JetBkeezy on East Coast Crip, Getting Hogtied, Chain Snatcher Allegations & More

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0:32turn it up storm has zero sugar and 200 milligrams of caffeine so you can turn that workout up a notch good energy in good energy out energy for life no jumper coolest podcast in the world and today i'm in here with one of my favorite rappers coming out of la at the very least jet bz is in the building close game cause free the game how you feeling i'm all right yeah yeah what you been up to shit uh and then really just glad to be out type shit yeah how long you been out now like three weeks three weeks yeah like three weeks and you still dropping music that you recorded while you were locked up so you like fake not home no i'm home i really let it be known i'm home okay hell yeah but you still just had like videos that you shot while you were locked up so you just been dropping them even though you nah nah that video that i that i posted That was after I got out already.

1:31I was already out when I did that. Oh, but it's recorded over the phone, I thought. Yeah, the song is, but not the video. Oh, okay. Yeah. Interesting. That's it. Damn. So you're going to do like a first day out or anything to really put it out there? Yeah. I am. Just building up towards it? Yeah. Nice. That's it. That's what's up. All right, let's go through it all. Tell us a little bit about your upbringing. Yeah, like, shit. See, I ain't nigga really nigga. I was off the porch at like 12, 13. Uh-huh. In and out of jail. Juvenile hall. Like, really my whole teenage life. What was your family situation like?

2:15You have both parents around? Yeah, I had both parents, but they were split up. Like, they was together, but I had both parents, though. Were they normal? Were they just like regular people, or were they like kind of in the streets and shit, too? Nah, they normal. Okay. You know, they do their thing, but they normal. Were they warning you about what was outside, or they were trying to, like, prepare you for what was going on? Yeah, especially my mom. My mom be tripping. Yeah? Yeah, she be tripping. I mean, she knows you better than anybody in the world, right? She probably knew that you were liable to get up on some bullshit.

2:52Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, she was a kid before, so she know how it is. She's like, she don't want that for her kids, you feel me? Mm-hmm. What about your dad? My dad really, he like a chill nigga, like a laid back nigga, like he don't really be giving too much about anything. Okay. Was he from where you're from? Nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah, my dad, hell no. He's a non-affiliate. Really? You know what I'm saying? So did he try to like instill some wisdom in you about the decision to be from somewhere? Nah, he never really, me and him never really had talks, like, about street life and nothing like that.

3:32Really? Never. He was just, like, a regular guy with a job? Yeah, basically. Are you guys real close now, or? I mean, we cordial, like, I talk to him here and there. That's my boy. Okay. But he, like, how'd your parents react when they found out that you were from a hood now?

3:53I mean my mom like I mean she was tripping but after a while she had to just accept it it's nothing like I mean I'm still her son like she just had to accept it for me okay so you started getting in trouble at what'd you say like 11 or 12? yeah like 12 13 like when I started going to jail and shit like doing that whole And you were already from East Coast by the time you started going to jail and shit? Nah, I wasn't. Because that's really young to be from a gang at 11 or 12. Usually it's a little later. Nah, I wasn't from East Coast yet. Okay. But so what was it like? What did you first get locked up for?

4:36What the fuck was going on?

4:42A weapon on school grounds. That was my first charge. You brought a book to school? when you were 11 yeah well 12 I was 12 when that happened that's pretty out there though what were you so worried about I don't know just a badass kid I don't fucking know really so how'd they find it you showed somebody and then they told the teacher or something yeah it was some shit like that I feel like that's usually how it goes it was some shit like that you know I don't know what it was okay so you got locked up and then like how did that kind of start to change you once you're in this environment with all these crazy ass kids i mean once i went that first time i was in there like like back and forth like from from the age 12 all the way to the age 17 the longest i ever been out was three months three months yeah for five years you were getting locked up that much so you get out and then just kind of start doing your thing right away and just get caught up on some other shit yeah i was i was doing too much i ain't gonna lie what kind of stuff were you getting into shit regular street stuff is self-explanatory okay you was moving packs or anything like that or was it more just like violence type shit no i don't i don't really want to speak too much about it it's it's too real it's too real for tv or youtube

