Symba has tried to shoot his shot at Melyssa Ford, telling the video vixen-turned-podcaster to her face that he’s been a fan of hers for some time.
The Outcomes Take Time lyricist stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast for a prolonged interview this week, however took a second to make his emotions identified to Ford, who at present co-hosts the present.
“She don’t know me, however I’m an actual fan of her,” Symba mentioned in a preview of the upcoming episode shared on Instagram on Tuesday (April 11).
“Oh, thanks,” Ford replied sweetly, earlier than the Bay Space native continued showering her with compliments, finally making her a cheeky supply.
“Not even simply from being right here. From her Hollywood Unlocked days, out of your earlier profession,” he added. “And I heard you been searching for a younger boy to take you out and run across the metropolis.”
Whereas the clip didn’t present Ford’s full response, it did seize the gobsmacked expression on her face as Joe Budden and the remainder of her co-hosts reveled in Symba’s advances.
Symba’s look on The Joe Budden Podcast comes after the “Ain’t Sayin Shit” rapper served up some alternative phrases for the music trade in a seperate interview with the RapCaviar podcast, alleging that being “dope” has little to do with whether or not one is profitable within the rap sport.
“My dumb ass used to suppose it was about being dope,” he mentioned whereas sat subsequent to fellow rapper MAVI. “After which, I noticed the music trade was designed to capitalize on artists. Loads of us simply be making music and we be having enjoyable … and you then connect the trade to it.”
Symba, who’s at present signed to Atlantic Data, has had fairly an explosive journey to recognition. Throughout a chat with HipHopDX after signing along with his former label, Columbia Data, in 2017, he opened up concerning the conventional path he took in touchdown his first huge deal.
“It was really an actual old-school, natural course of,” he defined. “I met my supervisor about six years in the past, Chelsea Blythe. On the time she was an intern over at Interscope and I used to be within the studio with Nic Nac, I used to be working with him, and he or she had got here in [and] heard me rap.
“She was like, ‘Yo I’m interning over at Interscope [but] I’ma be an A&R someday. Stick to me, imagine in me and I’m going to imagine in you,’ and I used to be like, ‘Let’s do it.’ On the time I didn’t actually have a staff, I didn’t have a supervisor, I didn’t have a help system. I had my mother and a pair individuals from again house. So she sort of moved me out right here.
“[She] simply schooled me on the ropes and making larger songs and discovering my identification – realizing who it’s I wanna be as an artist and what we’re going for. 4 years later she ended up getting an A&R place over at Columbia and her first A&R assembly she performed one among my songs. The remainder was historical past. They known as me up for a gathering, I went in there with Chels, and all of it labored out.”
Symba dropped off his newest challenge DJ Drama Presents: Outcomes Take Time final September, which options appearances from Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Roddy Ricch and Key Glock, in addition to Philadelphia crooner Fridayy.