Cactus Boyz on Arizona Upbringing, Tommy G, Bootleg Kev, the N Word & More

6:59Bootleg Kev:Everybody can be CB We chasing bands everyday We got like shit means all types of shit but we really just pushing this shit for real but Cause you can't be like It's really like a family though You can't be like

7:10Cactus Boyz:I'm such a big Nipsey fan That I am now From rolling 60s Nah I don't know It's like But you can be like I'm all money in Yeah Yeah for sure Kind of relating

7:20Tommy G:To that situation though You feel me Marathon continue You feel me Like we You could say you cactus boys And all that But you can't say you CB though You feel me They for sure say

7:28Bootleg Kev:They for sure can't say They south side That's what they can say You feel me But it's all love You feel me It's all love For our people, bro, and our fans, gang, if y 'all want to support you, when we go to our shows, last time we went to, what was it? Where was we at? Cardinal Stadium. And Dan G was all like, he was like, all right, I want all y 'all to shout out CBE and just take this picture, the whole crowd. CBE on three, you feel me? CBE, that shit was lit, you feel me? It's just all love.

7:59Cactus Boyz:That's what's up. You guys controversial out there? It's like a lot of people don't like you, or is it more like the city? Everybody loves us.

8:06Bootleg Kev:The city loves us for sure. We can't even walk into Walgreens. We can't even walk into Walmart. We can't go to certain places without... Oh, that's you, especially them. They face card don't decline. See, at least you can't see my shit. But damn it. Oh, yeah, that's for sure. Pizzle. Yeah, that's Lito.

8:20Tommy G:It feel like the city behind us, though. But, you know, you already know they got them hanged motherfuckers out there that don't fuck with us. You feel me? But at the end of the day, I ain't with none of that internet shit. If them niggas, you know what I'm saying, they can try it if they want to. You feel me? They can test me like homework. You know they gonna get done right

8:36Cactus Boyz:So yeah, why come you don't have tattoos and stuff? You resisted that so far?

8:39Tommy G:Shit bro, tattoo more than me You feel me? He just don't show that shit He incognito He got a sleeve

8:46Bootleg Kev:He got a whole shirt He got a shirt basically He got a shirt Yeah I got a hat He got a hat

8:53Tommy G:Is it blue? Is it blue? Hey, you ain't capping right?

8:57Cactus Boyz:You feel me? No, but why? You're trying to just keep You want to be able to get pulled over by the cops and look normal?

9:02Bootleg Kev:I don't know I just feel like Cause my first tattoo Was my mom's name Right here on my chest And like I just kept going In my body So I was like Okay I'm about to Just do a shirt I think I don't know I really never thought Of like doing my arms Or like my neck My face and shit I never I don't know A lot of people Now kind of skip

9:19Cactus Boyz:Right to the face

9:20Bootleg Kev:I did the whole shirt I got my back done I got my area I ain't got no more space Bro smarter than me shit

9:24Tommy G:I don't get no fuck If you see me Then you see me If you don't Then you don't Nigga I blast that CB On my face Nigga I tat it up My whole face If you see me Then you see me I'm a mama Oh my god

9:34Bootleg Kev:Shit

9:35Tommy G:I stand what I live for

9:36Bootleg Kev:Hey speaking of CV Shit we don't brought you a shirt Oh shit Shout out for Steve Design Made it for you You feel me This is our logo The Mexican flag on You feel me Coming on for the last time I'm a mama

9:47Tommy G:Arizona shirt Going on here Oh yeah We put the Mexican flag on You feel me Fuck ice Fuck ice Fuck ops Fuck roofies I know what it is man Fuck I You suck ass niggas

9:59Cactus Boyz:Oh shit Okay Let me show you what we got here.

10:03Bootleg Kev:See, that's what we said. CVE, Chasing Bands. Chasing Bands every day. Chasing Bands every day.

10:08Cactus Boyz:Wow, this is a hard shirt right here. God, man. Hell yeah. Thank you. Fuck that. My kid's going to be hyped. I'll come home with a cactus shirt. Oh, yeah. That's sick. Hell yeah. Yeah, what does a cactus mean to you guys? Is this a symbol of Arizona? Or it's like, I don't know.

10:24Tommy G:Shit, really, though? Like, in our neighborhood where we from, you feel me? There's really a street named Cactus in our neighborhood. but that's not really why we put cactus behind our name. You feel me? We really put cactus for the whole state. You feel me? For Arizona.

10:37Bootleg Kev:Yeah, you go to South Mile, and all you're going to see is cactuses for sure. That's right. It's not easy. You think of Arizona. Motherfuckers think of Arizona, though.

10:44Tommy G:They think it's all cactuses. You feel me? But if you really tapped in, you know what it is, man. This ain't Toys R Us. You know where y 'all got to y 'all toys from? Yeah.

10:53Cactus Boyz:Is it true that there's water inside the cactus? Yeah. They used to tell you that. They could cut open a fucking cactus and find water, but I don't think anyone's ever actually tried that, right?

11:04Tommy G:I heard that before, you feel me? But shit, everywhere I go, I survive, you feel me? Yeah. No matter what, you feel me? I end up in the motherfucking desert, my nigga. I'm finna cut the fucking cactus open and drink the water out that bitch. For sure.

11:17Cactus Boyz:I'd probably rather just get some, like, Dasani or Aquafina instead of just drinking, like, weird old cactus water, though. Like, I guess you could do it if it came down to it, though. Shit, hell yeah. You ever see that show Man vs. Wild? where he picks up the elephant shit and drinks the water out of it? Yeah. Fuck. He'd be doing some crazy shit on that motherfucker. Shit was foul, but I heard that it was fake. I heard that it doesn't really work in real life.

11:39Tommy G:Yeah, fuck all that fake shit. You put me in the wild. You put me off the shit, that real shit. I get wild for real.

