The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Charles

I'm not gonna lie, this cat Cinco was nice. He definitely let it be known that he bang red, but I can still respect him. Like Rodney told me, dude was young, hungry, and had a nice flow. He did need a little work, but we could do this.
"Alright, I like your music, I can't lie. You got a little work to do with some of the choice of words, but that's nothing. Plus you got a lil presence to you, I like that. So let me see what you can do with this." I told him as Rodney played this track that Aries laid a hook down on. We was in there bobbing our head to the beat for a few when he looked up.
"So I can hop in the booth?" he said and we both nodded as he entered and threw on the headphones.
"We heard the bang, bang the bullets rang out. I pulled my thang, cuz you know what the kid about. Cinco the one you call when you need to toe tag a nigga, I do it all as long as you spending the figures. Money to be made and I'm all over this shit. Ring ring, call me up to complete that hit. Hit my line to put me in the booth cuz you know I'm gone spit. Don't ask me about no singles, because you know where them was spent..." he went over that beat and I liked it. He didn't sound like none of my other artists at all. Immediately I dapped up Rodney.
"You was right about your boy. I owe you for this one." I told him as Cinco finished the 16 bars and I motioned for him to come out when Aries walked in.
"What's up sis?" I said.
"Ayee let little homie record that verse. That was nice." she said.
"I agree with her." Cinco walked in and went straight to Aries.
"Man...that hook fire." he said to her.
"You knew it was me?" she asked and he pulled out his phone and showed her something and they both laughed.
"What's funny?" I asked confused as hell as to what just happened.
"This my number 1 fan right here." she said smiling. He showed us her IG, dude was definitely all over it with the likes and comments for real. Well...I guess this is a dream come true for him then.
"I'm saying though, on blood, that would be dope as fuck to record with you." he said to her.
"Let's work then!" she said. Me and Rodney just looked at each other knowing we made the right decision. Iris sat up and leaned over to me.
"What's good mami?" I asked as she passed me her tablet and she was looking at his other social media accounts. Dude definitely be out here in these streets man.
"I love his sound, but look at how he living. He gotta turn that down or he might not make it." she said to me. After seeing all the pictures with guns, money, posted on the block and shit; I had to weigh out my options. I showed Rodney and he looked it over too.
"I could take him under my wing though." Rodney said. I couldn't lie, I wasn't expecting that reaction from him. But I respected how much he believed in the dude though. "How old is he?" I asked him.
"Like 15-16." Rodney said.
"We can still prime him. I mean look what happened with Little Man." Iris said to me. She had a point, but it was still a little different.
"Cat did come through rough as hell." Rodney said to defend Iris' statement.
"Yeah but yall gotta remember Little Man snapped right out of it so he could raise his sister and everything. He went from a kid to a man with a child quick. We don't have enough intel on this kid to know what will make him chill." I said trying to let them see the big picture.
"You're right, but let me handle that for real. I believe he can do this if he focuses more on the studio instead of the streets." Rodney said.
"I mean that's always an option. Plus he's already attached to Aries and she could kick the real game to him cuz she been out there." Iris said. I just took all of that in for a moment and agreed.
"Alright. I'll also give you a stipend for him Rod. But we gotta find homie a tutor, his vocab definitely needs a little tweaking. But I feel good about adding him to the roster." I said.
"Righteous!" Rodney said as he focused on them in the booth. Riek crept in and took a seat next to Iris and listened in.
"He kinda nice with it." he said.
"Yeah he is. Jumped right in and freestyling everything." Iris said to Riek.
"Okay so he do it the same way Erica do." Riek said. Yeah that brings a whole new avenue to this here. Cat was for sure a good battle rapper and so was Aries. We might can get some events cracking then. Hell Paradox and Little Man could MC it and we could utilize the ladies to pull in a crowd. Hell I'm sure Onyx could kill it in the battle rap scene too. This could work.
"What you cooking up in that head of yours?" Iris asked me. She knew me too well.
"We could set up events for battle rappers. This could go!"
"Man hell yeah! Talk about exposure, that's the perfect marketing strategy." Riek said. Yeah this was gonna be my next venture for sure. I liked how we all could work together for the greater good. I think I need another singer though for real. I've been trying to find more of those lately. I love that I have Paradox and Araya for that. Well Dom too even though she does both. Well Paradox does both too, he's like another 6lack. But I need one male solid singer for real. This was gonna be a task but we can make it happen one way or another.
"Yall know any singers?" I asked.
"I know a couple." Riek said quickly.
"Any solid male singers?" I asked.
"Yeah. I for sure know 2." Yes!
"Get them here bruh." Time to show up and show out.