Lil Mike and Funny Bone of America’s Got Talent join TruthSeekah on the TruthSeekah podcast and talk about their experience on the show, their relationship with Christ and many crazy stories from the road.
Lil Mike & Funny Bone also known as Mike Bone, Yes the two Native American rappers from America’s Got Talent. These OKC brothers, though they may look-a-like they are not twins. Also what they lack in height they make-up for in talent.
Born & raised in Oklahoma City, & Both started rapping at age 12. Mike & Bone respectively – have spent years on stage at clubs, churches, casinos, children’s birthday parties, car shows & even retirement homes. Developing their skills not just as rappers but as performance artists & Motivational Speakers. Mike Bone independently produced recordings & booked shows to get to their dream of reaching the world.
Check Out Their Music At https://mikebonemedia.com/
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Lil Mike and Funny Bone of America's Got Talent Interview | TruthSeekah Podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeazN95J69U Transcript source: YouTube captions podcast truth seekers podcast buckle up everyone we're gonna talk aliens ufos ghosts spiritual and paranormal from all of the three moons find your wildest dreams truth seeker and or its affiliates are not responsible for any strange phenomena that may occur during or after listening to this podcast which may include the following heightened senses of awareness psychic abilities ufo sightings alien contact time loss out of body experiences ringing in the ears esp lucid dreaming increasing chronicities astral projection telepathy stronger intuition levitation miraculous healings and all remote viewing please be advised to listen at your own discussion won't you come come and take me away won't you come come everything is ungodly dark savage streaming live at truthfika.com she's not a christian give it up your portal to the paranormal esoteric and all things spiritual yo what's going on ladies and gentlemen how y'all doing i'm your host true seeker this is the truth seeker podcast i'm excited i'm delighted to be with you guys again for another amazing episode this is what we do man awesome conversations really cool people uh people from all walks of life people who have an inspirational story a beautiful message and uh who have a piece of the puzzle for sure and so my guests today i definitely have a beautiful piece of the puzzle we're gonna hear their story today we're gonna talk to them get in their heads a little bit if anybody has any questions or any comments make sure that you're typing those in the chats no matter where you're listening to us at facebook youtube periscope twitch all of those different platforms i'll be watching the comments here so i want to say a huge thank you to everybody supporting my work via patreon this is a listener uh supported listener funded show doesn't exist 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uh one of the i think was you know the earlier years of uh um agt and you know i'm saying me and the fam were watching and uh we fell in love with these guys back then this was in 2013 i believe it is back in the day let me see if i can show you guys this little little video here um right here check it out guys if you don't know who they are are you here i'm ready i'm ready for you guys what is the name of your group i'm little mike i'm funny bone and together we are my bones you guys are brothers yes sir what are your real names they call me jesus jesus it's what happens when indians name children right you're native american yes yes you're jesus what do you mean it's your real name jesus yeah i was born and your real name is jesus too you know the sad thing is there's one between us and uh his name is jesus um how tall are you guys just uh 52 inches hard to get girls at that size or no problem just give me a chair i'll be all right way to go way to go just give us a brief rundown of what we're about to see uh we wrap it up that's it that was their agt debut where america fell in love with you guys little mike and funny bone man welcome to the true secret podcast guys what's going on together known as mike bone as the group yeah yes sir yes sir thank you for having us on yeah man i'm sure you guys are tired of hearing or seeing that clip though right actually it it's always entertaining to watch i love seeing myself it was it was a good uh experience for us um our first experience with so quote-unquote acting and then um rehearsing uh different um what is it scenes scenes yeah because uh that that encourages us to pursue a acting career acting career yeah that's what's up i seen i was watching one of your live streams and uh you were talking about some stuff that you guys got coming up that y'all been filming as well um have y'all played in any any other shows sitcoms movies anything like that uh we have a movie that we're featured in it's called lord fan and it's about it's a very complicated movie about mental health so i mean basic story is there's a guy it's a story about four people and at the very end of the movie you figure out oh it's just this one guy so my kind of movie that sounds good sounds good so man we talk about the music a little bit man we talk about agt you know what i'm saying opening those doors for you guys like what was that experience like um you know what i'm saying before and after are doors still opening up for you guys because of that oh yeah definitely every day man it was like right after okay so here's the here's the thing so when we were on america's got talent the same day we were also on pbs and so we um at that time can't do it now because of kobe but at that time we take uh like two or three weeks to ourselves and we go to like a church camp or a church retreat and get fed you know spiritually cancel all the shows and whatnot and just kind of you know do that and we were at a church camp and they had us on stage um doing a native american's got talent or whatever and as soon as we get off our phones started blowing up and like we just saw you on tv i'm like what no lie when they played us rain dancing we were on stage rain dancing so yeah our phones started blowing up yeah we had to do some work yeah cause uh what we didn't know is we had his personal number all over facebook yeah so because you know you're trying to get shows right so yeah yeah it was just like it was just going off we were like oh man we got to go to work take that all day yeah so don't go looking for that to the fans yeah we hunted it all down the phone number we push now is our manager so please don't blow him up i know like you know what i'm saying getting started who was that um mike jones was doing that right putting his his number in every song and naming his albums after his phone number and stuff to get yeah crazy hit mike jones up on the low um yeah so uh the experience was different um behind the scenes because they had us like he said acting different scenes like telling us what to do or say matter of fact the first part of when we first came out we had to do that two times because uh they had mics out there and so like we didn't need the mic we didn't need the mic stand so we we ran out there and we like yeah and then um you know the crowd wasn't as hyped the crowd saw us twice yeah the first time but when we did the little jump and tried to grab the mic that's when they that's when they were like these guys are pretty cool so then they were even more excited when we went out the second time that's what's up that's what's up so what about like doing shows and stuff you said you said people were hitting you all up did y'all just like start just traveling doing shows doing youth groups and events and stuff like that uh yeah so we treated our um our rap career as you would any other business so we had business cards with our phone number on it our car had our phone number on it we had the car had a name on it it's on youtube as well uh and we just pushed ourselves we looked up to rock bands yeah how they nice promoted their careers yeah so our name was our logo we did a logo and got shirts we got cards we got everything we can push and just put everything into it man there's a huge different with with the uh the rock band stuff because i do it both right or have done it both and so um we used to throw just a lot of like um christian metal shows and there were like underground shows and i could throw a show and literally sometimes we would get 300 kids to come out to a metal show we do a rap show and i can only get we call them artist shows because you book a whole bunch of artists and the only people who show up is the artist so you get 30 artists to perform and you got 30 people in your crowd and maybe they bring their grandmother but if you if you do a rock show you're getting you're getting kids from everywhere and as far as like pushing a movement like mike bone the movement understanding that from like a rock perspective as well if you look at some of these bands like corn or death tones or stuff like that these fans are getting like the actual names of the bands tattooed on them i don't know anybody who has ti tattooed on them or mike jones tattooed on him or whatever so it's the difference of like pushing a movement versus me as an artist