11:46Cactus Boyz:Facts. So, okay, like, growing up where you guys are growing up, did you see a lot of crazy shit coming up, or, like, what was the environment like? Like I said before, it's like every other hood, gang,

11:57Bootleg Kev:It's dangerous bro. It's the same shit

12:00Tommy G:Dangerous sketchy the thing about I tell me we start that shit We ain't like none of you niggas that fucking try to fabricate that shit try to pull up and make y 'all long shit You film y 'all helping going on for generations. We just a new generation We put it on for like on a whole nother the shit from like a home on a whole nother level you feel me like But shit, we didn't see we didn't seen it all game. You name it. We didn't seen it all You feel me this one thing about us though You can't make us break a fold you feel me at the end of the day me and bro right here you for me There's this starting niggas 50 niggas behind us you feel me but like me and brothers right here you feel me like Yeah, you can't make it break us forward.

12:36Tommy G:You feel me we we put on for that shit. You feel me for the faces shit

12:41Cactus Boyz:You feel like Arizona like really needed some dudes like you to kind of be the face of what the city is actually like or what the state

12:50Bootleg Kev:Yeah, bro, it's a lot of people that be rapping like, you know what I mean? And they don't even, they've never done, I ain't saying it's cool, but they've never been through none. Just, it's all capping, you know what I mean? It's a straight line, rapping about this and this and that.

13:04Tommy G:As far as on the music level, we done faced it. Deep down in your heart, you know that shit. On some fires, on some streets, some more real shit. Y 'all know where y 'all get y 'all work from. Y 'all know where y 'all get your toys from. You feel me? I ain't talking Toys R Us, boy. You better stop capping with that. You better know where you get them toys from, boy. my mama

13:20Cactus Boyz:really damn I gotta get my way out to Arizona I need some toys

13:26Tommy G:we got a whole lot of them

13:30Cactus Boyz:Santa Claus over here

13:31Tommy G:your motherfucking little kids got them bitches makes you think grown men don't got them oh shit

13:39Cactus Boyz:we all grew up with them if you know what I'm talking about yeah it was very relaxed gun laws in Arizona yeah it's chill you can tell some shit shit, bro.

13:49Tommy G:You go to the motherfucking liquor store, bro, you'll see a motherfucking old lady with a motherfucking sock on her head. You see a motherfucking man? Man, everybody got one out there, bro. You better get you one if you don't got one, because if you don't got one, then you ain't gonna survive out there on my mama.

14:04Cactus Boyz:Why is it so treacherous? People just robbing everybody left and right? You know how it is. Robbing, shooting,

14:10Tommy G:but you feel me? At the end of the day, if you get a gun in the wrong man's hands, you feel me? Scary niggas shoot at the end of the day, You feel me? So motherfuckers don't know what to do with it. You feel me?

14:19Cactus Boyz:Right. So you guys are from the south side. Like, what's the difference between the north and the east and the west and shit?

14:25Tommy G:Nah, shit. I ain't even gonna lie. Phoenix is Phoenix. You feel me? The west side get active. The east side get active. The north side get active. We just happen to be from the south side. You feel me?

14:34Bootleg Kev:We just happen to be from the south side. And everybody know what it is with the south side of Phoenix.

14:37Tommy G:You feel me? Everybody know what it is with the south side of Phoenix. I ain't even got to say too much about it. You're from Phoenix so you know what the south side on.

14:43Bootleg Kev:Yeah, we're right there by the antennas for sure.

14:45Tommy G:And shit, motherfuckers like us that's coming from the south side, you can't just come up and start rapping and just, like, have the streets vouch for you, feel me? You really got to have some respect on your motherfucking name, you feel me? You really got to have the streets behind you, you feel me, to put on like we putting on, you feel me? And shit, streets vouch for you.

15:01Bootleg Kev:Verified. Verified. Classified. That's how Kelly got South Central LA. We got South Central AZ. South Central Phoenix. South Central Phoenix. I'm my mama from Central and South Mountain.

15:11Tommy G:Shit, we from my mama.

15:13Cactus Boyz:It really is the craziest shit ever, and I never ever thought about this before, but it must be pretty badass to have the drink that almost everybody in the hood is drinking be named after your state.

15:24Bootleg Kev:Hard.

15:25Cactus Boyz:Especially the Mucho Mango.

15:26Tommy G:He got the Mucho Mango.

15:27Bootleg Kev:For 99 cents, he'll get you one.

15:29Tommy G:And this ain't even no advertisement, man. You from the hood, you gonna get you one of those, you feel me?

15:34Cactus Boyz:I honestly don't know if I ever had one of those. I used to walk to the store for one of those. See, that's crazy. I've never been to iced tea, dude. I get a Salsaghetis, I get that shit. I see is better than I give it credit for

15:54Cactus Boyz:So okay who actually started rapping first like who do you guys consider to be kind of like the leader or is it more like it's totally everybody leaders.

16:03Tommy G:We all leaders. We ain't no leaders, bro. We is leaders, you feel me? But if bro lead, I'm gonna follow. If bro lead over there, I'm gonna follow with him. If I lead, I'm gonna follow with me. You feel me? We all leaders in this bitch.

16:15Bootleg Kev:We got each other through this shit. Shit, that's the key to success, bro.

16:18Tommy G:It ain't no hating shit. You feel me? We keep it pushing. We keep it moving. We keep winning, dawg. And as far as that rapping shit, shit, I been rapping since I was a little kid. You feel me? I always felt like I done seen so much shit. You feel me? I be stuck in my head a lot. You feel me? So like, I always felt like I always got a story to tell, you feel me? And I just, the rapping shit just, it was like a door for me, you feel me, to start, you feel me, expressing myself. So.

16:42Bootleg Kev:Yeah, I feel like he was for sure the one that started rapping. And the homie Tico, he started, he was rapping too. I kind of started like, by like two years after them, I'd be hearing them and shouting like shit.

