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Al Coe Has Been Co-Signed by Legends… Now He’s Betting on Himself
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Al Coe has been in the game for a minute — and now he’s stepping into a new chapter.
Welcome back to another episode of Spin The Record - where we have conversations that hit the right note, so you can hear it, feel it and remember it.
In this episode, Al Coe sits down with Marchella on Spin The Record to talk about his journey from the Bronx to Atlanta, how he first got into music, the early performance that changed everything and what it really takes to survive the music business.
Coe opens up about building his career from the ground up, making money from music, having records on the radio, Billboard success, touring and moving around with major names, and learning the business side of the industry along the way. He also shares how acting unexpectedly became part of his story, leading him into film, television, executive producing and a new creative lane beyond music.
This conversation also dives into his upcoming project Coe-sign, the meaning behind the name Al Coe, being co-signed by people like Akon, Rico Wade, DJ Holiday and Benny The Butcher, and why this season is about finally cosigning himself.
And when it’s time to spin the record, Al Coe performs “Kill Your Dreams,” a record about staying focused, blocking out silent haters, and not letting anybody kill what you’re building. Tune into the Attractive Mindset Network to catch the performance of his song and the full episode on YouTube.
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What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of Spin the Record, where we have conversations that hit the right note so you can hear it, feel it, and remember it. I'm your host, Marchella, and today we have our wonderful guest, Al Co in the building.
SPEAKER_00Appreciate you having me.
SPEAKER_01What's up? Thank you for being here.
SPEAKER_00Man, it's a pleasure, man. I love coming out here in Miami.
SPEAKER_01Good old Miami. Where are you from?
SPEAKER_00I'm from New York, Bronx, New York.
SPEAKER_01Oh duh. I mean, look at that accent. And you live in New York right now?
SPEAKER_00Nah, um I'm living in Atlanta right now.
SPEAKER_01Okay, Atlanta. Well, welcome to Miami, baby.
SPEAKER_00Definitely. It's always sunny skies out here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and today's actually a beautiful day. So we definitely got that blessing. So tell us, tell the world who you are. Who are you?
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm Al Co. If you don't already know, um, I'm an artist, also an actor. Been in the game for a minute, doing some, doing a few things, just putting in work.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Couple good things coming. Got a record out with me and Benny the butcher called Stop Hate and Get Money. You know, um, just been running around grinding.
SPEAKER_01All right, so you're doing big things. Alright, so you're an actor also.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so rapper, right? Yes. Rapper, songwriter, I assume, right? Nobody writing your stuff.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01Okay, alright, excuse me. Alright, so you're a songwriter, rapper, um, and actor.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01Wow. So you got you got the whole package going on. Because you know, like I feel like like artists, when you know you're making music videos and stuff, like you're you're an actor doing that. Alright, but you're like an actual actor.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, well, the acting thing kind of fell into my lap. Um once upon a time, a couple years back, um a video videographer was in a studio with me while I was, I think, being I forgot who I was with, maybe I think I was with Acon and doing a few things, working on some music and stuff. And he he filmed a session or whatever, because my camera guy last minute cancelled on me. Come to find out after we're filming the session, and he's seeing, like, he's seeing us create music and going back and forth. He's hearing records that I'm making and stuff like that. He was just like, yo, I got a I got a movie I'm about to do with um Columbus Short from Stomp the Yard. He was like, I think I want to make, I wanna, he said, I like your personality, I want to put you in the movie. How you feel about that? You know, and I was just like, you know, I was like, damn, let me think about that. Cause I never acting wasn't my thing. And thought about it, and I said, You only live once.
SPEAKER_01Right. And then he liked you for your personality. He liked me for my personality. You had to play a role, right?
SPEAKER_00Right. He uh and long story short, yeah, like he um I end up being in a movie. I was originally supposed to, I was originally just supposed to have, I think, like like like a couple of cameo scenes, and I'm showing up to the set. Because I never I never seen it, so I wanted to kind of be around it. But because of, I guess, my personality and he seeing how the actors were. He's a hold on, we gotta write a role for it. Right, he was like, so then he ended up changing it to me, giving me talking roles.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00And and then I was just like, I don't know. It was just a good vibe. Like then I seen them, not that you know, one of the scenes or whatever, they had a certain kind of car. But my car looked better than the car that was in the scene. I'm like, I don't even worry about it, just use my bins. Like, my benz is I use it. You know what I mean? Like, yo, well, you you this is he the main actor, he needs to have the newest bins.
SPEAKER_01Just pull up my big. Right.
SPEAKER_00So I started doing that. Then he ran into a few things like like financial stuff. Wow, because if you know, if you know independent filmmakers, you know, if you it takes a lot of money, but then also not only that, independent filmmakers have a lot of problems making independent films. It's not like when you got the major budgets and everything's like you got cinema, I mean you you got all the big production companies that's that's doing everything. So in that time period, he ran through certain problems. So I end up helping him get some extra investors to come towards the product. So then when he's seen that, he's like, yo, let me make uh I like what you're doing. You're helping me in certain ways. You bringing cars to the situation, you bring the actors to the table. He, you know, I uh DJ Holiday at the time, I got DJ Holiday to be in the movie, so he's like, yo, let me give you a producer credit. So at that point, I'm like, damn, it was just that. Like, you know, in music in music, you be connecting all day, and sometimes it don't make sense. He was like, nah, let me make you let me get you a producer credit. I'm gonna give you an act. I'm gonna let you act in it. Right. And then from there, it was just it built from there.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Rest in peace to him. Oh, he was he was murdered.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00It's crazy.
SPEAKER_01That escalated crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, not to say like that. I mean, it was it was a good experience. I learned a lot, like me being around Columbus Short. That made me Columbus, me being around Columbus Short and Trey Cheney from The Wire kind of made me want to take acting even more seriously.
SPEAKER_01Damn, you're naming some big names, so you're like, you're like in there. You're not just like okay. We got a celebrity in the building, y'all like. Okay, all right. We got we got big time Al Cole in the building. All right, all right. So hold on. Let's go back and and talk about music because we just dove into that like the acting thing. Um, and that's super cool, by the way. That like, like you said, it fell on your lap, and then through relationships, you just kept building on it. So that's super cool. That's a blessing. And that's just from you being you. Right. So um, so let's talk about music. First things first, how did you get into music?
