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Progress or Illusion
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ZeTay is back with co-host Neptvne Blvez for a raw Chicago conversation. We talk about the real challenges our city faces, what progress really looks like, and how social media can blur the line between reality and illusion. Politics get a quick mention, but the heart of this episode is about awareness, growth, and keeping it real in a world full of distractions.
This podcast blends laughs and serious moments, giving you perspective without preaching. Disclaimer: we’re not here to tell anyone how to think — just two humans with different opinions, opening up space for real conversation.
🎶 Closing out this episode: @pop_.ju – “Sum Different” (available now on all platforms).
📲 Connect with us on Instagram:
• ZeTay – @iam_zetay (https://instagram.com/iam_zetay)
• Neptvne Blvez – @neptvneblvez (https://instagram.com/neptvneblvez)
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Transcript
Disrespect in Society: Acknowledgment and Consequences
00:00:00
Davante Adams
is That's where the game at, niggas. Niggas just disrespectful. It's just a very disrespectful time we live in there. wouldn't say disrespectful time, but that level of disrespect is, it needs to be acknowledged at some point. Like, enough is enough.
00:00:25
Davante Adams
That was a professional way to say that, right?
00:00:28
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, I mean, i would say so. Enough is enough.
00:00:33
Davante Adams
well You got to call out shit for what it is.
00:00:33
Neptvne Blvez
I mean,
00:00:37
Neptvne Blvez
no, facts.
00:00:40
Neptvne Blvez
It just gets to a certain point where when you cross that line, i mean, a lot of people stand behind certain words.
00:00:51
Neptvne Blvez
when it's disrespectful and when people feel disrespected or their family disrespected, you know, people going to step behind that shit. And, um,
00:01:02
Neptvne Blvez
it really wasn't a wise decision because you know what saying? You just setting yourself up for bad publicity and just, you know, just aside from that, just the morality issues that I like,
00:01:16
Davante Adams
and But do you think do you think it was really about
Lil Yachty's Artistic Evolution
00:01:20
Davante Adams
that, though? Like, do you think he really did that for attention? Or do you think he really just don't didn't think it was going to be that big of a i i wouldn't say... okay i let me reorganize that question. Do you think that ah played out the way that he thought it was going to play out far as just the way he said it?
00:01:44
Neptvne Blvez
I think that
00:01:49
Neptvne Blvez
i didn't think that he maybe thought it would and maybe if he did I don't know why anybody would want that type of reaction.
00:02:00
Neptvne Blvez
But um I feel like one should one should adapt their lyricism to be a little bit more advanced than that.
00:02:12
Davante Adams
Maybe I'm at.
00:02:12
Neptvne Blvez
And I know that He can be capable of doing that. At times. Because I like Yachty's music to a degree too. I like some of his songs. Been a fan of Yachty since.
00:02:23
Davante Adams
um man
00:02:26
Neptvne Blvez
Ice cream. I mean ice water. I'm sorry. Ice water. That's when he first first came out. And that shit was. ain't gonna lie. That shit was kind of garbage. Compared to the new shit he got now.
00:02:38
Neptvne Blvez
So. I understand his growth. I've seen his growth. But. For him to just go completely. Like bro. that It's shit like that. That kind of sets us back.
00:02:52
Neptvne Blvez
As a whole. That shit is embarrassing my nigga. That shit is embarrassing. And there's far more better things to rap about. But whether it's better or not.
00:03:05
Neptvne Blvez
There's far more things in this world that you can rap about. Other than just shit like that.
00:03:11
Davante Adams
Yeah. I mean, just because everybody know that situation, you know, it was a big, it was a big deal. Maybe he, um, maybe he thought it was just something that,
00:03:24
Davante Adams
was going to be taken like a different way. You know, because when I heard it, though I was just like, nah, it's just like, even when you hear it's just like I turn this off. You know, it's just like who who approved this?
00:03:35
Davante Adams
like Like, being real. But ah sometimes, though, people just go through stuff a different way. And me personally, I feel like he may be just going through some shit. Like, because Yachty's a dope artist. Like, Yachty got some dope music.
00:03:52
Davante Adams
I feel like he just probably was just at a point where he was just... trying something and it just didn't work out. And and it sucks that he got to go through all of this to see what happens and, you know, the the feedback he gets from it. But,
00:04:09
Davante Adams
All you could do is just hope for the better form, you know saying? Just to like, honestly, just understand the art of music. You know what I'm saying? Take your time. Don't rush it. You know, get in to do what you do. here He knows that already.
00:04:22
Davante Adams
I feel like it was maybe rushed because it do sound very rushed. It don't sound like it was something that was just kind of, you know, that.
00:04:28
Neptvne Blvez
But at the same time, ought not to cut you off, I'm sorry. ah But you know, what it's like people say certain stuff to get reactions.
00:04:38
Davante Adams
i don't I don't think it was a for a reaction, though.
00:04:38
Neptvne Blvez
Like...
00:04:40
Davante Adams
Me, personally, I don't think said it for a reaction.
00:04:45
Neptvne Blvez
I feel like when certain people, like when they rap,
00:04:45
Davante Adams
Ah.
00:04:49
Neptvne Blvez
And like I said, I'm not saying it is or it ain't because I'm not Yachty. But um it's like... I'm not saying, like I said, this is the case. But it's like also people say certain stuff.
00:05:06
Neptvne Blvez
Like, you know when people rap and they say certain things and then somebody will be like, if it's good, they'll turn around and look at them and give them the stank face. Or it's like if you say something that is really...
00:05:15
Davante Adams
Thank you.
00:05:19
Neptvne Blvez
whimsical or charismatic or something like that or just really like really good wordplay the audience can kind of look at you in a way to be like damn like you really said that or came up with that bar so it's like I feel like it's kind of one of those moments where it's like you really went there you really said that you really came up with that bar but the difference is to me it's not a good bar nor is an ah appropriate bar it's a bar that is like kind of like attention and i don't like i said it not to say that he did it i don't know whether it was the goal or not but it's like you ain't got no choice but to look at somebody after they say some so some slick shit like that to be honest black or white any race so it's kind of like
00:06:15
Neptvne Blvez
coming from you of all people with the skin that you have, it kind of hurts a little bit more.
Personal Growth and Environmental Influence
00:06:23
Davante Adams
Yeah.
00:06:26
Davante Adams
Yeah. And, um, it's one of those things too, I guess. Well, um, I just got realize too that, I think a lot of people do got to realize too that they just humans too.
00:06:39
Davante Adams
i He got a lot of money, so I'm always put that as, don't have that type access. So when you got access and you live in a lifestyle, you kind of like stuck in your world in a way. You know what I'm saying? There's no excuse, number one.
00:06:58
Davante Adams
Always you know sharpen. always shape yourself to be around like for the better you know just to make stuff work for everybody and just be a be ah be a be in the service to serve others but don't forget about where you come from and don't forget about who you are you know saying because it got to a point with all the stuff that's going on with the race and it's a lot, you know saying For us, we do go through a lot, you know what saying? It's, it's, it's a lot.
00:07:27
Davante Adams
And you gotta be careful with how we carry ourselves in certain situations and with, um, the audience we have too. So, um, he got a big, uh, audience of young people. So that's another thing that probably just, you know, was like, okay, cool. Like, yeah, we got to,
00:07:48
Davante Adams
You know, so it's a lesson. It's a lesson learned for sure. I'm pretty sure he kind of like learned his lesson from that.
00:07:51
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:07:54
Davante Adams
But prayers to Yachty, man. ah Keep doing what you're doing, though, for sure. Drop some dope shit.