or us as an idea or a movement so i definitely get where you're coming from on trying to kind of push yourself uh like a bandwidth a rock band would for sure yeah and speaking of tattoos we actually got like four fans now four fans got mike that's what i'm saying you know what i'm saying like because you're pushing it as a you know i'm saying a movement it's a it's something it's something it's something bigger than you guys like an idea right you got the native pride behind it it's not you got you got the christ side behind it pushing jesus and and god and consciousness and things like that so it's not just about us and what we're bringing to the table it's about your people it's about everybody who identifies with that idea so that's definitely the way to to push a movement man and to inspire people and it seems like it's working out for y'all um when it comes to like the native american side man putting putting some of that stuff in in your songs have y'all caught any any flack or feedback cause you don't go too deep with it right you put a little bit stuff here and rain dancing and you know summon in the rain and start and stuff like that have y'all caught any weird looks and stuff from any of the church crowd from from the native american side oh yes like daily i mean because we perform on reservations so you have those traditional people that like to argue and yeah social media we get the the those comments that i can't believe you guys fell into the uh what is it the white man's religion yeah yeah i just posted uh a response to somebody's tweet today and uh we spent so much time defending jesus because of the genocide of other and other evil things that many white people have done and still do while claiming his name and it's hard in the hearts of many native americans and other people too slaves uh back in the day you know they they said the same thing and that was the world yep yeah so like um one thing i tell them i was like look man what we did because we were from the city and we we never were raised traditional when we started going finding out our culture because we're christian i was like okay so that's kind of like what as christians do um they have their ceremonies at church and they do their ceremonies at church like with the crackers and the the wine or the baptism i like those are ceremonies basically so i mean for us natives when you don't have a go to uh the bible uh you just go off of what you know or what you when you pray you you receive messages and we had messages without the bible and you know god was telling us all the different things and it was working because we were putting different medicines together and we were like oh well god gave me that knowledge just like an just like a nature would get received the knowledge of all that study and to you know find out what medicines work for what yeah is the same thing with the native and uh the indigenous cultures so for sure um i i say you know if if you want to burn sage if you want to um go to a sweat just make sure you do it in the name of jesus you know say don't don't you know yes and and a lot of people are like you know they'll come by the sideways be like you don't really need sage god is all powerful blah blah blah i'm like look man if i could piss off a devil in more ways than one i'ma do it yeah for sure man and uh i heard you guys give a shout out to the to the uh creek nation uh in one of the songs as well and i got i don't know if you could see it on here but i got oh pci porch creek indians uh used to live on the reservation here in uh porch porch alabama and uh yeah man so definitely i'm i'm in touch with my um native roots and the indigenous side of of our culture and um it's it's beautiful man i it was it was several years ago man i kind of you know i'm saying my christian walk began to get a little bit deeper and begin to be open up to more things just outside of church put it that way even my studies in the scripture started to go deeper and just went to the pow wow one year man have been real sensitive and there's something different in the air bro like seeing everybody dressed up seeing all the uh you know what i'm saying the dances and and just understanding the culture and being in touch with the culture i like just the air was different man i began to cry i began to weep man just there i was trying to hold it back though you know just just this moment of of these people who were just in touch with the earth who were in touch with god who were like these peaceful people and like for the most part the only thing the world gets to see like it's just one day you know what i'm saying where everybody comes from all over to be a part of the you know i'm saying the powwows and stuff and so just that that mo that i had that moment man shook somebody's hand and he was a brother in christ too you know what i'm saying it was a it was a um an old um native man i shook his hand but you could feel the energy there like i felt the end the love coming off of this dude and knowing the stuff that he know it was like just mind-blowing it's like man it was so beautiful and so ever since then man i've been a little bit more deeper into the native american spirituality and mixing it with my christian beliefs and stuff and like not even trying to listen to those conversations again from the native side saying all you need to you know let go of the white man's religion and jesus or whatever and then you got the christians saying hey man don't burn sage because you're gonna let demons in your house and sage ain't got no power and stuff and all that so it's beautiful so you guys are there too on both sides right you guys embrace both sides yeah yeah yes sir yes you have to man because i mean you know god gave us the knowledge in in that time you know for certain things that you know most people today would be like oh that that wouldn't work i'm like are you sure about that because i'm pretty sure like if they passed it down from elder to elder there's something to it so i mean like it's like the uh the fires in california if i don't know if you've seen the stories on the news but native americans used to regularly burn control burn the forest and and wilderness and that would prevent what is happening now and ever since the colonizers came over and told the natives they can't do that their culture thing that now you see what's happening it got out of control and i mean even with the languages like the navajo i mean this country would not be here what was it world war ii yeah yes they used the code talkers the same language that they were told not to speak save this country yeah so and uh also on another note like you know fun funny bone had uh uh back in the day had a lot of chronic back pain and we went to a sweat and we were iffy about it because of our christian faith and you know we're in the sweat and it's getting really hot and we're like oh my god i can't do this and then by the end of the the sweat i mean we hang it we hung in there but um by the end of sweat we get we're crawling out of that that hut and he just stands right up and he's like yo yo and not to mention that the guy that was you know running this way he was you know we were praying to actual jesus and a lot of a lot of natives or indigenous people say creator but this guy was used in the name of jesus but i mean if you say creator you already know who the creator is in the bible i'm just saying but like just because a group who was evil-minded gave him a name doesn't change the fact of what that name did for us as a himself and not for from that their side of the thing right so i mean it's one thing for somebody to go to church and get offended by what a pastor says and then turn their back on god but that was the pastor saying that not god saying that yeah so i would never turn my back on my faith because of what somebody who claimed to be faithful to god did yeah there was a um even even even uh several years ago they found some native american pottery it was that was actually dated back to the early days of america and it had hebrew writing on it the native americans were using hebrew back then in cuneiform it was interesting so there's a lot of stuff that's like this jesus thing might not be as far off from our heritage as we thought in the first place and uh i i got got on this kick for a while just going through like the bloodlines and trying to trying to trace back who these people are according to the bible and there's a lot of people who believe that the native americans are from the tribe of god in the bible and there's a lot of research on there there's a lot of prophecies that happen to the native american people and uh that that line up with what happened to the tribe of god now that'll send you on your own journeys and looking into stuff but there were several years man i got really deep into that stuff and just saying because you know everybody wants to be the people of the book everybody wants that's talking about me that's us and at the same time people are looking for identity too and if you don't have an identity they can give you one and that's what we see a lot going on even today as a uh you know america just it's like a melting pot of all types of people groups and faves and backgrounds and stuff like that so you know what i'm saying it's