SPEAKER_00Well, I honestly feel like I kind of like living in New York City, me being from the Bronx, I be feeling like you kind of grow up in hip hop, not even knowing. Even if you don't want to be a rapper or something, you around me. I got no choice. Or like some of my big, some of my uh my big homies from my block or older dudes who grew up around me and shit like that. I would see them rapping. Back then it was like Smack DVD, or they would be battling, or you'll see certain stuff to where it's like, you know what I mean? I had family members that was doing music and rappers. So I was always surrounded, but I wasn't really interested in just rapping. I used to play ball. Everybody knows me for playing ball.
SPEAKER_01Well, so many people always say that that it's either like a sport and like and music, and they choose like one or the other. So you used to play ball. I mean, you are pretty tall. This guy's like, how tall are you?
SPEAKER_00Like six two.
SPEAKER_01Six? Okay, no big deal. You're six two.
SPEAKER_00I was playing ball. Um, I originally, like I said, let me not let me not skit, let me go back. So yeah, like I was, yeah, like feel like you grew up in hip hop, running around New York, and then so so those thoughts are always there. I think everybody from certain places can can rap if they really want to. Because I just feel like it's in you when you around it, or whatever the case is. But fast forward, fast forward, I like when I went to I went to South Carolina State for one year, supposed to play basketball.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00I was like a red shirt, whatever the case.
SPEAKER_01The coach who doesn't mean red shirt, when you like sit on the bench or something?
SPEAKER_00No, like my SAT scores, my SAT scores weren't high enough. So they had to like kind of on the team. Yeah, so he he basically was like, let me help you get into the school, let me get you financial aid, let me get you situated, and next year we'll figure it out for you to be on the team. I like what you got going on. He gets fired. Oh so now it just changed the whole dynamics. But long story short, how I got into music, one of my friends, he he played ball, he was on the team. One night he got mad because we was at the club and we kind of like left him. We left him at the club, but he was just doing too much. I don't know. You young, you 18 years old, 17, you ain't paying attention. He from Brooklyn. He makes a whole diss record about everybody from the Bronx and Harlem and Queens that left him. Because it was like, you know, it's funny. In the South, a lot of New Yorkers all stick together. I seem like even more. So when I went to school that year, it was like all the New Yorkers just always become a big thing.
SPEAKER_01And then he tries y'all too. So he tried.
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, so he being funny. He being funny, he does like a little this record. He's rapping on Queens and Bronx beats. So, and I'm it's it's fakely going like kind of like viral a little bit. But before viral was viral. So then I'm looking like, yo, I really like this. So then I come back, and the first record I ever create was like a fake this record. But then everybody on the campus is like, yo, like he's like joking, but you yo, he really rapping, rapping, like he could really rap. And I'm seeing people keep saying it and saying it. So I was like, I'm not rapping, whatever. So after I've seen that, it kind of sparked something in my mind. I end up leaving the school because the coach got fired. So when I went back to New York, I was like 18. I start just messing with it a little bit. I started messing with it a little bit, start like trying to record records just to play with it to see, because you know, it's sometimes music could be a difficult process.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_00Just getting into the game. If you don't got no hand-me-downs, if your pops ain't the head AR or the executive, or you ain't got an uncle like Russell Simmons. Everybody's just not fortunate. Yeah, you gotta really, you gotta put in a lot of work. So I started playing with a little bit and fast forward. We happened to go to Black Bikers Week. We end up going to Black Bikers Week. We like 20 D from New York, some of my friends from South Carolina State. We went there. It's crazy. So we staying at this, we we staying at the hotel, but they got like a you ever know, like when you go to Vegas and it's like you ever see like those big parties behind the behind the resort, and it looked like like uh it's like thousands of people out there partying, it's like a phone party. Oh yeah. So one of the records that I did, like they they had people, it was like they were doing some karaoke. Oh and my friends, like we like drinking, this before you're not even supposed to be drinking, but we having fun, they hyping me, like, yo, bro, just get up there. You you should do it. I'm like, yo, don't don't tempt me, bro. I go up there and do it. So when I so I actually went up there, I performed the record that I made, and it was like the no, no, not the this one.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00When I got back to New York, because I started making a couple records, experimenting, seeing what I like. And when I performed it, it was like the whole back of the resort. Like hundreds and hundreds of people was kind of like going crazy. Girls was getting on the stage, twerking, and then this promoter comes up to me after, like, yo, listen, I like your performance. I got yo Gotti and Trina in South Carolina in about a month from now. I'm gonna pay you, and I'm gonna pay for your flight, and I'm gonna pay for your hotel. And when that happened, it was like, damn, I can make money in this, and I'm just having fun. So it turned into maybe I can take, like, I just was went on the stage and having fun, and he came up to me like, yo, I'm gonna pay you. I'm gonna pay you to perform. It wasn't like a lot of money, but just to say you're gonna pay me whatever, $500, you're gonna pay for my flight, you're gonna pay for my hotel, everything. You know what I mean? So I'm like that was new.
SPEAKER_01That was completely new, it was completely new.
SPEAKER_00So that sparked it. And from there, it was like I just started growing. I started taking it more and more serious, and the love got there. And it's been here we are. But you know, it's a process, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01It certainly is. And then like you were, you're first of all, congrats on that. Like, because you were like you said, you were literally just doing it for fun, and then look at how that like unraveled, you know? Um, and then you're you were it sounds like you were taking it serious from the start because when you did take it serious, you're saying like to get in there. So you were were you already trying to get in the music business as you were doing it, or were you just like, you know, I'm just gonna fuck around and write some songs and tests?
SPEAKER_00Nah, it was it was more like I wanted, I started writing, I started trying to perfect the craft. Um and in that process of me doing that show, opening up for like Yo Gotti and Trina, it's crazy. In that time, I had a cousin in Atlanta, he was like close to some of um Acorn peoples, he was close to like Jermaine Depree people, he was close to a lot of industry people. So the word got around, like, yo, yo, A is doing music. So he kind of hit me like, yo, you're doing music, let me hear it. I know some ARs. Let me see. If you good, I'ma I'm gonna tell you if you could really rap. So I sent them the records. A couple weeks went by. He hit me back, like, yo, they want to see you perform.