00:08:01
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:08:02
Davante Adams
I know he got i know he got some dope shit cooking.
00:08:03
Neptvne Blvez
Hell yeah.
00:08:04
Davante Adams
I know he do, man. It's about that time. It's about that time.
00:08:09
Neptvne Blvez
Hell yeah. yeah we Shout out to the Yachty. Hope that the young brother is getting guidance and and get his head back right. Because, um like he said, like Broder said, you are an inspiration to a lot of the youth.
00:08:24
Neptvne Blvez
And you've done a lot of good shit, my nigga.
00:08:25
Davante Adams
he
00:08:28
Neptvne Blvez
you You accomplished a lot at a young age and you still are that dude. So just don't let one thing knock your reputation or don't let one thing define you. That's all.
00:08:42
Davante Adams
i
00:08:42
Neptvne Blvez
has bounced back. bounds back
00:08:44
Davante Adams
Well, yeah, but people gotta you gotta acknowledge the got the the challenges too, though. Like a a lot of times with me, though, bro, like that's been working for real, just acknowledging the shit that I made mistakes and did. You know what saying? Because when you acknowledge the shit that you lack in or the the shit that you just kind of – You know that you, I could have did more. I could have, it could be with anything too. I'm just not trying to make one thing like a subject. So I'm not trying to just talk about one thing, but I think you understand what I'm trying to say when like I'll, I'll do something where it'll be like, yeah, I feel like i did 75%, but I had a hundred percent, but I gave 75 because
00:09:31
Davante Adams
I just didn't feel like putting that other 25 towards that. But if I would have did the 100, it would have, I would have it. Okay, I'll put it to you like this. You know, you just sent me to um the ideas for the next project you're doing with the, with how you just had everything laid out, costumes and just the similarities and, you know, it it's just the, the it was 100% effort.
00:10:00
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:10:00
Davante Adams
You can tell. That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. So I imagine doing that, like, that is, it make you feel good. It's a different feeling when you do
Discipline, Willpower, and Self-Improvement
00:10:11
Davante Adams
something and you're like, I feel good about this because I know I put, I put 100% into this.
00:10:16
Davante Adams
Like, you knew you said that, and I and and i salute you on that because you're so dedicated to what you do. And I'm not trying to spill the beans on what you're doing right now. You see I'm trying to walk around and this stuff. So, like, with the way you laid it out, it was just so perfect. And I'm just like,
00:10:31
Davante Adams
Yo, I need to I learned a lot from it And it was just like a good 10 to 15 minute read For me personally, because i'm just kind of Taking my time, I'm just like looking at it And I'm like, okay, yeah, that makes sense, that makes a lot of sense So The 100% that you put into that You're going to appreciate it once it's done Because you're going to go back to that And be like Yo, this is this was what it started from.
00:10:56
Davante Adams
And all the things that you're doing to make it happen. You what I'm saying? That's the thing about you, too.
00:10:59
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:11:00
Davante Adams
Everything that you have did so far, you have the you have the you got the history with it, bro. Keep everything you got and just, like... This personally for me, I'm telling you this because you're going to look back at all that shit. And like when you're looking at your shit, you're going to like, man, I still got that. I still, you're going to have everything from what you, because you're creative with the shit.
00:11:22
Davante Adams
But that's 100%. That's 100% effort.
00:11:22
Neptvne Blvez
man
00:11:22
Davante Adams
So don't quit. that's a hundred percent effort so
00:11:26
Neptvne Blvez
It is.
00:11:26
Davante Adams
don't quit
00:11:27
Neptvne Blvez
It's effort. I appreciate you saying that, bro. Real talk. Nah, dead they're serious. i It's effort and it's work, but i um it's a lot of inspiration. like i got I got people like you. I got other people in my coin. I got like ah so It's a lot of the things that you surround yourself with, basically, is what I'm saying.
00:11:49
Neptvne Blvez
Whether that be people, people places, and things, for sure.
00:11:49
Davante Adams
But 100%.
00:11:53
Neptvne Blvez
People, places, and things. The things that are in your surroundings will define how much work you put in, the ability for you to be able to put in work, the ability for you to be able to create all of it.
00:12:07
Neptvne Blvez
So do things you surround yourself, for sure.
00:12:07
Davante Adams
But.
00:12:10
Davante Adams
It's a. It's a couple. It's a couple more. I feel like you could dive into on that too though. When it comes to It's quick though things too like.
00:12:20
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:12:21
Davante Adams
Like instant gratification. Like people want quick wins and shit. Like for you, like I'm saying, it's to it's the long run.
00:12:25
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:12:27
Davante Adams
You know, you got to be ready to just be able to just be, you got to be able to just sit in that, sit in your shit and just be ready to just like, be ready to just learn as much as you could.
00:12:41
Davante Adams
I feel like a lot of times, It's hard for us to take a back seat because of the ego and just like, I know what I know. And I had to learn recently that like, just because I know something that don't mean I know what I need to know. i don't know everything I need to know. Like I, it's okay for me to sit back and just be like,
00:12:59
Davante Adams
Oh, okay, I didn't know that. Like, oh, I can i could i could actually do what he whatever whatever he or she just said because it'll help me with what I know. Because sometimes you just take the information from what another's doing and put it with what you got. Because we talked about this a while ago.
00:13:14
Davante Adams
We talked about this probably recently. don't know. We talk a lot.
00:13:17
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:13:17
Davante Adams
But we talked about um how, like, you could take somebody, what somebody's, you could watch something and just be like, okay, cool, I don't have to do it that way. But I can learn from somebody. You can always learn something.
00:13:29
Davante Adams
So taking yourself from that mindset of just not being like, i know everything or I know what I need to know and I don't need to listen to nobody will help you 100%. go ahead. oh
00:13:40
Neptvne Blvez
That...
00:13:42
Davante Adams
um big guy
00:13:42
Neptvne Blvez
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. My bad. didn't know if I was interrupting you, but was going to agree. I was saying that you were spitting. like you are you That's something that I didn't mention, actually. You're right.
00:13:55
Neptvne Blvez
That's major. And I feel like it it has to do a little bit with what I said, but you're not completely defined by it. Your environment, the people, places, and things, like I was saying, does impact your mental a lot.
00:14:12
Neptvne Blvez
Based on the way you raise, based on the way you think, based on the way you're able to believe in yourself and the confidence and your ego, all of that, that coincides with the people that you have around you, the places that you grow up and the things that you do.
00:14:27
Neptvne Blvez
Like the habits, but also it's on you to not be defined by the people that you have around you. to not be defined by the area that you come from, to not be defined by the mistakes or the actions that you've done in the past, or things that you do that may keep you from where and you wanna be.
00:14:52
Neptvne Blvez
So they kinda go hand in hand, but I do agree with you, bro. Like they do, like, because at the end of the day, um it's all about, it's balance, i mean, obviously,
00:15:05
Neptvne Blvez
But it's you it's it's about power. It's about willpower. It's about mentality, discipline, willpower. It's about will you do the work? And if you feel like you aren't where you are where with the talent that you want to be at, are you willing to perform and do the work necessary to at least be comfortable with where you want to be?
00:15:30
Neptvne Blvez
It's not always about the opinion of others, but just comfortable with where you want to be at the end of the day.
00:15:30
Davante Adams
Yeah.
00:15:36
Davante Adams
Yeah, but being comfortable is... There's nothing wrong with being comfortable, but it's a time and a place for that. And when you're in grind mode, it's kind of hard to be comfortable. Like, I don't i don't necessarily encourage anybody to be comfortable.
00:15:52
Davante Adams
I like to move the way I move because I haven't had anything. I know the feeling of being comfortable already. I don't want to keep knowing the feeling of being comfortable with the same status and the same standard of.