6:16oh shit i guess so i mean yeah all right so all right you're going in and out from like 12 to 17 and then at a certain point when you're like 17 is that when you start going to real jail or nah like seven I I was in placement I got released from camp to placement at 17 now I was I was on the run I ate well placement so I was on the run like right before I turned 18 I turned 18 they arrested me kept me for like three days released me after that I really was out until I turned 20 so I just like you know to the charge I just caught right all the way until then at what point did you start rapping i mean like when i was a kid i was rapping like you know jail really made niggas start rapping i was i was playing with it though i took it serious around that time like 17 18 word did anything change at 17 when you stopped getting locked up or did you just start having a better run of luck um like

7:25i don't know i really don't know really i couldn't tell you but for the most part your life stayed similar i would assume pretty much so you start rapping while you're locked up like when do you figure out your flow because i feel you have a pretty distinctive flow um

7:53probably sit around like when i start taking it serious because before that my my shit was weak as fuck to me it was actually weak i ain't gonna lie but then at some point you kind of start to figure out how to flow on the beat better yeah i think i just kept writing like and practicing my shit i think that's what it was what uh who are you influenced by rap wise like because i feel like you don't really sound that much like a west coast rapper yeah i'll be hearing that a lot but i mean to me i'm not really influenced by nobody like i just i just rap because that's all it is i feel like your music is like the closest shit to like la drill that's yeah you heard that a lot too yeah okay but i mean

8:46i think it's hard i mean no i think it's dope too but i mean i feel like you like sonically you just have like a consistent flow that you usually like kind of generally rock with and then also i feel like every song you're basically like letting us know where you're from and who you don't like. Yeah. Some people from LA are a little bit like, I don't know. I feel like in LA it's normal to not diss your enemies on every song for most rappers because shit is just pretty real out here. I feel like you're someone who's just like, nah, I'm doing that. Shit, that's just what I'm on. I'm on that. You're just going on.

9:34What age did you get put on?

9:39Like I got put on the East Coast when I was 16, 17 And was that just like where you grew up That there was no way you were going to be from anywhere else? Yeah, I always lived Nah, nah, nah, nah I always lived on the East side But When I was younger, like 13 I was from the west side like I got put on the west side Right because there's like Video of you banging rolling Hundreds back in the day right So okay what was The scenario with that and then like when Did you switch it up Shit basically It was like I was 16 17 Like in between there My brother lost his life he was from east coast when cut lost his life you know i was on i was on what i was on cuz niggas wasn't respecting that cuz i'm curious i told niggas like on hook i told niggas what it was on hook that was that okay so was it but was that a big decision because you like it's one thing if somebody's like from a hood and then they're from another hood but it's another thing when they've like been filmed like doing it on camera that makes people i feel like uh you know like you probably always knew that people were going to emphasize that and try to give you a hard time about it right nah because i'm not like i don't really give a like it ain't nothing it is what it is i don't really give a because people always tell me that i'm not ashamed of it or nothing right people always tell me that like as much as people want to talk shit about hood hopping or whatever that actually is so common that it's kind of like not that big a deal unless you're a rapper and then people are gonna make a big deal about it i mean see it happened a lot but what can i say right so was it was it a situation where you just like ended up liking the people from east coast grip more or just relating to them more it just ended up feeling like it made more sense?

11:55Nah, it wasn't necessarily that. Like, you're gonna have weird niggas, you're gonna have haters, you're gonna have all that from anywhere. It had to do with that. It just, I'm gonna live with my brother, because I'm dead homies. Do you still have good relationships with people from Rolling Hundreds? Yeah. Because you be hanging out with Sting Team, they be hanging out with them? I got bros from over there. yeah I feel like there's a lot of overlap in terms of the people that I see you around and shit yeah I got bros from over there so it ain't really like bad blood like that or anything no it's not it's not what's your attitude for anyone who gives you a hard time about it just like hey if you got a problem with it do something I feel like that's the jet busy mentality is like you know listen pretty much you don't say anything we can get it on Pretty much.

12:53That's what it is. I even feel like that in this interview.

13:01That's pretty much what it is. I ain't gonna lie. All right, for sure. Okay, so. All right, so. What was the first song that really felt like you had some motion? Like people really started to f*** with your music that made you realize, like, oh, okay, this could work.