SPEAKER_01So you kept getting like more validation from like real people, and you're like, okay, so I guess I'm pretty good.
SPEAKER_00So fast forward, I got some knucklehead shit happened out there when I went to go perform, opening up for Trina and Yo Gotti, and Yola the Great, whatever. I probably was one foot in the streets, one foot out the streets. I ended up getting wrapped up for some shit with some drugs, got caught up for me in Carolina.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00By the grace of God, it's so crazy. The area that I was in wasn't too far from where I went to college at, because my some of my family lives in South Carolina.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Whatever the case. What's the coincidence? The jail I was in, I walk by, I see the correction officer, I hear her voice. Somebody. It's somebody, one of my somebody, my one of my uncle, my uncle used to be.
SPEAKER_01Your auntie, cousin, sister, brother.
SPEAKER_00Right, like, you know what I mean? So she ended up making the call.
SPEAKER_01Got you out.
SPEAKER_00You put, you know what I mean? She put the phone through the jail. She's like, it's crazy. Yeah, it's some crazy movie shit. Like, she put the like I when I heard I'm like, yo, putting this in your documentary, right? Huh? You putting this in your documentary? I should. I really should.
SPEAKER_01We actually we actually talked um behind um before we started, he's doing a documentary. So we'll we'll get into that in a bit, but that sounds like movie shit. So like it sounds like something to put in the documentary.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so while I'm in the jail, she once I realized who she is, I'm like, damn, my uncle used to talk to her. They close, whatever. I don't want to, I don't know what it was, but they close. So she's like, what are you doing here? She knew me because I used to go to school with her son at South Carolina State. So she already knew, like, yo, ain't you performing at the concert opening up for Trina and your Gotti?
SPEAKER_01So you almost didn't perform.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I was, I was, I was well locked up for a few days, and then I never forget. She made a call. He he he put the phone, she put the phone through the jail, whatever, through the thing or whatever. He's like, What are you doing in here? He's like, yo, I was like, yo, it's some mix up. I ain't really want to talk too much. She's like, let me see what I could do. She went to the judge, like, nah, he in college. You know what I mean? Like, he got a show performing, like in a few days. Like, yo, he's on the flyer with them. Let him perform. Like, yo, he's gonna make it back. So the judge, she spoke to the judge, and then they they let me basically get bonded or whatever. They let me get out. And then I had like a little situation. But from that, I lost the opportunity for the AR to see me perform because my phone was off because I was locked up. So I performed. I actually got out like literally hours before the event.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_00You know what I mean? But at that time, he didn't end up coming from Atlanta because he's like, yo, your phone been off for the last three, four days. We'll just catch you another time, kid. Long story short, that sparked me because it was like, damn, he wanted to come. I just missed the whole opportunity.
SPEAKER_01So when I went back to New York, then your cousin is the one who knows ARs, right?
SPEAKER_00Right. So when I went back to New York, it was just like um with that whole little process, it made me feel like uh after I got my situation together, of course I had to go to court and stuff for all that because it was some major knucklehead shit or whatever.
SPEAKER_01But you're young, you learn.
SPEAKER_00At that point, the manager, dude, the AR dude, he started, he's he was flying me back and forth to Atlanta, making me do showcases.
SPEAKER_01So by then you were like steady, steady doing shows.
SPEAKER_00Right, but I was still living in New York though.
SPEAKER_01But that one show was like the game changer. That was like that.
SPEAKER_00That made that sparked me. And after that particular person missed the show, and I felt like I missed the opportunity, he was like, Well, I got a show coming up in South Carolina, I need to see you perform. I got another show coming up in in Georgia. He's like, I need to see you perform to see before I even think about putting investing into you, investing my time, which I need to see what you really could do. So I was doing the showcases, different cities, Mississippi's, Alabama's, Georgia's, South Carolina.
SPEAKER_01Damn. So from from that first one, the guy just started flying you around. Yeah, because he was like your manager, your bookie.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no. At first he wasn't my manager, he just wanted to see what I could do. Okay, and then it got to the point, it got to the point where he was just like, yo, I think I want to work with you, but in order for this to work, you gotta come to Atlanta. I can't do the back and forth. This is too much. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01So Yeah, because he was paying for your flags and stuff. Right.
SPEAKER_00So, you know, once I I just thought about it, but it was and it was a lot of crazy shit going on back home in New York. So I said, You only live once, and this is this felt like it was a second chance. And I just went to Atlanta. I went to Atlanta, started doing music for How long have you been in Atlanta? I've been in Atlanta for like a little more than a little more than 10 years.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. So you're in Atlantean, ATL.
SPEAKER_00So I was out there recording music, doing music and stuff, and then we finally figured out the record. I I I did a record that they liked, and we started pushing the record. The record had some success. I was on the billboards for like 18 to 20 weeks. That's awesome. The record sold over a hundred thousand. We were starting, I was starting to get show money.
SPEAKER_01What was the name of that song?
SPEAKER_00Called Shea Freak. She a Freak.
SPEAKER_01She a Freak. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_00This is and you gotta remember, this is the time when you gotta remember, this is the time when the choruses were like T Pain was on fire.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So early. You remember those?
SPEAKER_00This is no no. This is like, yeah, 2012s, 11s, like around that time. So a long story short, it was the the choruses that was on the record, it was around that plaz time, that T Pain time. So the music was just different. But long story short, we found a record. They started pushing the record. My record started being on the radio in like 20 different cities, started getting show money. I started being on the billboards. I was like traveling on the road with like outcasts. I was traveling on the road with like Lil Wayne and Young Money. One of my friends in Atlanta was managing one of Lil Wayne's artists, and he was like working for like Mac Main and them, but Mac Main was the president of Young Money, and I was just traveling with them and just soaking up game, and it just became more and more serious, you know.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Damn, so you did a lot.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I dropped projects, the project with DJ Infamous. I dropped other projects, 1016, classic nights, first quarter. I had a few projects, but you know, and then like I feel like I went, you just go through a lot of stuff in the industry, also. Like, you know what I mean? Like, that's the first, that was my first time to see, like, once you have a record on the radio and you're starting to get some show money, you're moving around city to city. But also, like, that let me know, like, if the record, like, say, for example, if your record's going, you could lose a not lose an opportunity. Say, for example, we had some deals on the table, and for whatever reason, the deal ain't go through, but you still gotta have that that budget to keep going, because if not, that marketing, it eventually that record gets old.
