one, and I heard it.

Trap Dickie:

And I don't like, I ain't no drinker or nothing.

Trap Dickie:

So I'm in the studio, them boys bring a bottle out, end up taking a shot.

Trap Dickie:

I just went for it, went for a whole lot of Carolina talk.

Trap Dickie:

And I started talking about the Blue Devils, the Tar Heels, and try to keep it Carolina and end up going, bro.

Host:

Man, and we were just talking about this in the car.

Host:

I think it was on the radar when you did the.

Trap Dickie:

On the radar radar with the.

Host:

That's the one that kind of.

Host:

It put it in our face, and it was like, whoa, what is this?

Trap Dickie:

Nigga?

Host:

This crazy.

Host:

The flow, the beat, the like, damn, this nigga coming different.

Host:

And you know how it is when you hear somebody and you fucking with it and they got a catalog already.

Host:

So now you going back through that shit, you like, oh, bro, Ben going crazy.

Host:

So do you feel like.

Host:

Was that.

Host:

Is that the moment that you feel like everybody start getting on it?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I blew up on TikTok first off, the little.

Trap Dickie:

Same type of video going in the mailbox.

Trap Dickie:

Blue Devils, same song.

Trap Dickie:

So I was promoting Blue Devils the whole time.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I dropped Blue Devils.

Trap Dickie:

To be honest, a lot of people don't know I dropped Blue Devils in August.

Trap Dickie:

It blew up in October, November.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I was just pushing.

Trap Dickie:

Yes.

Trap Dickie:

I was just steady famous animal, on the radar.

Trap Dickie:

TikTok.

Trap Dickie:

I'm doing all this to this one song.

Trap Dickie:

Just pushing this one, same song.

Trap Dickie:

And then the on the Radar kind of grasped it on Instagram.

Trap Dickie:

And I already had a little viral post on TikTok.

Trap Dickie:

So people started putting the same videos together.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's the lazy boy that keep rapping around this motherfucker.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Do you feel, man, you know what's so crazy about TikTok?

Host:

I feel like TikTok is the only platform that it seems like music.

Host:

It just translates well.

Host:

Like the videos with the music.

Host:

Did you know that?

Host:

Like, were you aiming for TikTok because it's a music.

Trap Dickie:

I was On TikTok.

Host:

First I'm saying, did you purposely try to aim for TikTok to make.

Host:

Okay, I got you.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I went straight to TikTok.

Trap Dickie:

It was like, I seen a lot of people, stuff, like reciting.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I seen people that made songs four years ago blowing up on TikTok because of people, like, doing the dances and stuff to it.

Trap Dickie:

So I went straight to TikTok.

Trap Dickie:

I had hope, I had faith.

Trap Dickie:

Like, TikTok gonna blow me up, right?

Trap Dickie:

But it just took me to another level to notice, like, get people to notice me.

Trap Dickie:

And Instagram ended up taking me where I needed to be, bro, that shit.

Host:

Is so crazy, bro.

Host:

And then, man, you turn around and then Dababy jump on the remix, and he rapping like.

Host:

Oh, and no disrespect to Dababy.

Host:

Dababy when he came out, one of my favorite artists, But I like when he get on that aggressive rap shit and on that song, it's like.

Host:

It was like the perfect one, two punch with y'all.

Host:

I mean, like, when you get a feature back and you hear Dababy in his bag like that, what is that?

Host:

Like, what are you thinking?

Trap Dickie:

Like, damn, I actually was there, so I can't even lie.

Trap Dickie:

While he was rapping, G was there, too.

Trap Dickie:

My big dog, G was there.

Trap Dickie:

Me and G both looking at each other like, nigga, what you finna do?

Trap Dickie:

Like, you hear this shit?

Trap Dickie:

Like, you feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like, he rapping.

Host:

He rapping.

Trap Dickie:

Rapping.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

He was like, oh, shit.

Trap Dickie:

Like, the first time I ever thought, like, oh, snap.

Trap Dickie:

Somebody trying to kill me on my track.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I ain't never, ever thought like that.

Trap Dickie:

You know what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Cause I always felt like I did a perfect job.

Trap Dickie:

But definitely when Baby did the verse and we looking at.

Trap Dickie:

I'm looking at G, I'm like, damn, we gotta do something.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I gotta think of something.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

This man just did it and then he did it, and then he dapp everybody else, you know?

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

All that.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

He left me here to figure this out.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Dropped the bomb and said, yeah, go.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, go.

Trap Dickie:

In exact words, let me know when you ready to shoot the video.

Host:

That's hard, bro.

Host:

So I was like, damn, that's hard.

Host:

I like, man, I like that type of shit.

Host:

Because, again, the remix was, you know, like, perfect, bro.

Host:

I like when I see, like, the same coast collab and try to put on.

Host:

You know what I mean?

Host:

Like, for Carolinas, how big was that?

Host:

Like, in the city I know.

Trap Dickie:

She was, like, big.

Trap Dickie:

She was bigger than the meat.

Trap Dickie:

She was like Clemson and gang cars.

Trap Dickie:

A big rival.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you know what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

You got North Carolina, South Carolina people coming, and I'm trying to make it bigger than what it was.

Trap Dickie:

I'm texting every rapper from Carolina, like, hey, man, I need you.

Trap Dickie:

Never did it in my life.

Trap Dickie:

I need you to be here.

Trap Dickie:

And everybody, like, you gonna do it for real?

Trap Dickie:

Hell, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like, man, so many people came out.

Trap Dickie:

I was like, God leaving.

Trap Dickie:

The police really let me thug.

Trap Dickie:

The police pay them.

Trap Dickie:

They let me thug.

Trap Dickie:

Let me do what I want to.

Trap Dickie:

Four wheelers, dirt bikes.

Trap Dickie:

It was just like a big respect thing.

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, Carolina, big on respect.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't never seen a male other town in my life.

Trap Dickie:

And I seen him at a video shoot.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Host:

So that's say, man.

Host:

That's live, bro.

Host:

That's live, man.

Host:

And, you know, like I say, when you.

Host:

When you hear.

Host:

You know, when you go through the rest of your music and you just hear, oh, bro, taking the music serious, like, you're not playing with it.