13:24yeah uh it's uh it's called granite state granite state grand estate oh granite state is the state that i'm from okay so grand estate yeah got it that's when like my whole hood what was like my whole hood start fucking my shit my shit started booming because like once the hood start fucking I want you to start booming. Yeah. Okay. Online too? And then on hook, like my brother just said, what we on? Free EB3 on the dead homies. Okay. Who's EB3? That's my brother because he locked up right now. He going to be home on the dead homies. Okay. What's he locked up for? Shit. Something that's hard to come home from?

14:13Nah. He going to be home a couple years because he going to be back. cut on hook okay what about get cut because i feel like that that's the song that i was like hearing in instagram reels or shit like that that made me go start actually listening yeah get cut get cut went viral that's probably my most viral song right now but but that but like that was after i already had a buzz i already had a buzz before before that you feel me like a little buzz i guess do you feel your music like just keeps getting better that like it just keeps improving as time goes on you record more and more hell yeah yeah i think my shit get better because honestly like of everybody i ever interviewed when i was going through like i just searched uh jet bz music video and i start scrolling and i just had to scroll for so long before it stopped showing me music videos like you got like hundreds of music videos up there right yeah i got like i Only 40?

15:07I felt like it was more. Yeah, like 40-something. Is that just your mentality? Like, I'm just going to shoot as many videos as possible? It feels like you'd be doing it, like, damn near every day and shit. Yeah, really, really when my boy A-Visions cut. Like, I met him, I was just starting rapping, really, like, taking it serious. And he really was damn near ready to quit camera working. Like, he was ready to start recording. He was ready to stop cut. But I was on cut every day. hitting cuts up like we need to do it cause we need to do it let's shoot let's shoot I just record a song let's shoot and like really most of my viral songs right now like was recorded off a phone a lot of niggas don't know that really band lab go crazy damn so you just did it off the phone do you record in the studio for the most part now yeah I still I still do my phone though like if I'm on some quick shit I'm on some quick shit I'm finna go in my room And make that song within 13 minutes Just like 13 minutes 13's just the average number it ends up being?

16:15Yup But so Would you then go and re-record that song On a real studio Or on a real computer and shit? Sometimes if I think it don't sound right Yeah but For the most part it still be sounding hard So I just fuck it Definitely So you really don't be listening to any like Music from like people outside LA And shit like that cause I feel like Yeah I listen to I fuck with J-Bo cause shit hard J-Bo okay I was like kind of watching you thinking like Damn this is like RQ50 I don't hood I fuck with Cushy too Okay I fuck with I fuck with a lot of nigga shit cause like You know I don't know right now on top of my head Not LA rappers for the most part?

17:04I feel like you got your little like generation that you're coming up with, but. Yeah, that's really who I listen to. Like, it's my hang with. Right. You be with like Player Ways, G Money. Yep, exactly. A little BD on the hood. Uh-huh. Like that day three. What's up? Okay. You seem like you don't like old heads. Is that true? I don't know. I fuck with my old niggas, but it's really old niggas, though. wait why why why i'm with my old niggas though but right i don't know old niggas i feel like old niggas be hating cuz okay good because you you got one bar that really i felt like okay there's a generational divide you said old n words popping it but we the ones really op hun and that was like i'm like oh so he's like annoyed by old heads talking shit on the internet because he feels like him and his people are the ones who are really outside.

18:04Which if you're from L.A., I mean, let's be real, like the old heads talking shit on the internet, kind of like when people think about L.A. gangster shit, a lot of times that's what they think about. Yeah, like, I fuck with the old niggas, but it's just like, it's our time now. I fuck with them niggas though, but it's our time now. That's what it is. Right. Our time to sign. Being from a very famous hood that's been around forever, you got to listen to the old heads sometimes too, right? I mean, I ain't going to say listen, but I'm a hood. The old heads have wisdom to impart upon you. Exactly, that's what I mean on hood.

18:44I ain't no yes man, but on dead homies, I got them big homies like Cus said it on the dead. That's what it is on the dead homies. But then also like old people a lot of times are hella burnt out. you know old people are like they're not just like smoking drugs but they like have been doing it long enough that it's really f***ing them up. I got some burnt out old niggas cause free big rock cause free big E-rock cause I'm hood. I mean it's like you can't just like respect everybody who's 50 years old you know cause a lot of them are burnt the f*** out too let's be real. Yeah I ain't gonna say not respect them cause I respect my elders cause I'm hood like they got more wisdom than me they been here longer than me so like they like you know they know more they know more they done been through more but at the end of the time it's our time now just i feel like just chillax just sit back right chillax yeah because like if if you like the the wave that you have and the way that like people like you and and g money and everybody like you guys got your own thing and And it's like you can't corrupt it by like doing songs with old heads and shit like that.