00:16:06
Davante Adams
what I'm seeing now. Like, it has to be an elevation to it.
00:16:07
Neptvne Blvez
What is Mm-hmm.
00:16:09
Davante Adams
You know what saying? Like, because we don't, it just, it's a bad, me personally, I'm just saying from just living and just having the experience and going on 30, nigga.
00:16:21
Davante Adams
Like, I'm just being like, I'm like, damn, like my whole 20s was just about, which was fine because it's all an experience. Life is an experience. You know what I'm saying? I'm grateful for the life I live today.
00:16:33
Davante Adams
I love everything about it, but I also want to see growth within myself. Like I know what I am when I'm this way and I know how I am when I want to be like one way and another way and just be this, I know how, how it feels being all in your feelings about everything. And life is not about being in your feelings. Life is about growth. It's about self, self improvement, but helping others too.
00:17:01
Davante Adams
Like it's a two, it's too many gatekeepers. It's too many egos. It's too many people trying to gain without, investing in themselves a lot of people are not doing the work and it's I'm saying that because I wasn't doing the work bro like I had to do the work I'm still doing the work but I feel it every chance that I every time I gotta like do something that i say this
00:17:19
Neptvne Blvez
Mm-hmm.
00:17:22
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:17:33
Davante Adams
I'm not get lot to you on some real, like, some real, like, shit. Like, just auto pay. Just some little simple auto pay. I'm just there for, like, a bill because I look at it like don't have the money. You know what saying? I'd be frustrated about something, and I'm just like, yeah, like,
00:17:51
Davante Adams
I know i got this bill, but and need to go do this. I want i want to go do this. i ain't going to say I need to, but then I'm frustrated couple weeks later or something because I'm just like, oh, I didn't pay the bill. and a i'm Now I'm stuck. you know It's like the simple things that you do, though.
00:18:04
Davante Adams
like Once you start putting like a routine a routine, I recommend a routine to anybody, bro. A routine is your best friend, bro. a routine would yeah routine would get you just on point with just everything you're doing like i don't care what time it is like you know we the third shift so bro i'll make my bed don't care what i'm what no i'm running too late or something i gotta make my bed or something
00:18:14
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:18:32
Davante Adams
At least because I'm just like, it's just a routine. Like it's a habit. I like it. You know what I'm saying? It just gets me going. But it's just something that I know I got to do. But once you start building a routine with stuff like that, like it's just that was just like a little simple like example. But just find like stuff that brings you peace. But I always look to grow and learn more because we can't just settle because of how the world may look at us or how things may be presented.
00:19:06
Davante Adams
It's always the way. And there's too many examples out here for us to kind of just point fingers. And I said that the last part, but no, no more pointing fingers.
00:19:17
Davante Adams
You know what I'm saying?
Striving for More: Beyond Comfort
00:19:18
Davante Adams
anybody that's in my circle, bro, like let's, what do you need? Like, what do you, I try to, I try to do, I don't even say try, I do what I can to help in any way.
00:19:23
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:19:30
Davante Adams
um That's why I always say it's bigger than music too.
00:19:32
Neptvne Blvez
Well, you should...
00:19:33
Davante Adams
is This is life. This is lifestyle. New Faces is a lifestyle for me personally. like That's all it's about is changing lives. It's not a standard. You know what saying? It's just like doing the best we can.
00:19:48
Davante Adams
but go ahead.
00:19:48
Neptvne Blvez
the You should want to, though. you should like i feel like as human beings, you should want to like do that. You should want to not only help, but also not settle. And what I mean by that is like do more, see more, achieve more, live more. And feel like a lot of people for a really long time...
00:20:13
Neptvne Blvez
really, really, really long time in humanity, just have been fine with settling with what they have because it's convenient or it's easy.
00:20:25
Neptvne Blvez
And um it's important to want to be comfortable, but not to settle. Because it is important to grind and get all of those stuff, but it's also important to take a second...
00:20:40
Neptvne Blvez
to embrace the moments where you've also achieved and look back to reap the benefits of the rewards, but not be so blinded by the fact that everything you've gotten, you've gotten for a reason.
00:20:54
Neptvne Blvez
And i mean, some people, ah one thing I've begun to like learn in this life is that a lot of people have don't have And this isn't good or bad or anything like that. It's just just the way it is. Like certain people when they, ah maybe I guess the easiest way I can explain it is like a trampoline or something like that.
00:21:22
Neptvne Blvez
Some people, when they jump on the trampoline, they just want to like get a little bounce. And some people want to jump high. Some people want to jump really high.
00:21:34
Neptvne Blvez
Some people don't want to just jump. They want to flip. They want to do a whole bunch of things. And some people want to jump and do all of the above and have everything. And basically kind of what I mean by that is certain people are fine with just bouncing a little bit.
00:21:53
Neptvne Blvez
Certain people are fine with just doing what they do to get by. Certain people are fine with just working with enough to support the responsibilities that they have.
00:22:04
Neptvne Blvez
Certain people are with having a little bit more to be just comfortable. And certain people want enough to have access. And certain people want enough to have a lot in recognition, fame and fortune and and all.
00:22:21
Neptvne Blvez
but So basically what I'm saying is certain people...
00:22:23
Davante Adams
Yeah. It sounds. yeah
00:22:25
Neptvne Blvez
What they accept may be different from what you choose to accept. And I used to always look at that as a good and bad thing as well. But I've just had, i personally had to accept what they want to accept, not for me, but for them.
00:22:45
Davante Adams
ah sounds
00:22:45
Neptvne Blvez
I accept that you want this for yourself as much as maybe I want different from you for you, if not better. I may want better for you, but I've accepted the fact that you may not want better for yourself.
00:23:01
Neptvne Blvez
And whether you want to talk about feelings or not, I don't want to make people feel bad because I want more for them in certain cases than they want for themselves. That's just something that I just have to accept and let it be what it is.
00:23:17
Davante Adams
But I was going to... But I think that's the problem, though, nowadays, though. There's nothing wrong with, like... It's... You have to do what you have to do.
00:23:29
Davante Adams
And you have to do... And you do things that you want to do. I'll say that. we We do things that we have to do, and we do things that we want to do.
00:23:34
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:23:37
Davante Adams
We... All are not in the same boat, obviously. Like I said, we all have a different process with life and how things may work for us, but there's no excuse to just doing better.
00:23:51
Davante Adams
You know, like, and I feel like at a point, some, you can't be,
00:24:00
Davante Adams
It's a lack of passion for a lot of people. It's it's so like a lack of passion. And you can't you can sometimes somehow teach that. Like, for me personally, like, my passion came from just my experience. Like, I always say, like, which is what I went through, bro. Like, I had to go through so much stuff and just, like, kind of...
00:24:20
Davante Adams
Like be like to encourage to be encouraged to not want to go through anything like that no more. Like I want to I got to do better for me to get better and see better. But it took me accepting like I had a real problem with just.
00:24:35
Davante Adams
Certain things, you know, saying like no, I know drug problem. i ain't no at addict and I just know like all the people that need help, you know, saying get the help now.
00:24:41
Neptvne Blvez
You got something to tell me?
00:24:43
Davante Adams
Ain't nothing like that. promise. I promise you that my brother is just, you know, like, you know, we do a little, you know, just a couple backwards rolled up in the I didn't even say backwards. I don't even know backwards.
00:24:54
Davante Adams
I'm lying. It's a couple of loose leaves. But it's a shout-out loose leaf if you're looking for you know a place to line some.