Host:

Like, you know, a lot of people get in there and they just.

Host:

It seemed like they just doing whatever, but now you can hear that you really trying to spit.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, yeah.

Host:

Where does that come from?

Host:

Cause you see a lot of people that feel like they just chasing the check or they just doing it.

Trap Dickie:

My little brother, I told you, like, I ain't gonna lie to you, man.

Trap Dickie:

He got it.

Trap Dickie:

I can't even.

Trap Dickie:

It's not.

Trap Dickie:

I'm not saying it's just on no promote.

Trap Dickie:

Like, this is my story.

Trap Dickie:

Like, this nigga really makes me get in that bag to where it's like, I gotta do something to show him it's doable.

Trap Dickie:

Cause he's younger than me.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So just to get in that bag and to get the rapping, it's really ain't nothing but competition.

Trap Dickie:

To be real, we never speak on it.

Trap Dickie:

We never actually have it, as in we going against each other.

Trap Dickie:

But it always been to me, like, hey, N.

Trap Dickie:

I know what you can do.

Trap Dickie:

And I'm gonna do whatever I can to show you it's doable.

Host:

Now, you know, Texas connection, man.

Host:

I see you got a song.

Host:

My boy.

Host:

Big X.

Trap Dickie:

Yes.

Host:

No love.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Host:

Another soul sample.

Host:

Another man say, y'all killed that, bro.

Host:

Yeah, another one, bro.

Host:

How did you end up linking the world, you know, if those don't know.

Host:

Big X from Dallas, you know, he really put in his work Took off, you know what I'm saying?

Host:

So to see y'all together was dope, you know what I mean?

Trap Dickie:

How did that collab with him?

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna lie to you.

Trap Dickie:

The guy, real humble, real guy I see, keep his pops around.

Trap Dickie:

The same guys from.

Trap Dickie:

It seemed like the same ones from back in the day.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, I heard Kyle give me a little brief story.

Trap Dickie:

Kyle basically was with him from the beginning.

Trap Dickie:

So, like I said, I did a song with X because of Strap, though.

Trap Dickie:

Like, no lie to you.

Trap Dickie:

Strap died.

Trap Dickie:

That was the last song I seen from him, was with Big X.

Trap Dickie:

Oh.

Trap Dickie:

So I was like, oh, whoever this is gotta be Strapp, friend.

Trap Dickie:

So.

Trap Dickie:

And then the engineer, me and Strap used the same engineer, IMIX Nation.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

So.

Trap Dickie:

IMIX Nation, the one told me Strap used to.

Trap Dickie:

Strap used to talk about the big guy.

Trap Dickie:

Like, he used to talk about the big X dude.

Trap Dickie:

So I was like, I gotta link in with him.

Trap Dickie:

So I actually had this song for a little minute over a little minute.

Host:

Okay, I got you, man.

Host:

So what is trap, Dickie?

Host:

Are you independent?

Host:

Are you signed?

Host:

Like, what is your status right now?

Trap Dickie:

No, I'm independent.

Trap Dickie:

I fuck with Sean Cotton, to be honest, that's my dog.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's who I ever got.

Trap Dickie:

Like, the distributions and stuff through Sean Cotton.

Trap Dickie:

I fuck with Sean, man.

Host:

That's dog.

Host:

You know, he from the city, you know.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, that's like.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, that's why I said I've been out here two years ago fucking with Sean.

Host:

Yeah, that's dope, bro.

Host:

You know, shout out to Sean, man.

Host:

I feel like he definitely got an ear when it come to A and R.

Host:

And, bro, he put a lot of people on.

Host:

He don't get the flies, he get deserved, but he definitely put a lot of work in the game.

Host:

So independent route, man.

Host:

Like, it's, you know, you being independent, it really look like you on a major.

Host:

Like, the way that y'all are moving with the promotion, the videos, everything, it's coming across everybody's feed like, is this the.

Host:

I see the team with you?

Host:

Is this just y'all?

Trap Dickie:

Like I say, you got Sean Cotton, you got shot by Nay, you got IMIX Nation, you got official South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

These guys gonna break their neck for me and make it happen.

Trap Dickie:

Guarantee they gonna break their neck.

Trap Dickie:

They gonna hit up certain blogs and certain stuff that I feel like they would charge me more.

Trap Dickie:

But since they see the work process is not going as hard.

Trap Dickie:

And you know, Sean Cotton, he's so tapped in, he can get away as Going through this, through that.

Trap Dickie:

And I actually met some big dogs dealing with Sean.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I done met big people dealing with Sean.

Trap Dickie:

I be like.

Trap Dickie:

He was like, yo, we gonna get you in this playlist.

Trap Dickie:

And I'm like, how you gonna do that?

Trap Dickie:

He like, watch it.

Trap Dickie:

Watch.

Host:

That's crazy, bro.

Host:

That's lie.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, I can't lie.

Trap Dickie:

Shine.

Trap Dickie:

I know I owe Shine.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Host:

That's hard.

Host:

So would you end up signing the deal, or is it just the plan?

Host:

Just independent?

Trap Dickie:

No, I'm not gonna lie to you.

Trap Dickie:

I'm not gonna sit here and tell nobody.

Trap Dickie:

No.

Trap Dickie:

Lie to you.

Trap Dickie:

If I had a chance to sign for what I wanted to, of course I would.

Trap Dickie:

I'm from the trenches.

Trap Dickie:

I'm from.

Trap Dickie:

You know what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I'm from Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

You put the right number in my face.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna send a lie to you and say I wanna take it or the right paperwork, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, if I get to do what I still wanted to do, like, yeah, yeah, I take it.

Trap Dickie:

But I'm not gonna tell anybody else to take it off the strength that I will.

Trap Dickie:

Like, your money might be longer than mine.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

You might got the plug.

Trap Dickie:

I don't.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

But as in me working hard.

Trap Dickie:

Definitely.

Trap Dickie:

I'm working hard to get where I really wanna be at.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying, right?

Host:

For you?

Host:

Like, is there a particular producer artist that you wanna fuck with now that you, you know, I'm sure you caught a lot of buzz.

Host:

There's a lot of people looking your way.

Host:

Is it a particular person that you wanna tap in with?

