Maino Talks With Joey Franchize
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00:00It's Wild 94.1, wild94.1.com, Joey Franchise, Bobby Shampoo, and my guy the K.O.B. himself is in the building.
00:07Mano, what's up, Mike G?
00:08Hey, what's happening, my guy? What's the word?
00:10Oh, man, it's good. We haven't seen each other in quite a long time, man, so I'm happy you're out here, bro.
00:14How you like it down in Florida, man?
00:16It's cool. You know what's crazy?
00:17Like, I just, I sometimes miss being in the snow during the winter, but, you know, if I can sit in shorts and then keep it chill all day, I'm straight with that.
00:26And this is why I got here.
00:27Nah, it's good, man. The weather's good.
00:29And you got a lot of good things going on.
00:31Actually, let me just say something.
00:32Mano is one of my favorite people to follow on Instagram because he says some of the most realist shit ever, bro.
00:39Like, and it's crazy because it's like, with so much phony going on in the world, and I think you bring light to that a lot, and you help people realize, look, this is where real ones stand, and this is how you separate the phony from the fake.
00:52Is that what you kind of use your IG to be as more of a motivational thing?
00:56Yeah, I mean, you know, to me it was just, it helps me, you know, because sometimes, you know, you're looking in the mirror, right, and you're like, man, sometimes you doubt yourself because this game can have you questioning your own self.
01:08So, you know, just as much as people take some of the things that I'm saying for themselves, it's really for me.
01:17It's really to tell me, yo, you that dude, like, you know, ain't worried about the all-white party or this type of party that you ain't, like, you really that guy, like, you know?
01:27So, sometimes that's, like, my therapy, you know?
01:32But what happens is that it just started to take off a little bit, and I just kept doing it, you know?
01:36Right.
01:36I haven't done one in a few weeks, though.
01:38I'm going to do one soon, though.
01:39Well, you got a record right now that you pushing, so, you know, things is getting busy, you know?
01:43Yeah, definitely.
01:44So, tell me, man, all again, fire record.
01:46How'd you get Macy Gray on the record, dude?
01:48My man, Blue Williams.
01:49Blue Williams used to manage Macy Gray.
01:51So, what happened was, well, I did the record with the Heat Makers, and then I played it for him.
01:55Like, yo, I got this record.
01:56I need some help with it.
01:56And he was like, wow, man, you know what?
01:58Macy Gray would sound dope on it.
02:00I'm like, man, she don't even do records with rappers.
02:02And he said, nah, I'm going to reach out to her.
02:03You know, he reached out to her, and we made it happen, and it was perfect.
02:08The record, you know, it is what it is.
02:09It's that motivation.
02:11It's that record to get you up in the morning, get your coffee in your system, get you on the treadmill, get you going.
02:15It's about redemption.
02:16It's about winning, you know?
02:17And it's uplifting.
02:19Yo, it's definitely a powerful record, man.
02:22And now, putting this together, like, I mean, you had Jermaine Drop.
02:25Yeah.
02:26Last year.
02:27Now, what's new for this year?
02:29I know this is probably going to be the next single off the project.
02:31Yeah, yeah.
02:31So then we got the new project called On Everything I Love.
02:34Trying to put the finishing touches on that right now and get that out there to y'all.
02:38You know, we're just going to keep pushing, you know, keep the music dope and just keep going.
02:42I mean, what's great about right now is that I haven't been in a situation where I could do what I'm doing right now.
02:50So now that we, you know, we're in line with Empire, they believe, excuse me, put me in a situation where I could reintroduce myself to the masses, to the fans, you know, to come to markets and, you know, reintroduce myself and just be brand new again.
03:10And it's cool.
03:10And like we said before, you know, we live in a different age now, you know what I mean, where social media is just like kind of running things.
03:15That's right.
03:17And I see you, you know, translated, you're translating that like perfect right now.
03:21You know what I mean?
03:21Just, you know, the way you speak to the people, you speak to your fans and now your music and it's speaking all into existence.
03:26But now, is there anybody in this project that particularly you want to work with, anybody that, you know, you are working with that will be here?
03:33Any surprise guests?
03:33Um, not, not, not too much, you know, we, you know, we got Jim Jones, we got, uh, you know, Davies, you know, you know, I'm selfish when it comes to projects.
03:44So I like to, I like to keep it all myself, you know, you know, I never been one to, to have a project filled with, with, with, with a lot of, you know, features, you know, I will have maybe two or three, you know, and that, that's always been my thing.
03:59And I saw that you and, uh, Jones dropped a video for my era.
04:02Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:03Uh, that's dope record.
04:04Lobby boys, definitely.
04:06And, uh, like, how do you feel about this new era of hip hop?
04:09And do you feel like some of these, you know, the young cats don't, is there a misunderstanding somewhere between the new generation and the guys that have actually kind of paved the way?
04:16I'm not too hard on, on the young, on the young generation.
04:20It is what it is.
04:20You know, um, when we was coming up, we was the new generation, you know, and things evolve.
04:26Um, as far as the music, it's not a lot of, it's not a lot of real content, you know?
04:31I like to listen to albums and, you know, I like to get the girl record, the club record, a record that make me think, a record that make me cry.
04:38Like, I like a record that make me laugh.
04:40I like to get a full project.