00:24:56
Neptvne Blvez
man
00:25:01
Neptvne Blvez
he dis
00:25:03
Davante Adams
I always got You know me. im um ah um a I'm a very giving brother. though like I love to just help people. And I'm i'm always in for a joint venture. You know what I'm saying?
00:25:14
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:25:15
Davante Adams
I had a prize pick out there somewhere. I heard y'all need somebody to kind of, you know what I'm saying, step in on on the Midwest side and you know your boy is available.
00:25:21
Neptvne Blvez
um me What's up?
00:25:22
Davante Adams
I am a free agent right now.
00:25:23
Neptvne Blvez
What's
00:25:25
Davante Adams
i ain't got nobody right now. You know, shout out my brother, Kuzoto Akana.
Community Support and Listener Appreciation
00:25:31
Davante Adams
We always going to throw them out there if y'all ever looking for a dope place to get some wellness and some gummies, you know, that stuff to make yeah yeah your life feel good.
00:25:40
Neptvne Blvez
up?
00:25:41
Davante Adams
You know what saying? A great experience. They got a spa. They got a lot of things down there that's just beautiful.
00:25:46
Neptvne Blvez
A lot of shit.
00:25:47
Davante Adams
um They're located right across the street on, a it's over there on King Drive in Bronzeville. And I'm about to get the address for you guys. And I should have had this ready, but I did not have this ready.
00:25:59
Neptvne Blvez
Club Akana, y'all. It's Club Akana.
00:26:01
Davante Adams
Do you have that ready?
00:26:02
Neptvne Blvez
I ain't gonna lie. I can tell you right now, but I i could tell you what they got, my nigga. They got, like like he was saying, them gummies.
00:26:11
Davante Adams
Yeah.
00:26:11
Neptvne Blvez
They got all these health healthy stuff. And i'm like I said, I'm not even doing it justice right now. my My brother, Cuzzo, I know that's trying to sound funny, brother Cuzzo, but my brother Cuzzo, he showed me these oils, man.
00:26:22
Davante Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:26:26
Neptvne Blvez
These black sea oils and these different type of oils, man. And it's like, They got edibles, but it's also not just to get you high, it's to also get you healthy. it like It's infused with all these different vitamins and venom minerals and and just just different things to also promote.
00:26:46
Neptvne Blvez
like I think he was saying some of it is blood health and just different stuff like that, man. It's not just about just getting you high, it's about getting you healthy.
00:26:56
Davante Adams
Yeah, and ah just to touch base on what I was saying, Club Akana is located at 411 East 35th Street in Chicago. So you can Google, you can look it up.
00:27:06
Davante Adams
Like I said, all the information is posted. um Dove spot, check them out. Shout out Cuzzo, shout out Club Akana.
00:27:15
Neptvne Blvez
Hell yeah.
00:27:15
Davante Adams
uh man bro we uh yeah we there we doing it we pause man got got i gotta i gotta get better with this i'm always saying some shit that i gotta say pause to shout out to all the listeners don't know how y'all downloading this but as y'all listening right now i know you listening on apple or spotify because i seen the downloads and i don't know what you're doing but i appreciate it but
00:27:17
Neptvne Blvez
Good people.
00:27:38
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:27:38
Davante Adams
A lot of downloads out there recently, and it got me kind of questionable. And I don't know what to do right now, but I do appreciate all the support. But tell me something, please. Don't.
00:27:48
Davante Adams
Don't. What y'all doing? but am i Am I getting in some pod? Like, not podcast, but am I. Are y'all sampling some? Let me know, because I need my money on the back end. And I do got all y'all information.
00:28:01
Neptvne Blvez
Putting us in the beats like on me.
00:28:04
Davante Adams
So it is ah trackable. But no, man, I appreciate all the support, man. I had an upton hood just been building for the early part of this. And we've been, um like I said, I just had to find something where I could just talk.
00:28:17
Davante Adams
Like I need an outlet, bro. Like I'd be just in my thoughts sometime. Like it's like when I do this, I kind of just could sit back and just be refreshed and like. You know what saying? Like, it's like a, it's like, it's like a different world almost.
00:28:32
Davante Adams
You ever play like, um, what's that game called? I always got to reference a game. That's another thing.
00:28:43
Davante Adams
Something where you're a transfer from world to world. You know what I'm saying? Like, I just be in different worlds with the podcast. You know what I'm saying? And then I just come back. I'm like, oh, I remember that day. I was doing this. This that day, the podcast we did. This the podcast. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to you, my brother, for coming through again.
00:28:59
Davante Adams
We're doing this.
00:28:59
Neptvne Blvez
Shit, man. It ain't no thing.
00:29:00
Davante Adams
And that's the difference.
00:29:01
Neptvne Blvez
I love being here.
00:29:02
Davante Adams
that's That's the difference with consistency. We've been consistent. My brother, like, you're doing your thing. We're doing it. Like, you're doing that. We're doing a lot of things at once. But we've been consistent.
00:29:14
Davante Adams
And there's a lot going on behind the scenes right now. And it's going to pay off, I promise.
00:29:17
Neptvne Blvez
Man.
00:29:17
Davante Adams
like And it's funny because... The topic for today and the title of this one, like for this podcast, and this, just to clarify, I was, bro, I said this was episode, I think I said this was episode four that was dropping like this week.
00:29:34
Davante Adams
This right here is actually episode four right here. so you know what I'm saying? Like I had to clarify, bro, I was literally tripping because people was hitting me like, you're on the fourth episode. I'm like, huh?
00:29:46
Davante Adams
Fourth? No, not that I know of at least.
00:29:52
Davante Adams
Been working so shout out Shout out the people That's just you know listening Because it's interesting like When you see the numbers and stuff and it's not that Many numbers I'm going to be honest but It's a One is enough One is enough to inspire me personally Just to grind And that's how I started i I got music on SoundCloud that I still listen to Like so if you I got people on SoundCloud that still listen to my old music Bro that's nuts
00:30:23
Davante Adams
So you got to, it's just sometimes just about building that organic air, that organic fan base.
00:30:24
Neptvne Blvez
Real fast.
00:30:28
Davante Adams
And that's what I was telling a lot of people. Like, because I got a lot of like, why you didn't send it out? I'm just like, because I posted it.
00:30:37
Neptvne Blvez
Facts.
00:30:37
Davante Adams
I posted Everybody be online.
00:30:41
Neptvne Blvez
Everybody got the same devices, got the same apps on their phone.
00:30:45
Davante Adams
But it it showed, though, too, and that's what I appreciated. I'm like, I was just i was literally just talking to you about that, like like the numbers, like people was actually looking at this. So it motivates me to just really just, you know, just do more.
00:30:58
Davante Adams
And like I said, when we get these interviews with these different artists, because I already talked to my, I got a couple people I'm talking to. We still got to get Cold Cap on here.
00:31:08
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, shoutout cold cap again man. Mike
00:31:10
Davante Adams
Man, and na that that whole project is hard. I got my boy Mike from the go. You know what I'm saying? He originally from Chicago. ah
00:31:19
Neptvne Blvez
Mike. Mike
00:31:21
Davante Adams
That's my dog, man. But he out there in, I believe he in Wisconsin right now. so Somewhere down there. But why people quit, man?
00:31:31
Davante Adams
Why do you think people quit so fast?
00:31:36
Neptvne Blvez
Mike.
00:31:36
Davante Adams
Like, do you think it's, you can tell them you know why?
00:31:38
Neptvne Blvez
I can tell you.
00:31:41
Neptvne Blvez
my My bad. na no i want I want to hear the rest of what you got to say, but I think I got an answer.
00:31:45
Davante Adams
Ask the question.
00:31:47
Neptvne Blvez
i said That's it? I got an answer, I think.