19:52Like the young generation don't want to see that. They want to see you guys be on your own little rebel mission. Hawaiian shit. Hawaiian crusade to take over the game. That's what they like seeing now though. Nowadays they don't like hearing. They like hearing that shit. That violence. That's what they like hearing. Right. But was your first music you recorded? Was it kind of violent? Were you dissing people and shit like that? That was always just obvious that was what you were going to be on? Yeah, I ain't going to lie. Since the beginning, I've been talking crazy. I've been talking crazy. Did you just always know that that was going to be the thing that would get people to pay attention?

20:35Or more like, hey, if people are going to be listening to me, I'm going to let them know who I ain't f***ing with and who I am f***ing with? I don't know. This is shit like shit. That's what I'm on. That's what I'm finna rap about. That's what I'm on. That's what I praise. That's what I'm on. Fuck them niggas. These niggas. That's why I'm finna rap. Pretty much. Do you ever run into problems because of dissing people in your music? Or not really? Yeah, hell yeah. I run into problems. Probably all the time, right? Yeah, shit happens. Bump into somebody and they're like, hey, I don't like what you said in that song.

21:10Yep. But how do those situations usually go down? People be giving passes and shit? I mean, not always. Not always because who I am. Like, a lot of people don't want to give me a pass. They're not going to give me a pass. I don't expect, I don't be expecting these to give me a pass. Like, I don't expect nobody to give me no pass. I got the gang all over my face. I don't be expecting it. But do people, is the pass giving, like, more common than the fans might think?

21:44no okay hell no interesting um okay so how'd you end up getting cool with the stink team and shit and end up uh hanging out with them doing music with them and shit really like it was uh you know uchi day three player like them all bros cause i'm hooked That's really like I hang with them niggas That's how it really Came about I was on my rapper shit I met them when I first Really started taking it serious That's when I met Ralphie and all them niggas And they just always Showing love and support and shit Yep Them niggas Hey them some real niggas I ain't gonna lie Them some real niggas right there In the hood Them some real niggas Were you listening to Draco Before he passed?

22:32Yeah I was listening to Draco Draco go crazy Yeah Hell yeah Yeah, rest in peace. I mean, there's a... Rest in peace. Because you have a music video that you filmed here like a year ago or whatever, and I noticed that you were like going out of your way to put the images of Draco on the wall and shit in the video and everything. Yeah, on the set. Yeah, I respect that. That's real shit. You feel like... I'm the ruler. He's like... I mean, how would you describe like what made him so special as like a rapper in L.A. like that made him so important to the generation coming up now? He was really just the influence.

23:07So, like, he was the biggest one doing it. He was doing it. He was doing what every kid from the hood wanted to do. Every kid wanted to do that. Definitely. Okay, so, you know, like, what's your relationship with the cops like in your neighborhood? Because I'm watching one of the videos, and I'm seeing the cops just like, I mean, you guys must have a weird relationship because they're just pulling up on the block when you're just standing out there with all your homies they're like just wrestling random dudes that don't seem like they're doing anything to the ground and shit and like y 'all are like hella disrespectful like i didn't even know you could talk to a cop like that you're just telling them like just clowning them to their faces and you can kind of you can see the the pain in their eyes and shit i'm like damn bro like it's gotta be tough to be a cop i mean it's like They be hating because they be wanting to see us in jail.

24:07I feel like they do their job, but they do it too much. You feel me? Yeah. Do you feel like they're too involved? They be trying to get all up in the mix too often? Yeah, but that's what they're going to do regardless because they police. Right. I mean, because in that one vlog I was watching, and they're using the yellow tape to block off a whole street. You guys are ripping the tape down right in front of them and shit. Yeah, cool. I mean, I didn't even know that you could just tell a cop, just like, hey, f*** you, and just make fun of them to their face. When I was a kid, but to be real, I see it a lot on social media now.

