What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a talk of the town, talking to the sisters, I'm hooking them down, reaching the smiles and the frowns. Gang hop out, then we clarin' the frowns. Hey, what's up, guys? We're in a new episode of Talk of the Town. Today we got a special guest, Rich Brown. How are you? I'm all good, I'm all good. Say the whole thing? Or you cool with just Rich? Oh, Mr. Rich Brown. Mr. You gotta say Mr. Yeah, you gotta say the Mr. Okay, okay. All right, so we're gonna play a little game to get you warmed up. Say the first thing that comes to mind. All right, let's get it. What's your favorite color? Red. What's the worst food? Fish. Okay. Straighten on the island, you need three things. What three things do you need? What three things I need on the island? Yeah. I need some weed. I need some beets. And I don't need nothing else, so. That's all I need. And I have three.  Okay, wow. Um, the last thing you spent money on? The last thing I spent money on? A Maserati truck. Okay. One artist you want to collab with? Fruture. Okay. Favorite power couple? Do you have a favorite? I don't got none. Like a couple that you like, a couple that's like, oh, they doing anything? I don't even know who. Oh, okay. Couple's. Okay. I don't pay no attention. Favorite meals to cook? I don't do no cooking. But I like Maserati, though. That's my favorite thing. My mama cooked for me. Maserati. Okay. One sentence for your ex? One sentence for who? Your ex. Oh, wait. You know what? You know what? I pray for you. I pray for you. Okay. If you have to break a world record, what world record do you think you could break? Which one do I want to break? Which one could I break? You think you could break? Uh, world record. I probably can break the world record for who's spending the most money the fastest. Okay. What that record is. Somebody look that up. Somebody look that up, y'all. Okay. Biggest pet peeve.  And three traits every girl should have. Three traits every girl should have. They should have the ability to be molded. They should be a great listener and a nurturer. Okay. That's cool. All right. So Mr. Rich Brown, tell us how you got your artist name. What you name? I got my name from the company that I co-created with my brother, Rich Brown Entertainment. Okay. Since I'm in here, since I'm in the sea, y'all call myself Mr. Rich Brown. Put some emphasis on it. Okay. So you're Mr. Rich Brown. Okay. So you and your brother started a company. When did y'all get started? 2019. Okay. Okay. So a couple years now. How's it been going? So far, so good. Okay. So tell us a little bit about the company. Y'all goals. Who's with on the company? We started Rich Brown Entertainment 2019. Like I said, we got the record label, Rich Brown Records. Okay. We got the closing label, Rich Brown Clothing. I mean, we curating the magazine right now. That's nice. So we getting the Rich Brown models on deck. You know what I'm saying? So we can put them in the magazine and get busy one time. We got a lot going on under the umbrella. So where did the name inspired from? Like Rich Brown? What made you pick that name? Actually because my OG had moved to this block in Chicago called Richman. So that's where we kind of got it off of. We stole it off of that. You know what I'm saying? Okay. And got creative with it. Yeah. Okay. So on the label, do you have artists yet? Yeah. We got a couple of artists that, one, I'm about to sign when we get back. I don't even want to announce it yet though, but it's going to be dope though. You know what I'm saying? He from Milwaukee. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So y'all be traveling. Y'all be getting artists from New York. Oh yeah, it's going up. It's going up for sure. Okay. So this your first time in New York? Yes, Ashley. It's my first time. It's going up in New York. On what? It's the weekend. So what brings it to New York though? We came here to participate in the day summit. Okay. So the day summits like a South by Southwest of New York. You know what I'm saying? They got a lot of different venues with a lot of different performances going on. A lot of label representatives on location. A lot of networking. Yeah. So, um, yeah, the day summit been going on for a couple of years now. Yeah. A lot of people come up to do that. Okay. So in the label minutes about three years now, how many artists would you say you have? Like we're including ourselves cause I'm an artist myself too. So include myself and my brother. Oh, it's two other ones that I want to announce. That's confirming. Okay. All right. So get into your music though. How'd you get into music? Man, I actually been writing forever basically since I was a little boy, but I actually been taking it serious though. Since we put the imprint together me and my brother. I've been taking it more serious now than I ever was before. Okay. And why now? What are you filming now? Because I actually, I just did a real long stand in a joint. You know what I'm saying? I did 11 years straight. And I came to the career this time like with a different mind frame. Like one, first and foremost, I ain't going back. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So yeah, I got to do something different. You feel me? I don't need to do nothing different. I got to do something different. It's all something to come out here and do. We always been doing for leisure anyway. We already been writing songs, doing music for leisure. That's making sense. Make some money out of it. You know what I'm saying? When he was locked up, he was writing still. Yeah. I was writing so much when I was locked up. Okay. Like that was my therapy. You know what I'm saying? Okay. And the crazy thing is that I haven't recorded not one song that I wrote in prison yet. Crazy. Not one. So why? What happened? You getting in studio and then what happened? I don't know. So it just be like, because I wrote all of them songs in prison with just beats in my head. You know what I'm saying? So you can't find the beats to match those songs? I mean, I can though, but it's like, I don't even do it though. You know what I'm saying? But like now I listen to beats and I let the beat talk to me like, what should I put on this beat? You know what I'm saying? So if I go into the studio thinking that initially, I'm going to take these songs in there then go and find some beats that match it, then that'll probably happen. But when I just go in there and listen to the beats, I'm listening to the beats, like what the beats telling me to say. You know what I'm saying? I think you should record at least one that you wrote in there. I agree. I think I should record them all. All right. So how many songs would you say you think you wrote in there? At least 200. And that's just being nice. Yeah, that's just being nice. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's just being super nice. Okay. So what gets you in the mode to right now? Because you know, outside everything's open. Are you right now or are you freestyling? No. Well, I don't like when people really use that word freestyling though because people ain't really freestyling nowadays. Like a freestyle is when you turn the beat on right now and then I just go off my head. Like I never said these words before. It's the first time I ever spoke these words. After I get done rapping them, I'm not going to remember them. That's a freestyle. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But when people steady be dropping clips, I'm a freestyling but they actually wrote the song and they actually record it. That's not no freestyle, right? What I do now is I listen to beats and I write the lyrics in my head. So I don't even use paper because I feel like the paper is restricting. Okay. If you're not using paper, I consider that freestyling. That's not though. If you're not using paper, you're not saying nothing because you got to remember it though. It's not freestyling though. But you remember it in your head? Freestyling is when you rap the lyrics and you don't remember them. Okay. Like right now you just put the beat on. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We at the talk of the town when I get to saying stuff. Okay. That's freestyling. And then when I get done, I can't even recite that to you no more. But if I can recite the rap to you again, that ain't no freestyle. Ain't nothing about it, no freestyle. Let us know in the comments. Yeah, y'all. Jump in the comments. I don't know how I feel about that. Okay. So get into music. Also, what goes through your first three of sessions? Was you making music before you got locked up? Yeah. Okay. So how was those sessions? My first three of sessions? Yeah, what goes through your first three of sessions ever? My first studio session ever. I was actually in the studio with my favorite producer still to this day. Really? Yeah. My homie CK, you know what I'm saying? That's my favorite producer. Yo, his beat's just so off the chain. He cold. And he was only like 14 or maybe 15. The first time I went in the studio with him. I was probably like 20. Okay. Yeah, I was probably like... Yeah, I was probably like 20. A lot of producers in New York are young too. Yeah. He was like 14 or 15. And I was like, man, he cold. Like he was just cold back then, like with the samplers and everything. But now he just... With the originals and everything, he's just off the chain all the way around the board. So back then, was it like drill music back then? Or like... No. It was like trap music? Like what was it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was more trap music. It was around cheesy time. Okay, okay. You know what I'm saying? Like around that area. Drill music even going from Chicago. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't do drill at all. Okay. Do you not like it or are you just not your thing? No, it's just that. That ain't my thing. That just ain't my thing. It ain't that I don't like it.  But I ain't never getting in the studio doing no drill. Okay. So what do you feel like is your sound? Like what's your vibe? My vibe is I'm real smooth. You know what I'm saying? Like if you was from Chicago, you would know what I mean when I say... Excuse me. I make Lakeshore Drive music. Lakeshore Drive. Yeah. You can just put it on and slide, ride, glide. They're like car music. Yeah. Like Lakeshore Drive in Chicago. It's a long, nice little e-weight script where you can just ride. You see the lake right there. You know what I'm saying? You see the skyline. You see the... You know what I mean? Okay. So maybe that would be like pure music for us? Because we got the pure... Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. I ain't under the drill act though. Okay. All right. So walk us through your latest single, I Remember. Is that the latest one? Yes. Yes. Yes. So what inspired I Remember? I Remember is basically a tale of the past. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So I went and did some real recollecting when I brought that to the people. You know what I'm saying? I was recollecting and I remember and it's so deep for me and it really touched me. You know what I'm saying? Like when I recorded, I remember that was the first time I ever went in the studio. Like my little brother the one brought me that beat. Shout out to Picasso Swag. Joe Swag brought me that beat, right? And he was like, man, bro, I'll just hear you on this. I'm like, all right, Joe, let me hear that joint. You know what I'm saying? And when I heard it and I went in the studio, I recorded the chorus like immediately. Like soon the verse came on me, soon the beat came on. And I was about to exit the booth and bro was like, Joe, just stay in there. Don't just stay in there. And I stayed in the booth from the beginning to the end of the song. Just punching in, punching in until I was done. I ain't come out. And that's the first time I ever did that before. So do you like that process? I love it, Joe. I probably won't do it too many times. You know what I'm saying? There was a lot of pressure you feel. But I love it though. I love how it came out. You know what I mean? I love what it got up out of me. So how do you push yourself creatively?  So like I will say you're pushing yourself creatively. I really just push myself all the time. Like I got a song called Filling Me. I know that's a little off the subject as far as the singles concern, right? But I got a song called Filling Me where I say I know you feeling me because I'm feeling me. And I'm hard on myself than you could ever be. Like so that's my whole life. You know what I'm saying? So I'm always pushing myself. So it's just about me deciding that I want to write a song. Like I don't even got to push myself to do it. I just need to say, hey Joe, it's time. You know what I'm saying? Do that right now. Do that today. Or do that tomorrow. Do that tonight. And I just, I do it. So like do you push yourself to do different sounds? Because like you said you do it. Yeah. Are you trying to do like, I don't know, maybe club records, pop records. Look, this, my newest song, it's actually a little more faster. But I still consider it Lakeshore Drivers though. Because it's still smooth. You know what I'm saying? Even though the beat is a little more up tempo. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, I can do, I can do different sounds for sure. Do you like, want to do different sounds? Or you kind of like to hear it when you're right now? No, I love my lane because I want to make sure that I'm carving. You know what I mean? Like I want to make sure everybody know my niche. You know what I mean? So when they see me or when they hear my name, they already know what they got coming. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Someone wanted to add you, I guess, to a playlist. What other artists you feel like would be in that playlist? The Lakeshore Drives type of music. Remember, I've never been there. So I'm just imagining it. Right. So who's in that playlist with you and who else? Oh man, you got to put some kid cut in there. He be going crazy under the small act. Okay. You feel me? Who else you will put in there under the playlist? Kendrick Lamar, he rap a little more faster though. But I definitely, you definitely got to put me on that playlist with him. You feel me? I'm a future dude though, man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm off the top. Yeah, I'm a future dude. He's futuristic for real. You know what I'm saying? People don't even realize what they be listening to. Yeah, slap me on that