Mattox
Appearances
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
That's the point, bro. Gotta evolve. I got so much different types of music now.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
And then it got, like, people that work there that, like, run activities and, like, and, like, that's, it's, like, the part, like, where basketball at and, like, where everybody be trapping at and smoking and all that shit, like, That's where everybody be outside. So I was always outside since like a kid, since like a baby, for like since I was in the womb, you know what I'm saying?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like my mom was working at all the recs around the hood. So like I grew up in Longcrest. She worked at Longcrest for a little bit. And then there was another hood called Hausman. And then, yeah, I was in Hausman. That shit was the trenches. That shit was lit, though. I ain't going to lie. Like, I would be outside. I just run down. My mom would let me free because, like, that's how I be.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I was like, you know what I mean? Like, you should be good. She would just let you walk around. But, like, that shit, like, I'd wreck out there. Like, the buildings would be fucked up. Dude, she's 14.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
It's not like she's, you know, she's doing the best she can. My mom, like, she's a single mom, too. My dad died when I was two, you feel me? Like, he killed himself, yeah. Your dad killed himself.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
No, I know. I ain't tripping about that shit. I really never was fazed by it because it's like I never met him. Can I tell you, oh, that's going to work then. I was going to too. You know what I'm saying? Well, you don't remember him.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
No, I'm never be suicidal. I feel like it's just like not in me. Cause it's like, I just know my worth and I know like, it's just too like, bro, I can't do that. Beautiful. Yeah. Beautiful. For sure. Hey man, I had to say it. I'm thankful to be alive, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's just a blessing, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. You got a joy of living. For sure. It's just a blessing.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Every day I wake up, good to breathe.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I was doing drugs before I was popping. Really? Yeah. I'm from Philly, bro. You know what I'm saying? That's what motherfuckers don't know. I kept it on a hush the whole time because I didn't want to promote that type of shit. You feel me? At the end of the day, that shit not cool. You know what I'm saying? So like, I ain't never want to like promote it to the kids. You know what I'm saying?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Seeing that shit made me, like, know to, like, keep my balance. You know what I'm saying? Stay away from that shit. So she was on Trank? No, no, no. She wasn't on Trank. She was on, like, heroin, all that other type shit. A bunch of shit. Wet, all that type shit. Is she alive? She good now. She's sober now. Oh, good, good. Yeah, she got a kid and everything.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I had kids watching me. You know what I'm saying? So it was like, that's why I didn't really do that. But the whole time I was chiefing, I was doing everything. Like, I started taking shrooms when I was, like, 13. I did DMT at 14, bro. Like, all types of crazy sh**. DMT? Dymetotryptamine. It's, like, the strongest psychedelic in the world. Like, you hit it. I hit it off a dab rig, too.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
So that made it even stronger, right? You hit it, and then you black out, and you go to a whole nother dimension. Like, you go to a whole nother, like, some Black Mirror type shit, like, some whole, like... Black Mirror? Black Mirror. Oh, Black Mirror.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Yeah, like, you go into a whole nother dimension, and then you come back, it's like, and then people be saying they met God, and, like, it, like, or, like, people, like, it's like, you know what ayahuasca is? Mm-hmm. It's like that. It's like that. Is that the toad poison? It's like that, but in 15 minutes. Okay, is that the toad poison? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the toad poison.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
They must be wigging out. They be like, oh. Start getting butt ass naked and shit. Like, I be like, yo, I'm never doing that shit. The shit I did, I hit that shit. And then just you pass out and you come back.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Okay. But you experiment. I was experimenting with like ecstasy.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Cocaine, anything. Yeah. For sure. It's dead. Yeah. I know. So, dude. And I ain't even at the point where I like, I need like, I'm not going to grab it if it's not the only shit. You know what I'm saying? You wouldn't take anything from anyone. Yeah, if it's a random, I'm not fucking with that.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I'm in L.A., so you know, it's been a while, but, you know, I'm still focused. You know what I'm saying?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
That's what you got. Yeah. In-N-Out is still in motion. I have another show in Phoenix, but I got to go to Canada. Where in Canada? Montreal and Vancouver. Wow. The two opposite sides of the countries. And I just did a tour in China. That's crazy. You went to... Dude. That wasn't said. You went to... Do they fly you out? Yeah, they fly me out and everything. They got me everything.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I didn't even have to pay a dime for food, nothing. They gave me a ride, like a bull that just took me around and translated everything and everything. So, like, I did four cities out there. Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and some other shit. How many people showed up to these things?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
and they you know it was crazy they don't even speak our language I saw them like they was like singing the words to my new shit and I what the fuck that shit yeah and out there so like you can't smoke no weed out there so like I'm smoking mad cigarettes I don't even smoke cigarettes you feel me but they cigarettes better I ain't gonna lie like they better than out here they more healthier than out here you feel me but well they are more healthier there
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