beautiful and we're not as far off as we thought i think man it's really really cool be able to trace it back definitely crazy and deep so as far as like um a testimony man when you guys got saved gave your life to christ is it was it something that you've always been into did was y'all in the in the streets at all what's your story man as far as giving your life to the lord baptist church yeah so we were uh southern baptist southern baptist yeah like a hellfire indian southern baptist so it was kind of like where they would sing and it sound like they were they would sing about joy but they would sound dead i'd be like where did my heart where where's this joy that's homemade right but like you know when i was younger we were forced to go to church didn't really think nothing of it just thought it was something like routine it was basically a waiting room so um growing up in bad neighborhoods i got into bad things so um gang violence because i was being abused at home i wasn't afraid to fight so um just you know doing that causing nonsense learn how to pick locks learn how to open car doors um you know started doing ambushes on on gang members but that's back when we didn't we wasn't busting that was when we was locking so like they catch you in the mall you from a different set i come up i hit you you fight me i'm kind of small so you know you probably jumping me but my homeboys is around the corner and they jump you and that's how that went down but like it don't go like that no more though right no i don't go like that no more you probably get shot now but like um it just it that was only a season praise god that was only a season for me because one of my homeboys died and i was like man this ain't even worth it and i just started trying to find out an outlet besides what i was already into i tried drawing and because i was mentally messed up i had to go to therapy um the therapist told me to write down my feelings so i found out poems um thanks to tupac somebody my therapist gave me a tupac poetry book and whatnot and i just started writing poems but my poems was like crazy scary like i'd probably be labeled as a terrorist now if i released some of my old poems but like it was very bloody and just talking about my feelings and whatnot but and that my my uncle gave me uh first he gave me dc talk cd and i was like this is pretty cool dc talk and i and i was just learning how to dance like michael jackson and then i've seen those videos too in the documentary yeah and i also was uh he he gave me a t-bone cd and i was like damn let's do this raw i'm like this is what i was listening to kind of like and then like uh i went to a one year shh 99 but like i don't know but i so bad 97 i i went to um i don't know if you remember who the power team was oh yeah oh yeah but like they was bending bending bars and breaking bricks and stuff like that and books yeah like ripping phone books in half so like i went to this little thing at a church and they had the gospel gangsters preaching and and rapping so i was like oh double g's i was like yo and then this is what got me so like i'm i'm chilling in the in the in the bleachers because it was at a high school um thing and i'm just chilling in the bleachers and i see uh one of my you know quote-unquote enemies he walks up and he puts his rag down and a gun and i'm like dang that broke me i'm like dang so i i had that because of my gang mentality i had that that color bound spirit on me so i i wouldn't wear any other color besides what i was yeah yeah even even after i got jumped out and so like i was like damn that broke me so i was like yo i want to finish the rest of this whatever this is locking me down i want to finish it off and when i did that i started my my rhymes started changing i i did a poem to a beat at an elementary school because i wanted to influence the kids like i saw the gospel dancers do and the poem that i wrote was about you know my homeboy dying and then um you know not to to you know go into that gang life and whatnot but it basically took off from there because a little kid came up and said man i like giraffe and i was like no i was a pawn to a jazz beat but then that i'ma try that and then thank god that there was a local christian hip-hop radio station here at the time and yes i i recorded with it was the most terrible recording ever but like it was like karaoke machine and i recorded it once and then i moved it over and then over dubbed onto that and then so it was like a lot of fuzz in the background but it did what it did and i sent it into the radio station everybody was like yo that kid can flow and i was like what i found my calling yeah that's what's up well what kind what kind of church did you guys get involved with from going from like you know i'm saying the baptist church too did y'all get any you know i'm saying charismatic is it was it more open more spiritual if you will so we are very uh we are church hoppers so we've been to every church you can think of kicked out of a lot of churches just for the way we praise god i guess so like we've been to the the we grew up in an indian baptist church um then we from there we went to a southern baptist church where they had the quartet singing and then uh almost like a catholic type of church i i think it was called pentecostal or something like that where the girls wear dresses all the way down to their expectation type stuff yeah and they they sing the word and then from there we went to a church that was very uh free spirited and they had like i was like a mega church basically yeah and i was like this is pretty cool it's like going to a concert but it's too big it don't feel it don't feel like you're personal yeah yeah so like then we went to a um smaller church that a uh a death metal ban invited us to nice and so that felt more personal and um just the music was good the the the preaching was raw and then we went to a big bigger church that was similar to like that but like not so much it was like they mixed hip hop and rock and they had a dj plan and i was like this is pretty cool in the first sermon that he had he was all like so he was like we're going to talk about the power of the tongue and nobody was really paying attention because it's kind of a bigger church and a bunch of wild kids it was down in the in the city so you know everybody's like yeah and then he's like okay hold on and he pulls out this ice chest and he pulls out a cow's tongue and starts swinging around and starts preaching with it and i'm like yo this is awesome so we went to that church for a minute and that church uh it was called city church and that man we stuck around for a minute up in there and then when that church kind of fell through we was just like well where are we gonna go we started going to um black pentecostal church which was cool um then we went to a um it was something called like confirm where the god church when i'm really spiritual like if you practice your gifts you do this and you'll do that we kind of fell into that like you know i was like oh i'm gonna be a healer and whatnot and you know saying it just felt like when we were practicing our gifts it was it was like we was playing like with a ouija board or whatnot cause um it was like we were expecting demons to show up so we could fight oh god yeah yeah yeah so i was like behind every every night so like i mean they had good intentions it just wasn't there but i believe god you know showed us that line of work so that we would be part more powerful for sure in fighting evil spirits but after that church uh somebody invited us to their church and said yes you go you actually really come to my church is it's crunk at the time it's crunk at the time and then we're like all right we heard that before yeah we heard that we didn't expect something we're like yeah we'll be there sunday morning you know and then we pull up i'm like we hear somebody bumping it we like dang who's in the parking lot just jamming like that in front of the church we get up to the doors and we opened the doors and that it was the church bumping that in the party lights going and then i was like oh that's cool they play some good music while people are coming in no we was late that was worship there was worship they was playing uh hip-hop videos and rock videos and techno videos on a dance floor and people were dancing and that was their sunday service and i was like yo this is church they had graffiti's everywhere yeah i'm like dang this place is crazy yo uh so we went there for a long time cool minute um we did some shows up there um it was real cool man well that's cool you guys have been around the block like for for some people man it can take a toll on you right what's the truth which one's real because because you know all those churches you went to they all claimed to be the you know the ones that have the truth i never went to um israel like church yeah because the homeboy has set me up nah but i told him i said hey i said man i'ma be real honest with you after this service what what i'm what i think of your church because i heard some stuff in it yeah like after the service i'm like real homie you were you in a cult yeah right yeah i did the israelite thing you know saying especially studying the bloodlines and stuff like that i did that for uh a couple