BossMan DLow is up for Spotify's RapCaviar Rookie Of The Year -- an honor he says was 5 years in the making on his end!!!
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00:00How do you feel about how the year started off versus how it's ended?
00:11Ain't bad.
00:12I had a wonderful year, man.
00:13I grinded.
00:14I've been grinding about five years, you know what I'm saying?
00:15So ain't a lot, but I'm getting a lot of good results, you know what I'm saying?
00:16For real.
00:17So how does it feel to have all that hard work paying off?
00:18You know what I'm saying?
00:19That's shit.
00:20That's shit a blessing, right?
00:21You know what I'm saying?
00:22It took a long time, you know what I'm saying?
00:33Everybody thinks it's quick, but it took a lot of grind, a lot of effort, a lot of work,
00:38you know, a lot of sweat, a lot of tears.
00:40So now I'm getting paid for it, and I love it.
00:43You know what I'm saying?
00:44For real.
00:45I love that.
00:46Now I know right now you're up for Rep Heavy Arts Rookie of the Year, you know, up against
00:49a few other names.
00:50But say, you know, you don't win.
00:51How do you plan on turning up in 2025?
00:52You know, what's next for you?
00:53You know, 2025, you know, hopefully we'll just keep, you know, keep the tour going.
00:54Hopefully we'll get to where we're selling out arenas.
00:55You know, we're going to keep the videos coming.
00:56We're going to keep the music coming.
00:57We're going to keep the pressure coming.
00:58We're going to put on the gas every time we do big, you know what I'm saying?
00:59I don't know.
01:00I want to ask, you know, what's the, we've been doing some crazy features, you know,
01:01Gorilla, you know, Sierra.
01:02I want to know, what's been the most exciting for you?
01:03You know, what's been the most exciting for you?
01:04I don't know, you know, a lot of, a lot of crazy mentions, a lot of crazy comments from
01:32big artists.
01:33You know, probably the work with Sierra, that was a big thing, you know, bro, I can't, I
01:39can't, I can't name, but it's just a lot of blessings for sure.
01:43Who would you say was the first person you saw, the first big name mention your music
01:47or, you know, post one of your songs?
01:49Uh, like probably the first, the one, like Wiz having them from Tallahassee, like that
01:56was like the first one to post my, my music.
01:59Then that, you know, trickle down, down south and then, you know, spread up north, you know,
02:04DaBaby was posting it.
02:07Just a lot, a lot of era rappers really posting my music, so.
02:11I love that.
02:12Now, I don't know if you saw or not, but, you know, you mentioned Julius Randall, one
02:16of your songs, you know, Anthony, Anthony Edwards recently came out and said that they
02:21were blasting one of your songs, going into the locker room.
02:23Now, how did that make you feel?
02:25Nah, that was hard.
02:26I seen it.
02:27Hey, he just hit the game winner, you know what I'm saying?
02:28Yeah.
02:29Bro, they shoot with the left hand, Julius Randall, I'm trying to tell you, you know
02:34what I'm saying?
02:35Shout out to that boy, Anthony Edwards.
02:36That boy always shot me out, you know what I'm saying, so.
02:38And he, he ain't even playing with them, you know what I'm saying?
02:41He dunking on everything right now, so.
02:43You know, are you a big sports fan, you know?
02:45I know you got the song Sports Center, you know, you leaving ESPN right now.
02:48Yeah, yeah.
02:49Your music being played at the sports game.
02:50Yeah.
02:51I don't, I wouldn't say sports, but, you know, basketball, that was my, that was my
02:55favorite sport right there, so.
02:57I'm tuning in to basketball for real.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Now, I want to ask you, you recently teased a track with Ice Spice, what can you tell
03:03us about that?
03:04What was it like working with Ice Spice?
03:05Yeah, you know, she, I ain't gonna lie, she had shot the verse back quick, though, so.
03:09Yeah, she working, and then once she shot the verse back, I was like, yeah, I ain't
03:15gonna lie, I ain't know you could, you know what I'm saying?
03:17I ain't know you could put that kind of flow on her, but she snapped, though.
03:20She snapped.
03:21Oh, she shocked you?
03:22Yeah, she did that, she did.
03:23Alright.
03:24Now, what's next for you, you know?
03:26You said you got the tour coming, the album?
03:28Yeah, we got the tour coming, we got the album from the drop, you know what I'm saying?
03:32We just, we coming, I got, I got more features with other people, you know, other songs coming
03:37out.
03:38Hopefully, we can work with more people, we gonna get that future feature, we gonna, you
03:42know, The Weeknd, you know, Wiz Khalifa, we gonna just keep it coming, however, all kind
03:48of ways.
03:49Alright.
03:50For sure.
03:51I do want to ask you about the Gorillaz song, you know, Step, what does it mean to step,
03:54you know, for those who don't know, you know?
03:55Yeah, step, you know, she, she putting it like, you know, you want to be her, you want
04:01to be her boyfriend, you want to be her, you got to step, you know what I'm saying?
04:04She, she said she want that new C8, you know, you got to go to the locker, that C8, you
04:08got to prove it to her.
04:09That's how she saying it, you know, me, I'm saying it like, you know, I'm a step, that's
04:13mine, don't play with her, you know what I'm saying?
04:15That's that.
04:16Yeah, and I know.
04:17That's my little shit.
04:18I know you got a few collabs with Glo, would you step with Glo?
04:20You know, in that sense, would you?
04:23You know Glo finaled in a bit, though.
04:26But no, no, for sure.
04:28I'm a dog, though.
04:29I love it, thank you, man, I appreciate it.