00:31:50
Davante Adams
Damn, white as fuck that.
00:31:51
Neptvne Blvez
It's easy.
00:31:51
Davante Adams
Go ahead.
00:31:53
Neptvne Blvez
you know me ah mean to be funny, but I don't mean to be funny. but like It's easy, my brother.
00:31:59
Davante Adams
It's easier to quit.
00:31:59
Neptvne Blvez
it's like It's so fucking easy to just be like, you know what? Not my problem.
00:32:07
Davante Adams
Mm-hmm.
00:32:08
Neptvne Blvez
Not my problem. I'm going to let it be somebody else's problem. When the whole time, nine times out of ten, you just become end up becoming somebody else's problem.
00:32:20
Davante Adams
So... I...
00:32:20
Neptvne Blvez
Because nine times out of ten, when you quit, you put the burden of whatever you had to do on someone else.
00:32:29
Neptvne Blvez
Indirectly, whether you realize it or not. Because whatever... Usually, it's things that need to be done. Still need to be done.
National Guard Deployment: Community Impact
00:32:38
Neptvne Blvez
Unless it's like an extracurricular sport or something like that.
00:32:42
Neptvne Blvez
And even then, still, you quit. That roster spot still has to get filled.
00:32:47
Davante Adams
ay
00:32:48
Neptvne Blvez
So unless it's tryouts or something, my nigga, like...
00:32:48
Davante Adams
so
00:32:51
Neptvne Blvez
You quitting anything in life, my nigga, you're literally living on somebody else. somebody a human and And much as much as my fault not my fault my fault, can you hear me now?
00:33:00
Davante Adams
Yo, audio.
00:33:06
Davante Adams
Yeah, look. I don't know what the... It's like a signal or something. like It's like a static or something almost. don't know what it is.
00:33:14
Neptvne Blvez
Can you ha hear me a little bit better?
00:33:16
Davante Adams
Nah, you way better now. It's like something that was coming through. Like the radio signal or something. was weird.
00:33:24
Neptvne Blvez
I don't know. I'm sorry about that, y'all.
00:33:26
Davante Adams
Nah, you good.
00:33:27
Neptvne Blvez
on Okay.
00:33:27
Davante Adams
sound way better now.
00:33:30
Neptvne Blvez
Nah. Yeah, just people quit because they want it to be so easy for them. and And anything in life that's good doesn't come easy.
00:33:44
Neptvne Blvez
and
00:33:44
Davante Adams
but you
00:33:45
Neptvne Blvez
Well, most things, anyway.
00:33:47
Davante Adams
What you think about ah just a shift gears a little bit.
00:33:53
Neptvne Blvez
Okay, okay. Mm-hmm.
00:33:54
Davante Adams
Talk about some, yeah, shift it up a little bit. this This whole Trump and him sending the National Guards down here, I mean, we was recently talking about how all this violence on the West Side with the people with the war. i don't know if you want to talk about that.
00:34:13
Davante Adams
but ah And I was kind of, i ain't know about it. Like in the streets, you don't hear about that. Cause I'm on, um you know, i'm from the South side. So we don't hear about that news obviously on the West side, ah from the West side that much. But when you told me that, I was like, what?
00:34:27
Neptvne Blvez
yeah It's kind of, yeah, it's been a little bit of an urban ah war, a street war going on out west near the Cicero, like, Laramie-ish area on Madison.
00:34:43
Neptvne Blvez
And, um no, no, it's all good.
00:34:43
Davante Adams
So how do you... My bad.
00:34:46
Neptvne Blvez
is um is It's kind of subsided a little bit, but it's still an act of war going on because of some some territorial transgressions going on right now you know people fighting over territory and it's escalated to a lot of different things now so it's just it's all over the place right now it's a lot of a lot of danger but it's a lot of fear in the air I guess a lot of thickness in the air a lot of police presence
00:35:18
Davante Adams
So i what you think? Do you think that the National Guard situation to benefit the West side right now?
00:35:27
Neptvne Blvez
Man, that is a tough question. I feel like... um
00:35:35
Neptvne Blvez
I feel like no BS that is just going to cause more tension. With all the thickness that's in the air already, I'm not saying that certain things won't subside or calm down maybe in the long run or whatever.
00:35:54
Neptvne Blvez
But um I know how my city is. And more specifically, I know how my side of the city is. And
00:36:05
Davante Adams
So you don't see no good coming from it?
00:36:10
Davante Adams
It's just a question.
00:36:10
Neptvne Blvez
not completely, no, not completely.
00:36:11
Davante Adams
I mean, because I don't see no good coming from it unless they're willing to work with like the community leaders, number one.
00:36:20
Neptvne Blvez
That is important.
00:36:20
Davante Adams
Because it got to be some type of connection because I agree with you 100% and every side of town is different. Everybody going to come with their own different. That's the thing about Chicago. I don't know how other cities is. I've been living here my whole life. But when it comes to Chicago and these different neighborhoods and these different sides of town, everybody does it different. But when you got to.
00:36:45
Davante Adams
It's going to be interesting. It will be a real interesting thing, but I don't i don't see it resulting in positivity if it's not taken out like the way we just said, these community leaders, number one, because you got to be connected somehow.
00:37:01
Davante Adams
And you got to know how to go about it. This is not a, if you're not, and I'm not trying to make it like seem like we're in a war zone or nothing, but it's, ah if you don't, if you're not from here, you won't understand it. i wouldn't say from here, I had experiences here.
00:37:17
Davante Adams
um You know, cause it's still like with the law enforcement for now, it's not the best relationship. And I love law enforcement. but i have a lot of officers that I talk to, but,
00:37:28
Davante Adams
it's not the same for them with other people you know saying it is what it is i can't speak on relationships i know what goes on out there because that's not my life but it's not as like it's not that simple as just sending the national guards down here and just you know so i feel like it's personally gonna bring on a real war
00:37:32
Neptvne Blvez
Mm-hmm.
00:37:50
Davante Adams
A lot of people going to get hurt.
00:37:54
Davante Adams
So just keep keep shoot the city in your prayers. Me personally, I just, I really just hope that this like wake us up more to just kind of like get our communities together and just kind of take care of home.
00:38:10
Davante Adams
Because when stuff like this happen and we united, they can't come in like that. You know I'm saying? It's just... You already got people. my my my My question is, like, if it did come to this, will all these different gangs and whoever against each other, is it time to really come together or is it still like war?
00:38:32
Davante Adams
Because that's a real, like, it's a real, this is life. This is ain't this not no, you know, video game.
00:38:43
Davante Adams
We got to make real decisions out here with this stuff.
Respect and Leadership in Public and Teams
00:38:50
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, man. Trump Trump is he's kind of bringing a lot of fear, bringing a lot of fear amongst the entire fucking nation.
00:39:02
Neptvne Blvez
And with it, like I said, with it already being a fearful time on this side in Chicago, some I'm not believe me Chicago is beautiful.
00:39:02
Davante Adams
it
00:39:11
Neptvne Blvez
Don't just be fooled by the bullshit. it um It's all is bullshit everywhere.
00:39:15
Davante Adams
It's too, my but we got a lot of bullshit that we got to kind of, I ain't to
00:39:16
Neptvne Blvez
But we get it. We do.
00:39:20
Davante Adams
It's stupid bullshit. Like a lot of shit we can stop doing. Like a lot of stuff can, like the shit, I ain't to to bro. The shit I be seeing on public transportation, I'm not surprised tourists don't want to come here no more.
00:39:32
Davante Adams
Like, people don't want to just see that type of shit. Like, I'm sorry. It's a certain... I ain't even talking about... You know what I'm saying? certain, like... You can't do that. Like... People. We we got to get it together.