16:53Tommy G:That's when I started rapping, my boy T was like.

16:55Bootleg Kev:I mean, it's like that though.

16:57Tommy G:Shit, we was sleeping on the floor, you feel me? With a mattress on the floor, you feel me?

17:00Bootleg Kev:Six of us.

17:01Tommy G:boarded up windows and shit fucking six blankets no bed smoking and shit and we be like hey shit

17:06Bootleg Kev:hit this shit out

17:07Tommy G:you feel me I gotta rap you feel me and shit bros was fucking with it and the bros was fucking with it and the hood started fucking with it and then when the hood started fucking with it the whole city started fucking with it and now shit we just gonna global with that bitch I'm a mama

17:17Cactus Boyz:man I ain't even gonna lie with it what's the like weirdest place that you've seen fans tap in from like are people hitting you up from all over the world like the UK and stuff like that

17:27Bootleg Kev:New York UK Australia I'm barely a bucking. It's like low. Everywhere you can think about it.

17:34Tommy G:Go to our YouTube. The fans is crazy, though. You feel me? Like, our block famous, though, like, in the streets. You feel me? But, like, you feel me? We done made that shit, like, with the music shit. Every motherfucker's passing by through our block recording this shit. And we just be chilling this shit. We be thinking it's opps and shit. But motherfuckers passing down recording this shit on some fan-down shit.

17:54Bootleg Kev:Yeah, we got a big-ass moral, like, it's just ACB, boys. It's our logo. That shit right there. Down the corner store right there. We got a mirror on our black. That shit big as fuck. The city approved that shit and everything. Shout out to Hands Up Fade. The city was cool with that?

18:08Cactus Boyz:Like, they see you guys as a rap group, so they're cool with you being represented as like that? Yeah, that shit got verified. The barbershop in the hood approved it.

18:16Tommy G:You feel me? Hands Up Fade. Shout out to Hands Up Fade. I know a lot of motherfuckers hate on that shit that we got the mirror on the hood. You feel me? But shit, if they can't take it down, then you just can't do nothing but hate on it. That shit.

18:28Cactus Boyz:It's ripped, man. yeah i mean shit they took that king vaughn mural down because motherfuckers just kept pulling up and shooting photos and stuff and i guess they eventually got sick of it i think the city told them to take it down and like there's been some nipsey murals out here that at a certain point the business owner is just like bro i'm just sick of dealing with people dissing it people fixing it it's just a pain in the ass they just kind of get over a certain point yeah hell yeah shit shout

18:51Tommy G:king vaughn and shout nipsey shit i grew up listening to both of them man they got me in through the trenches and shit, bumping them and shit, but if a motherfucker come down through armory and try to take that shit down, shit, you might just fuck around and get shot. Shit, feel me? You gotta take that risk. You feel me if you really wanna take our shit down.

19:09Cactus Boyz:For sure. So, um, you guys dropped out when you were super young?

19:14Tommy G:Shit. I ain't even gonna lie with you, gang, I dropped around, like, the 7th, 8th grade. I ain't even, I ain't even go to high school. To be real with you.

19:23Cactus Boyz:Just never really had any interest in it, or?

19:27Tommy G:Oh shit bro I grew up young Shit life hits gang

19:29Bootleg Kev:Life hits you feel me

19:30Tommy G:I grew up young You feel me

19:31Bootleg Kev:I grew up in a household

19:34Tommy G:With like You feel me 12 motherfuckers You feel me So when I was like 12, 13 Shit I was already A grown man To my family's eyes You feel me I had to go make that bread You feel me So once I hit like 7th 8th grade You feel me That school shit Wasn't working for me Cause it wasn't putting Money in my family's pockets You feel me To pay the rent And all that So shit I just chose a different route But at the end of the day now that I'm a little older and shit, I regret not going to school and all that shit, but shit. Yeah, I ain't even gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie.

20:02Bootleg Kev:We would've went to school, like high school and shit. I feel like we would've had a even more like bus and I don't even know, but like we still got that shit too. Yeah, to me, like high school

20:11Tommy G:was like the streets and shit. I dropped out like two weeks into that grade. I ain't gonna lie with you.

20:17Cactus Boyz:Well, you think if you had like a high school of people that were kind of focused on your movement that it would have maybe popped off faster early on?

20:26Bootleg Kev:I feel like earlier in our days, in like our younger days for sure, we would have had like probably more buzz. But I mean, that shit picked up quick. That's why we kept that shit going too. They said it shit real, you know. Anybody that knows, they know, you know what I mean?

20:42Tommy G:We ain't lying, bro. To me, I always seen like high school and all that shit like the streets, you feel me? Because I already knew what schools motherfuckers went to, you feel me? So like, yeah. I don't even fuck about that shit at the time

20:57Cactus Boyz:For sure I mean especially if you guys got like Street shit going on I feel like high school gets real complicated real fast Getting in and out of there

21:06Bootleg Kev:We went to high school We didn't want to like no real big high school Like them little Charter school

21:14Tommy G:I tried going to a night school when I was 17 You feel me I went for like two weeks and shit

21:19Bootleg Kev:Yeah that's where we went to class

21:21Tommy G:You know I always kept the toy In my book bag

21:25Cactus Boyz:You feel me I ain't fuck with that shit I dropped out of that shit You ever think about Going back and get your GD Or something

21:31Bootleg Kev:Shit we don't even need that shit We getting paid off this music We up

21:34Tommy G:We don't need that shit But like as far as like Just like In general I kinda regret that shit In a way But shit

21:41Bootleg Kev:Yeah I ain't gonna lie If I coulda go back I'd really go to school For real

21:44Tommy G:Yeah my mama But shit if you If you in school right now And you And you doing that shit right I advise you to just stay in school, feel me, and stay out of all the other bullshit, because all that other bullshit come with a lot of shit that, you feel me, that a lot of motherfuckers can't, you feel me? A lot of motherfuckers can't put up with that shit.