joint. You know what I'm saying? All right. So a little kid cutty Kendrick Lamar, that's a Lakeshore Drives playlist. Yeah. All right, cool. That joint will go crazy. All right, cool. So you did a mini movie also? Yeah, for the video. For the video. To far I remember. Okay. Like 10 minutes long. Yeah, so you was pushing it active. Yeah, yeah. That was nice right there. It took me three months to film that video. So you was consistent with that? Yeah, it took me three months. I wrote everything. Oh, for real? I wrote it all. Okay. You ever thought about pitching it? You know how some people pitch their movies to like 2D and stuff? Yeah, I had thought about that. But I don't feel like I ain't ready yet. Okay, okay. That was your first one? You doing another one? Yeah, I'm gonna do another one. Like everything I drop gonna be movies. You know what I'm saying? I'm putting that type of pressure on myself where I feel like since I dropped that, I can't go back to the normal. Like, ain't no more normal. It gotta be like a flick at a time. Okay, so are you gonna do the same thing with albums too? I ain't never heard this album before, but... Yeah, I ain't never heard this album before. But he does like these just like every skits in between songs, but it all connects to a movie. Oh, yeah. Kind of like a musical, but it's just an album. Oh, yeah, that's dope. But yeah, so you say you want to do more movies? Yeah. You want to do more movies? Yeah. You want to do more movies? Yeah. You want to do more movies? Yeah. So you say you want to do more movies? Yeah. So do you plan on doing an album soon this year, maybe? Yeah, I'm gonna hit them with the three most singles first. Okay. Then I'm gonna drop the album on them. The album is gonna be called On My Soul, OMS. So you got a name already? Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah, it's already on there. I'm gonna drop like two most singles. I got two most... Maybe three. I'm deciding what's gonna be a third one or not. But then I'm gonna drop the album after I drop them singles. How do you know which single is the single to drop? Because I pre-all already selected. Okay.  Like you don't let other people like, oh, I like that one. Yeah. No? No. Okay. I'm just listening to me. Okay. All right. So do you have any regrets in doing that? Or you feel like everything... Well, just listening to me about the singles dropping? Yeah. No, I don't got no regrets in that. Okay. Even if somebody opposes it or not, like, I don't got no regrets in it because I feel like that's what I want to do. Man, I'm my own boss though, so I can do whatever I want to do. You know what I'm saying? So even if somebody else say something else, I'm like, nah, this is what I've decided already, y'all. You just want, you know, feedback and opinions and stuff. Yeah. I don't want to know when it comes to that. Like, you know what I'm saying? Drop my music. I don't even want to know. I don't want to hear it. Okay. So do you feel like you're open to criticism or no? Yeah. You can criticize my music. You can criticize it all you want. You know what I'm saying? Okay. If you tell me something that you hear or something that I might should do different. I mean I'm all good with that. But you ain't going to tell me like when I should drop it or what I should drop or none of that. Okay. So yeah. So you wouldn't go to like a major label or something like that? You kind of want to stay independent? Yeah. I ain't going to be able to do that though. Cause I'm just trying to see. Yeah. I ain't going to be able to do that though. Cause I'm real. I'm real. What's the word I want? I'm real disrespectful. Like as respectful as I am, I'm real disrespectful too. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Like I don't like to be played with none. You know what I'm saying? I get real mean if somebody played with me. So being in them type of situations with a label. I've been a went to the boardroom and smacked everybody on the label. You know what I'm saying? Everybody they got something to do with anything. I've been a smacked everybody. Okay. So I don't even want to participate in that. So on the independent tip since you entirely. On the independent tip. I guess like what apps or resources are you using to kind of like get your music out there? Some people use United Masters. Yeah. I got Disco Kid and United Masters. I don't know what I'm saying. But it's other things too though. We picture doing other things. Trying to get on video games. Okay. United Masters. Yeah. United Masters off the chain with that. So what's your plans for the rest of the year? For this year? You got the day summit. Did you perform already or not yet?  