SPEAKER_01What were you doing? Um, like, were you doing music full time, or did you have financing?
SPEAKER_00Do you have people who were at that time I was doing music full-time. And then like they moved me to Atlanta, put me in one of the houses. Like, uh, and then I, you know, I'm a hustler. So even before when I left New York, I was working. But when I decided I was gonna leave to come down to A, I told them, give me, give me three, four months. I wanted to stack my bread, get my shit together, and I came out with some money stashed to the side because I knew the shit take money, and you gotta have money to survive.
SPEAKER_01So you didn't, the guys who flew you out to Atlanta, they weren't like helping you financially. They were strictly doing music.
SPEAKER_00I mean, well, part of my the production management company, they the part of the situation, like they placed me, like they had different houses. So it's like, yo, you're gonna put you in a house, yeah. So it was like the overhead wasn't there, but it's still like you still gotta do your own thing, like yo. And then and then, like you said, marketing, there's like they're still doing a lot of other stuff, so you can't be out there like yo, just throw me money. It's like, yo, this shit costs a lot of money. We got to do that.
SPEAKER_01And they're also expecting to get paid in the back end, you know.
SPEAKER_00So right, but that like I said, I I had to learn that in the business because, like you said, like I can understand how artists could get not caught up, but like, you know, say an example, like the famous story TLC selling all those records, and then all of a sudden, when when the royalties come back and they break it down, they like, damn, well, how do we only get this? It's a real thing because, you know, like I said, I had a record plan in 18 to 20 cities, and the song was one of the top 10 biggest selling singles at that time. So on the radio, again showing it. But it's like like when when when when deals come around, you know, like they're supposed to get, they're supposed to recoup their money. Of course. So it's like, yo, if we put you in the crib, then you didn't have to pay no bills for like. Yeah, technically we pay for that. Or yeah, but certain things I was I didn't really understand. Like, it was like one of them, his partner, who was also part of the management, owned like a two barber shops. Me being on rapper mode, I'm like, yo, I need two, three haircuts a week. But that's not being paid for up front until you see the the breakdown.
SPEAKER_01They're like, yo, you were getting two haircuts a week.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you stayed in this crib. Oh, you remember when we put you on a road here.
SPEAKER_01Tell me, how old were you at that era?
SPEAKER_00I was about probably about like 20, 21. Like 20.
SPEAKER_01Let's let's let me ask you something because all of that happened like that, was like 10, 15 years ago, right?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01So now, are you still doing music? I mean, obviously you're here, you're still doing music. Are you still going as hard as you were before?
SPEAKER_00I mean, for once COVID happened, it kind of slowed down, and then I started getting. To acting.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00And that's where it was like, I ain't gonna say it switched up. It was like the opportunity started coming. That opportunity came. I was able to make some money, acted a movie, then another movie I ended up being into, then I start getting into, I start, my entries start going somewhere else. Because, you know, it's like, you know, every every artist or every, say for an example, every athlete doesn't become LeBron James or Stephen Curry or Alan Iverson or, you know, the biggest, Michael Jordan, whatever the case. But you do have players that make it to the league. So I look at that like the even like the way with music. Yeah, I may not have did certain things at a superstar level, but once you at the place where you were able to make $2,500 a show or $5,000 a show or $7,000 a show, or you getting paid for features, or you getting this liquor company's paying me thousand dollars for me to post on my social media, I've made money in the business. I've sold records. So you know what I mean? It's like, but when your team, sometimes you can feel like if your team's not all the way together, and then you certainly some other shit starts like making your mind give give you interest or whatever, it's like I start directing my attention to doing acting for a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00But the love is still music. And so I feel like it could have been with the last five, six years, because my mind was really like basically starting to go into like television.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Like, you know.
SPEAKER_01And there's way more money in like TV than there is in music.
SPEAKER_00The acting, I start getting more serious and doing acting classes, and then like I said, the movie processes just intrigued me. It made me want to be a part of it. But I'm an artist by heart, so you know, and I've I've did certain things and I'm still doing it, you know. So now I just feel like it's it's just the beginning because there's a whole bunch of people who don't know anything that I've done or don't know that I've sold records or been on the billboards for whatever, 20 weeks and have records playing all over the country and been on tours with legends. Whatever the game. I've been paid to be able to do it. They don't know your whole trajectory.
SPEAKER_01They're gonna know now. They're gonna know.
SPEAKER_00They don't know. I was paid to go on certain tours with legends. And sometimes you go on tours for free, you gotta pay your dues. It's part of the game. Yeah, yeah. But then there's a lot of artists that just do music, and that's why I say that's that'd be the when I I be listening to new artists now, and I'd be like, I'll be trying to figure out what have they done. Like, what have you done? You just make music, you just be in the studio recording, performed any shows.
SPEAKER_01Some people just do it for the love, not necessarily the business. And I think that's one of the biggest um problems with um with artists. Um they they they do the music, they're good at doing the music, but then when it comes to the business aspect of things, like they they don't got that part down like at all. Um and that's where having a team obviously is crucial. You gotta have the right team.
SPEAKER_00I will say that. Because it don't matter how good you are, you could be the LeBron James, but if you ain't got the right team around you, you ain't gonna win.
SPEAKER_01Are you you still have a team?