22:03Cactus Boyz:So you guys kind of encourage people to stay out the streets at this point? Hell yeah. I feel like, yeah.

22:08Tommy G:Hell yeah, bro, that shit.

22:09Cactus Boyz:Is that lighter? Yeah, get high. Don't wait on that for me. Okay, trying to smoke a blunt or what? Moonrock blunt. I think I'm alright on the Moonrock. Hey, shout out Dr. Moonrock.

22:25Bootleg Kev:I can't be turning down blunts though, man.

22:30Cactus Boyz:Fucking OG Gumby was on my head about not wanting to smoke the Hoover blunt with him. But that shit was like a fucking baseball bat. Now you got to hit that motherfucker.

22:37Bootleg Kev:It's some real shit, bro. It's some gang. This is Arizona blunt? Nah, I think bro from my hair from Kelly.

22:43Cactus Boyz:Oh, okay. Dr. Zodiac Moonrod. You smoked that. It came from Arizona though.

22:48Tommy G:It came from Arizona.

22:50Cactus Boyz:bro i remember one time fucking back in the day probably 14 years ago we were driving from la to texas and we passed through arizona and the dogs at the checkpoint fucking smelled us immediately were on us because even though we thought we didn't have weed but our clothes and whatever like the dog starts freaking out and then they start they open the trunk starts freaking out about this one backpack in particular i had one homie who forgot that he had like a weed fucking edible in his bag and the dog smelled it which is pretty impressive and i remember like thinking that arizona was just the craziest place because i had just moved from the east coast and the the the chick at the chick at the checkpoint was like okay you you got to eat it all right now and i'm just like what is this like a fucking frat like hazing ritual type thing she she made me like a fucking thousand milligram edible right in front of us he got super sick it was crazy we We had to drive all the way to Texas and this fool just passed out in the backseat.

23:46Tommy G:Because this motherfucker is driving through that bitch that's bigger than you. Not even talking about no internet shit.

23:50Bootleg Kev:They got way bigger. Oh, me, remember, they put, just for smelling like weed, they'll put you in a little two-hour room and shit. You got to wait and all types of shit. They got to go through the scanner.

23:59Cactus Boyz:Oh, mama.

24:00Bootleg Kev:I'll tell you this shit with that.

24:01Cactus Boyz:If you get pulled over in Arizona and your car stinks like weed, are they searching you or they don't really give a fuck? Oh, yeah, for sure. They put me over all the time for sure.

24:09Bootleg Kev:Me, they for sure going to search me. They don't give a fuck.

24:11Tommy G:I need it really depends where you at and who pulls you over you feel me cuz I didn't got put up with a couple answers but she I get I get a couple ounces like hey you feel me this for you right here and be like I keep going shit I'm gonna keep that shit real have a nice day sir thank you too you got that flame game I got my attorney Rosenberg later I got you right

24:38Cactus Boyz:here. Attorney Rosenberg to the rescue. Oh yeah, where's bro at? You should have had him pull up. That's a legendary lawyer out here. Yeah, I already know who he is. He's a Jewish guy. He's a fly guy. He's like Jewish and Italian but he fucks with the Mexicans. There's one vlog where he goes, Attorney Rosenberg fucks with the Rasa. Rasa. That was crazy.

25:00Tommy G:We do that shit for the Rasa. Shout out to Tony Rosenberg.

25:04Cactus Boyz:I think he's Italian and Jewish and so him and Lush both said that makes them pizza bagels.

25:11Tommy G:I ain't even gonna lie. I know he's talking about a scene, bro. That boy look like he done did a whole blow sack.

25:18Cactus Boyz:That's the crazy thing is that, like, I've been in court with him and it, to me, seemed like he had been partying his ass off the night before. But then he also seems like a pretty serious lawyer. When you actually talk to him about the law and shit, like, he's, like, super on point. But I think he still just gets down sometimes.

25:34Tommy G:That's the motherfuckers you need on your side. do you feel me that they know a little bit about the streets and they can vouch for them that's the motherfuckers you need on your side if I ever need them

25:43Cactus Boyz:I might just call them if Attorney Rosenberg is getting loaded what are the judges doing what is everybody in this courtroom

25:49Tommy G:doing they sharing the set they sharing that

25:53Cactus Boyz:yo he's like the most legendary lawyer out here bro he fucks with all the rappers they all trust him with their future yeah yeah four extra four extra relying on him. But okay, so I guess you guys, one of the first things that you went viral for, you were talking about smashing tortas. Chicken juicy. I wasn't smashing no motherfucking tortas.

26:18Bootleg Kev:I wasn't smashing no motherfucking tortas. What are you waiting for?

26:21Tommy G:I eat a fucking ham and queso fresco one, but I wasn't smashing that motherfucking you got to talk to my bros about this.

26:28Cactus Boyz:I mean, how big she got to be to count as a torta anyway? I'm pretty sure. No comment, gang. You're not into fat women? No coffee. Why not? I eat tortas though. No, definitely a great sandwich, but also slang for a fat Mexican woman.

26:46Tommy G:I never dealt with one, so I can't tell you about it. Never? Nah.

26:51Bootleg Kev:Nah, we look like, I ain't fucking no tortas though. Bruh, I have some serious fucking tortas.

26:57Cactus Boyz:Of course, yeah.

26:58Tommy G:I've been doing that since I've been talking about that. You're not a tortas founder.

27:01Cactus Boyz:Damn, I feel like tortas need love as well.

27:03Bootleg Kev:Are you sure you're gonna pass up on this? I know the homie that smashed it. I know I got a homie that smashed it.

27:09Tommy G:Oh, my mama, I got a homie that smashed anything, you feel me? So, shit.

27:13Cactus Boyz:Yeah, but you guys are still being selective? I can't even relate to that, man. I grew up fucking banging anything I can get my hands on. Shit.