But, like, I was drawing, and I started spitting out blood. I was like, oh, yeah, I got you. I smoke, like, two packs a day, get drunk and shit out there. You were spitting out blood? I just spit out, like, a little bit of blood. It was, like, the smoking, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm good now. It's cool.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
But no, yeah, like, even, like, me, like, I lost a lot of homies from drugs, like, when I was young, you feel me? So that always made me stay alert and, like, stay away from certain shit, like, Pete, R.I.P. my brother Pete, R.I.P. Lil Pete, R.I.P. Zodiac, R.I.P. Mac Miller, R.I.P. brother, that shit really, like, when I seen all that, like, R.I.P. Drew's world, Like, you know what I'm saying?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like, that was, like, lessons. You know what I'm saying? That was, like, lessons to the generation. You know what I'm saying? Like, even, like, bro, like, actually, my brother, too, like, he was, like, he was on the drugs. Like, he was on that shit for real. Like, he was trying, you know what I'm saying, to be a good example for the kids. You got to be. You know what I'm saying? You have to be.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
No, not on the street. You said you had a plug. Yeah, like my friends. Like my friends, they get their shit from Cali. They get it from Canada. Cali.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
You heard from like growing from farms, like growing farms. Okay.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
What did we put in it? What did we put in it?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
But you don't know where you got it, so you don't know if it's sprayed, buddy. That's the thing. Nah, my folks is like we experts, though. Like, they really be out here. Like, I ain't gonna lie. Baby, come on. Nah, I'm listening to you, though.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
She was like shocked. It's one in a billion chance that people blow up as a rabbit.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Okay. My brother would be like, everybody, they be saying all that shit about my hair, my shit, my shit fire. Everybody be hating on my shit. But like,
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
It's good to be aware. Yo, what? What happened? What? My little shawty from London, dude called me last night. I mean, just earlier, showing me a pregnancy drawing, right? I'm like, you lying. She's like, no, for real. I'm like, what the fuck? Like, stop camping. She was camping. She was lying. Who is this? Huh? Your girlfriend?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
But my thing is this now. So, Well, actually, it's creating a character, right? And the whole thing, the whole point of it is to contradict myself. So there's a whole plan behind it. Can't explain it to you now, but there's a whole plan behind it. It's like, I can't tell people to not do something if I didn't do it. Like, you can't tell somebody to never do drugs if you never did drugs.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Did I tell you, did I tell you never to do drugs?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I'm sorry. Working with us. That's full of circles. It's so good. It's all divine time and shit too, for real. Yeah. So. Divine alignment.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I don't know. I don't be using it. I feel like, I feel like, I guess it could help and hurt at the same time because it's making people put less effort in, but then it's able to do things that you couldn't have done before. You know what ended?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Real good. It's like, I feel like I don't be putting, like, no money behind marketing. I be keeping it organic, you know what I'm saying? So, like, it just be, like, natural views, you know what I'm saying? Right. And they mean, like, you're not boosting it. Yeah, like, I'm not putting it in playlists. I'm not doing nothing, like, on playlists. Like, put it on playlists?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I got a couple of projects coming soon. I got this Oxy show. I'm working on Oxy, like this new brand. Like you're all going to take Oxycontin? No, no, no. Oxy, I with an I. Oxy. O-X-I. O-X-I. It means Oxy. I sing with Finney. So I always sing with Finney. Okay. So it's pretty much like a new brand I'm working on. I'm going to have clothes for it, and then I'm going to make an album called Oxy.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Pay for putting it on playlists, pay for blogs, posting. Like, I don't do nothing. That's all for the rest of it, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't really got no team up. I don't got no manager. I manage myself. It's just me and Dolo in the Army.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Yeah, that my boy, yeah. You know 2K? Yeah. I know everybody.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Shit, I should be like, fuck that. I should be like, damn, I don't know how this shit started. I mean, like, it don't really hit me because it's, like, I'm used to seeing that shit, like, growing up, you know what I'm saying? So it's, like, I know it's a part of the world, you know what I'm saying? But it's, like, that shit be wild.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
For sure. I feel like definitely, like, in our city, like, Philadelphia, coming from Philly, like, we definitely desensitize it.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Have you watched any of your friends overdose ever? No.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like, we don't do hardcore drugs. We be chilling. You know what I'm saying? We run around a little bit and we have our fun and we chill out and then we go
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
man we go and take some seam off you feel me go take some vitamins some supplements and shit when we go work out you feel me it's like life is balanced you know what I'm saying so you gotta just stay on that you know what I'm saying you working out all the time Not all the time, but I got to pull up in my crib. I be doing my push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
That's like the next shit coming up. When are you going to drop that album, Oxy? I don't know. Sometime soon. Sometime soon. I can't let... 30 days, six months, somewhere in between there? Maybe. Maybe not. I might drop something before. I might drop some little tape before. Okay, we'll talk about that later in the episode.