Trap Dickie:

Outkast, man.

Trap Dickie:

I've been sending every interview.

Host:

Outcast, man, be crazy.

Trap Dickie:

I've been trying to get Andre:

Trap Dickie:

It don't matter.

Trap Dickie:

You ain't even gotta rap.

Trap Dickie:

You can just talk a little bit.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I just gotta get Andrew on any type of track project.

Trap Dickie:

Anything, man.

Trap Dickie:

I got to.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Now that would be crazy.

Host:

What type of track would you make?

Trap Dickie:

Would you sound track?

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, it don't matter.

Trap Dickie:

It ain't gotta be what he thinking at.

Trap Dickie:

We could take it wherever he want to.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

But I definitely gotta get him on something just to say I did it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, yeah, I did that.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

So what's the difference between North Carolina and South Carolina?

Trap Dickie:

The roads.

Trap Dickie:

Like, literally the road that the only thing that separate us be the roads.

Trap Dickie:

There's More interstates and stuff like that in the North.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta go through the north to get to, like, VA and all that, so.

Host:

Right.

Trap Dickie:

A lot of people see that north.

Trap Dickie:

And there's more city, like a little bit.

Host:

Right, right, right.

Trap Dickie:

Most city.

Trap Dickie:

Just a little bit, though.

Trap Dickie:

Just a little.

Host:

You say it's more.

Host:

It's more city in South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

No, North.

Host:

Oh, North Carolina.

Host:

Got you.

Trap Dickie:

City in the North.

Host:

Got you.

Host:

Got you.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

That's it, though.

Trap Dickie:

Nothing.

Trap Dickie:

It's all Carolina to me, if I'm saying the country to country.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

But I love South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

That's where I'm from.

Host:

That's hard.

Host:

That's hard.

Host:

What is Trap Dickey working on right now?

Host:

Present day.

Trap Dickie:

I definitely got the tape called the Preacher's Grandson coming out real soon.

Host:

Ooh, what is that?

Trap Dickie:

Preacher's Grandson.

Trap Dickie:

It's coming out next year.

Trap Dickie:

It's definitely coming out next year.

Trap Dickie:

It'll be here by that summertime.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Host:

Yeah, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

But I'm definitely giving out the works.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't finished this year.

Trap Dickie:

These last 20 days finna be hell for some people.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

I ain't done.

Host:

What's the plan going into this one?

Host:

Is it like, are you experimenting with sounds?

Host:

Is you doing the same?

Host:

Like, what's the process with this type?

Trap Dickie:

Nah, this like:

Trap Dickie:

After the Blue Devils hit at the end of 23 and 24 came, I actually just gave people a little samples of what I got going on.

Trap Dickie:

This is who I am.

Host:

Right.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

keep doing what I did before:

Trap Dickie:

Like, I'm gonna really show people what Carolina look like and stuff like that.

Host:

Yeah, yeah.

Host:

I was watching one of the blogs, you know, I think it was the hood vlog, Vicious tv.

Host:

And you was walking through there.

Host:

Yeah, that real Carolina.

Host:

Like, if somebody was to ask you, like, man, I'm in South Carolina, man, I need to grab me some.

Host:

I need to grab me something to eat, man.

Host:

Like, what would you tell them?

Trap Dickie:

Oh, it depends where they at, though, man.

Trap Dickie:

Cause, like, a lot of places don't have Bojangles and stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

So I tell people, go grab some good fried chicken or something like that.

Trap Dickie:

It depends where you at, though.

Trap Dickie:

I might tell you to go to this restaurant.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Something like Thunderbird.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Or something.

Trap Dickie:

Get you some good food, good buffet type shit.

Trap Dickie:

But if you're in My area.

Trap Dickie:

I'm telling you to go to Yogi Bear.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

If you near my area, Hartsville, Florence, I'm gonna tell you, go get Yogi Bear.

Trap Dickie:

There's only one Yogi Bear in my neighborhood in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Best chicken type stuff.

Trap Dickie:

Gizzards, all that type of soul food, you feel.

Trap Dickie:

Mashed potatoes, macaroni, all that.

Trap Dickie:

That's what's going on.

Host:

So, man, we done got our bellies full, man.

Host:

We want to go hit the club or something, man.

Host:

Where we going?

Host:

Like, what's the spot?

Trap Dickie:

Gee, you feel me?

Trap Dickie:

That the big club promoter.

Trap Dickie:

He the one do all the bookings and stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

He'll tell you I ain't in the clubbing, man.

Trap Dickie:

I never was in the clubbing.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

I used to have the sneaky heads with a mask on just for nobody to know I'm here.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I ain't never been no clubber.

Trap Dickie:

Never.

Trap Dickie:

Not a club or not a drinker.

Host:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Host:

That boy be on alert.

Host:

I feel you, though.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Tell you, they book the show, they give us our bottle.

Trap Dickie:

I take the bottle, pour it out right there in the station.

Trap Dickie:

Nobody get the drink.

Trap Dickie:

Nobody ain't going home drunk.

Trap Dickie:

Nobody ain't finna die on my watch.

Host:

Nah, for sure, for real, for real.

Host:

But what are some of the ways that you feel like an artist in your position need to stay on point?

Host:

Like, what are some of the things they need to do to stay on point?

Trap Dickie:

Nah, I realize what you in it for.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if it's your dream, make it your dream and get in it and get what you want.

Trap Dickie:

Like, don't get in here.

Trap Dickie:

I think it's problems that you gotta create to get there.

Trap Dickie:

Like, don't think you gotta have a problem with this person to get past them.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you don't.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I'm not saying it ain't problems gonna come.

Trap Dickie:

Like, we seen TI And Lil Flip have problems.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like, problems gonna come, but don't involve yourself with problems.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Get the money and get out of here.

Host:

Nah, for sure, for sure, for sure.

Host:

Hell, yeah.

Host:

You know, man, I feel like music is in a weird place right now.

Host:

You feel me?

Host:

Like, we starting to see record labels seem like they collapsing, condensing.

Host:

You getting people getting fired left and right.

Host:

When you look at, say, the music industry, where do you feel like it's going?

Trap Dickie:

I feel like we let the Internet get in too much.