27:20Tommy G:I'm a real street nigga. I got mortals. Yeah, I got mortals. At the end of the day, I got mortals.

27:26Cactus Boyz:All right, how did you guys end up connecting with Boola Kev?

27:30Bootleg Kev:Shit, he tapped in with us one time. That's it with us for a minute bro before we came up here like He was hitting this over like a year, bro We just kept telling him like just let us get shit right and then we're gonna pull up So I don't know where we all got together. You know well, let's just go That's when we saw that lefty interview with Kevin

27:51Bootleg Kev:Like say y 'all better get out here tell y 'all really want to blow up and that's what really made us like alright The next week was like go to Kelly again ever since then ever since that's that day, bro We've been active every motherfucking day, bro Yeah, bro He opened up a dump for us

28:07Tommy G:Outside of Arizona, you feel me? The first door that opened up Outside of Arizona for us, you feel me? And at the time, he was hitting us up for a little minute You feel me? He been tapped in, but shit At the time, we kind of had like some little shit Going on and shit, you feel me? We could have never come out here and shit, but Got shit right, pulled up I mean, even though he's out here

28:26Cactus Boyz:He's like, and also he's in the room Even though he does not have a mic right now But Boolet Cap Like one of the more Established people In the music industry At this point Who's like Really tapped in with Arizona Because he got a club out there And shit like that So when you talk to him You get the vibe That he's somebody Who really understands What's going on in your state Fuck yeah I feel like yeah

28:46Bootleg Kev:He sees it for sure Like oh yeah These young boys hard right here Yeah that's for sure Yeah it's a lot of motherfuckers

28:54Tommy G:Rapping out there I feel like the whole city Rapping out there But shit I feel like bro Fucking with that shit And I feel like we We must really got something special You feel me Outside of what we think You feel me We do That shit bro

29:05Bootleg Kev:Everybody rap bro But not everybody got talent We just hit 100k in a month Off the muscle Off the muscle easy Off the trenches No vibe No vibe No more nothing Yeah we got We got some shit coming for sure Yeah we just hit I think that shit like 115k right now That changed me I told y 'all too That shit gonna go crazy right there bro

29:26Tommy G:Yeah but shit That shit really just fell in between the block and shit, but when bro tapped in, that shit was like, like I said, it was like a door outside of Arizona, you feel me? So, we opened that motherfucker and now we're here.

29:37Bootleg Kev:Had Tommy G on the block, we did that documentary, that shit just hit like a million too, that shit was sick right there.

29:42Cactus Boyz:Did Kev connect you with Tommy G? Nah, he tapped in. Or Tommy G just tapped in? Yeah, he tapped in.

29:49Tommy G:Tommy G been like tapping in with us and shit, but just one day he hit my DM, he was like, hey, I'm finished out of Phoenix in about a month, and I was like, shit, say less, pull up to our block you feel me like tommy's very open-minded because like he hit me the other day

30:03Cactus Boyz:and was just like yo i'm looking for crips he's like he's like i'm doing a whole documentary about all kinds of different crips he's like do you know any crips that would be good and i'm like i know like way too many crips that are like interesting enough that they could be in your video and i like hooked him up with a few people i don't know if he actually tapped in with any of the people i sent him but i was like man i got a homeless crip i got a crib who'd be dissing everybody i got everything i got a lot of different crips out here but uh okay so blue lake have never tried to get you to sell bootleg merchandise at the flea market or anything because that's his old hustle people don't know that i know he said he was to be at the swap

30:41Bootleg Kev:meeting and shit twice ago that matter of fact me and bro right here at the swap me talking about that shit pretty sure he was up there selling cds and shit bullet cds but we'lls up there fucking we'lls like dancing and shit for mixtapes bro we'lls break dancing we'lls like fucking Seven years old Remember when they used to have That little monkey over there dog Yeah Remember that shit dog You had to be a little Los perros

31:03Cactus Boyz:La cuarenta

31:04Tommy G:Yeah

31:04Cactus Boyz:Your flea market had a monkey

31:06Tommy G:Like literally dog

31:07Bootleg Kev:A little monkey

31:08Tommy G:They used to ride a bike And a motherfucking That shit was sick as a kid You go And a motherfucking pony And they got the little Fucking rides and shit Sound like they bought The fucking break The swap meet from Phoenix You didn't even call that shit The swap meet You feel me You call that shit Los perros Or film me La cuarenta La cuarenta You feel me

31:23Cactus Boyz:I mean in terms of bootleg shit like the flea market or the swap meet or whatever where I grew up was where I pretty much found out about bootleg shit because like I noticed that like all the poor kids from my town had the same Tommy Hilfiger jeans and then I went to the flea market and saw them I was like oh that's where the fuck you guys are getting there's like a huge Tommy Hilfiger flag on the back pocket and I remember just saying like that don't look like the rest of the shit that I see at Macy's and shit and like that's how I figured it out yeah the game's changed I don't think there's not that much shit worth bootlegging anymore right I mean I guess you could do shirts and shit yeah shit we used to buy

32:00Bootleg Kev:like movies and shit remember like you'll see somebody walking and shit in the movie we go on$5 DVDs

32:07Tommy G:you go on 1 to 3 movies we bought the exorcist

32:10Bootleg Kev:when I was like 10 years old 9 years old we bought the exorcist I watched that shit I was fucking traumatized

32:20Cactus Boyz:so uh has it been a struggle to kind of leave the the streets behind as you took the music more serious or what's your mentality on that i'm still with the streets right now okay

32:30Tommy G:to be honest with you it ain't no struggle because we is the streets you feel me we we make that dead end you feel we make that left and right we is the streets but do you feel

32:40Cactus Boyz:more high profile now where it's like a higher chance that you're gonna get pulled over or have to deal with all the things that could happen to a well-known rapper.