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Alright, yo, I, no, like, yo, like, yo, I done been on hella f***ing car chases, like, like, when I was, like, when I was in Philly as a youngin', like, I've been on high-speed chases, bro. Cause, like, my boy, bro, like, you know what, like, you feel me? So it's like, bro, I got in, like, three high-speed chases in my life, bro. With the police? Yeah.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
No, for sure. Okay. 14 years old. We finna write a book by it. I'm gonna tell you some crazy. My dad name was Christopher. And my grandpa name was Christopher. And they mean Christ. My name is Matthew. That mean gift of God. So it's like. It was like I was the gift that they left me because it was like my mom, right? She had to take care of me up to like 11 years old.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
And I was able to take care of her. You feel me? It was like some full circle. It was like she got me so young. She was a single mom. And it was like I got to... I got to take care of her, you feel me? Like, I got to play that role that I ain't, like, my dad, like, we ain't never had no dad, you feel me? Like, I got to play that role and get a crib for her, you feel me?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Get a car for her, all that, you know what I'm saying? So, like, that shit was a blessing. Like, my mom, like, my best friend, you know what I'm saying? Like, I love my mom to death. Like she was my manager for a while, but like, I just, I just, she don't, like I don't want her to have to be working all the time no more. So like, I have her chill off day, you feel me?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like let her sit back and enjoy life.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
uh but uh i'm like her 77th best friend it's like i'm not i'm not my mom the only person i could really trust 100 right right that's great who else do you have in your support system that you can go to of course all my brothers my friends you know i'm saying like My friends, I don't got friends. I got brothers, you know what I'm saying?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like, my folks, you know, my brothers, you know what I'm saying? So, of course, them, like, my OGs and, you feel me? Like, they, you know what I'm saying? Like, all them type of people, too. But it's like, sometimes I don't like talking to people about my problems. I like to just hear myself.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Don't know better. That's my next tape. That was actually one of my... Be 11. That was the one I was going to say. The one tape I was talking about is going to be called Never Grow Up. Dude, I like be 11.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I mean, I feel like, I don't know. Like, I feel like Me seeing a lot at a young age, it was just, like, I was exposed to a lot. So, like, I guess I'm, like, more insensitive to everything. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm just used to it. You know what I'm saying? Like, when I blew up, it was, like, since a kid, everybody knew me. So, it's, like...
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
And, like, You know, like, do you. Be yourself. You know what I'm saying? Don't try to sound like everybody else. You know what I'm saying? You want to stick out. So, like, the best way to stick out is just being yourself. You know what I'm saying? Try new things out. You know what I'm saying? Like, don't try to just do everybody else type beats. They shit your ass. Like, you know what I'm saying?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Yeah. And what would you tell kids about buying drugs on the street? Don't... Don't buy drugs off the street. If you don't see your homie with his name in a skirt, you see that shit, don't buy that shit.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
It's not like it's normal to me for everybody to know me and, like, to be famous. You know what I'm saying? And, like, having people come up for pictures. It's like I'm used to it, kind of. It's like I cope with it.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
She was like shocked and shocked. You know, it's crazy. Like when I was telling her when I was like working on being a rapper, I told her I was like, I was like, I don't need to go to school no more. I was like 10. I'm like telling this before I blew up. I'm like, I don't need to go to school no more. I'm going to be a rapper. I don't need to go to school.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
She was like, it's one in a billion chance that people blow up as a rapper. And then that shit happened. That's so crazy. And what did she do? What you mean? How did she react to it? She was just sad. You feel me? Like, she was just like... Was she happy? Yeah, for sure. She was proud. Yeah. Like... She was all the way with it. You feel me? Like, she was, yeah, that shit was legendary.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Now, when did you start going to school? Shit. High school was, like, ninth grade. I never went to high school. I went home school till, like, ninth grade. Then I dropped out. You never actually went to school? High school.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Mm-mm. But I be, like, into philosophy and, like, reading shit. Dude, I ain't calling you stupid. I think you're a genius. I'm just letting you know. School ain't for everybody, bro. Yeah, not for sure. Yeah. Yeah, and I feel like, you know, the prison, if you think about, like, the prison and, like, hospitals and, like,
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
jails and schools they all got like the same type like design type it's like a program type you know what I'm trying to say yes and no they all look alike okay they may okay you know what I'm saying like they may all look alike and they may all have rules but one of them I'm not saying school bad though like I still feel like it's certain things you should go to school for but like if you need to go to school for it but like if you don't need to I feel like it's a waste of time
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I'm doing great, man. You all right? You all right. Now that we're getting to L.A., I ain't been here in a minute. Where'd you come from?