Trap Dickie:

A little Bit like people really promoting their music on the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

And that's something we ain't never saw.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

We used to.

Trap Dickie:

I come from the era, like, at.

Host:

The CD, at the CDs, at the Cornerstone.

Trap Dickie:

Move this shit old school.

Trap Dickie:

Like, CDs, like, exactly what I said in the song.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's where I come from.

Trap Dickie:

I come from where Lil Wayne Tate dropped and that shit.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you gotta get this CD or you gotta burn this shit.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta find a way.

Host:

Remember burning CDs, boy, I done got.

Trap Dickie:

Ass cousins listening to this Lil Wayne.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real, for real, Real life ass whooping.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I'm young as hell, and I'm trying to find a way to play this song.

Trap Dickie:

Gossip like Lil Wayne.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

It was plenty of times I got beat just trying to listen to this music.

Trap Dickie:

So it's like, man, I feel like they taking away the music part of it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Like, everything on the Internet, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Just imagine it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, everything.

Trap Dickie:

Everything from comedy, everything is on the Internet.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if I knew, I could go watch Catwoman say the same thing on the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

It's crazy.

Host:

That's true, bro.

Host:

Hell, yeah, that's true.

Host:

Do y'all have any strip clubs in Carolina?

Host:

South Carolina?

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, definitely got the strip club.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

So I told him, I'm just not in it, man.

Host:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I got.

Trap Dickie:

I just recently had.

Trap Dickie:

Like, Every child I had in these last years been girls.

Trap Dickie:

I got three little girls.

Trap Dickie:

So I've been focused on really being a strip club.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't with all the.

Trap Dickie:

I don't promote the big booty girls, man.

Trap Dickie:

I love them, even.

Trap Dickie:

I love.

Trap Dickie:

I love big booty girls, but I can't promote it, man.

Trap Dickie:

I can't have my daughters out here shaking no ass right now.

Host:

That's real talk, though.

Trap Dickie:

I trip out.

Host:

Yeah, that's real.

Trap Dickie:

I trip out.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Nah, for real, man.

Host:

I understand, man.

Host:

It's wild, man.

Host:

When you got a little girl, it's a little different, bro.

Trap Dickie:

You start seeing.

Host:

You start seeing life a little different.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Start shaking ass.

Trap Dickie:

And mama say they got it for my videos.

Trap Dickie:

I'm to blame.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Nah, bro.

Host:

You can't do it like that.

Host:

Being a dad, doing music, did it make you switch up the lyrics?

Host:

Did it make you start actually thinking about some of the way you portray yourself?

Trap Dickie:

I had to take the guns out the videos and you know, all.

Trap Dickie:

Bunch of stuff I had to do.

Trap Dickie:

Cause these damn Kids, man, for real.

Trap Dickie:

But I made sure they have good Christmases and stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

But I had to switch it all up.

Trap Dickie:

Cause these kids, for real, for real, that's hard.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna say it wasn't no minor setback.

Trap Dickie:

It was just, you know, growing up, you feel me?

Trap Dickie:

It ain't like I could be like, oh, these kids are my damn weight.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, nothing like that.

Trap Dickie:

It's just like.

Trap Dickie:

Nah.

Trap Dickie:

Just I don't want them to certain things, man.

Trap Dickie:

That's all it is.

Trap Dickie:

I don't want them to do the certain shit I did or had to do.

Trap Dickie:

So it's like if they see it, I can say you ain't see it for me.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

You ain't never seen me do this, do this or do that.

Host:

Yeah, yeah, man.

Host:

With you being an artist, right, you know, just in 20, 25, right, you're making your music.

Host:

Do you wanna switch?

Host:

Not switch gears, but add on to what you're doing.

Host:

Like maybe do movies, make beats, do anything outside, venture outside of the rap.

Host:

Like, what are some of the things that you looking at if Forrest Whitaker.

Trap Dickie:

Got a bio coming up.

Host:

Yeah, motherfucker who played Trap Dicky in the Trap Dicky bio.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know, I ain't gonna lie.

Trap Dickie:

That's a hell of a movie right there.

Host:

Now Michael Rainey Jr.

Host:

Yeah, that's a.

Trap Dickie:

Hell of a movie right there.

Trap Dickie:

That's a hell of a movie.

Trap Dickie:

But now Forrest Whitaker got a bio.

Trap Dickie:

I'm in there with the lazy eye.

Host:

Yeah, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

I'm there for Forrest Whitaker.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, but nah, man, movies for sure though.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I feel like.

Trap Dickie:

I feel like I gotta get in a movie.

Trap Dickie:

So some is acting off.

Host:

Is there a movie that depicts Carolina in any type of way that you feel like, you know how like LA got boys in the hood and minister.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, damn.

Trap Dickie:

My man, what's his name?

Trap Dickie:

When Denzel was playing the big drug dealer.

Host:

Oh, American Gangster.

Trap Dickie:

American Gangster, yeah, definitely.

Trap Dickie:

You ain't seen Carolina, boys?

Trap Dickie:

Carolina?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

Trap Dickie:

They took em to New York and all that shit.

Host:

That's crazy.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, that what I felt like.

Trap Dickie:

Color Purple, you feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

That's that Carolina shit.

Host:

That's that Carolina shit.

Host:

Can Carolina women cook?

Trap Dickie:

Can Carolina cook?

Host:

Can Carolina women cook?

Host:

Are they like y'all just told her?

Trap Dickie:

My grandma ain't never worked a job in my life.

Trap Dickie:

That's all she did, cook.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't never.

Trap Dickie:

I never seen my grandma work a job.

Trap Dickie:

I never seen it.

Trap Dickie:

No lights going off.

Trap Dickie:

In here.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know what all Granddaddy was doing, but I'm telling you all.

Trap Dickie:

I see her in this nightgown, cooking, going in.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, yeah.

Trap Dickie:

And don't touch the pot before she tell you to.

Host:

Do you feel like that?

Host:

Do you feel like just running across?

Host:

Not even.

Host:

It ain't even gotta be.

Host:

You just, you know, you're surrounded.

Host:

Do you feel like that part of the game is missing as far as our race, our culture, our women?

Host:

Or do you feel like it's there?