years man we got really deep into some of the the bigger groups and had our own little chapter and stuff and um i had to kind of denounce that stuff and pray through some stuff you know what i'm saying that came with that it's to me if they would do away with that the hate speech yeah it would be more good it would be more good to them but like quick because the the whole i call it a history class the whole history class was like dang that's confirmation oh dude that's confirmation but then they got into the whole white man going to hell and this person is the real devil yeah i'm like yo god was a god about love oh boy i don't know what y'all was reading but that ain't what i read and so it's like man that's crazy especially like for somebody to go to do what jesus went through just for a certain type of people man i'm like yo he did it for everybody even if even if they were sinners just by their bloodline he died for everyone um i i don't i don't believe in generational i don't believe a generational curse can hold you back from the love of god yeah something your forefathers did makes it where you can't enter in yeah there's a lot of crazy holes in that theology it blew up because again people looking for identity you know and you have a people whether it's native americans with mexicans whether it's you know the african americans who've been told that they're nothing that you're the scum of the earth that you're nobody and then you have someone comes through to to actually build you up and show you that no you're royalty you're the offspring of david you are the same bloodline of christ like what that does for an individual who's been told that they're worthless their whole life and that they're a mistake and all of this stuff you know so you can see where that would catch on really fast and that's why it's been growing but yeah all the militant stuff with it and the racism that sprinkled in through there big thing that stood out to me for when i ended up leaving is a lack of spirituality it was all about just the word and knowing the word and how much you know and trust me they can tear that bible apart they taught me how to study the word but when it comes to praise and worship and dancing and getting in the spirit and all that there was there's like zero zero no intimacy with god yeah that's that's one thing that i noticed as well so i was like man this is it was just so hate-filled it's just like dude how can you want to live your life with just that much hate yeah i think it's something cool to kind of pass through but a lot of people get stuck there man i've lost some good friends um in that movement and stuff and real crazy um so let's talk about your influences a little bit man like bc uh you know what i'm saying before christ like what was some of the music that that you guys uh were influenced by and maybe even still to this day listen to some of the hip-hop or some of the metal stuff that influenced you and that's another reason uh uh our fan base is so broad i think uh is because we like all kinds of music from metal uh r b and hip hop so we i guess you can hear that in our music and i think mike has a broader uh yeah i got a broader base of what i love in the metal area but like i like i really like wage war um demon hunter geez uh what's the showdown that's it for crutch oh my god tfk for sure yeah yeah uh oh to really get like intimate i like disciple um man there's that whoever writes their songs oh my god it really around me yeah it reminds me of when i first heard plus one which was a christian pop group yeah yeah yeah and they wrote like love songs to god and i'm like yo this is i've never heard i'm i wasn't really a big fan of nsync or backstreet boys but when i heard plus one i was like yo i wouldn't never thought like yo i would have never thought to write music like that yeah yeah i was a die-hard fan of uh ffh which is along the same same vibe yeah but it's like it's a difference and you guys know this i'm sure you all have these songs there's a difference when you're like singing about god and then you can write a song to god like there's a whole different dynamic there right yes yeah so like um for hip-hop we love seven gospel gangsters a lot of the old um artists like the ones that got longevity right yeah like like little rascal petty d yeah um of course kj52 you guys remember um um ftf [Applause] the zig lag boys zig lag boys yup yup man what about the life row boys do y'all know that bro malachi i got actually got a song with malachi from lifero he went off and started doing his own thing yeah he did well he what was the group that he started because they they did another group after that um uh it was so he was like for boys and then gideon's army gideon's army that was it yeah yeah he was he was always the standout artist of malachi oh man that boy whoo jesus ff5 family force fire man that that if we was a rock band we'd be if that yeah we i feel like that would be us yeah um but you was talking about writing songs to god we actually have on a rain dance album a song called 3 16 it's a love song and it's talking about being awake at 3 am because you can't sleep because somebody's on your mind and uh we wrote that to god it's a worship song so like listen to god you you it was like a prodigal son story where um you're just like you you know god's love but you've been missing out on it first for a long time and then you just kind of it like it just dawned on you like at three in the morning like i want that again and so we wrote a song about that yeah that's good man but we wrote it in the way that people could use it as a love song today companion um we didn't really say god or jesus or anything like that yeah so we we try to we try to be versatile in that sense so that you know people can hear a song and be like oh that's for a girl but then when they really get into it or when they really know our walk um they go dang that's a christian sign also we don't want to what does it call it uh overdo it with the whole church religion yeah we don't want to it definitely puts you in a box as being church rappers and we're not going to listen to it that's what i tell people because like i moved from doing straight gospel rap right just straight gospel everything was bible verses and like lecrae like teaching the word and stuff like that all testimony on how to kill the devil when i first started with shooting the devil with guns and all kinds of stuff thanks for joining us like that yeah but it put you in that box because like one thing i told people because i don't move i'm more spiritual obviously my faith is in my music for sure i got i literally have worship so most of my stuff is worship stuff but it's done in such a way where it's it's it's open-ended i guess um but what i tell people is that especially christian rappers is that um you don't hear the d-boys and drug dealers riding through the hood bumping lecrae you just don't know you don't hear it but you and and and and and those guys aren't going by lecrae cds they're not lecrae wishes they would right he makes he makes music for them to do to do it and it it lands on the right ears that when it's supposed to right but as far as like overall but you do find christians buying little wayne cds you do find christians buying all kinds of secular music so to put yourself in that box would marginalize yourself so much and uh and it's got a it's got to have a religious connotation in it obviously there's a message and stuff like that and what the scripture says be wise as serpents but harmless as doves and so there's a there's a way to be tactful about it but you know that but at the same time it lets you get into the the churches and the youth groups which are fun too you get to just show up and have a huge audience that you didn't even have to you know pass out flyers or anything for right yeah our um rain dance cd and our crank native cd is pretty much like that uh where we we went through a season where we don't want to be so too preachy yeah and uh a pastor got on to us about that and we were like look man we don't have to we don't have to say jesus to win somebody's soul we just got to live it your life preaches a lot more than just words it ain't like we rapping about you know twerking and then after the show we tell them you know you need to get sick it's not like we went secular but also jesus spoke in parables and stories and that's what we wanted to do and that's what we do on our music and even though even though he had a lot a lot of crazy stuff man i really believe like tupac was like a psalmist dude he was just writing what he was going through man you know what i'm saying my enemies are coming for me they're trying to kill me like that's what king david was writing about you know i ain't got no friends all my friends betrayed me god you the only thing i got left like is that a song that should we should do like a a game show where we quote the psalm or we quote a tupac verse and let people guess psalm or two pop verse which is twits you know yeah so basically i told that pastor i was like look man you got those artists that are all in with being preachy on a song and then you have those artists that are never going to preach on a zone i was like if we're that stepping stone it makes it easier for them to get over