32:48Bootleg Kev:It's been like that for us, bro. Yeah, especially, bro. Right here, too, they be seeing us. They immediately see me. They fucking flip a bitch on me, dog. Yeah, I ain't even gonna lie. The most random place you could not think, bro. They gonna be like, nah, I ain't gonna see nobody right here.

33:03Tommy G:Motherfuckers from our hood, bro. Right when you pull up. I'm gonna tell you right now, motherfuckers from our hood, they get pulled over, they taking pictures of you. You feel me? They gonna try to find that CB tattoo on you.

33:11Bootleg Kev:They gonna ask you if you CB, you know. they're going to ask you if you CB, you feel me?

33:14Tommy G:They're looking for them tattoos, you feel me? If they know, if they see your address and they see you from the section, they're going to be like, oh, yeah, you know CB, you know? You from that hood, whoop-de-whoop? And they're going to try to take pieces of that shit, you feel me? But shit, at the end of the day, I got that shit blasted on my face. You ain't even got to look for it, you feel me? But they're trying to find some negative shit, you feel me? At the end of the day, we're really pushing positivity.

33:36Cactus Boyz:Right, because, I mean, the cops could look at you and think, okay they're young dudes who are making it out of this environment rapping or they could look at you and say these are young dudes rapping about crime so they're probably making shit worse

33:48Tommy G:whatever way they look at it whatever's going on in our section that should been going on for hella generations we just a new generation that's taking it a different route you feel me but like at the end of the day you feel me the police gonna do they gonna work you feel me they gonna they gonna do their job at the end of the day you feel me and they at the end of the day they're Trying to find some negativity, but like I said, you feel me? We pushing them positivity.

34:09Bootleg Kev:Yeah, we ain't in no bullshit, bro. Yeah, my mama. We don't do no crime, bro. We just got our little LLC and all that shit, so we doing good right now. Yeah. We got our types of moors. I don't break the law. I'm my mama.

34:20Tommy G:I don't break the law, bro. And I know bro and them, they don't break the law either, you feel me? We just regular civilians at the end of the day. I'm a paydar, man. Putting off our families, you feel me?

34:30Cactus Boyz:That's right. Okay, what about in terms of, I know that at one point, some of the AMP guys, Agent and Phantom, they were actually watching the documentary. What's it like just watching these sort of really well-known personalities just watching footage of you guys hanging out in your neighborhood? That shit's sick, bro. That shit's amazing.

34:51Bootleg Kev:I try not to be on my phone like that, but when I do, I go down and I see what is it, like K-Sanet and all this shit? Yeah, his homie did this shit. I see their little videos, but then seeing them react to I'm like, okay, actually seeing that shit. Yeah, that shit's crazy for me, bro.

35:09Tommy G:You feel me? All I've known is the block my whole life, I swear to God. And then when I see motherfuckers from other states and motherfuckers that act like... Yeah, we really out there. Whatever y 'all call them, influencers and shit, like tapping into our shit. That shit feel like crazy to me, you feel me? Because like, shit. All I've known is the block, you feel me? Now that shit going worldwide. Yeah, that shit's hard, bro.

35:30Cactus Boyz:For sure. what are like race relations like in Arizona? Like does it feel like does everybody hang out in terms of different races or is it pretty divided? Shit.

35:41Tommy G:I mean like I really like being from the south side of Phoenix like we is black and brown bro.

35:48Bootleg Kev:It's really nothing

35:49Tommy G:but black and Mexicans and that bitch. You feel me?

35:51Bootleg Kev:Basically like this gang.

35:53Tommy G:In South Phoenix if motherfuckers really know their history and shit. South Phoenix was the motherfucking first like passing like what is it like

35:59Bootleg Kev:I think after Broadway or some shit it was the first part

36:02Tommy G:of motherfucking whole state that was only selling houses and shit to blacks and Mexicans to color yeah and like you feel me that shit ended up making us you feel me and we just happen to be from that section you feel me but like shit as far as black and brown we all get good you feel me we make the world go around you feel me I fuck with my motherfucking I fuck with my motherfucking black niggas you feel me yeah we run out I got respect as long as you got respect

36:26Bootleg Kev:shit We put respect first. As long as you respect for a person, we...

36:30Tommy G:It ain't no racist shit going on as far as, like, the street shit.

36:33Cactus Boyz:Is it like the way it is out here where there'll be, like, one neighborhood and they'll have, like, a black gang and a Mexican gang and they both just kind of coexist in that area? Shit.

36:44Tommy G:Out there, a motherfucking black gang and a motherfucking Mexican gang will be linked up like this. You feel me? Because at the end of the day, you just might be cousins one of them. You feel me? It just... That's all we is out there, at least from the south side of Phoenix. You feel me? But like, yeah, ain't no motherfucking racist shit going on. From the south side of Phoenix, it's nothing but black hoods and Mexican hoods. You feel me? It's happening to be some more Mexican hoods. It ain't no racist shit going on, though. I can't speak for the whole Arizona, though. You feel me? We just run the south side of Phoenix.

37:12Tommy G:And as far as from the south side, you feel me? It ain't no racist shit going on. Ain't no black gang.

37:15Bootleg Kev:There ain't no weird shit we got. I mean, my pops is from, basically, he a blood and he a Mexican. You feel me? But he grew up with He grew up with a few blacks You feel me? But they're a family bro My deals bro My deals Jerome Shout out my deal Jerome That's my deal right there You feel me? Shout out to the bro Melly too OGs and the type shit Real close game right there

37:40Tommy G:I got a black brother You feel me?

37:42Bootleg Kev:I can't take you all the right to shit Live together And motherfuckers be tripping by us

37:46Tommy G:Saying nigga and shit You feel me? Like cause we Mexican You feel me?