00:39:45
Davante Adams
Like, you know... Because it's a lot of ignorant shit going on. Like, you got to... You got to respect, like... You got to respect people. you got to... We got to respect each other.
00:39:57
Davante Adams
Respect people like you want to be. You know what I'm saying? Respect it. And treat it. um
00:40:03
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:40:03
Davante Adams
That's one thing I learned and being in the service industry, man. Just treat people like you want to be treated, bro. Like you get so many blessings just kind of just being somebody who just want to help but somebody else versus being somebody just always down in the situation and
00:40:24
Davante Adams
it's too It's too many haters, not too many people just saying like, man, congratulations. We were just talking about that, man. give Tell me I'm doing a good job. like don't Don't just tell me about stuff that always need i need to get better on. Okay, I get it. I'm not 100% every day.
00:40:44
Davante Adams
I'm not. And i and we we get like that in management, man. And and and I'm happy that we brought that up. Yeah. We ain't talking about no particular situation. I'm just being honest with y'all. But we were just talking about just how, like, the difference and just, like, sometimes it's a it's hard to...
00:41:05
Davante Adams
see when you're not actually in that position when you're the one that's i just break down my situation me working at um fast food restaurant and being in management and taking higher positions you have to learn how to kind of navigate the way you communicate and pick your battles and we and it was certain times where i picked battles where i know i should have shouldn't have picked that battle you know i'm saying like i could have went about it better but It's just sometimes when you have that kind of like, when you know you that got that role, you can kind of flex and not flex it. And that's a bad way to look at it. And that's how i looked at it back then. But it was like I had to like let them know. And I didn't have to let them know. They already know that. Why would I have to let them know something that they know already?
00:41:49
Davante Adams
if my district manager coming in already acknowledging me and nobody else, what else do somebody else need to, you know what I'm saying
00:41:50
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:41:57
Davante Adams
Like, what else do I need to show somebody else? Like I'm the one that's doing everything in this store, you know what I'm saying? it took me being like, okay, looking back now though, like, and being like, I learned a lot, you know what I'm That valuable information, but i can understand how they wouldn't understand the position I was in and all the stress and just, know,
00:42:18
Davante Adams
Having it, you know, that it's a different role, bro. It's a different role being in management, bro. And anybody who's been in a higher management role understand that. But, and you have to pick your battles because it's all about a team.
00:42:31
Davante Adams
It's all about your team.
00:42:31
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:42:32
Davante Adams
It's all about them because you got to think about who going to hold it down while you gone. And, uh, damn, man, that was a lot.
00:42:37
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, that's true.
00:42:42
Davante Adams
I was fucking just talking, but.
00:42:46
Davante Adams
that's a That's consistency, though, too, man. That's leadership. That's real. Like, and just ben being being genuine and being someone that's relatable, not forgetting who you is, number one, man.
00:43:02
Davante Adams
That's pretty dope. I like that. I like that. Like, was dope.
00:43:06
Neptvne Blvez
Don't ever forget who you are. Never.
00:43:10
Davante Adams
So, like, I just... um
00:43:13
Davante Adams
Consistency beats talent over time. I say that. I say building through boring parts matter. And then success isn't a straight line. It's full of battles.
00:43:28
Neptvne Blvez
I like that quote.
00:43:32
Davante Adams
That was pretty dope. That pretty dope.
00:43:34
Neptvne Blvez
Hell yeah.
00:43:35
Davante Adams
we had ah what what was it What was that topic for you wanted to touch on?
00:43:35
Neptvne Blvez
I like that.
00:43:37
Davante Adams
We was definitely was freestyling before we got ah started recording, man. This is Talk With Tay 2, man. I didn't introduce this at any time. Like I said, me and my boy Neptune, we keep it real.
00:43:49
Davante Adams
We keep in it organic. and Appreciate y'all listening to this conversation. This is episode four, the way. What was we, um, you had a topic that you had brought up. It was something with entertainment, hip hop.
00:44:02
Davante Adams
I know some with Big X to plug. That was my, uh, that was one of my, um, takes. Cause I was telling you about the album and how I've been hearing in the news, how he got a lot of good feedback, but I also heard about the, um, the marijuana charge, but you enlightened me about another more charges. And I didn't, that I wasn't aware of.
00:44:26
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, um he got some, they say he got a drug charge for some marijuana he had. He was in possession of less than, excuse me, he was in possession of less than two ounces of marijuana.
00:44:42
Neptvne Blvez
And also, he got a felony gun charge. He was in possession, unlawful possession of a weapon.
00:44:50
Davante Adams
Damn. What's
00:44:52
Neptvne Blvez
And this is in Dallas. And he was supposed to, um this was on the night he was supposed to have his album release party for, um he had to cancel his party because he ended up getting arrested.
00:44:56
Davante Adams
that?
00:45:04
Davante Adams
Also, he didn't have his party, huh?
00:45:09
Neptvne Blvez
It was supposed to be at a wing stop. Supposed to be at wing stop. And um
00:45:14
Davante Adams
So this was on, what, Friday night?
00:45:17
Neptvne Blvez
I believe so, yes.
00:45:18
Davante Adams
Yeah, because they say he he got released on a $5,000 bond. So, I mean, I to say, he were reading it right wait,
00:45:23
Neptvne Blvez
Oh, ain't shit.
00:45:28
Neptvne Blvez
ain't shit.
00:45:29
Davante Adams
So he gonna be good. Anyway, man, he got a big album right now, bro. This album is getting a lot of good feedback. I'm hearing that, like, the features on here is, like, it's real money behind this motherfucking album. You know what I'm saying? um That's... I just... Shit, I'm just... Honestly, I need to tune in with him a little bit more. I heard him on... I'm a big Wayne fan, so that's, like...
00:45:54
Davante Adams
One song I really pay attention to him on, um the hip-hop. Is that hip-hop? Yeah, hip-hop. And then he got, a my cousin actually put me on him. My cousin, T.O., I ain't gonna say his name. Shout out GTA.
00:46:08
Davante Adams
That's my cousin, though. But he put me on a Big X to Plug a long time ago. He sent me his music like probably a year ago, bro. Probably longer than that. But he been on him, man. But he been out here, huh? Like, I guess he... They saying, like, he's really... He really him, huh?
00:46:28
Davante Adams
But he... He got a lot of songwriters, but nothing wrong with that. I don't see nothing wrong with that. Like...
00:46:34
Neptvne Blvez
I know he had a lot of songwriters, but they're still decent, I guess.
00:46:38
Davante Adams
Shit, I mean, songwriter or not, I mean, a song is a song. I ain't got a But, um...
00:46:43
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:46:46
Davante Adams
What else? A$AP Rocky, man. was talking about that track, man. That was one he That could have been Yo Sleeper, man. I'm going to play that next episode, man. That A$AP Rocky joint was hard, man.
00:46:57
Davante Adams
Like, oh, boy.
00:46:57
Neptvne Blvez
Oh, you, leave man, you listen to it huh?
00:46:59
Davante Adams
Man. What? I was looking for the instrumental.
00:47:05
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:47:06
Davante Adams
Like I was like, well, that joint nice, man.
00:47:06
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, that joint nice.
00:47:10
Davante Adams
I'm actually like excited to see that move because, uh, you know, we hip hop, we, we are, we rappers, we, we do this. So it's just kind of like, Oh damn. Like Denzel,
00:47:22
Neptvne Blvez
Zio.
00:47:23
Davante Adams
Denzel, man. He doing what he doing, man. So that's going to be, uh, that's going to be real interesting. Brian. a lot Like that's a real, like, good. That's a good one.
