T-Wayne Reveals Tour Must-Haves & Teaches Us The Whip

T-Wayne Reveals Tour Must-Haves & Teaches Us The Whip
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Hip-hop artist T-Wayne stops by the YH Studio to give us the lowdown on his smash-hit single "Nasty Freestyle" and it's accompanying music video, plus he reveals what other rapper first inspired him to get into freestyling, whom he'd love to go on the road with, and his tour essentials! Stick around for when he shows us how to do The Whip!
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So, all you're gonna do is uh, lean to the right, lift this leg up, drop it down, then throw your arm out and act like you're driving a car. And that's the whip, and just keep doing it over.
That's it? I'm out of here. Is that it? Uh, I'm out here. Just gimme a fifteen, I'm out of here. I'm Lola Oluvintrina here on the Young Hollywood sofa, with the talented T-Wayne. What's up? T-Wayne, a. k. a. Ricky Wayne. This is George making a tune. Hey. What's up? Can it rap? Tell me something to it. Hey, freestyle.
I'm going wild. I got my dog on the sofa. She's acting like a gopher. Yeah.
Yeah. That was it. That was a hit. That was good. That was good. With this was my dog and then literally we, he sat down and then Georgie just went over to him. Do you normally, is that a normal thing?
I mean, the ladies always, you know.
They do, don't they? They always. They can't get enough of Nasty Freestyle. They love it. They love it. Do they, do they come up to you just like, give me some Nasty?
I mean, every now and then. Yeah.
But I don't, I don't, I don't wanna. Cos that was gonna be my line, but I can't use it now. Georgie, enough now. Enough. Seriously. This is a serious interview. You, you, do you know who this is, sitting on the sofa right now, and you're acting like that? It's embarrassing. No.
Yeah, see that? That's called dog shaming. That's called dog shaming on camera right there.
Nasty Freestyle, and now Nasty Freestyle Remix. Just when it couldn't get bigger, Nasty Freestyle just got bigger. Ty Dolla Sign. Chedda Da Connect.
Chedda Da Connect. My boys. Crazy remix. It's doing real big right now.
As soon as you seem to release something at the moment, it just goes viral. You and the internet, you're like best friends.
Oh yeah, that's, that's, that's my thing. That's why I started at the internet. The people at the clubs wouldn't ever just play my music, you know what I'm saying? So I, I had to go get it on my own.
Right. Without the help of. People need to hit the clubs when you're up the internet. I think you've gone, you've one-upped them there. Yeah. And that's right. You used to release one video a week, is that correct, on the, on the YouTube? And then, and then it just, it went from there.
Yep. A video a week. Youtube.
And how long have you been doing this for? Because you're still very young.
Uh, I've been doing it for a few years. Okay. But it didn't really just, people didn't just grab on to it until now, a few months ago. Right. And now, the game's, you know, sealed, delivered. Yeah.
That must be exciting times.
Yeah. It's a lot of traveling. Right. I'm out of everything.
Where's the favorite place you've been so far? And where haven't you been that you're looking forward to go?
My favorite place is Scottsdale, Arizona.
Oh, really? Okay.
Yeah.
A bit hot out there. No?
It's, it's always hot. Okay. But it's, it's like the, the best little town to go to. It's a real small town, but it's, they're always turned up.
So I mentioned, I asked you today if you'd wrote a hit. You haven't yet, you haven't wrote any hits today.
Not today. Not today.
But I'm sure you will tomorrow. What's the, take us through the writing process of like you and when you make your music?
Whenever I get in the studio, I, I don't even write. I just come up with it off the head. I just get the beat and come with it. So, whatever comes to my head, I say it on the song and then I do the whole song, then go back and make changes on everything. Right. Or sometimes I'll just hum through the whole song and then come up with words that go in there. But I rarely will write.
And you, and you're very true to saying whatever you think, right?
Whatever's on my mind, I'll say, like, if somebody's pissing me off or something or anything, I just say it on the song.
I hope I'm not in the next song.
No, no, no. You, you, now you cool, you cool, you cool.
Just checking. Um, let's talk about the video. Video's interesting. Video's interesting in a great way. You've got everything in there that you want. Horses. Women. Panda heads. And a tiger.
And a tiger. And some dancing.
And some dancing. That's it. Was that you, was that your ingredients for the video?
Uh, not really. I just, I just told my ideas of what I thought the video should look like. He brought it to, to reality. Right. So, yeah, I, I like working with him. He's pretty dope.
Georgie, you mentioned the music, you've been doing for a few years, but this, huge success. And now you're making your music videos in a, in a big way. Um, how's that?
It's exciting. It makes me want to work more and more, cause I like the outcome that's coming out of it and, you know what I'm saying, being able to help my family with stuff. So, it makes me want to work more and more so I can help more. Right. So, everything that's coming, I just want, I want to keep it going so I don't want to stop. Cause, you know, you can lose it at any time.