to that side yeah and plus you don't want to scare the the main people that needed jesus yeah you don't want to scare them away by saying jesus because people will love good music regardless so if we can be that stepping stone for them to be like oh i just now found out y'all you know rap about christ and then they go well what else is is there because even with this um new age of internet they're still locked under um their suggestions uh through their apps or whatever of that area they they ain't being suggested what we're listening to right so they have to have that notion of um who else is out there that's positive rapping and then uh uh or positive any kind of music but like it's not being suggested to them because you know that's how it that's how the algorithm is set up yeah yeah um it works too man like uh you guys you guys know that you've seen the fruit of it and just because somebody doesn't get the vision being a pioneer you know and looking for affirmation in other people you ain't gonna pioneer nothing if that's the case because i definitely got that even with my like stylistically i was starting to put screaming in my rap songs and like people in the hood they like nah we're not here no scream rapping we ain't feeling that that sounds like a demon it's like listen the people that that i bump shoulders with that's what we listen to man screaming and screaming you know beautiful worship screaming music too that's a whole nother story yeah but i i tell you this there was a guy back when we were doing shows and an in the underground scene i was doing the the metal thing there would be a lot of unsaved kids coming to the shows you know we do but yeah they're coming to the metal some some bands were preachy sometimes they'd be secular bands but there was just one kid man i remember that um he listened to all the bands he was at every show and this joker was listening to norma jean he was listening to zayo under oath as i lay dying haste today like all the big underground christian metal bands he had no idea that they were christian he wasn't a christian but he was listening to all of their music and then one day like an epiphany it hit him all these big bands that i'm listening to because the christians they they actually pioneered that sound the underground christian metal core scene that was huge the secular took from that and kind of didn't uh they took it and made it their own but um it all hit him at once he's like man all of these songs are talking about god and he called me up like wanting wanting to talk and want to give his life to the lord because all of this music that he was listening to and it just all hit him at once man and it broke him down i was like wow that's an amazing story man they finally got it one day he heard one lyric that connected all of these bands that he was listening to that they were christian and they were singing about something deep and uh and that stuff was changing his his his mind man as you're listening to that it changes the way you think the way you feel about yourself and so music is powerful man so that was a beautiful oh yeah it'd be different if they were only singing about jesus every song jesus is the way give your life to the lord like yeah so like for a longest time i i didn't think you could worship to that style of music and we seen uh we were at a church camp and we seen this group that um they were called z pi and they they were like we're gonna worship the father and then he starts taking his shirt off and the guy's playing like like a scary sound like that and then he pulls out this bucket of red paint which you kind of know and he puts this lamb's mask on and he starts drawing a bloody cross on his chest that's that death metal the christian death metal huh okay yeah and then they start going in and they're like [Â __Â ] up we need y'all let your presence right no no just like wow and then like just him screaming it like that everybody in that whole building caught the holy ghost yeah because everybody else is screaming it too what yeah somebody's going through some stuff and they're screaming to god father we need your presence and singing and screaming from down here you know life get that that down and out i'm going to scream to god like that and i think what helped that little skit he did before that it just had everybody like what in the heck so they was focused on what's going on and then when he did that he was just like hit everybody like dang yeah i didn't know i could worship the music like that what about like uh have you heard of the band four today or sleeping giant oh god today their lyrics are straight spirit-filled straight you know i'm saying warfare sleeping giant that new stuff oh my god i love the worship to that stuff i remember listening to i think it's uh um the champions album or whatever and i'm i was um driving in my work truck and i the album just came out i listened to it i'm weeping i'm driving my workshop just crying listening to christian metal every song one after another and then and i heard something on on there that that that they were doing they were praying in every song and and and they did something that i do is they pray in the on when they record the songs they'll pray and they'll speak blessings on it but they'll turn it down so as you're listening to this music you got people praying for you in the background i always tell people that you can't hear it but you can feel it you can feel it and i'm just dry i'm listening in this music just weeping listening to a christian metal album and it's speaking right to my spirit right where i was and so that stuff man it's beautiful yeah that's crazy um one thing we didn't talk about is um just when early in our career um we were the rappers the religious rappers that always were at the house parties and doing uh secular events so a lot of the christians well it's like you know criticizing us for that yeah and he's speaking down on us judging us and whatnot but we knew we what we were there for uh they were house parties we were at where a girl was gonna get raped and we had to jump in and save her and and and people were getting shot and we uh there was one where the what was it uh was the cop getting jumped was that a house party yeah no that was a club but a club was getting jumped and we intervened and scared everyone away yeah we had these firecrackers that we lit and everybody thought somebody started shooting so everybody scattered like roaches when they heard the pop and we ran over to the security guard and we're like yo that was us nobody's shooting you're good bro so yeah i mean it's just guessing us god said it's up in a way that um we're strong-minded and not not only just because he's my accountability partner but like iron sharpens on we're just that strong-minded against certain temptations drinking and alcohol we don't do none of that women is out the window drugs it's just like we just want to have we just want to love god and party yeah and people always like ask us man y'all are so happy all the time well what is it we're like man that's the joy of the lord right there and then we write songs about we got one called roll it up and it sounds like a smoking song but we're about puffins on the holy ghost and take it in take it in and just absorb it and there's no hide like that the lies of this world the alcohol and drugs never satisfy yeah and you got people just chasing that and going in a circle and they don't take you nowhere it just mess your whole life up that stuff never satisfies try some holy spirit try that lord man it's really good ain't nothing can touch it yeah i uh i went through that too going out like from doing the church shows we do churches you know every weekend throughout the week too and uh but then when i started getting into the club scene or whatever doing my music at clubs and some of the music was was less preachy right it's still christian rap or christian rock but it was less preachy and um and a lot of the churches were like man what are you guys doing up in there you ain't got no reason to be up in there it's like for the people who need our message everybody in church is already saved and you want me to entertain church folks like um you know but i will tell you this that like uh i we started going to a uh a biker church and um and and and you know i'm saying they were into the rock and stuff but they accepted me because they were different they they let me get up there and rap and throw shows there and conquer a bunch of bikers man who loved the lord and um eventually they like when when i told them i was doing a show they'd come up they'd come up so i'd be downtown at the bar doing a show and all you hear all of these uh harley's come coming up real loud and it's all these bikers getting off the bike to come to the hip-hop show to support me they got all these dudes with vests on in the crowd come on brother i was like heck yeah for sure bikers are a unique type of group yeah because i remember pulling up and i think it was in new mexico uh we had a show and we pulled up to them it was a bar um we pulled up to the bar and then all i saw was bikes and i was like is this the right spot because uh that look iffy so we get in there i'm like oh man we finna get bottles thrown at us or you know every every biker gang