SPEAKER_00Um well, right now I'm rebuilding. I have certain people on my team, but I'm I'm in a rebuilding phase right now. So this new project and this new documentary that I'm about to put out. I'm independent, but I got some major people around me though. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And obviously, from everything you've done, you've built those relationships that definitely you know, you sustain them, so you keep holding out to them. Something that came in my mind um when you are doing acting, like when you're you're picking up roles or whatever, do you being an artist, does that influence the roles that you take? Like, do you take roles where you're like this music guy? Or I mean now. I'm just curious.
SPEAKER_00I feel like sometimes they come at me because of that. Well, we have a we have a part for a rapper. We'll pay you this to come in for the day. I'm a hustler. Oh, you're gonna tell me what? Let's get it done.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Like, I'm you know what I mean? Like, that's how I look at it. Uh it's an opportunity. It's gonna be people watching the film. I'm gonna get some money. Everybody wins.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_00You know, so like, but now though, I'm trying to get into the the next phase of not just being the rapper. I wanna be John or I wanna be the whatever. Like, you know, I want to be a different whole character that has nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're gonna call you John. We're gonna make your dreams come true. Um, let me ask you about um just shifting right back into the music. So you're a rapper. You you what kind of like what what's your style? Like, what kind of music do you make?
SPEAKER_00I mean, obviously hip hop, you know? Hip hop, um, soulful, uh melody type of music.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so you sing a little bit?
SPEAKER_00I can hit some hard. You can hold the tune. You know what I mean? Rewriting for a couple singers.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00You know, so that made me sign NDAs, but you know, I get it in. Uh, and also me living in the South, I start to I also have a love for trap music. You know? So I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you never go for India in ATL.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01So, right, because you were in New York and then. Right.
SPEAKER_00Because I left I left New York when I was like, it's safe to say I left New York when I was like 18.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00So I grew it, I grew into a man in the South.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Even though I went to school for one year, the basketball thing ain't work. I ended up having to leave because of the bullshit, whatever the case. I went back to New York. I was only in New York for like another seven, eight months. Okay. I went back to New York, working a job. I just was realized then the opportunities came. It's like, I gotta go. This opportunity is here, I'm out. Left, went to the A, and it's like, yeah, my I grew into a man in Atlanta. Okay. But I'm from New York, though.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, you know, you New Yorkers, you're y'all are loyal. Y'all be like, you be in New York for like five years, like, no, I'm New Yorker.
SPEAKER_00Nah, but it'd be some people that, yeah, like you say, like, I got it'd be people who probably see your blood. Right, yeah. But I've also feel like you're from wherever you go to high school and dream of high school at.
SPEAKER_01But you know what they say. Any where you're from, it's where you at.
SPEAKER_00That's what they used to say to me every time. When uh when I first moved to the A, we don't want to know the New York, just where you from is where you at. Where you at right now. A T L E. We help you, we bringing these dreams together. I just be like, you know what, you right? Let me tap out of that.
SPEAKER_01I mean, for some reason you left New York. It wasn't happening in New York, you know.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it was just it was more to that. It was a lot going on. A lot of crazy shit going on that just make you feel like maybe you would have to be. I want to do something different. And, you know, like I said, you get a little second chance and then you see certain kind of drama. Like I said, around the time also when I decided to leave, it was like around a time where a couple of my friends got shot. Some of my friends got killed, one of my cousins had died from AIDS. It was feeling like I needed a fresh, something new. A fresh new start, something different. And that opportunity came and it was just I just perfect timing. Right.
SPEAKER_01Perfect timing. Well, obviously it was for the better because look all that you accomplished. Um, right now, all right. So I again shifting back into obviously the music. Um right now, like what what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Well, I have a new record. I got a record called Um Stop Hate and Get Money featuring Benny the Butcher.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00It's been going up, it's going crazy. Uh got a new project that I'm about to drop called Cosign. Um, yeah, it's like, you know, the co-part of my name.
SPEAKER_01Well no, let's talk about let's talk about that. Where's your name from?
SPEAKER_00Well, my real name is Alex. So it's short for now we know, now we know. So it's short for Al, but then also it's like I got it from people used to call my pops Big Al. And I guess I'm similar to him in certain ways. Like he's a he he gambles, he takes chances. He left from the south to go to New York when he was 17. Okay. I left from Oh, that's how you have family in New York. Yeah, that's where my family's from. My pops is from my pops is from South Carolina. My mom's from Jamaica, Queens. Okay. But like I say, he left from the South to go to New York to have a better life. Because he ain't want to be like everybody in his town. I left from New York to go to the south for something different.
SPEAKER_01So did they call you Little Al?
SPEAKER_00Nah. But they used to call him Big Al. And originally everybody where I'm from called me Ace. But then there was an Ace Boogie that came out, and then there was also an Ace Hood. Okay. So at that point, it was like this is a time where there was uh Kendrick Lamar's and Keisha Kohl's and Kanye Wess's. It felt like real names needed to be made. And I just, you know, and I found out when I started going to the South that my mom's, I never even knew that. She never told me. My grandmother was like, uh, you know, maybe you get the musical side from us because your mother used to be a singer. I'm like, my mother, who?
SPEAKER_01You know, I was gonna ask you that. That that actually just triggered something. I was gonna ask you if like your parents were musical or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00But I didn't my mother never said that before. My grandmother came out of the left field. She's like, you know, your mother used to sing. She used to be in a group when she was like 17. I'm like, my mother? Joyce Co. Like, you know what I mean? So it was like one of those. And when I found out and I asked her, she's like, Yeah, but then I had your sister, and then real life happens, and sometimes you put your dreams to the side when you have kids and responsibilities. Yeah, yeah. He's like, good thing you don't have kids because you you could do whatever you want to do with just stay focused. Yeah, of course. Okay, so yeah, so at that, that's how I came up with the name. It was like my mom used to sing, her name, her maiden name is Ko. And then also, like that side of the family. I'm very close with them. But then also, like, I got some some legendary family members that used to get a lot of money in the streets back in the days. And you know what I mean? Like, it's just from that whole culture side, the flashy side. Like, I got aunts that grew up with LL Cool J, and my other aunts went to school with 50. So it was just like I just put it together, like Al Co.
SPEAKER_01Okay. That's how I came up with that. It's also like Al co-sign for you. Exactly. Okay, so that's what that's why the project's called Cosign.