00:47:34
Davante Adams
What you think about your boy, man?
00:47:37
Neptvne Blvez
Who's my boy?
00:47:38
Davante Adams
oh
00:47:41
Davante Adams
ain't going to say your boy, man. But I could have sworn they said that was you that recorded that video. Deal with them tighty-whities. Let
00:47:50
Neptvne Blvez
Oh, hell no. Who you talking about now?
00:47:54
Davante Adams
me stop bullshit.
00:47:55
Neptvne Blvez
I didn't know you talking about now.
00:47:56
Davante Adams
You know, I thought you was in L.A. You were in L.A. with Lil Nas and he was out there. That wasn't you.
00:48:01
Neptvne Blvez
Oh, you funny as hell, man.
00:48:04
Davante Adams
L.A.
00:48:04
Neptvne Blvez
You talking about I was in LA recording that little boy on the strip. Hell no.
00:48:10
Davante Adams
Man, that was wild. When I seen that though, i was just like, that's...
00:48:16
Neptvne Blvez
That wasn't me out there, man. That boy.
00:48:19
Davante Adams
Nah, I'm just bullshit. I'm just, you know, I'm just, I had to, I had to, had to figure out how I was going break that news, but it was a good way to break it. Nah, but, but man, prayers to him, man. Cause that, that I don't like to see anybody out there, anybody outside like that number one, but somebody of his statue, you know saying? Like he's a big name. He can't, he can't be out there like that.
00:48:45
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, that's...
00:48:45
Davante Adams
You can tell, like, that's and that's that's how bad mental health is right now. We just social media, bro. That's one thing I really want to touch on. But we were talking about social media. We had an early conversation this week about um social media.
00:48:57
Davante Adams
And we were talking about how social media, highlights the winds, but it never, it never, um...
00:49:09
Davante Adams
Okay, it had likes to win, but it has to struggle. You know saying? Like, only thing people, people I gotta, we and I don't want to say people, I want to, because so we all take part in this stuff. We all got a hand in everything that's going on.
00:49:24
Davante Adams
It's not about pointing fingers, just about being aware of this stuff, but We highlight the wins and we forget about our reality because we so stuck on everybody's wins.
00:49:38
Davante Adams
Instagram is wins. yeah I mean, I wouldn't say everybody wins. I wouldn't even say that. It's just what you follow. Your algorithm is your algorithm. But when you when you comparing yourself and you judging like what you're seeing to yourself, that's not good.
00:49:58
Davante Adams
know what I'm saying? that's a You're just looking for the wins. You're not accepting your reality for what it is. And that comes that easy quit.
Social Media vs. Reality and Personal Growth
00:50:08
Davante Adams
know I'm saying? Like how you were just saying it's easier to quit. It's easier to it's also easier to agree with Yeah, like stuff is not this way because of this and because of that and because it's easy to say that.
00:50:21
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:50:22
Davante Adams
You know saying? So I just, you have to just know when to just let go of just that part and work on just me.
00:50:33
Davante Adams
Like it's me. It's a me thing. You know what saying? Like, but the social media can do that to you. Social media is draining as hell, bro. Like I had to like, it's a lot of people I love and I follow, bro, but I mute pages. I don't,
00:50:47
Davante Adams
I don't really pay attention to the notes no more. Like I mute notes and shit. Shout out to mute, by the way. ah
00:50:56
Neptvne Blvez
To mute, man.
00:50:57
Davante Adams
But I ain't gonna lie, man. I'm learning it to be more positive about my, about my, ah shortcomings because when you highlight your progress,
00:51:14
Davante Adams
and just It it makes sense when you highlight your wins. So when you highlight that progress, everybody, you can understand, like, okay, like, I'm doing this. Like, you in gym. That's something that you do all the time. That's a progress because now when you flexing and shit, father, not, like, it like that, pause, but when you in your video, you know, doing, you my father, like, damn, look at, bro, like, cuz, bro, was in a gym. Like, I go to the gym every day.
00:51:37
Davante Adams
Like, it's on my Instagram. I post my Instagram.
00:51:38
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:51:39
Davante Adams
Everybody knows that who watch your story, who follows you. You know what saying? That's progress. That's showing your progress. You're not just showing ah the Photoshop body just randomly.
00:51:51
Davante Adams
i You know what I'm not posting. You know what I'm saying?
00:51:54
Neptvne Blvez
You're
00:51:54
Davante Adams
You steady post it. And that was just a way to just kind of just break down what I was talking about. Because sometimes I feel like I talk too fast and I get past the point. But that's progress, bro.
00:52:07
Davante Adams
You showing your progress. So social that that was my main thing about social media, though, man, in real life. um
00:52:17
Davante Adams
it's ah it's ah It's a battle. It's a battle. But follow stuff that inspires you and brings you peace. You know what I'm saying? And chase the lifestyle you want. Me and Neptune had a conversation about, you remember the conversation we were talking about, like, being a kid and having, like, remember that?
00:52:33
Davante Adams
um We were saying, like, when you're a kid, you have, like, a, We all want to be something when we're a kid We all like, when I grow up, I want to be this. I want to be that. You know what saying?
00:52:44
Davante Adams
Like, go back to that.
00:52:45
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:52:46
Davante Adams
You have to go back to that. Recently, my Facebook, um shout out to Facebook and shout out to having like friends from your elementary schools and high schools, all that stuff. But it was a page that was tagged into like everybody, not everybody, but most people who went to the school.
00:53:02
Davante Adams
But they were showing like because a lot of ah school, well, my school, Yale Elementary was closed down. You know i'm saying? But they had it posted with somebody, you know, obviously somebody bought the building, but they was in inside. They took all the pictures and stuff and everything like just brought back memories, bro.
00:53:18
Davante Adams
And it was like I remember like being in certain spots when I was a kid. And I'm like, damn, I remember being like in the cafeteria because we had to go down some stairs and shit. And we was in a cafeteria. I'm like, damn. And then on the second floor, the computer room, you know what I'm saying? Like, it was just, uh, when you see the pitch, it just brought back memories
Passion, Podcasting, and Supporting Artists
00:53:39
Davante Adams
though. And I'm just like, I remember we had meal tickets, bro. Do you remember meal tickets?
00:53:43
Davante Adams
Yeah.
00:53:44
Neptvne Blvez
yeah Yeah, I remember mail tickets, man. I remember that shit.
00:53:48
Davante Adams
Bro, like, I miss the experience, bro.
00:53:49
Neptvne Blvez
Like yesterday. and
00:53:53
Davante Adams
I don't, I ain't gonna say I miss it, but I wouldn't take it back for nothing, bro. Like, I damn near cried looking at that shit. Cause like, the school was down and just gone. It's demolished now, shit, the so ah the paint peeling out the walls and stuff. But it's just like, I still can see like, when I was there, like, I went through every part of the school. I've been going here my whole life. I got kicked out of elementary school and went back to that school.
00:54:18
Davante Adams
You know what saying? So it was just like, graduated from that. So it was just like, damn, like, I remember like, i was very inspired with music. Even there, I wanted to do music. You know what I'm saying?
00:54:30
Davante Adams
I was, was tumbling. That's where I started, you know, I tumbled and shit with the backflips and all that stuff.
00:54:35
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:54:36
Davante Adams
But I used to be on a tumbling team. We had a tumbling team there, Yale. And every assembly, we had a team where we would just be tumbling and stuff, bro. I ain't going to lie. Back think I really wanted to be like in the Olympics or something.
00:54:50
Davante Adams
But, you know, life happens. Oh, we had a soccer team, too. First time I ever played soccer, bro. Third grade, bro.