movie you can think of you're you're thinking that in your mind and then like we get up there and we're rapping and doing our thing and then when we get off there like yeah if yeah we're like all right we're accepting you know big old dude take a picture with my wife i'm like oh yeah all right that was funny yeah yeah yes sir also uh i want to say that uh one place god sent us was in vegas we did a show at a casino and then after we get done this guy comes up he says hey man i have a club i would like you guys to come perform in my club and so we're like yeah man let's do it and so he had a limo we hop in the limo we pull up and it says world's largest strip club yeah i'm like i'm like maybe it's behind the strip club yeah so we figured out it was the strip club so we're like looking at each other like dude go in what what i'm like dude if he if we don't go in he might make us walk all the way back like a quick braille like okay nice that's god about it and i'm like okay look it was what it is we're gonna take our glasses off we can't see nothing we good so we went in there and we did the show a couple minutes after the show um this lady comes up and you know we're kind of like we don't want no dances because the whole night i don't know if like we made an impression on the the owner but he kept sending ladies over and i know every lady was a different color he was trying to figure out if we had a type i just kept brushing them off there was one girl she actually sat down and was talking to me and asking me you know what i got to do to get this i said put some clothes on put some clothes on she's and she was like i can't do that and i was like we had this other girl walk up and she said she had been praying all night for um and maybe probably for the last couple weeks but um for a sign from god and she took us as that sign from god through our music and came to a job and spoke right yes we sat there in the strip club and prayed for her right there and she gave her life to christ and she she she needed to know whether she should keep doing the stripping or give her life to god and go where he tells her so man you never know you never know who's listening man and uh you know a lot of people are scared or not called to or just scared to to go into those places where god sends you but that's why he raises you up you never know who's listening to man like i got listen we got so many people listening to this podcast from every demographic that you can think of christian atheist new age satanist psychic medium like whatever you can think of they're listening i got a tweet this morning blew my mind because i speak against this a lot i throw it i i speak against it i gotta tweet go go go check my twitter i know y'all follow me on twitter um a porn star porn star uh tweeted uh um that her go-to podcast on her flights is the true secret podcast and i was like oh is this a joke i went to a page it's literally a porn star retweeted to me and said her go-to podcast as a true seeker podcast you never know who's listening man everybody from all walks of life and i we don't we don't judge anybody i'm saying we don't look down on on anybody but i know that's something that that i speak against on top of it there's a lot of people i speak against what they do and they still listen right there's something in it that they um identify with or whatever because that's you know you you i'm saying you're not what you do man you know what i'm saying yeah and and that's what people see people see that out the outer appearance so even you know i'm saying this young lady that's what we see the first thing oh you're this you're that oh you're that you guys are drug dealers okay you guys are christian rappers right but christ looks through that and he sees our hearts man he sees us as the individual so we have to learn to be able to see that because other people say oh y'all y'all went to a strip club okay yeah you're not coming in our church anymore or whatever it's like listen and see people we got we got fired from uh yfc for going to a hosting a frat party oh we we got blocked on twitter by joel osteen joel osteen y'all wasn't attacking him was y'all no it was his tweets it was like just matching so well with certain songs that we had and we would tweet and reply and put a song for those that might need it and i guess we didn't we weren't doing it like well who wasn't born you like we just picked a certain one and we were like that one matches that song it wasn't like every tweet but um yeah and then like also uh rapzilla blocked us on twitter i'm just saying trying to get on man that i we when we we don't do the pay to play i think that's what they got mad at yeah we called them out yeah yeah yeah yeah south.com do you guys remember the south yeah yes okay not a lot of people remember that i've had i've actually had i've had trey nine on here interviewed him i think that's when we first heard your music the south yeah were you on the sale heck yeah yeah yeah that's where we first heard your music wow dude that was a long time ago yeah it was a long time ago one thing we also did it was more mike's idea is when we had a store selling music um he would put these co collaborations of different r b artists together cr uh faith-based r b artists and called it slow jams and they would sell really really nice because i mean these it was like canton jones yeah and people would come back and be like man where can i get another cd i'm like go buy that whole album but this person right here the artist name on there and everything i tell them where to get the cd you know it's telling it ain't even that much for the cd or what that and you know trying to share that quality content because i mean there's so much faith-based music that ten times better than what the world is putting out i mean like you said that you know with the whole you know you never know who's listening also you never know what how you treat people can change someone's life so like we were at a festival and we had a booth next to this muslim dude and when he would uh he had to do his little prayer um we we turned our music down just because you know we are we respect and honor how faithful certain muslims are to you know their god or whatever and we were like you know turn it down and when he was done he came over and he talked to us he goes now i noticed the music y'all played y'all talk about jesus and whatnot and he was like man why did y'all turn it down when i was praying i was like because it's the right thing to do man just but i want to take you out to a zone and he was just like i've never met any christians like y'all i thought y'all hated us i'm like nah man hating hate ain't what we do man hate don't live here i'm like i honor i i said i honor the fact that you know y'all stay faithful like that there should be more christians out there being that faithful yeah and he was all like i noticed that y'all prayed before y'all eat at every meal and he was like that put a a thing in my spirit that how faithful y'all are to god and we're like i mean it wasn't no big deal we just like it's just something we do we love talking to god so like i don't know but your actions can change somebody's heart yeah yeah i've got a lot of friends man they're kind of like as far as like what i used to do in the church rap christian rap stuff and like to what i'm doing now they would like rather me preach um like just do the christian rap thing or be i used to be a street preacher as well i did that for a while and um and they're just big on the preaching of the gospel and i am too but like i want to see you live it man you know what i'm saying because you got a lot of people preaching it that ain't living it and and like they're going unchecked like because as long as they're preaching as long as their confession is right or they have this appearance of godliness then they're okay which i'm i'm i'm totally against that man like uh i want to you know what i'm saying like and i know you've heard the term preach the gospel and if necessary use words you know right right so yeah so many christian groups of faith-based groups ain't really representing christ and they have their own agendas and that's like i said earlier that's what hardened the hearts towards uh jesus of many natives towards jesus christ i think that's a lot like why we do more um secular stuff is because a lot of churches don't see us as a preachy group but like we've done church uh faith-based stuff before and they've they've asked us not to preach and so like if you asked us not to preach we're not going to preach we're just going to do our set and get off and then if we preach after that we're preaching you know personally to whoever comes up but like never never going to dishonor a pastor or a festival if they tell us not to preach um the only way we would do that is if like america's got talent when they told us not to say jesus and we got up on there and we was like i'm jesus there's a jesus there's a jesus in between us so we were like yeah yeah that's a lot of the uh a lot so you can say whenever you guys said that yeah you guys would y'all wasn't talking about another brother y'all talking about christ when you said that pretty much y'all we have a brother named baby jesus but the jesus we was talking about was jesus nice