24:52Not just you guys, but in New York and shit, too. I've seen people I know, they're just harassing the f*** out of the cops to their face, just telling them exactly what they think of them, and cops can't do shit about it. It's like, I don't know. It's crazy. The whole new world. You right. You is right. Shit. Definitely. Yeah, so I heard you say in one song, I was kind of curious about if you had any issues with people from Stockton. You were saying, F them other N-words, we the real EBK. So I was like, oh, shit, does he not get along with J-Bo and them? No, no, no, no, no. There's another EBK.

25:32I had them do with them niggas. Because you had an EBK chain at one point. Yeah, yeah. Type shit. Where'd you get that? You go to Rami?

25:49You a funny nigga. Okay, so we do know where the chain came from. It was Heem Beasy's chain. So how did you start? Oh, shit. How did you guys start beefing? I don't know about that one again. because like there's a lot of events that unfolded but like a lot of people like when i was asking people like about the origins of that i was like were they beefing because they got the same shit in their name we don't beef bro i don't beef bro cut gate bro i don't beef a cut bro because what you really think that though bro bro come on look at cut bro this nigga got dermals in his face and shit bro he's because gay he ysl type shit right like he's probably doing some young vamp life type shit, right?

26:33A lot of rappers now, they got the whole rock star thing going on. You're more of a traditionalist. Type shit. Give me a good blue Nike tech. I'm good. I mean, if that's the case, then a lot of these rappers, they be letting the industry turn into, you know? You're not into the whole rock star vibe or anything? That's just them turning gay. That's how I look at it. Them turning gay, transitioning over. Oh, shit. You think that's like, along on the way. So you don't listen to like Lil Uzi or Playboy Cardi, shit like that? Dudes who paint their nails? No, I don't listen to him. Not your style? I mean, I respect it, but I don't listen to him, no, me personally.

27:13Okay, but he's from Moreno Valley, right? So how did he even get on your radar?

27:22He was never on my radar. He was never on my radar. Okay. He ain't nobody. But how'd you end up taking this chain? Or did somebody else take it and they gave it to you? I ain't take nothing, sir. I really didn't take nothing, sir. Nah, you don't gotta call me sir. We all just homies here, man. This ain't an interrogation. It might feel like that, but this ain't an interrogation. I mean, whatever you can say, though. Did somebody else get the chain and then give it to you? Because even the video that you shot here, you were wearing this EBK chain which I guess is his thing I guess he's an EBKer I don't really know I just found it somewhere I just found it I didn't take it from nobody I just found it right somebody might just like left it somewhere and you just picked it up and were like damn this is fly pretty much okay so alright not to bring up bullshit or anything but then they say that that situation is what led to the clip that came out of you I don't want to say hogtied but that's the word that people were using like there were some people it seemed like they were like kidnapping you trying to tie you up like what can you say about that situation ain't really nothing to say like I ain't get kidnapped I ain't trying to incriminate nobody But it was like in a house, right?

29:02Type shit. I mean, it happens to the best of us, you know. I ain't really got too much to say about that situation, because I just got called acting. Niggas got up on me, because I'm dead on me. Right. I mean, like, one thing I've seen people pointing out is that, like, given what the situation looked like, you didn't really get f***ed up that bad? That it wasn't like as bad as it probably could have been? No, it wasn't that bad. Niggas making it seem like they took my dread and shit, bro. No the f*** niggas didn't, bro. Come on, c***. Niggas is crazy. Really? That's a pretty bad disrespect. They took a dread, right?

29:41I don't know. What city was that in? If you don't mind saying. Was that in LA? What are you talking about, bro? I don't know. I'm just curious. they had like nice wood floors and shit i couldn't even tell you i ain't go on over the okay fair enough but i got i gotta ask this stuff just to like kind of get it out the way but like they say that you got arrested for a case right after that that could have been you know hey y 'all did something to me so i'm gonna go out here and get cracking because you did have a case like soon after that yeah i did and they said it was attempted murder but it had nothing to do with that i i i didn't do nothing to that like you see me okay so uh but how long were you locked up for that and did the charge get dropped or you just bail out or yeah i'm on a million dollar bill for real yeah wow so you still have to deal with those charges yeah i'm going to court and shit still damn yeah i'm still fighting my shit are you optimistic you think you could beat it or i don't know i could be i wasn't the man i wasn't i wasn't the one that did it i don't know who did it like i don't i don't know like what happened i don't know nothing about this shit.