04:42And we used to get that, you know, when you listen to DMX, you know, the whole, the whole, his whole first project, the whole, you know, ready to die.
04:51The whole me against the world, reasonable doubt, you know, hard knock life, you know, um, those, that, that's when the actual thought was going into making the music and giving you a whole project.
05:03Not in just, not just giving you a club record and just making a bunch of those.
05:08Yeah.
05:09And we're here with May No Man's Wild 94.1, Joey Franchising.
05:12Yo.
05:12Yeah.
05:13It's been a pretty interesting, like, month for Brooklyn, bro.
05:15You had, uh, Jay did a Billy, uh, they named, uh, was it, was it Fulton Street?
05:21B-I-G, yeah.
05:22For Christopher Wallace Way?
05:23Fulton and St. James, you know, so, um, so funny that you talk about that because I actually lived on that block.
05:29Yeah.
05:29I actually lived on that block, you know, when I first came home.
05:33When I first got out of prison, that's the block that I lived on.
05:35So I lived a couple of doors away from where Big lived at.
05:38My son was born on that block, you know?
05:41So I would often walk up and down the block and, you know, and just get some of that energy right there.
05:46That's what's up, man.
05:47And that's so big, not just for, like, it's just big for the culture altogether.
05:50Yeah, man.
05:51We need to see more of that.
05:52I mean, I seen, uh, they had, they had did something like that for Wu-Tang.
05:56Yeah.
05:56In Staten Island.
05:56Yeah.
05:57That's fire.
05:58And I saw that, uh, your Threads store opened up too?
06:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:01Threads store, yeah.
06:01No, it's coming on July 6th.
06:03You know, um, brand new clothing store in my neighborhood, the neighborhood I grew up in.
06:07You know, the first, the first corner I ever stood on.
06:09You know, the corner I ain't been back home since, you know what I mean?
06:13And, um, yeah, it's a clothing store.
06:15You know, we had the kids out there.
06:16We're going to make it big.
06:17You know, it's the first time I, you know, I've been a part of something like that.
06:20So it's going to be real dope.
06:21No, that's, that's fire, man.
06:22And that's dope that you're giving back to the community that way and, and, and building up the block like that.
06:26Yeah, definitely.
06:27And I, we, we saw that with Nip and, you know, RIP to Nip and what happened.
06:31Does that ever like kind of, you know, mess with you in a way that, you know what I'm saying?
06:35Like I'm doing this store and I'm doing this for my hood.
06:37Of course, of course, even without the store, it's just something that we think about.
06:40I know something I think about, I think about dying all the time.
06:42Every day I think about the aspect of death.
06:47I've seen death so, so much, so close around me for all my years that, you know, I always question like, man, did he, did he, when he got up this morning, you know, put his socks on, you know, put his pants on, his hat and walked out, got his car keys and jumped in his car.
07:01Did he really know that that was going to be his last day?
07:04No, nobody really knows that, you know?
07:06So it's just really, man, it's really deep.
07:10So I think about it all the time.
07:11Like, I don't, I don't know if, if, if I think in my mind that by thinking about it, it's like I'm, I'm, I'm being prepared or something, you know, because we, you know, we in a, um, a business that danger is, is just, uh, man, a step away at any given time.
07:26You know, we go into different cities, we go all over, but what's interesting is that most times when it comes to artists, the majority, the majority of the times that from what I see, um, is that most artists die in their own city that they come from, their own city, their own neighborhood, you know, a lot of times, and, and that's mostly what happens.
07:46And do you always feel like you have to get out the city before you can actually, you know, get back to the city?
07:52Like, how does that work?
07:53To a certain, to a certain degree, like, you want to balance it out.
07:56Like, you don't want to be so physically accessible that you just become easy, right?
08:01Like, you don't want to be the dude that's there all the time, every day, to where it's like, ah, there he go, he right there, you know, because you got people that, that love you in the hood.
08:13And I, and I believe probably the majority would, you know, you got the mothers that watch you grow up, you got people that seen you when you was little and they cheered you on and, and love what you did.
08:22But then there's always people that, that look at themselves and, and when they look at themselves in the mirror, they hate themselves.
08:28Like, they, they so dissatisfied with who they are that how, how can they be happy with you?
08:33You know, if this person didn't go chase behind his dreams, he didn't go make something happen for him.
08:39And then how can he be happy for your rise?
08:41He can't, he can't be happy for you.
08:43It's impossible for, for a dude that's, that has no self-worth to, to feel so low about himself.
08:49It's hard for him to give off the energy of happiness.
08:51And, and that's usually, you know, the kind of dudes that, you know, would like to see something done to you.
08:56Man, this is exactly why I follow him.
08:59Like, this is just straight gems right here.
09:01Mano, appreciate you, man, for coming by.
09:03Yeah, man, so good, man.
09:04All Again is out right now.
09:06Right now.
09:06Stream that, download that, and, uh, the project, you got a name for it?
09:10Um, On Everything I Love.
09:11On Everything I Love.
09:12And the video's dropping tomorrow, 6 p.m. sharp, 6 p.m. sharp on YouTube, on my YouTube page.
09:19We're going to bring it right back home, um, Mano TV, and we're going to get it, and listen,
09:23the video is, is unlike anything you've ever seen me do, so let's get it.
09:28That's what's up, man.
09:28I'm looking forward to it, man.