SPEAKER_00C-O-E, S-I-G-N, Cosign, because it's like I'm co-signing myself.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I like that. That's clever. I like that. That's cute.
SPEAKER_00And that's what the documentary is about. It's like um, I've been running around in the game for a minute. There were legends like Akon, cosigning me, DJ Holiday, Rest in Peace, the Rico Wade, who found a dungeon family and like worked with Outcast. They always co-signing what I was doing. A lot of blogs, media, people were always co-signing. Benny the Butcher hopped on the remix. He cosigned it. You know what I mean? Like it's like Yeah, you had like you had a so it's like now at this point, it's time for me to co-sign myself.
SPEAKER_01When you had a uh oh my god, what's the word I'm looking for? Like you had a um, what do you fucking call that? Like you had a a rush. Like you had um, oh my god, Dan, help me out here. Like, you know what I'm you know? Yeah, you had you had a bug, a bug, you had like a bug.
SPEAKER_00And sometimes you don't even really realize because you be in the you be in the moment. So when I start realizing, like even some of my family members, they'll call me like, yo, I just seen this interview with you and the girl who was on complex, Nala Simone, or oh, I seen you was on the radio with the city.
SPEAKER_01I see you on spin the record with Marcella. That's what they're gonna be saying to you now.
SPEAKER_00Right. So it was just like eventually from like seeing certain things, like certain people would look up stuff like, oh, I didn't know you was on doing stuff double XL, or you did stuff for source. It was so many blogs and stuff. I was like, you know what? This project is gonna be cosigned because I'm co-signing myself. I've been running around, like you know, like I said, uh was mentoring me. He's like my one of my teacher. Me and him did records and stuff. Shout out to him, shout out to Omar and Boot, you know. They always family for life. And like I said, I got a I got a record that's coming with Acorn also.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00You know what I mean? But like I say, like it was just a whole bunch of that. People cosigning me, people telling me I'm up next, people telling me it's there, you about to be the next guy to New York. So now I just felt like that's what the documentary is gonna be about. It's gonna be about showing all of that in the last few years, and now I'm co-signing myself.
SPEAKER_01So you're putting like the documentary and this new project hand in hand at the same time.
SPEAKER_00It's gonna be like old footage, like from the last 10 years, like footage with me and certain legendary. Showing the trajectory. Right, right. Showing certain stuff leading up to the stuff.
SPEAKER_01Like I've been doing this, like.
SPEAKER_00I didn't just come out of nowhere and just touch the mic. Like I've been putting in work, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01It's not just you know, people love to see that also. People love to see the growth, like they like to see the whole story behind it. It's like it makes them root for you harder. Like, damn, he, you know, like this girl. Um, oh my god, what's her fucking name? Um talk to me, talk to me. Uh Olivia Dean. Olivia Dean, you see, like, it looks like she came out of nowhere, but like she's been doing this and she's been like building herself up and nah, that's a real thing.
SPEAKER_00Like, people, I I do agree with you. People like to see the build-up or they like to see the story. I remember um an example. There's been a couple artists that pay me for features, right? Whatever the kid. I remember one time I was in, I was in LA. Akon, me and Acorn went to the All-Star game. He took, went to the All-Star game. This kid started rapping. He wanted to rap for Acorn. And Akon was like, nah, you gotta talk to my guy Cole, rap for him. Like, he's like, Y'all, he let me take this call. Yo, I'm pretty sure you got talent, but rap for my guy right here. He's making you be the co-sign. So he so he rapped for me, and then years went by, and he reached out to me through social media, like, yo, bro, I've been following you for years. I see you coming up, yo. You've been doing your thing. I remember that time I rapped for you in front of the arena in LA before the All-Star game when you and Acorn was walking in. I want to do a song with you, like, you feel what I'm saying? Like, and I was just like, damn, you rap for me for the but is this like saying Did you remember? I didn't really I didn't remember him. I had to look at the picture, and when I looked at the picture, he was in the background of the picture because I remember he was trying to. You know what I mean? So it's like, damn, like maybe you never know who's watching. We want to get a feature or pay for features, like, yo, I remember you when you was working years ago. I remember you was moving around. I seen it, now I see where you at now. Let's do one. And I end up growing a relationship with him because initially I didn't know him, but for you to tell me you seen me for five years ago when you see me go from point to point. And you appreciate that too. Appreciate it that more.
SPEAKER_01Respect is is is mutual there.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01And obviously he's trying to do his thing, right? You know, he respects you as an artist. I think it's also very important the people who you had around you as well, because you had like, you know, big names around you, people who were co-siding you, you know. Um, so I think, I mean, obviously, not to take away, obviously, what you were doing was you got yourself there for a reason, you know. Um, your talent, your drive, your hustle, everything that you were doing. Um, but yeah, you definitely had some big names that were like backing you. So for somebody like that guy, he's gonna look at you and be like, oh yeah, this guy's obviously doing some shit right, you know. So like um, that's cool that he you guys built a relationship and he followed you.
SPEAKER_00He he wanted to get a feature, and then from there, it just was beyond just the business of him getting the feature or whatever with me. I started to see that he's really hungry. Because I if when you just meet somebody randomly, you don't really know them. But then when like he'll like like some of these artists that I do songs with, or they pay me for features. You I feel like sometimes that'd be an issue to building a relationship. If I don't know you, if I see you serious about what you do, now okay, like yo, I'm in Atlanta, yo, let me pop out. Yo, I'm gonna be in New York, or you gonna be in New York? It's like, damn, you know what? I'm already doing business with you. You cool, your vibes is cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bro. I'm gonna be at the studio, pull up on me. Yeah, because I see you're serious.
SPEAKER_01Hey, the last thing you want to do is waste your time on the side.
SPEAKER_00Sometimes people be just thinking, people just be thinking, like, one time I had this one kid kept, he was just talking, he's like, yo, man, uh, I want to do a song with you. I was like, oh, what's your budget? He's like, why would you want to charge me? We both on the come up. I'm like, yeah, we both on the come up, but we're not both in the same place. Right. I've sold records, I've been on billboards, I've had radio on more than 30 different.
