Billion Dollar Baby artist Stunna 4 Vegas continues to carve out his own lane outside of DaBaby‘s success. The young North Carolina artist’s career has been fine-tuned by DaBaby, but as he releases more projects—including his latest, Rich Youngin—Stunna is picking up steam and reveling in the successes his rap star life affords.

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Stunna caught up with DJ Smallz to talk about Rich Youngin and what the process was like weeding through songs to come up with the final 12 that ended up on the record. He said he had plenty of tracks to choose from, but he and DaBaby took about an hour and a half to hand-pick the final dozen. Smallz wanted to know if there was a method they leaned on when deciding the order such as something like choosing two high-energy tracks and then something more mellow.

“I’m up all the time,” Stunna said of his music’s vibe. “So, it’s up, I’d say it don’t go down. It’s probably neutral like, ‘Walk Up’ [and] ‘Russian,’ but I’m up on them, too, at the same time. I’m up on everything. It’s energy. I make energy music. I’m not a sad-ass rapper. Ain’t no girl break my heart. Sorry, I don’t make that type of music for y’all,” he added with a laugh.

“But hey, I’m versatile, though,” Stunna continued. “I got that mellow music. I got that in the cut. But even then, the way I come on the track is up at the same time so it’s gonna be energy every time with me.” Watch Stunna 4 Vegas with DJ Smallz below.

Successful rappers love dishing out advice to the budding generation of new artists. Their words of wisdom are venerated and shared worldwide as blueprints on how to become the next rap superstar. 600Breezy has been in the industry for quite a few years, but the young artist is still waiting for his moment to crossover into a new level of celebrity. In a recent interview with DJ Smallz, 600Breezy shared the best career advice he’d received thus far, and the rapper said it came from Travis Scott.

“I was in the club with Travis Scott and he was basically telling me, don’t let women, don’t let other people like, get in the way of what I’m doing,” 600Breezy said of his recent encounter with the Astroworld artist. “He told me to stay authentic and to keep pushing and keep working because like, the way my career is going right now is how his started off. And he just had to stay focused and push a lot of negative energy away from him and remain himself and just keep going until you make it to where you wanna be.”

Last year, Travis and his longtime girlfriend Kylie Jenner decided to end their relationship. The co-parents have been respectful of one another’s privacy, but that hasn’t stopped the gossip for circulating. There have been rumors that his demanding lifestyle got in the way of their happy home, but both Travis and Kylie have kept the reason for their split under wraps. Watch 600Breezy’s interview clip below.

Artists are excited when industry professionals and label executives express interest in giving them a record deal, but not all that glitters is gold. For decades we’ve listened to stories about artists being taken advantage of, and rapper 600Breezy recently shared some advice to rappers during his interview with DJ Smallz.

600 Breezy said the biggest mistake artists make is “signing to other rappers.” He added, “He gotta do his job, too. Like, he’s still rapping. You gotta sign to somebody that don’t wanna be the person that you are or don’t want to hold you down to not get bigger than them. You sign to another rapper it’s always a hidden agenda there.”

There have been “plenty of times” when label-owning rappers have attempted to ink deals with 600Breezy, but he said he’s had to turn them down. “If it’s like, a rapper that’s not rappin’ no more or don’t really care about it, it’d be cool,” he continued. “But not an active rapper. Everybody seen me with Drake all the time. I wasn’t signed to Drake, bro. ‘Cause at the end of the day, he’s still an artist. If I signed to him, he’s gon’ sign me to a label. I would have other people over and it ain’t gon’ be like I’m dealing with him. He’s still on the road doing shows, making albums. So, if you sign to him and he’s really who you singed to and you gotta do the professional part, too, they ain’t gon’ get nowhere ’cause he gotta focus on himself.”

Another mistake that artists make is “taking bullsh*t deals” like “360s.” Artists who take advances for a number of albums over a certain number of years is also something that he warns against. “That’s where everybody f*ck up at.” Watch 600Breezy talk about Drake and share other thoughts about the industry below.