37:50Bootleg Kev:That shit regular to us That shit regular to us

37:52Tommy G:It be the motherfuckers From other states and shit That be tripping about that shit But shit From the south side of Phoenix, Arizona Ain't nobody tripping on that shit Cause motherfuckers know Who we grew up around You feel me It ain't nothing but Mexicans And blacks out there You feel me And shit To me the word nigga Always meant homie to me You feel me Yeah what's up with it bro This my motherfucking nigga right here You feel me That's my motherfucking brother You feel me That's my nigga right there You feel me I don't think about that shit But I don't raise this shit If you think about that shit Then you the motherfucking goofy

38:22Cactus Boyz:Were you guys influenced By Shoreline Mafia?

38:27Bootleg Kev:2018 we're going crazy today shit but you said yes and you guys said no not like that not like that you feel me we listen to them i ain't saying like we yeah we listen to a lot we listen to a lot of show line man feel me i fuck with them you feel

38:43Tommy G:when you from i'm telling you right now if you're from arizona gang you're not bumping arizona artists you feel me like well i mean as far as like growing up and shit now they are you feel me now that y 'all you feel me growing up and shit you feel me because we ain't have nobody big you feel me we we can't bump like yeah yo play that you feel me nah we couldn't do that you feel me so like yeah shout out shoreline and shit but shit influencers you feel me at the end of the day i was influenced by my own block and where i came up from you feel me and that's what made me and motherfuckers want to compare me to somebody else and shit if you compare me to somebody that's

39:15Cactus Boyz:big then i must be doing something good okay but if we want to talk about like shoreline's influence like a big part of it is the fact that they're a bunch of young Mexican dudes and black dudes originally and they came out and they were on some hip-hop shit on some skater shit some graffiti shit some lean drinking shit but they weren't on some cholo shit there wasn't a lot about the shoreline shit when they came out that read as Mexican these are Mexican kids but they're into the rap music that they probably primarily listen to black artists and shit I think that's why their vibe was so different and i think even with you guys like you guys seem like you probably mostly listen to black rappers if i had to guess i listen to all types of shit bro you'll be surprised i

39:58Tommy G:couldn't even answer that because like i don't even look at it that way at the end of the day but shit i listen to what i listen to i listen to what i related to you feel me but as far as like shola and all that shit feel me like shit we from the trenches bro like and that's all we talked about you feel me like when we came up and shit motherfuckers trying to compare us to them and shit we never try to be like them you feel me you trying to compare us to them that shit they they big you feel me so we must be doing something good for you to compare us to them you feel me we mexican you feel me we just happen to be from a different state you feel me that's all it is

40:32Bootleg Kev:that's all it is we just uh basically we grew up together right started rapping we yeah built a little group up and this is strong right now with us right here bro yeah we link up

40:43Tommy G:About our music bro, we really just grew up in the same way

40:45Bootleg Kev:That's why like we we know how to work with each other because we've been doing this shit before we started rapping I didn't know them before they had all them tests everything we little kids from boys to men Now we're doing this shit.

40:58Cactus Boyz:Um, cuz yeah, there's not like that many groups anymore Did you was it always obvious to you guys that you were gonna be a group and that you weren't gonna? Just do your own separate thing and then just do songs together

41:10Bootleg Kev:Yeah, because that's how we came up with that shit We basically started out with that shit Like we gotta come up with a name for ourselves

41:17Tommy G:I feel like all the music groups and all them rap groups They link up over music and shit, you feel me? They started making music because they linked up over music, you feel me? As far as us, you feel me? We grew up together, bro So this shit like, this shit feel like right

41:32Bootleg Kev:It feel like this shit was all meant to be

41:34Tommy G:We've really been around each other ever since we was diapers and shit We ain't linked up over this music shit we've been a group before this music shit we just really just put a name on it when it came to this music shit yeah

41:47Cactus Boyz:definitely shit so okay so you guys were hyped on that one lefty gunplay song shout out was that like is that artist you guys worked with or somebody that you guys have actually gotten into listening to

42:03Tommy G:shit to be honest with you that nigga lefty came out to our state and shit He had a little show out there And shit And we opened up for him And shit We had a little show out there Shit we brought the whole block with us You feel me We put up like 50 deep You feel me I ain't gonna lie with you We put up deep as fuck We put up on the stage You feel me That bitch almost motherfucked I thought that shit was gonna collide We had that shit turned Hey shout out to everybody That show love For real That shit was hot Yeah Lefty just happened to do our shit A show out there We just popped our shit You feel me And bro started fucking with us after that Cause you know He seen what we was about

42:39Cactus Boyz:Facts Okay so you guys actually signed A label deal We working right now

42:46Bootleg Kev:We got like some little shit with United United Masters We under a distro right now Shout out United Masters

42:54Tommy G:If you want to make music and still keep all your masters Then go fuck with United Masters You feel me If you try to make some music and make that bread You feel me trying to own all your masters Then go that way

43:07Cactus Boyz:Facts um okay so what else do i got here um so you guys are like are you working on an actual album or what's your mentality we gonna have the hardest album coming out we got an album coming out for

43:20Tommy G:sure yeah we we had an ep on the way but we had so many songs in the vault that we just like fucking let's just do an album do an album and then the deal we owned and we signed a little album deal and shit so you feel me we're gonna put out the album and shit yeah because we've

43:34Bootleg Kev:been doing like what a song or two a month we're gonna basically feed them all types of shit now i ain't never dropped no album either so i ain't even gonna lie with you gang coming from the

43:44Tommy G:south side of phoenix straight from the trenches bro you look fake to me yeah because i'll be

43:48Bootleg Kev:watching the videos i ain't even gonna lie with you gang you look like you look like a

43:52Cactus Boyz:you look fake to me for a second i was like fake i'm like oh okay i got it i know you know to call you fake but yeah you know i was i was so surprised for a quick second and then i'm like oh i get

44:03Tommy G:what you mean yeah yeah no you're saying you're affecting me gang you look like a motherfucking