SPEAKER_01You set your standard.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm getting paid for shows. And that right there is. Yeah, I was I was like, you know, he's like, yo, well, I don't got this kind of money, but I can't. How serious he is. Then he ended it off with, well, I don't have this amount of money, but maybe I could do 60% of that. Okay, well, if you're serious, send the money in the next 24 hours. I'll knock the feature out for you in the next 48 hours. So it's like, I need to see if you're serious. Everybody, because some big artists ain't gonna do that. You feel what I'm saying? Like you gotta pay dues. It's part of the game.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, absolutely. And you seem like you also got the business part down.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Obviously, you even from what you were saying with the um with the whole how acting fell on your lap, like you you you did the business part without like even knowing. Not even knowing. Right, you're right, which is cool because then that's that's respectable in itself. Like you're just off the strength, you know, just like, hey, use my car, you know? Right. Um, but that's again, relationships are everything. So you doing that off the strength, just like, hey, I want this to be better for you. That that strengthens that relationship for obviously him to keep hitting you up. And again, that's the business part where you're like helping him out without even knowing. So um, so that's pretty cool. Like, it seems like you built yourself up, obviously, working, hard work goes down.
SPEAKER_00Still working, right? Still building up.
SPEAKER_01You're still doing it. You're still doing it.
SPEAKER_00We haven't got to the best moment yet, but it's coming though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, you know.
SPEAKER_00There's been some good ones, but we we we we got some more. We got a lot of.
SPEAKER_01As long as your best days aren't behind you, you know, like there's you're you're live, you're breathing, you can make tomorrow even better than today. Um, so I love that for you. That's awesome. What what do you think is what do you think is is coming?
SPEAKER_00Um, well, other than the project and the documentary, I'm about to get into um, like I said, I I've been starting to do a lot of stuff also behind the scenes. The TV show that I'm um I'm one of the executive producers on that's coming soon to TV. Uh we got some some important people from the culture that's on there. That's gonna be coming out on TV soon. Uh, and like I said, I'm getting more and more into television. Executive producing projects, acting. I'm taking my acting classes now, I'm trying to get more serious. Yeah, serious. Yeah, because I I just don't want to get called to be the rapper. Sometimes some of my first two, three roles was yo, you're a rapper, you got a big following.
SPEAKER_01Come in in here. Yo, we're gonna pay you some money. And they think they're helping you out, but in reality, you want to do something else.
SPEAKER_00At first, is it I appreciate the opportunity. Of course, but then the more and more I get in, is like I could do more than just rap. Uh you see LL Cool J, you see TI, you see Will Smith acting, they was all rappers. So I want to get into that zone. You can do big film. Takes time though. But we got some big projects coming.
SPEAKER_01And then you're you're also in like the mecca of that. You're in ATL. It's either like ATL or LA, right? Right. And I think that you're in you're in a prime location to take advantage of that and and build yourself up as an actor, not just a rapper actor, but like as an actor, actor. So that's um, that's pretty cool. I can't wait to see you on the on the big screens and shit.
SPEAKER_02I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_01Um, I wanted to ask you, shit. I was gonna ask you something and it just completely slipped my mind. Um when you were just talking about fuck, it'll come back. It'll come back. Um, oh, okay. So I know because obviously you're friends with Rich. Um how do you know Rich, by the way?
SPEAKER_00I got introduced to Rich from Mega. My guy Mega. He's uh also another guy from Brooklyn that's out here in Miami, shaking, good dude. Mega was telling me, he was like, yo, I want to introduce you to my guy Rich. Rich, you know what I mean? He was like, he's doing his thing production-wise, good person to know when you could when you out here in Miami. He's from the town too, you know what I mean? And when I met Rich, Rich gives me like real vibes, like like we like real friends. It ain't even of about, like, it ain't even about the yo, yo, what we doing is like when I come to Miami, I feel like I gotta check in with my guy. That's how I met, you know, start being around him and Dan. And you know, I I just like, you know, I I like vibes. I don't like I like genuine vibes, and Rich is a good dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? He though he ain't fake.
SPEAKER_01No, he's gonna be like, do some bullshit.
SPEAKER_00He's gonna tell you all.
SPEAKER_01He's gonna call you out.
SPEAKER_00He's gonna tell, yeah, you bullshitting and come up and be like, oh my God, here we go. Here we go. Leave me alone with this. But nah, that's my God or us.
SPEAKER_01Well, I know, I know um between you guys, um, I know he's spoken to you about because he's, you know, managing artists. Right. Um, and I know he's spoken to you about managing artists. So is that something? That's something you're doing now, right? Definitely. So on the back end, you're kind of like everything you've learned and all those relationships that you've built, now you're transitioning into executive mode, into, like you say, AR mode.
SPEAKER_00Like, because I I know the game. Like, like I said, uh radio, I know radio program directors all over the country. All of the big publishers, everything you need. You want to get on tour, I'm friends with rappers. Anything you need, I can get you there.
SPEAKER_01You got the connection. Yeah, like I've been in the game.
SPEAKER_00When you've been in the game for 10, 12 years, if you're a student of the game and you really do what you're supposed to do, like that's that's one thing they always say. Your net worth is everything. Your net worth. And I would say, like, you could, as long as you keep a good relationship and a good rapport, like the same way I'm close with Rich, I'm not close like that with all the industry people. But like when you connect with them and you make it where it's not just business, then they feel I ain't gonna say they feel obligated, but that relationship's there. Yeah, for sure. So it goes from you doing an interview seven years ago to now y'all like friends. Like, yo my God, I want to come over here, da-da-da-da. What you want to do? All right, yeah, bring them out, let's do it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. You know, that relationship holds on strong. Yeah, yeah. And then it's it's better when you're like, you know, real. And you're like you said, your vibes, what's that song?
SPEAKER_00Vibes Online, like the mouth do, you know, so then when you like you say, you've been around for a while, like you say, some of your friends start becoming A and R's at labels. Like I remember there was certain girls we was around when I first moved to the A and I was like twenty years old. Some of these girls is now the A and R is at like Atlantic Records now. Is that you know what I mean? Huh?
