so this is kelly wood t v music for the people by the people the best local and independent music if you don't know what we're about this is that right here man we bring in artist we hang out with them get to know check out some of their don't music up in that environment and growing up like not away from you know away from my mom and some of the siblings as well too only because it was you know i kind of was alienated in a case in a sense now all six of you or is it just you at that  save my music it started probably when i was about ten or eleven when i really started like paying attention to what artists were saying ok i used to go to sleep listening to bob because you listen to music but actually no him little john one day he was like hey you need to come listen to some some music or whatnot listen to what they're saying and you're like eleven or twelve and i'm twelve and i was like i'm like all right and so he put me on to like in some more pock ins and some jay z and he's like well listen to what they're saying and and how they're saying it you know about metaphors not other this stuff is so that's when i really started honing in because i wrote poetry for years ok i was always writing poetry  as i got older my poetry is hard to get longer and more in depth and then more and more deep into what you know and what was going on and so after that it was just like it was it was this it was nd nature ok and so as a kid i remember reading in your bio i had to you had to take a really big loss in order to kind of get that confidence to get back up when i was when i was fourteen years old in chicago my own cool because he was you know he was he was a lawyer so he was put together some study want to get into the music part so it was it was kind of like it really hurt right but then i was like well i mean if i get if i get booed off stage and it feels like this i can imagine how to feel when they're more receptive to mine when they're cheering for you right in the chair for me so from there i just started really really really focusing in on who i was as artists and you know getting better at writing and figuring stuff out figure what people wanted to listen to so i had a lot has been growing up to do at the time but i took it on the chan piano i mean it all just income it was dope mad love elvis cool about kellie with t v s you could check out the visuals yeah i was like that with like that all right let's move on then speaking of performing so at the young tender age of fourteen booed off the stage great venues you got to but on your list like in a perfect world what's the one venue that you like would just love to play for man man interviewed hundreds of artists and number one definite number one answer is always red rocks but mr shier rico here he's thinking bigger i did my st video i right yeah and i had to put that in the mix at the end you know we might have crazy because i want to be a kind of like oh man we should have been there yeah but it was a siding with too but like each time it grows and grows it is bigger and she will do show up but you know there was a missed it man like man given the circumstances that were around it and i kind of stepped away from music you know i had actually dropped a video and some more stuff here when i was in number and i kind of was like you know my mind wasn't right right so i used to go by shop profit dollars my old name i used to wash i profit and so after my brother passed away i drop shot by drop profit and put rico ok because rico was my brother's middle name and it was kind of could mean my older brother we were you know he's always you know at the time i was really going through it because i am the youngest so i looked up to all my brothers and sisters and friends and so he's always tell me my older brother jawan he's in you know he told me like his energy won't die you know and i was alive while make it even so much where that came from and that's are that's where shy rico came from came from but a good story man thank you every shape that condones for your brother that's not easy yeah thing is sibling i can't imagine but push forward you know we all have tough has done that before so thank you and speaking of that how do you balance got to be hard to now not have i have will have six kids total i have i'm way o don't have i have six kids total ok i have full custody of three of them ok i have three at home and the two have stayed in the other when he's here as well to have three at home it is an extremely hard to balance in some cases only because you know i want to always be there answering must spend as much time with him with my babies but i also want to let him know that you can chase your dream yes and you can go out and do things that you want to do if you if it's in your heart you know st it  are behind you and your babies leave i don't like i love to support that idea from all my fans and followers yeah but damn them when that when they when they're behind me and you know that they can be the only ones in a crowd i'll be perfectly happy and  man thank you i appreciate what else out there that's doing this not all my single parents single dads single moms like jada is doing it out there i respect john a whole different level because i know i now know that it's not easy it's not is my song smoke thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you i've got another one about to do here is called young gifted and black is produced by christians jones in