44:07Cactus Boyz:creative player i'm 2k you feel me like that is the weirdest thing about like doing this for so long is that you'll see people like a young artist and they'll just be looking at like i interviewed a girl last night and she's just like i've been looking you on the internet for so long it's so fucking weird looking at you in the face i'm like shit i thought you don't sound weird i

44:24Tommy G:know you only existed on youtube gang you feel me but now i'm here you know yeah

44:32Cactus Boyz:I mean you just get more and more used to it to the point where like I'm gonna be real like I can't remember the last time I met a celebrity where it like really freaked me out I mean but I mean sometimes like I met Rick Ross maybe like a year ago in a club and like if anything like I mean shit though he's like larger than life he got three massive security guards around him he got all his ice on it's kind of like it's just like weird to meet somebody in real life that like talks that shit and then is pretty much like living up to it when you see him he's like moving around like a king like every every person in this room can tell that this motherfucker is deserving of respect and nobody could tell him shit and you know it's just like it's a weird feeling when somebody in the room has like that there's like a king in the room whereas with me i feel like i dress normal i act pretty normal so kind of i don't know maybe that's why it's so weird though i walk into a starbucks in a random place like it's nothing and then people are like what the fuck you like rick ross he got all the security around him it feels like okay he's moving around like rick ross it makes sense i don't know shit all right rick ross shout out to rick ross um but fuck where my notes just disappeared briefly.

45:48Cactus Boyz:There it is. But yeah, so what do you guys got coming? What's in the works? What's going on? What's the mission with the music? Shit. Basically to success,

46:01Bootleg Kev:bro. I ain't trying to do this shit right, bro. I ain't trying to do no bullshit. My mama is fucking music. We ain't got our two feet in and this shit.

46:10Tommy G:At first, we was just fucking around with that shit, but shit. Like I said, once the block started fucking with it, the city He started fucking with it, and now some motherfuckers from other states fucking with it, so you feel me?

46:20Bootleg Kev:Yeah, for sure.

46:21Tommy G:We just pushing that shit on my mom.

46:23Bootleg Kev:Yeah, we got that album coming, though, too, and then we about to drop that. We got this one song called Bussin'. We did, like, On the Mic. That's our first time doing that shit, too. Shout out On the Mic. Shout out On the Mic, yeah.

46:35Tommy G:What's up with that upside-down cross-on-your-face game? What that stand for?

46:39Cactus Boyz:Shit, I'm a dark dude, you know?

46:41Tommy G:Dark? Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. You guys religious? Shit, bro. At the end of the day, I believe in God. I believe in Jesus Christ. You feel me? I done been through some shit. I done been through some shit in my life that motherfuckers ain't survived with that shit. You feel me? I feel like at the end of the day, the ones that brought me out that shit was Jesus and God. You feel me? You feel me? So that's why I'm asking you why you believe in that upside down cross. What made you believe in that shit?

47:07Cactus Boyz:It's more that I just don't believe in the stuff that you were just talking about. It's just kind of like a rejection of religion in its entirety.

47:15Tommy G:Yeah, bro. We all grew up in different places, and we all grew up to different situations. You feel me? And I just feel like through a situation I grew up in, the only thing that could have helped me was probably God. You feel me? Because I ain't have no role models and shit. You feel me? So I feel like the only thing that made me survive throughout it all, you feel me, was God. You feel me?

47:32Cactus Boyz:Boy, you ever hear the saying, there's no atheists in foxholes? Meaning like when you get a soldier and he's like at war about to die, that's when you're going to start believing in God. so who knows maybe I'll have a last minute epiphany

47:47Tommy G:yeah you probably gotta beat that situation you feel me if you're probably in that situation you might turn that cross upside down

47:53Cactus Boyz:yeah or the enemy will cut my head off and turn it upside down for me

47:56Tommy G:yeah you just might die we might never hear about him 22 again

47:59Cactus Boyz:yeah no for sure that's gonna happen at some point that's a fucking thing to think about is be like oh shit when I die the jokes on twitter are gonna be out of control like probably really funny too like I don't think the internet would let me down. Yeah, fuck the internet. It's kind of a weird feeling. I'd be like, damn, it's going to be a funny-ass day, and I'm not going to be there to experience it.

48:22Tommy G:Yeah, at the end of the day, I put on for my brother, I put on for the gang and all that, you feel me? But at the end of the day, you feel me? Life is bigger than all that, you feel me? Life is bigger than the hood, you know that, so you feel me?

48:31Bootleg Kev:It's a rap, no. Yeah, no jumper with it. You feel me?

48:34Tommy G:If we're here to this day doing this shit, then shit. It's a higher meaning to that shit. It's a higher power. Yeah, shit. Cactus Boy's going to the top.

48:41Cactus Boyz:Hell yeah I appreciate it Straight catch the voice of E I'm my mama man Straight from the south side of Phoenix On 100 block For sure Hey I appreciate you guys Shout out to Bootle Kev For bringing you guys through Yeah shout out to Kev You already know Shout out to the whole Arizona

48:53Bootleg Kev:For having us Yeah shout out to Arizona Hey shout out to Sally Shout out to Sally Yeah for dripping For dripping Yeah man See what the fuck's going on Oh shoot We got a photo shoot Oh yeah we got that little track too We trying to shoot that Oh yeah Little videos For sure So you can listen to it Do it Yeah Let's get it Oh, right.

49:12Cactus Boyz:The song of my name. I don't want to spoil it.

49:16Tommy G:I can't wait. All right. Hey, call me Devin Booger because I got a cold jumper. Is he with Adam 22 because he ain't got no jumper, bitch? I'm on my bitch. You ain't got no jumper, man. Stop playing like you're a shooter, man.

49:28Cactus Boyz:Hey. Stop playing with me. Shout out to everybody who watched this whole thing. Like, comment, subscribe. Go turn Cactus Boys up on all streaming services. Appreciate it, guy.