Tommy Richman's breakout hit "Million Dollar Baby" isn't winning over Funkmaster Flex -- one of NYC's biggest DJs and gatekeepers -- but, luckily, Tommy has more than one song, and holds no grudges!
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00:00Listen, you're having like a musical moment right now and I'm hearing that there's like
00:07way more to come.
00:09How does it feel like being on top of the world like that?
00:12It's cool man.
00:13We got the new one.
00:14That one's a lot.
00:15Shot by this guy.
00:16Oh yeah, it's been cool man.
00:17Gotta go fucking, about to go to Paris with it.
00:21Oh really?
00:22Paris Fashion Week.
00:23International kind of moves now?
00:25Yeah, we're about to go there for like four days.
00:29What's the feeling though?
00:30Cause I mean, you know, you kind of just, I mean, I'm sure you've been putting in work
00:34for years, but to the rest of the world, you know, that's just catching up.
00:38It's like you came out of nowhere, you know?
00:40Yeah man, definitely.
00:41I mean, bro, we got, we got this new album coming out.
00:43So like, it's like, it's called Coyote.
00:46It's going to be hard.
00:47So it's like, that's going to be cool.
00:49And you get to show people that's like the real album.
00:52There was a, there was a, one of these old head DJs talking trash.
00:55Oh yeah.
00:56What are your thoughts on that?
00:58When you, when you hear stuff like that, does it make you upset or does it give you fire?
01:02Um, no, it's fine, man.
01:03You know, Funk Flex, you know, he's real legend.
01:05So it's like, you know, he likes the new one.
01:08So okay.
01:09So Flex, you know, he fucks the new one.
01:10Okay.
01:11All right.
01:12So you know, Funk Flex.
01:13What's the weirdest part about it though?
01:15Because when you make a song, when you have a song like this, you got little babies singing
01:20it, bro.
01:21It's like, it's what's been, what's been the craziest thing that you've experienced so
01:26thus far is my question where you're like, I can't believe that.
01:30Um, definitely like seeing like fucking like toddlers singing to the shit and dancing.
01:35Like, well, that's just crazy seeing toddlers and shit dance.
01:40Like I remember my friend Jordan Spady, he like teaches like elementary school kids and
01:44like, bro, it's like going out, it's like a field, y'all the kids dancing, the song
01:48singing and shit, but it's just crazy, bro.