And who are your, uh, music inspiration? I read that you're a big fan of M&M, Eminem. Is that right?
Yeah, that was my first movie that that just made me wanna just start freestyling and rapping and all that. But I like, I like future, though. Okay. I'm a big fan of future.
Okay. And they're, they're, they're the ones that you'd say inspire your music.
Yeah. Got you. Future and Eminem.
You mentioned you're on the road a lot, tour, it means doing shows.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I do a lot of shows.
If I said to you now, T-Wayne, I'm sorry, but I'm sending you on the road and you can only take five things with you. Uh, I would say, And don't try and give me six, cause it ain't gonna happen. You're going with five.
Okay. All right. I would say I need, uh, first I need my manager.
Oh, good answer. Good answer. Strong answer.
Yeah. Can't survive without my manager. Uh, let me see what else.
So, you got your manager.
I need clothes.
Clothes.
Clothes. Need money to get clothes.
Money to get clothes. Transportation.
Transportation, smart.
The smart thing is you've said money. So I was gonna say you've got no toothbrush. But you can buy.
Uh, nah, when I, every time I go out of town, I get the two, toothbrush from the hotels. They always got 'em in packages.
I see, I need to use the electric, though. Yeah. You haven't gone electric yet? I've done it. You should do it. Get a, honestly, best purchase I've ever made. Electric toothbrush. And that's, I'm not endorsed by any electric toothbrush company. I'm just saying that out of my love for electric toothbrushes.
I need to look into that.
If you could share the road with anyone, if you could tour with anyone right now, who would it be?
Uh, probably Future.
Okay. Big fan. I never met him yet, but, I'm sure you, I'm sure you could. I'm sure he knows your song.
Yeah, probably can. I would, I would like to meet him one day and maybe do some songs or something.
We could make that happen. Um, he's a big Young Hollywood fan as well.
Oh, is?
Yeah. Writes me loads of letters. He doesn't. I'd some, what, Don't believe you.
You don't? Nah.
Why not?
Oh, he, he don't look like that type of person. That likes British people.
I, I don't know if he likes British people. Ah, I'm getting aggressive now. You see that? Your songs attract, everyone dances to them. It's the minute you play one of your songs, you can't help, you just see people dancing. It's great. If I was going to, if I was in a club right now, seeing a girl, she's over in the corner. I'm gonna think, I'm gonna impress her with a move. What one would you give me? What one can I keep in my back pocket?
The whip.
The whip. The whip. Just teach me the whip. Stand up. Okay. Uh, Do I need to stretch?
No, no, no, you. It's not a big one. You don't. I mean, if you want to stretch, you can. I don't want to be responsible if you hurt yourself. All right, here we go. So, all you're gonna do is, uh, lean to the right, lift this leg up, drop it down, and throw your arm out and act like you're driving a car. And that's the whip, and just keep doing it over.
Is that it? I'm out of here. Is that it? Uh, that, that was kind of, kind of weird.
It is? Yeah.
Show me again. One more time. I'm gonna get this. I actually genuinely want to do it.
You slow. And then you do moves in between. You do whatever you want to do in between, then do it again.
It's harder than it looks.
No, you, you look, you look like you got it.
Yeah, I've got it now. You, you getting there. You're getting there. You're getting there. You're, there's potential. It's potential. There's potential. It takes a little, a little minute, then, once you, I honestly think a lot of people haven't done it yet, especially in the, in the Hip-Hop world, is having a British dancer, like myself, on the stage at the time that he's just putting it out there, putting it out there. And I am available. That needs to happen. I'm available. With someone. With with someone. All right, you're not sold. Where would you say the next year of your music is going?
Cause obviously, you just released a remix. Yeah. What's, what's next after this?
Oh, I got a lot of songs and I'm about to release a new mixtape called Who is Ricky, Who is Ricky Wayne Part 2. So, once, once the mixtape comes out, that's when, you know, all my other music comes out. So I pretty much just let the fans choose all my next songs. But I got a lot of songs waiting to be released.
How many?
Around. A lot. I got over like, over a hundred songs. I just, I, I gotta choose which ones I want to put on the mixtape.
What do you need to make your songs today? I got, I got 'em ready, they're saved, they're ready to. Don't you give me a couple?
I might can do that for you. I could release a, I could release an album. I might can do that for you.
This could be good. Get that little check out of.
Mate, I'm telling you, you can manage me. I might can do that for you.
OT. OT. Let's do it. Let's do it. My manager right here. T-Wayne. He's my new manager. Yep. Nasty Freestyle. Nasty Freestyle Remix. Right now. Check him out.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- T-Wayne
Hip-hop artist being interviewed
- Ricky Wayne
T-Wayne's real name and mixtape title
- Ty Dolla Sign
Featured on the 'Nasty Freestyle Remix'
- Chedda Da Connect
Featured on the 'Nasty Freestyle Remix'
- Eminem
First inspired T-Wayne to freestyle
- Future
Musical inspiration and dream tour mate for T-Wayne
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