Host:

We just.

Host:

We don't put him in a position to do that.

Host:

Cause Granddaddy was holding it down.

Host:

He was taking care of everything.

Trap Dickie:

Do you feel like.

Trap Dickie:

No, man.

Trap Dickie:

These days, these women done seen some money.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you gotta think about.

Trap Dickie:

You think your granddaddy was buying duffel bags and burgers and shit?

Trap Dickie:

Hell, no.

Trap Dickie:

Granddaddy wouldn't buy no damn burgers.

Host:

But we gotta put it in granddaddy terms, Coach.

Host:

Purse, man, we knew Granddaddy had it.

Trap Dickie:

If he had a damn Cadillac.

Trap Dickie:

If he got a Cadillac, he got some money.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, he got a Cadillac.

Trap Dickie:

He got some money back then.

Trap Dickie:

Old nigga with a Cadillac, he got some money.

Host:

How many secret families you think granddaddy had back then?

Trap Dickie:

Every granddaddy got a secret family.

Trap Dickie:

That's what I'm basically saying.

Trap Dickie:

Every granddaddy got.

Trap Dickie:

Got a secret family.

Trap Dickie:

Another child, something.

Host:

See, when you take it back to them days.

Trap Dickie:

Be tripping like I'm trying to.

Trap Dickie:

Real shit.

Trap Dickie:

Just think about it, bro.

Host:

Hey, did you see that clip, bro, With Travis Hunter, bro?

Host:

He had like.

Host:

This nigga scored, like three touchdowns, had an interception, and then he was on the sideline.

Host:

His girl was tripping on this nigga, like, bro.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, but see, that.

Trap Dickie:

What?

Trap Dickie:

I don't know what happened with that.

Trap Dickie:

I seen it.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know, but I'm saying I.

Host:

Just scored three touchdowns in a pick.

Trap Dickie:

What you tripping off?

Trap Dickie:

He probably left his phone with her or something, though.

Host:

Do you think that warrants that, though, bro?

Host:

Come on.

Trap Dickie:

Damn right.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you gotta think about it.

Trap Dickie:

These days, you scoring all these touchdowns, but you telling Anna May or something.

Trap Dickie:

I love you.

Trap Dickie:

She probably.

Trap Dickie:

I'm not saying that will happen, but that would make somebody mad.

Host:

You get what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Back in the day.

Trap Dickie:

Hell, no.

Trap Dickie:

You scored them three touchdowns.

Trap Dickie:

Grandma ain't tripping.

Trap Dickie:

Bitch, you better.

Trap Dickie:

You should have scored five.

Trap Dickie:

Grandma gonna be amping you up.

Trap Dickie:

We gotta get this money.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

Them old folks knew the plan house.

Trap Dickie:

Married 30 something years.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, for real.

Trap Dickie:

They Ain't changing.

Host:

For real, for real, bro.

Host:

Nah, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, man, I miss the old days.

Trap Dickie:

I only think I know nobody, like old on child support.

Trap Dickie:

You ain't never seen no old people in there on child support.

Host:

Nobody young.

Host:

Niggas look 50.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Host:

Just think about it, bro.

Trap Dickie:

You got a great.

Trap Dickie:

I don't even think I got no old uncle or granddaddy been on no child support, man.

Host:

Yeah, that shit is different.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, these new females, on a whole.

Host:

Nother level, man, if you could change one thing about the new age females, what would you change?

Trap Dickie:

The Internet, man.

Host:

I'm telling you, just get them all off the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

Take the Internet off, Bro, bro, you might be right.

Host:

That might be the solution.

Host:

Well, so what do you think about TikTok about to be banned?

Trap Dickie:

Like they been saying it, but just think about it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if you take away the Internet right now, niggas be scared.

Host:

That's true.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

You take away the Internet?

Host:

Hell yeah.

Host:

Niggas think this bitch y2k or something.

Trap Dickie:

Where the Internet, it'd be hard for people to live.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Me too.

Trap Dickie:

I done got adapted to it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, yeah, like for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

But if you take it away from it, like, only the strong gonna survive around here.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

What's the biggest conspiracy that you believe in?

Host:

Conspiracy theory.

Host:

Like, you seen what happened with the CEO of the United Healthcare?

Host:

Yeah, like, what the fuck was that?

Host:

You just niggas got gunned down in the middle of Manhattan.

Trap Dickie:

Nah, like, you gotta do right by the others, man.

Trap Dickie:

You do right to others come back.

Host:

So you think.

Host:

You think he was on some bullshit.

Trap Dickie:

Not nobody ain't trying to kill you.

Trap Dickie:

Cause you're an angel now.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Nobody ain't trying to kill no damn angel around here.

Trap Dickie:

You know what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like, the only person I know that I.

Trap Dickie:

That I think, even with the bad eye, that I think was good and they killed, probably was.

Trap Dickie:

Jesus.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know nobody that did nothing to nobody and they wanted to kill him, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like you feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So I feel like you just gotta do right by others, man.

Trap Dickie:

You do right by others, enemies gonna come, but the enemies be your footstool, you feel?

Trap Dickie:

You do right by others.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah.

Host:

Super Bowl Lil Wayne, should he have got the slot?

Trap Dickie:

I don't feel like.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna say he should have got the spot, but I don't feel like he should have not been named in it though, like, it's Lil Wayne, It's Louisiana.

Trap Dickie:

I feel like more people could have been in Masterpiece.

Trap Dickie:

You got a lot of people from Louisiana.

Trap Dickie:

You got the cash money.

Trap Dickie:

That's why I say I can't just say Lil Wayne.

Host:

Right, right, right, right.

Trap Dickie:

I would say, like, what about the whole cash money?

Host:

Right?

Host:

Yeah, that had been crazy.

Trap Dickie:

Like, cash money could have been doing it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, not just a Lil Wayne.

Trap Dickie:

Could have been a cash money reunion type shit, man.

Host:

They called Trap Diggy for the Super Bowl.

Host:

It's in Carolina.

Host:

They call you out.

Host:

What's the first song you coming out with?

Trap Dickie:

First song.

Host:

Give me the second.

Trap Dickie:

I gotta have Petey Pablo pull up.