We're Out of Time
Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Right. I feel like, um, yeah, I feel like it's getting to the point where anybody can make music and anybody can blow up. You know what I'm saying? So it's, I feel like that's lit, though, because it's everybody getting a chance. You know what I'm saying? Like, nowadays, people record stuff off their phone. And if you got the right template, it'll sound fire. You know what I'm saying?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like, I got homies that be recording off their phone, and they sound better than people that be recording their studios that they pay for.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
He's like, bro, it's easy to help, bro. Dude, where's your facial tattoo? I ain't got no face tattoos. Dude. I ain't got no tattoos. You got no tattoos? Really? I don't feel the need to get something tattooed. I don't feel like it's something that important to get. You're the best. You're afraid of needles just like me, right? I ain't being afraid of needles. Of course not with me. That is.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I would have did it. Like, I would have... You know how they be taking, like, what's that called? The medicine until they black the f*** out and they could take a whole body. Like, I would do shit like that. You feel me? Like... But if I was to get tits, because I would go to black the fuck out. Like, I would go crazy, everything. Because my friends, like, they got crazy ass tattoos.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Like, my one friend got, like, a mushroom on his face. My other friend got, like, the crack from Harry Potter and the little balls from Harry Potter. You know what I want to do, Dylan?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
You know Skriller? I do not. Okay. Is that a place? No, Skriller's my friend. He an artist from Philly. He like, he be shooting, he from Kensington though. Like, he be shooting all his music video. He be getting the fiends in it. Like, it's like zombies and stuff. Right.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
I mean, that's the point, bro. Gotta evolve and just keep, you know. But I got so much different types of music now. So it's like, it's so much. Like I probably got like 5,000 tracks in a release. And it's like,
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
all different genres and all different vibes you know what I'm saying so it's like now it's just like I'm at the point where it's like I'm putting together projects it was like art pieces and it's like an outfit and it's like picking out these songs and I got songs from years ago you know what I'm saying like I got songs from 2020, 2022, 2023. I got songs from when I was 11, 12, 13. You feel me?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Wow. It's like what I'm finna do in the future, I'ma put them all together, right? And I'm going to have it, like, show the evolution. It's going to be, like, from, like, 11, 12, 13, what we're doing. And it's going to be, like, my new shit. And then it's going to, like, mix it together, the old shit and the new shit.
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And it had, like, the AI videos and, like, me as a kid and then me growing up and shit. Like, all crazy shit. Like, that's where I come from. You'd be the first, I think, to ever do that.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
That shit went viral. That's why I work for him. You're kidding. Yeah.
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
yeah inject it into their arms and they get these big flesh and then they hit their legs be falling off their hands bro all that all that my my i ain't trying to call my aunt but i got two aunts so i ain't really calling my aunt out but like my aunt used to be on like all this like my aunt used to be down canada like she was really like they did like for like years and shit you feel me like she wrote through her heart you feel me that was a big thing in my family you feel me so like
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Too, like, childish. It's just, like, I don't know. Like, I don't want to do that shit. Like, it's just, like, it just felt lame to me. You know what I'm saying? Like, it just felt dry. Like, I'd rather just let the fans do it. You know what I'm saying?
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Mattox: The Kid Who Went Viral and Shook the Game
Yeah, I was in North. I was down, like, Long Crest. Yeah. That's a neighborhood I grew up in. And shit, it was cool, though. Like, everybody fucked with me, though, because my mom worked at all the recs and shit. So, like, the rec center is just, like, a playground and, like, a park.