Tomorrow. And a 19. Okay. So what else do you plan on doing the day summit? In New York. We're going to go do some shopping. Hopefully we're going to hit the studio though. I know artists are two out here. I mean did I be chopping it up with them? Yeah. I know some guys on Instagram I'll be chopping it up with. Yeah. This brother named Mike Ruiz. Yeah. Latina artist. He cold though. He be going crazy. And he make us a... I think he's from Queens. I think he's from Queens. You make his own beats though? Yeah. He make his own beats. He be going crazy. Okay. Anybody else? So hopefully I lock in with him before I leave. You listen to any other New York artists? He's talking about major artists or independent artists. I don't really know a lot of independent artists in New York like that. All right. Major artists. As far as the majors do, oh yeah. I mess with Jay. You know what I'm saying? Jay Z. Jay the kids. You know what I'm saying? The lock stays to be my boys. My favorite artist of all time is from here. Who's that? DMX. DMX is my number one artist of all time. Okay. And why is that? He was just so raw and so true to me. I always loved his realness. Okay. It was just always different to me than everybody else. And he used to have me barking like two, three in the morning to walk you down the street. Waking people up. Rest a piece of eggs. Okay. Does he inspire your music anywhere? I wouldn't even say that because I don't really take no inspiration from a lot of people. You know what I'm saying? As far as the music is concerned, I just always love this music. So when I hear it today, I remember how I fell back in 98 and 99 when I was listening to the X songs. You know what I'm saying? Okay. So you try to make your music take you back to those feelings, I guess? Yeah. I'm going to tell you when I spit, I want you to feel me. I want you to feel me. I want you to hear me. You know what I'm saying? That's why I ain't never rapping too fast. So what people are like, what do you say?  You know what I'm saying? So yeah, that's how I'm slashing.  It's kind of hard, Joe.  A lot of people say that. Yeah, it's super hard, Joe. Because a lot of times I don't be knowing when to turn it off like the difference. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Because one of two different hats is like two different characters for real. You know what I'm saying? Like I even use a real life example. I just had an example today where I acted like an artist instead of a boss. You know what I'm saying? So I actually had to go back up to the girl before I just left the place we left and apologized to her. I apologized for my energy earlier. You know what I'm saying? That ain't my norm. I'll apologize about that. I acted like an artist though when I was talking to her. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, instead of acting like a CEO. You feel me? Like when I sat back and thought about it like yeah, that ain't how you pose to come, Joe. That's what made me slide back on and apologize to her. That's nice. Alright, so you travel a lot? Yeah. Because I know y'all met artists in Milwaukee. So is there any place that you want to travel that you haven't yet? Overseas. I want to go overseas. I got a passport. We don't got no stamps on there. They got to get some stamps? Yeah, I'm trying. I got to stamp that. You trying to go to like UK London or something? Yeah, I want to go to Italy. We want to go to Italy, right? My photographer said we got to go to Italy first. So we're going to slide to Italy. Okay. Alright, that's cool. So I guess tell the people what's next. What's coming 2023? This camera right here. 2023 Rich Bound Entertainment. We got the On My Soul dropping out the fruit couple more singles. Hey, I forgot to tell you that one of my singles is called Only Fans. Right? Okay. And I'm going to make two videos for that joint. One of them going to be regular, daggler. But we can just upload that on Distro Kids, United Masters, all that. The other one, they going to have to subscribe to my Only Fans to see it. Okay. Him going to be triple X. Okay. Do you feel like you want to do that as an artist? I do though. Okay. I do want to do that as an artist. Why you think I shouldn't? Um, just I feel like we shouldn't be double standard. Y'all be talking about girls doing Only Fans, you know?  People society in general. See, that's the difference between them and me. Because my song, the Only Fans, I'm up in the women that got Only Fans. Okay. Okay. You know what I'm saying?  So it's going to be like the Only Fans anthem. It's going to be a real anthem. Every female that got Only Fans going to love this joint. Okay. Going to love it. When that's coming out? That's going to be before the summer. Before the summer? Before the summer. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to drop one single next day in that one. Okay. It's going to go up. Okay. It's going to be at Rich Bound underscore ENT. S-R-I-C-H-B-O-U-N-D underscore ENT on the gram. On YouTube, y'all can go subscribe. Same thing.