Trap Dickie:

First song.

Trap Dickie:

Like, first song.

Trap Dickie:

The remix off the rip.

Trap Dickie:

Petey Pablo take his shirt off.

Trap Dickie:

That's how we started off Petey Pablo.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't even starting it off.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta have the legends come out there.

Trap Dickie:

Like how Snoop did it when he had Dre and, like, he really.

Trap Dickie:

Snoop, super bowl, he really Dr.

Trap Dickie:

Dre and all them, like, they gave you LA.

Host:

They gave you LA.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, like, Dr.

Trap Dickie:

Dre, he gave you the whole LA vibe.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

When Snoop started dancing and stuff, Crip walking, it was just like a whole LA thing.

Trap Dickie:

So definitely me in the Super Bowl, I'm definitely bringing out all the hats and the tricks I can.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real, boy.

Host:

What?

Host:

So what would you say?

Host:

What artists besides yourself represent that South Carolina right now?

Trap Dickie:

South?

Host:

Yeah, that's where you.

Trap Dickie:

You got Black Zack, you got Renny.

Host:

Rucci, Shout Out Black Zack, I interviewed.

Trap Dickie:

Him a long time ago.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, Black Zack, he definitely South Carol East, South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Like I say, Renny Rucci, Tip Teasey, Polo May Snizzy, PG Raw, Charlamagne.

Trap Dickie:

Told y'all about Lil Boss, Lone Munch.

Trap Dickie:

Man, it's a lot of rappers South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

I ain't gonna lie to you.

Trap Dickie:

It's just that our population is so small that, to me, the population's so small, so we don't got a bunch of people to follow us.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

But in these areas, they own their areas.

Trap Dickie:

Like, they got their areas locked down, so they got the area following them.

Trap Dickie:

So is it?

Host:

Is it?

Host:

Is it?

Host:

Is the South Carolina artists, are y'all all together, or is it still, like.

Host:

Because, you know, every time I see somebody from Carolina do something, I see Black Zach showing love.

Host:

Like, I ain't gonna lie, I always see him in the comments showing love.

Host:

Is it connected like that, or is.

Trap Dickie:

It kind of Frank Carolina, we never had no.

Trap Dickie:

No rapper, superstar type thing, so it be like all our superstars came from football, basketball, baseball.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

So it be like, I can't lie and say that we together, but we see each other.

Trap Dickie:

The roles, like I say the distance be just the roles.

Trap Dickie:

So it might not be that we together, but we all support each other.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like, Black Zach been commenting on my Instagram forever and I never even saw him at first.

Trap Dickie:

You feel what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

My first time seeing Zach was last year.

Trap Dickie:

commenting on my stuff since:

Trap Dickie:

So it be like, stuff like that we support each other, but it's just like the role be separated.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Yeah, man.

Host:

What do you think it would take for like a whole Carolina takeover?

Host:

You know?

Host:

Like, one of the things I noticed about people that get hot is they always seem to do music within their circle and they just blow each other up and put it out to the world, you know, like Atlanta.

Host:

It seemed like Atlanta put us on they lingo.

Host:

So now we fuck with they lingo.

Host:

What would it take for, do you think, if anything, to just everybody be like, man, fuck, we just gonna just flood these niggas with songs, man.

Host:

We gonna link up, we all gonna do songs with each other, we gonna shoot videos.

Host:

What would that take?

Trap Dickie:

Not as big as what 50 did, but something similar to what 50 did.

Trap Dickie:

Smaller, way smaller, like.

Trap Dickie:

Cause though G sitting right here, he tell you he booked everybody.

Trap Dickie:

Everybody come to Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Everybody, they come get their first.

Trap Dickie:

Hundreds of thousands from Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Every artist, like, you heard Boss Mandelo say his first sold out show was in Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Like, if I'm not mistaken, just.

Trap Dickie:

I think it stopped, like, up going east, like, going up north.

Trap Dickie:

Like, we don't get to hear the New Yorkers, but everything below and to the east, the west or everything.

Trap Dickie:

Like Georgia, some of the Texas guys, Memphis.

Trap Dickie:

What else states am I missing?

Trap Dickie:

Every other state, though, they come through Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Even the Mississippi, they come through Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

They get that bag, we break bread.

Trap Dickie:

So I feel like just to have all the artists here or a good bit of artists at one time in Carolina, and they really see, like, oh, this guy is down the street, this guy is down the street, this guy is down the street.

Trap Dickie:

I feel like that was gonna break it off, like.

Trap Dickie:

Cause everybody come, but they come through like a gas station.

Trap Dickie:

They get they money, fill up, get on, right?

Trap Dickie:

But once they come through, like a hotel type shit, like, oh, dababy here and such and such here.

Trap Dickie:

And skilla from Detroit is in Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Just once they see like, damn, we read this emotion.

Host:

That's what's going on, that's what's up.

Host:

On one note, man, I just wanna ask you this, just personally, like, you know, when you see like just the state of the youth, man, it seemed like shit getting wicked.

Host:

What do you think is the cause of that?

Host:

For real?

Host:

Like I'm talking about, you talking about young n like 13, 14.

Host:

And we all been in the hood so we see them, you know what I'm saying?

Host:

But do you think it's getting worse or.

Host:

It's always been the same, like way.

Trap Dickie:

Worse than the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

I'm gonna keep telling you, the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

Like we wouldn't have seen what we seen if we didn't see the Internet.

Host:

Like, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like I seen like a 16 year old, 17 year old.

Trap Dickie:

Like they already scamming.

Trap Dickie:

Like we didn't think of that when we was young.

Trap Dickie:

Like if we would have thought about scamming and stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

We was young, we probably doing the same thing, buying these big ass guns.

Trap Dickie:

Like I remember when I first started being in the streets, like when you had the revolver, it was like, oh, you got the revolver, right?

Trap Dickie:

You see what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

But it's like nowadays N got the little switchy button and stuff.

Trap Dickie:

They be like, yo, these kids see so much shit on the Internet, they go forward.

Host:

Damn.

Host:

Do you think it's anything like, is there somebody you know?

Host:

Like, I'll give the Houston example.

Host:

Like J.

Host:

Prince is like the big homie.