00:54:59
Davante Adams
Never played soccer after that. But it was fun, bro.
00:55:02
Neptvne Blvez
I think that might have been, nah, I played in a second. I was to say that was around the time I started playing then too.
00:55:10
Davante Adams
You play some soccer?
00:55:12
Neptvne Blvez
I played a little bit of everything. I'm playing soccer, fucking lacrosse.
00:55:14
Davante Adams
a
00:55:17
Davante Adams
like Get your ass out there.
00:55:18
Neptvne Blvez
clay Man, playing a little bit of every fucking thing.
00:55:20
Davante Adams
Yeah,
00:55:22
Neptvne Blvez
Basketball, football, just a little something, something, you know.
00:55:25
Davante Adams
yeah we was. And sometimes I wish I would have paid little more attention just to things like that. It's like I had to get kicked out of like that year to go to another school to run cross country because I actually did cross country. Cross country was fun.
00:55:42
Neptvne Blvez
I feel like I would have liked cross country as a kid, but I actually liked sprinting. Like I like running long distances now, but I used to be like a sprinter when I was a kid.
00:55:53
Davante Adams
Cross country was where was that for me? um
00:55:59
Davante Adams
Yeah, that's all I had did. I think I tried basketball, but I wasn't too focused on basketball. I rather play 2K at that time.
00:56:07
Neptvne Blvez
How far would they make you guys running cross country as a kid?
00:56:11
Davante Adams
We did. I know I did. the I did a relay race. I was in a relay for sure because I was the last one to get the baton and I had to run it to the end.
00:56:21
Neptvne Blvez
Uh-huh.
00:56:22
Davante Adams
east Man, i ain't gonna lie. missed that, man. I need to go to a track field one day. I think the furthest I ran was like the 400, something like that. Like a six or like an eight.
00:56:32
Neptvne Blvez
Okay.
00:56:33
Davante Adams
I ran an eight, I think once before, 800. That 800 a motherfucker though. Mm-hmm.
00:56:41
Neptvne Blvez
I don't know nothing about the distances, I don't know how far that is.
00:56:47
Davante Adams
We'll go one day, bro. You're going to be like, nah, I'm good, bro. A 200 is like a nice little stretch, but it's smaller. You know what I'm saying? 800?
00:56:57
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:56:59
Davante Adams
But ah I miss some days, man. and we used to get trophies. I got trophies. My auntie got my trophy still, I think.
00:57:07
Davante Adams
when I got to go over there. TT, I need my trophies.
00:57:15
Davante Adams
For real, man. But, uh, so, uh, man, we we we kind of went over the limit today, man. What you think, man? It's like, oh, yeah.
00:57:27
Davante Adams
Yeah, man.
00:57:28
Neptvne Blvez
We're pushing that. We getting to it. That's all. it ain't It ain't no biggie for me. Like I said, I love talking with you, man. Talking to the people out there. Getting people informed.
00:57:38
Davante Adams
Yeah, but, you know, think at this point, I don't know what I'm saying. We're going to keep them at about a good 45 to 50, you know, just on the – because I got to get on my JBP stuff. Shout out my brothers over there at the Joe Budden podcast. I feel like them, you know, that's ah that's a real template for me right now. But Ian, importantly, man, I got to get me somebody like Ian on my team, man.
00:58:01
Davante Adams
um that's He the CEO or whatever, but – Hey man, business is business, you know what saying?
00:58:04
Neptvne Blvez
okay
00:58:06
Davante Adams
These numbers keep looking at how looking at the maybe the fifth or sixth episode. I might have to get my boy Neptune over here with the camera, you know saying? And go ahead set up the, you know, how we originally said we was going to do it anyway.
00:58:19
Davante Adams
But we're going to have, we're going to maybe have two different sets when it comes to these podcasts, you know I'm saying? but But I might get a Patreon around here. I might get a Patreon. I ain't going to lie you. You know I can sign up a Patreon.
00:58:32
Davante Adams
But I appreciate y'all locking
00:58:33
Neptvne Blvez
yeah
00:58:35
Davante Adams
This has have been fun. I love having an outlet just to talk and be myself.
00:58:43
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, man. I love coming here. I love having this outlet, too. I love just being able to give people something to listen to and, you know, pass their time as well.
00:58:54
Neptvne Blvez
I love podcasts, so I love being a part of making one as well now, too. shit I love being here.
00:58:59
Davante Adams
For real, man. appreciate it. Like you said, like we still it's still a learning process. like Nobody here ever had a podcast. and never ah We never did any of this. is all ah We learning as we going. Nothing's perfect.
00:59:11
Davante Adams
For everybody listening, all the artists that's listening, I got a lot of people i know that's listening to this that's artists as well.
00:59:12
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:59:19
Davante Adams
Thank you, man. and Keep building. Also, send y'all music to me, man, so I can upload it and play it because I will play it. I'm looking for interviews if y'all want to come through. good energy you know what saying you got some stuff you want to promote you can hit Neptune Neptune you know what I'm saying yo people is welcome as well talk with Tay any of this you know saying it's all about building the culture and just having something just to you know sit back and just fab on just from Chicago but we're gonna make this worldwide because this conversation and there's no excuse not to connect with anybody where you can learn
00:59:55
Davante Adams
I said that I said that well I said that well
00:59:55
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah.
00:59:58
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, I think so.
00:59:59
Davante Adams
and this Set that well. Well, uh, that's It was a pleasure, bro. Again, you what I'm saying? Episode four in the tuck. Uh, if you want to subscribe, you know i'm saying? Y'all could just send the money to, uh, just send it, you know, I'm leave something in description.
01:00:18
Neptvne Blvez
Haha.
01:00:19
Davante Adams
Just playing, man.
01:00:20
Neptvne Blvez
Oh, me.
01:00:20
Davante Adams
This next track, man, I got to track a sleeper. you know what I'm saying? I got to get a different name for this segment, but, you know, got to steal some stuff from my boy Joe, but I got a sleeper that I want to play for my, um, he's a good friend of mine.
01:00:35
Davante Adams
ain't going to say friend, he family, because I've known him since he was a kid. Um, I think he goes by Jew. You know saying? Jew is a R&B. You're single. You know what saying? i ain't going to put too much information about how we know each other. But I'm to say, like, we went to church together.
01:00:54
Davante Adams
You know saying? You know me. I play drums. And you can put the rest together. You know saying? Two and two is foe. You know saying? It's not too hard to figure out. and if you need to uh figure it out we do have google you have ai you have the thing that elon musk got on um x now where you can ask a question it's called like grok something like that so it's not hard pick up your phone and use it but now he's real talented um i love i love when people just build music organically you know i'm saying it's a vibe you know i'm saying i i love the song like i told him like
01:01:01
Neptvne Blvez
Oh,
01:01:12
Neptvne Blvez
um
01:01:29
Davante Adams
I will support him like every chance I get. And, uh, there's one of those chances where I just had to put the spotlight on my boy. ah so Neptune, if you got time, you can stick around and listen to that too.
01:01:41
Neptvne Blvez
Mm-hmm.
01:01:41
Davante Adams
Um, but episode four is in a tuck. Like I said, my brother, i appreciate you. Um, y'all follow us, man. We all social medias will be in the description as well. Um, and this, uh,
01:01:55
Davante Adams
This the real ones bill, man. The real ones bill. And this was a great episode today.
01:01:59
Neptvne Blvez
Yeah, appreciate being here again. Thank y'all for having me. Love. the
01:02:06
Davante Adams
Like now like I said, we don't talk soon. And I don't know the rest is history, man. New podcast coming soon. By the way, this is something. Yeah.