SPEAKER_01Good thing you didn't treat them badly. Never treat them bad.
SPEAKER_00I always kept a professional. But it was like, you know, they the like I'm the bro, they the sis. You know what I mean? So that relationship is cool. Like I said, everything's relationships and just building with people and your network could take you a long way. For sure. And then they'll let you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, 100% agreed. Let me ask you when it comes to your music, I mean, obviously you're you're more well-rounded. It's not just music, but oh yeah. When somebody listens to your music, what do you want them to, what do you want them to hold on to? Like what do you want them, what do you want the takeaway to be from that?
SPEAKER_00I want them to know, you know, anything's possible. If you stay down, you could come up, co-sign yourself, anything's possible. You gotta believe in yourself. Gotta start with you first. Nobody not gonna want to spend no money or investing to you till they see you doing it yourself. You know what I mean? And the the underdog could win. People want to see the underdog, but they want to hear the story. They wanna see, they wanna see they wanna see what you went through. So it's like tell your story.
SPEAKER_01And that's what you do in your music. Right. Alright, so you give hope that giving that hope. Okay. That tomorrow is still possible.
SPEAKER_00Nah, that's a fact. If you stay focused, if you if you if you believe in it, you could do it, but you gotta just stay down until you come up. Some people give up fast. Yeah. Yo, I ain't really good. Yo, it's nigga.
SPEAKER_01That doubt, that negativity, that self-talk is important.
SPEAKER_00So many people where I'm from, they be like, damn, bro. I remember, like, long story short, not to say no names, when I was 17, 18, I had a job. I was working as a custodian, right? Some spot in Long Island. Uh, whatever the case. The dude who was there, he was working too, but he was like uh, he worked there, but he was like a manager or something. Years later, I guess he started, yeah, he started his clothes and all that, whatever. Clothes company. Now he's starting to be like fashion week, doing this, that, and the third. And we haven't spoken. Somehow, I was connected to one of his family members in the A. He's like, yo, I remember him when he used to work. I remember he used to be talking about that, and they ain't really believe it. He's like, yo, I'm just I'm proud of that kid. That kid really came a long way. He's he moving around with superstars and dropping big records and doing this, that, and the third. He manifested it. Right. But it's like you be thinking people be forgetting. They don't forget. You feel what I'm saying? And then that even made him want to like just not gonna say break Brad, but I want you to pay my stuff, I'll pay you. It's like you respect the brand because you know what's going on.
SPEAKER_01And he knew where you you came from, right?
SPEAKER_00So, you know, you just appreciate all that. Yeah, that be motivating me when I get text messages or I get like DMs from people who I went to school with.
SPEAKER_01It's like confirmation that what you're doing, you're you're on your right, your right path, you know.
SPEAKER_00So, you made it further than anybody than where we from. I'm like, I wouldn't say all that. Most likely to succeed. Right. I was like, yeah, we've we from the Mecca, but like I get what you're saying from our buildings, where we from, I probably have made it a little further in different ways than certain other artists. And they can still do it.
SPEAKER_01That's pressure too, like low-key, because now you're like, you I mean, either way, you can't fail, right? You that's the pressure you put on yourself. But now when people are looking at you like he's made it this far, you know, like and we still gotta grow, still gotta keep going. Yeah, never you don't want to like go backwards. And you know, sometimes you take a step backwards to take two steps forward, but um, but you know, you got eyes on you, you got people who are um kind of like looking up to you, you know. Um, especially if you're getting messages like that, you know.
SPEAKER_00Maybe people from my neighborhood, like it'd be funny. Like one of my best friends would be like, yo, sometimes your name be in the conversation, they'd be like, they they probably won't like your comment or they might not say nothing. But the product. But he they be like, yo, I with a couple of them, they'd be like telling him, like, yo, I look up to him. Yo, he really left from New York and you see him, you see all the people he around and what he's done. I guess in my mind, I'd be like, damn, what would have happened if I never would have left? Well, I think I still would have had the same drive, but I just had a different mental. I was trying to get somewhere else.
SPEAKER_01No, everything happens exactly how it's supposed to happen. So you you obviously made the right move.
SPEAKER_00Nah, definitely.
SPEAKER_01That's exciting. Um, so today you're gonna do a song for us.
SPEAKER_00Definitely.
SPEAKER_01So you know what song you're gonna do?
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna do one of the records off my project. Okay. Um I'm gonna do kill your dreams. Kill your dreams. Don't let them kill your dreams. Okay. Stay focused. Because there's a lot of dream killers out here. They they be afraid because Loki haters they wasn't able to do it. Or they don't know nobody in their circle that was able to do it. So when you do it, it's foreign.
SPEAKER_01Them silent haters.
SPEAKER_00Don't let nobody kill your dreams.
SPEAKER_01I love that. I love that. I was gonna ask you what is that what it's about, but obviously, boom, you just said it. And that that name is perfect. All right. Well, we're about to hear your your record. Are you this is a very serious question now, all right? Okay. Are you ready to spin the record?
SPEAKER_00Spin the record? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, good. All right, that's that's you know, you're gonna spin the record now. Um, Cole, thank you for being here, sharing your story. Is there anything you want the world to know? Anything you want to add?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I said um my project is coming out, um, Cosign. It's coming out soon, sooner than later, sometime this summer.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Um, really soon.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Um the documentary is also coming out. So we call it Cosign Yourself. It's gonna be available on um television platforms.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00And like I said, we just we just getting started. Some good movies coming. We working. If you don't know who I am, you can follow me on social media. I go by the name of Al Co, but on Instagram, it's Al CoWorld, A-L-C-O-E World.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna put it, don't worry. They're gonna know me.
SPEAKER_00No, I'll be so used to saying it just in case they don't see it.
SPEAKER_01We got you, we got you. Well, again, thank you, thank you. It's been a pleasure getting to know you and like your story because like obviously you've done a lot. Um, so if they don't know you, they're gonna know you now. And if they still don't know you, they they're gonna know you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they don't know the old me, but they're gonna get to know the new me. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_01Well, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, thank you. We give half clubs over here, so give me a half vib. Definitely. Thank you.