You're a very busy entrepreneur nowadays. You were just telling me about the Loft Lounge. You also have a collaboration with LOL Burger, right? How did that deal happen?

That was something I never knew I wanted to do or was thinking about doing. I'm just attracting different things for me.

Focusing on your businesses, what have been some of the hardships that you had to overcome to get to where you're at now?

Oh man, there are so many different hardships like oh my god bro, it ain't just one. I don't know where to start it. Everything you do is not going easy. You got staff, you got contractors. The licensing is probably the worst part. Looking up licenses, going through all that with the licensing. That's probably the worst part because it takes time. It is the county's move on. The city moves on they watch so that's one of the problems. Well it wasn't a problem. It was just something that we had to handle.

I know that you have other things in the works too. I heard you're working on a TV show?

Yeah we working on on TV show right now. I don't want to get too deep into it, but I'm preparing and working on a TV show with some business partners and some powerful people. I'm just pushing every angle of it. Just get your energy right. You'll attract positive things.

Is it a reality show or is it scripted?

Reality, for now, and scripted. I'm trying to do it all. I'm just working. We grinding man. Whatever we going to get out the cake bowl from what's grinding, that's what we going to get it.

I can definitely see you doing some acting. I'm sure that you've had your fair share of experiences over the years. What's your dream project on TV?

I wanted to have a show like broadcasting. Broadcasting something that I love, which is cars. Not "Pimp My Ride," but something similar to that with the old school stuff. There are plenty of shows that got the old school cars and they always working on them. I want to do it on a more reachable level. Not so high class because it's a lot of bulls**t shops. It's a lot of janky mechanics. There's a lot of bulls**t out here too with the car world. So I just want to bring the reality. That's not what I'm working on. But that's just something I always thought about with the old school cars, and the muscle cars.

Well hopefully somebody will read this and they'll tap in with you to get that done.

Man. I love cars and I've been dealing with cars since I was seven years old. I always loved cars. I always loved music. My first time in the studio was when I seven years old.

What were you doing in the studio at seven years old?

They had wrote for me. They had the song. I still remember my verse. "I'm down with Chebas/It's a plus and it's like that/He keep me straight and I'm aware where my goal at/I need the down, the ghetto and the old hood/Just chill, parlay, you see it's all good." He say, "Hey little T," then I say "Yeah, I got to get some never will front or diss the place I come from/Guns and drugs, I'm sick and tired of hearing it/Only seven now, I'm not fearing it/I know my right, I know my left/I know my death/I know my math, it's a 20/I know it's left/I never beat a cheat, you see I don't sleep/All I want is to be in a decent place to rest my feet." That was my first and I still remember, bro. I was seven years old bro. They wrote it for me though, but I remember rapping that s**t bro.

Yeah, that's crazy. Who wrote that for you?

It was a dude named Cheba. He dead too. His name was Cheba.

Damn, I can't believe that you could still recite something you did when you were seven years old so perfectly. That's just impressive man. That's history right there. So what's next for Tracy T?

Well, the deluxe and another project is what's next. I've been grinding a long time bro and since I got my wheels rolling, it's kind of picking up and I'm seeing more traction than I ever seen as long as I've been rapping. I always tend to do some s**t and stop, do some s**t and stop. I do get into other things. I get thrown off track. But now I'm just strictly focused. I don't know what's to come next because I'm surprised at myself right now. I'm just walking in my blessings. I'm just preparing myself. I'm at an age mentally and physically where I am ready for whatever comes my way. I'm strong. I got the mental capacity to handle it. So whatever it is, I'm ready for it.

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