Host:

Everybody's big homie.

Host:

Does Carolina have that?

Host:

Does Carolina have a homie?

Trap Dickie:

He was just talking about this yesterday.

Trap Dickie:

I was just telling that's what the music game really don't got no more.

Trap Dickie:

Like nobody ain't got no big homies.

Trap Dickie:

I seen May say some shit and he was like, like, we not your little niggas.

Trap Dickie:

And I was like, yo, that's crazy.

Trap Dickie:

Cause niggas really believe shit like that.

Trap Dickie:

But they are little niggas.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you get what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like little niggas believe they not little niggas.

Trap Dickie:

But you a little nigga.

Trap Dickie:

You get what I'm saying, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Like there's no OGs back then, you know, you couldn't say certain shit.

Trap Dickie:

The dmx, the Busta Rhymes, like, you a little nigga, you can't say this like, but now the little niggas feel like they can out power grown niggas.

Host:

Like for real, what does the term OG mean to you?

Trap Dickie:

Me well respected, well knowledge.

Trap Dickie:

And he taught people certain shit to do to get out of situations he had been in.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's what me OGs is.

Trap Dickie:

Like when you teach niggas how to beat you, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, when you a real og, the niggas under you probably where they supposed to be better than you.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

You're a real og.

Trap Dickie:

Everything underneath, you should be taught better than you.

Host:

What percentage of OG's do you think actually doing it the right way?

Host:

Like, if you would have put the.

Trap Dickie:

Percentage on it, a scale, one out of ten?

Trap Dickie:

I'd say three, probably three real.

Trap Dickie:

Four.

Trap Dickie:

Four.

Trap Dickie:

Three out of four.

Host:

Damn.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, you got, like, you just like I say, you see, they trying to take the level of respect from J.

Trap Dickie:

Prince away, right?

Trap Dickie:

And it's something that this man been doing all his life.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you get what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Like, they trying to take the respect away from real OGs.

Trap Dickie:

Like, these niggas really, really put niggas in positions to win, feed their families, take them out the hood.

Trap Dickie:

And they taking the respect from real OG because of the Internet you found.

Host:

And then now you got, you know, people, you know, we ain't saying no names, but you got, quote unquote, snitches that are, like, fan favorites on Internet now.

Host:

And it's like, it's kind of blurring the lines.

Host:

Like, what do you think about that whole culture now?

Trap Dickie:

Like, I'm gonna keep saying it over and over the Internet.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you gotta think about it if back then, if we heard anything snitching on your name.

Trap Dickie:

The radio station's not planned.

Trap Dickie:

And like, everybody was against snitching back then.

Trap Dickie:

Like, every radio station, every big dog, every og.

Trap Dickie:

Like, it's hard to work around snitching and stuff back in the day.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you couldn't get.

Trap Dickie:

People weren't playing your records if you didn't even like the person that they liked it.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you couldn't bring your song in.

Trap Dickie:

This radio station in New York think you finna diss Jay Z on it, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, it's not happening, right?

Trap Dickie:

Like, it was just like.

Trap Dickie:

I feel like back in the day, everything was more like structure.

Trap Dickie:

Like, nah, you can't come in.

Trap Dickie:

Hell, just past snitching.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you definitely not coming in snitching.

Trap Dickie:

You definitely not coming in hanging with his snitches.

Trap Dickie:

You definitely not coming in talking about a lot of people.

Trap Dickie:

Like, back then, I feel like it was the most scrutiny, respect.

Trap Dickie:

You couldn't even have the same name as people.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you never Heard similar names?

Host:

Hell no.

Trap Dickie:

Like, people now got similar names.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, like we never.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you never heard.

Trap Dickie:

You heard Jay Z.

Trap Dickie:

You never heard of another two letter, like DP or anything?

Trap Dickie:

Like, you too close to Jay Z.

Trap Dickie:

Get out of there.

Trap Dickie:

Like, it was like back then.

Trap Dickie:

You gotta be who you is.

Host:

Yeah, that shit crazy, bro.

Host:

It's almost like we fuck with gatekeeping even though we don't realize it.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, definitely.

Host:

It should be some level of gatekeeping, though.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, like, basically like not saying.

Trap Dickie:

Like, it made the game hard.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

Just imagine Nelly competing with all the people Nelly competed with.

Trap Dickie:

Like, he had to be number one in a hard era.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's how I feel.

Trap Dickie:

Like music supposed to be like the greatest of the greatest.

Trap Dickie:

It shouldn't be no Lil Zayans and all these niggas that like.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

Lil punk.

Trap Dickie:

How did we let these niggas in?

Trap Dickie:

What we call hip hop and music.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

Like, these n never was supposed to be here.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Host:

The Kendrick and Drake beef, was it good or bad for the hip hop game?

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I feel like how it's going now with all the extra stuff, I don't know, like all the suing and stuff.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know about that, but as in going back and forth.

Trap Dickie:

That shit was real great for hip hop to me.

Host:

Nah, for sure.

Trap Dickie:

Like, just to see people that we know probably are never harm each other.

Trap Dickie:

They got so much money, security involved.

Trap Dickie:

Like, these niggas are never.

Trap Dickie:

You feel me?

Trap Dickie:

DMX see each other at the studio, they ain't gonna never see each other.

Trap Dickie:

For real, for real.

Trap Dickie:

So I feel like that was good just to see some people bickering at each other.

Trap Dickie:

Like, for real, for real.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

What I liked about it was he put out a tape and put eight underground LA artists that I never heard of the world ain't never heard of, and put them on a big platform, you know what I'm saying?

Trap Dickie:

Are you talking about his recent tape?

Host:

Yeah, his recent tape.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, he took it back home.

Host:

Yeah, I fuck with that.

Host:

I remember.

Host:

I miss them days where a nigga put a nigga on and you didn't know who he was.

Host:

And he like, dang, he snapping, who is this?

Trap Dickie:

He took it back to the old ways, basically.

Trap Dickie:

Like, that's what I'm saying.

Trap Dickie:

He took it back home.

Trap Dickie:

Like, even with the Me, if Kendrick was ever here, like, that was a smart move to take everything back home.

Trap Dickie:

Like, us dissing each other is cool, but when I take my ass home and diss you in my backyard.