Slaughterhouse may be on a permanent hiatus, but that doesn’t mean that members of the collective aren’t still on good terms with the Shady Records founder. Royce Da 5’9″ has continued to maintain a personal and professional working relationship with Eminem throughout the years, and the rapper was recently asked if he prefers to hit the studio alone or to collaborate with other artists. In an interview with DJ Smallz, Royce used Em, Preme, and Slaughterhouse to explain the differences in how much work is put into a project.

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“I don’t prefer one over the other,” Royce said. “Slaughterhouse, I gotta do a little more work. When I’m working with Marshall, I don’t have to do as much work. When I’m working with Preme, I still don’t have to do as much work because he’s gon’ make all the beats. He’s gon’ mix everything. I get a little meticulous when it comes to approving mixes, but outside of that, all I really gotta do is rap in those two situations. So, that’s one of the things that makes those two situations…it makes me look forward to doing them.“

“Now, the Slaughterhouse thing, it’s an interesting situation because it’s something that we built,” Royce continued. “It’s something that we built that some people didn’t believe in. So, it’s always sweeter being in that kinda situation. It’s more of us, there’s other rapper, more than just one other rapper.” He interrupted his thought to say that he doesn’t even classify Eminem as an emcee.

“Em ain’t even a rapper no more,” Royce stated. “He’s like a superhero.” He moved on to once again speaking about Slaughterhouse, saying that it was “a lotta fun” because they would get together and drink into the night when they’d “all become comedians in our own little way.” Watch Royce Da 5’9″ talk about his collaborative preferences below.

As of late, 600Breezy’s name has been synonymous with controversy. The rapper’s previous relationship with Black Ink‘s Sky Days was the subject of headlines and most recently, he was accused of ordering a hit out on Kenneth Petty after Meek Mill’s internet scuffle with Nicki Minaj. It’s 600Breezy’s ongoing tit-for-tat with his alleged baby mama Queen Key that has him wrapped up in the most drama, and he spoke on why she’s the person behind most of the misconceptions about his character.

During an interview with DJ Smallz, Breezo was asked what he believes is the greatest misconception people have about him. “For me to answer this question, it’s gon’ bring that b*tch into the equation,” he said with a smile. “I really feel like I wanna speak on it ’cause that sh*t gets on my nerves every f*ckin’ day. Tha sh*t get on my nerves. So, I ain’t gon’ say her name, but I’m just gon’ give a rundown. I was f*ckin’ wit a b*tch, she a rapper. She’s disrespectful. Very disrespectful. I couldn’t deal with that sh*t. She wanted me to be her boyfriend. I told her no. She told me she was pregnant. I didn’t even say get rid of it, I just said that sh*t to the public when she did what she did. Did some embarrassing sh*t or whatever. It’s nothing that she could say to me possibly, so she’s throwing out gay rumors.”

“The b*tch sayin’ it so much and she got kind of a fanbase, so they gonna ride with her like, ‘Oh, he’s this and that,'” he continued. “I’m one of the straightest n*ggas that you will ever find in this f*ckin’ world. All these industry b*tches f*ckin’ wit’ me. All these regular b*tches f*ckin’ wit me. You’ll never hear that sh*t. You heard that sh*t from one b*tch and people tryin’ to run with the sh*t.”

600Breezy added that he’s not homophobic, but he’s had to block gay men on his page daily because they’re sending him provocative private messages. “I can’t get to these n*ggas to kill ’em or no sh*t like that, so I just block ’em.” He added that his accuser is “supposed to be pregnant right now” causing “two misconceptions.” He added, “They steady screaming deadbeat and they steady screaming gay. Her kids not even on this earth yet. You can’t be a deadbeat to some kids that’s not on earth.”

The rapper added that he did request for a blood test but he claims Queen Key got upset with him. “At the end of the day, you can’t find a gay receipt on me,” he said. “You can’t find a deadbeat receipt. My baby mamas don’t be blasting me about nothin‘ because they know I’m there. The kids I got on this earth right now, they tooken care of.” Watch his clip in full below.