but um yeah our names are jesus though they told you we don't go by jesus yeah matter of fact we changed our line to the we changed our verse to the verse that actually says jesus on the rap song so yeah i noticed i think they they i think they tried to cut it out but they missed the part yeah but yeah also a lot people don't know about that our our appearance on that show is us getting kicked off was part of our plan because two years before our agt appearance they uh we auditioned in texas to be on the show and they said that we're not looking for rappers it's all good then two years later they called us and said we'd like you guys to audition well like click and they call back like hey we really want you guys to audition we saw your tape on youtube and we're like no thanks we're good we're not wasting time y'all ain't looking for rappers blah blah and they called back and said we really really want you guys we're like okay if you're serious take the tape you saw and use that as an audition and they called us back and said they want us i'm like hold up man what video did you watch we go watch this video it's it's a morning show here in oklahoma city and it was like what six in the morning yeah it was early we wasn't really awake but we did this slow song that was a slow song called welcome to oklahoma it's a cool song but it's not to us it's not a performance song and we're like wow that's the video you saw yeah so we're like all right we'll do the i was like wait wait till you get a load of me so we get up there and we do it and um the funny thing was they sent us uh 80 page contract we ended up telling them look man this contract too thick man nobody we had uh our entertainment lawyer look over it he said man if y'all was my artist i would not do it so yeah we told him no again and then the fourth time they was like man we really want y'all on the show and um the entertainment lawyer we he hit us up and said uh that um if you get on and get off you'll be good and we were like we could do that no problems we had to get do one performance for the show and then get kicked out because and and so we go to san antonio which is where the we did the agt appearance do it and they love us we it flies out the will of vegas right yeah and for the second episode and here's the crazy thing we spent a week in vegas for agt and most of the time we're sitting in a room with all the talent and it's like we basically went to vegas to go to jail but it felt like jail had to wear the same clothes every day yeah they had us locked in a room yeah looked like it was the same day so you wore the same clothes and we got a bunch of strange people around us all chatting and wow it's just weird showbiz and they were started sending people straight through to new york and me and mike got scared without without doing a second performance they were sending people man we was praying yeah we started praying no lie and and because if if they sent us to new york we would have been locked under contract for 15 years wow well like so like any any any like shows that you book off of that they're trying to get a percentage of that oh yeah they get a chunk they had uh they hands in both pockets wow and he was like yeah we don't want that everybody knows that you get a deal but they get like a percentage of of every show that you book because they kind of you use their platform to get those shows right all those talent shows every talent show you see on tv is like that they they got it's like a shady record deal basically wow i need to do that with this podcast you guys making sales i need a little percentage now um wow that's crazy man so you guys are in um um oklahoma so you guys must know or at least bump shoulders with um dylan chase christian rapper he's a real cool dude yeah he's done yeah i got a song with him too he's dope yeah huh um was there any influence from bone thugs with the mic bone and funny bone like bone thugs yeah yeah did you do that well yeah what is it the song pop-up uh-uh no no but i can i can hear it in in in in the rhyme scheme a little bit i hear busy coming out every now and then really yeah that's what's nice so like yeah but was um just because one thing that stood out for us they were the only rap group where their name was actually a logo and that's kind of like when we were like yo we got to make our name a logo because every time you see it it was just that old english bump as a harmony yeah yeah we want we want people to see our name and be like oh no question that's mike bones so i've actually had i've actually had um busy on the podcast i did a podcast yeah busy yeah that's really cool yeah we and with our with our music when we buy beats we try to find out what that beat is speaking to us and so like all these errors of hip-hop start going through our head like oh it should sound like this oh it should sound like that it was very versatile and i think that's what our our fans like most about us is not every track sounds the same so yeah who's uh who's the better hook rider who writes better hooks man we have our days yeah we have our days it used to just be me but like i came up on it and yeah with the rain dance uh it was born in high school i tell the story all the time on interviews and but my senior year i wasn't there was no talent show and i wanted to go out with a bang and so the only thing was a cultural day event and they said if i had wanted to perform i had to write a song that was ethnical and educational so i got in the books and got to work and started researching our culture and rain dance was born so nice nice awesome song man and it definitely um opened up some doors for you guys and people fell in love with you guys from that song that was awesome um and i want to put this out there if anybody has any questions why we still have mike bone here on the podcast let me know in the comment section if anybody has any questions you want me to ask them um since you're on the true secret podcast man we gotta we gotta we gotta go deep man i gotta talk to you about any any spiritual or like paranormal experiences any ufos or ghost stories or anything like that man things that go bumping at night y'all had any of those experiences we were getting ready to open our store one day my first holy ghost experience um i was brushing my hair wasn't even paying attention the tv was on a church channel was like live sunday service and it wasn't really loud but i was brushing my hair wasn't even paying attention and the holy ghost just dropped on me and i fell to my knees and started screaming sounded like an old lady being beat down i started screaming like and this joy and love and yeah everything just came over me and i was like man this is i'm screaming and everybody runs into the room and they're like what's going on what's going on here what happened dude i i think i was like that for like how long the whole day you couldn't even go to work that day wow it was just crying and shaking yes i love those times dude i love that i've had those experiences too where like literally i talk about for like the next three days if anybody mentions jesus name i just start crying because it brings me right back of how close he is in that beautiful encounter you know um one spiritual our paranormal experience um happened right kind of when this whole pandemic thing kicked off um so we get a knock at the door and it's a little kid and i'm like oh man somebody found out where we live and so we're like i'm like oh what's up and he was like are you guys the uh the indian guys and we're like yeah yeah hold on i shut the door and i grabbed um like a flyer and i'm open the door and i'm signing i handed to him and he's like what he's like my dad wants to talk to y'all i'm like oh here i was like well shoot man nah just tell him message us on social media and then he and he's like okay and then he goes back his dad comes over he's like are you guys ending and we're like yeah and he's all like okay cool cause uh we got some spirits in our house i'm like what and he has this video of his kid being tormented by orbs and he's like you know screaming like leave me alone stop touching me i'm like dang this crazy yeah i'm like yo let's go i'm like i gave him some sage i gave him some cedar even a a bit of sweet grass and i told him look man when you pray tell that demon or whatever it is and get out of your house you have authority over every evil demonic presence in your house you also have authority over angels so you can call down angels to come down and protect your house i was like you got to do it with authority and boldness yes confidence and you know a day goes by and he's all like he comes over he was like it got worse i'm like man i hate that i did what you told me to do and it worked it got worse we looked at each other because we know the powers that's in us i'm like bro i'm like so we get uh like give us a minute we gonna pray up and be strapped up and get ready i'm like man we head down the block that spiritual gun he's telling us what happened like a a piece of the um artwork fell off the or got thrown off the wall and then a piece of i guess he had like liquor bottles stacked up on top of the fridge and they got knocked over and but they didn't break so they heard something fall but nothing broke and the bottle was standing