Trap Dickie:

It's a difference.

Host:

It's a difference.

Trap Dickie:

Like when I got my whole state, my whole.

Trap Dickie:

They dancing.

Trap Dickie:

Like.

Trap Dickie:

I mean, it's a California beat.

Trap Dickie:

Like, everything about it was so California.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

So that's why I feel like he kind of took it to a next level on Drake and stuff.

Host:

If they made a South Carolina documentary, what stories do you feel gotta be in that bitch?

Trap Dickie:

A lot of these athletes stories.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I don't think a lot of people know about the Ray Allen story, the Michael Jordan story.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, I be forgetting about Jordan.

Host:

God damn.

Host:

Y'all niggas got Jordan.

Trap Dickie:

Oh, Steph Curry.

Trap Dickie:

What all them guys like?

Trap Dickie:

All them guys.

Trap Dickie:

Carolina, like Kevin Garnett.

Trap Dickie:

Kevin Garnett.

Trap Dickie:

You got all these niggas like football, too.

Trap Dickie:

You got at one point the highest paid linemen.

Trap Dickie:

South Carolina, like, defensive lineman, South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Like, some of these guys need to put their story out there for sure, for sure.

Trap Dickie:

To let them know it went easy.

Trap Dickie:

Like Ja Morant, John Morant, come from a small town like me.

Trap Dickie:

Zion Williamson.

Trap Dickie:

All them boys come from country ass towns just like me.

Trap Dickie:

So I feel like they need to put that shit out there.

Trap Dickie:

Like, I seen Z have a Nike commercial and that shit hit home.

Trap Dickie:

Like, he.

Trap Dickie:

I don't know how he did it, but he had Nike at the crib, like in Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

So they seeing the trailers and all type of shit.

Host:

So he tried to put on.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, yeah, Jo put on, job put on.

Trap Dickie:

So it's like, stuff like that.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you never know.

Trap Dickie:

Like Curry, Ray Allen, Autumn.

Trap Dickie:

Got them guys from Carolina.

Host:

You mean to tell me you got Michael Jordan and Steph Curry and Ja Moran, bro, what the fuck?

Trap Dickie:

God damn.

Trap Dickie:

I loved it when the best shooters, Steph Curry and Ray Allen, like, these the best shooters in the game.

Trap Dickie:

And they both, you know, got Carolina on their tags.

Trap Dickie:

So it was like.

Host:

And you grew up hooping, so, like, is the competition stiff like that up there?

Trap Dickie:

Oh, yeah, the competition stiff on that court.

Trap Dickie:

Like, you gotta think about it.

Trap Dickie:

The competition is real stiff.

Trap Dickie:

Carolina competition on that court is a whole nother level.

Trap Dickie:

And on the field, too.

Trap Dickie:

Cause you got them boys like, you got South Carolina State.

Trap Dickie:

You got a lot of D2s on jucos in South Carolina, so a lot of them boys try to make it out of there.

Trap Dickie:

D.

Trap Dickie:

Hopkins, I see a lot of people from Carolina on that field and on that court.

Trap Dickie:

Take it serious.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Host:

Hey, yo, man, that shit's crazy, bro.

Host:

I ain't gonna lie.

Host:

What about any street stores?

Host:

Any street, you know, like, Dallas would Be like, man, the Jamaicans, like, they'll tell them stories.

Host:

Is there any stories that you feel like people should know about Carolinas when.

Trap Dickie:

It comes to, like, Florida boys came to Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Like our story, the Florida boys, we gotta, you know, come from Florida to south.

Trap Dickie:

They came to Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

Is it South Carolina then Florida, ain't it?

Trap Dickie:

That's how it works.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I know about the Florida boys.

Trap Dickie:

Always come to Carolina and Savannah.

Trap Dickie:

That's so close to Florida, too.

Trap Dickie:

So I know a lot of Savannah people go to.

Trap Dickie:

I mean, a lot of Florida people go to Savannah.

Host:

Gotcha.

Trap Dickie:

Jacksonville and Savannah is like, right there.

Host:

Yeah.

Trap Dickie:

So I know Carolina and Florida always had mutual ties.

Trap Dickie:

I got a lot of spins in Florida, so I think that's why, too.

Trap Dickie:

The little ties.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

It's kind of like how Texas is with New Orleans.

Host:

Like, we like, damn, their cousins type shit.

Trap Dickie:

Yeah, I never knew that till, like, coming up.

Trap Dickie:

I never knew that.

Host:

For real, nigga.

Host:

Back and forth when Katrina happened, shit, a lot of the people from New Orleans came over here.

Host:

You know what I mean?

Trap Dickie:

That's crazy.

Host:

Yeah, that's crazy, man.

Host:

But, man, before we get out of here, man, again, plug them people in with what you got coming out next, bro.

Trap Dickie:

Like I said, my name is Trap Dicky.

Host:

Yes, sir.

Trap Dickie:

It's spelled just like it sounds.

Trap Dickie:

I'm from Carolina, South Carolina.

Trap Dickie:

I got so much stuff coming out.

Trap Dickie:

I got more stuff coming to this end this year, but I definitely got one of the biggest tapes coming next year.

Trap Dickie:

Preacher grandson.

Trap Dickie:

I'm telling you, gonna tune in, it's gonna be like that.

Trap Dickie:

It's the preacher's grandson you get here to preach.

Trap Dickie:

His grandson popularity.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

For real.

Trap Dickie:

And next year, man, we having so much fun.

Trap Dickie:

You definitely gonna see me.

Trap Dickie:

You gonna see my lazy eye everywhere.

Host:

Yeah.

Host:

Nah, for real, man.

Host:

Hey, One of the best flows, one of the best new artists in my opinion.

Host:

I feel like you should win some type of award for real.

Host:

Niggas ain't going in like you going in, Trap.

Host:

Nah, but man, you know.

Host:

Hey, man, Trap Dicky, man, I'm fucking with everything you doing.

Host:

You already know you got a home here in real life.

Host:

Send me anything you got.

Host:

I'll promote that motherfucker, you hear me?

Host:

But this is the best part, man.

Host:

You are a real life street star, man.

Trap Dickie:

Yes.

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