straight up in the middle of the ground or whatever and i was like that's kind of crazy it landed but we get over there man we chasing this evil spirit around it's running through the house it and um it's and i feel it in the closet was running we were using the name of jesus i felt it in the closet and i opened the door and i i feel this hot air just go right past me i'm like this food i'm like i was pissed i was like yo i turned around and i could feel it like leave the back room like they had the uh the backyard door open and it i could feel it go out that way so we start you know blessing every four corners of the houses um staging it praying over every room check double checking every room and then uh i get to the doorways i'm i'm i'm blessing the doorways and when i get to the back room i can feel the um the evil presence like out in the backyard like toward the trees i could feel it like if it wanted to come back in and it was just waiting for us to leave and so i'm like well shoot i'ma go ahead and bless out the outside too then so i'm blessing the outside and whatnot and i get back in the house and we're we're basically you know coaching them through what to do and and you know you know what you saw you gotta be bold you gotta be thorough you can't be just you know cast it out in one area you gotta you know get in there and um i mean we were talking and then the dog gets up and was growling at the door and i noticed that they didn't notice it but i i look at the dog i'm like yeah i hear it and then two people's car alarms go off down the street and i'm like yep it's mad so i'm like it's mad because they can't get back in this house and so like they hit us back up after that so i'm like yo we cleared it and one i wouldn't have went over there if i didn't know because you know you don't want something to attach to you uh in those things if you don't know your your authority over those entities or whatever but um one thing that gave us confidence is like we had this we had a birthday party to go to and it was at a haunted mansion but we didn't know it was a honey mansion and we didn't know where the birthday party was so we pull up to the front of the house and we walk in and there's a there's a haunted tour going in and they have a medium with the psychic medium was given the tour and and as soon as we walked in she was like well they just left she was like i don't know who you guys are but when y'all came in the spirits left like and we're like okay where the party at and they didn't know what we was talking about and then one of the owners was like oh the pool party's over at the pool uh you have to go around so we're like that was weird and then like we did the birthday party and they were like we're getting to do the haunted tour uh and we were like yeah we can't do that because you probably won't find nothing also uh like when babies are crying and we walk by they they just stop and stare at us and the moms will be like what you do to my kid like it just blows the mind and we're like i don't know it was something homie i guess and then uh there was this one instance where a horse a police horse oh yeah that thing was sizing and stuff or something it was walking sideways it started sidestepping like it wouldn't stop looking at us and the policeman was trying to like steer it and we're like man what is wrong with your horse that's hilarious i had a uh experience where right when i got born again a couple years later uh when i wanted to start uh trying to do christian rap the first time getting in the wrap um i didn't know where to begin didn't know how to get beats all that kind of stuff so i told myself you know what i'm gonna just remake popular songs and i was like you know what i'm saying try to remake a dmx song it's like you know what who's i'm really into bone thugs and harmony but i understood what bone thugs and harmony represent the ouija board and getting lyrics from the ouija board and all kind of death and summoning and crazy stuff but so i knew it was kind of iffy but i was like stylistically that's what i want to sound like let me remake let me do a christian version of a bone thug song so a friend of mine's little brother had the east 99 cd and it's got the skulls on there and skulls with a blunt in its mouth and all that i got the cd he let me borrow it and um i brought it home and i'm listening to it so i play it i figure out what song it was and i'll play it and then i'll pause it so i'm listening to the lyrics and i'm writing a christian version of that of that verse and i okay listen pause listen paul's and i'm writing this verse but i feel kind of weird because i know i'm not supposed to be like listening to this music maybe it was this weird thing of like this was me justifying listening to bone because i'm read i'm i'm doing a christian version of it or whatever so there was already that weird stigma there that i knew it was kind of weird to be messing with um that night we go to bed me and my my wife and so we're laying in bed sleeping and um three o'clock in the morning out of nowhere we wake up to this loud screaming of that's what sounds like the devil laughing really loud what happened was i knew what it was i recognized it it's from the intro from the east 99 cd there's a courtroom scenario and they sentence them to death by electric chair and then the devil comes on screaming real really loud as a judge and it's demonic and it drops in really loud and so we're three o'clock in the morning wake up out of the middle of a sleep to that to that turned up all the way in the living room the cd player turns on that part all the way up wakes us up the devil screaming in the room and uh like i knew it was a cd because i've heard that a thousand times but i was like it freaked me out because i thought that some somebody broke in the house and stepped on the remote right you know i'm saying i thought somebody's in the house and stepped on the remote so i'm like oh man and it just starts playing bone ducks and harmony rat like rapping backward and stuff and it's like oh man so i go in there freaked out i get that cd i break it and throw it out the door i was like man i'll give you money you buy you another one i got to get this out of my house man but yeah that's a crazy experience that i have been woken up to bone thugs playing a lot of people don't know man like a lot of these artists can can like oh i'm a dude i'm a i'm gonna do this for an album and be like oh it's just for a joke or it's just for a skit but like they can open certain doors that and and then not close them through music or through movies or whatever and you gotta know you gotta be sensitive to the spirit realm so that you know what is open and like i felt when you when you were saying you know you felt something wrong yeah i think that was your sensitive your spirit man being sensitive to the fact that there was a door being open and um you know should have been closed but i mean it got closed at three in the morning yeah yeah yeah lord but like yeah there's certain things like you know we would research styles a lot and then there'd be certain songs that you know you'd be like yeah man i can't i can't even listen to the rest of this yeah and and it ain't cuz it ain't cause like oh my ears will bleed because of the cuz words or something like that it's cause the the the how can i break it down okay so like when an indian says i can't let you braid my hair because i don't know what you're what your spirit is like energy yeah yeah because you if someone that has a bad attitude bred your hair that that attitude will rub off on you all day or somebody that cooks with a bad attitude then you're gonna have a bad attitude superstition or not energy is real in the earth and just like that the energies in the music in the video games can cause doors to open or or your your mind to be hypnotized into acting a certain way um that you don't even recognize as yourself and so like that's why we're like man be careful which listen to be careful what you watch um if you follow busy bone he's uh he's uh he's doing better now i'll say that but busy bone went down a wild path all of them did really but um listening to him and because i i had him on the podcast and we talked about jesus like he's got songs about jesus right he's pretty vocal about christ and stuff now but um i asked him about some of that stuff and he won't even he won't admit to it he says he says that it was a joke that it was a parker's brother game the ouija board and that easy e made them do it and stuff but but then i had i talked to other people who really knew them and said no they was into some dark stuff back there man like some really dark stuff and there's no way that you can listen to some of the interviews or listen to the music and just think you're playing you got to know some deep stuff to put that in your lyrics them and 36 mafia you know what i'm saying they had all kinds of you talk about hypnotizing minds that was the name of their their label hypnotized you know yeah all that stuff man yeah so like um when people refer to like natives as as witchcraft i'm like look when you listen to music that's witchcraft in itself because it's chanting and when you allow certain chants to to be stuck in your mind you can either have that chant speak life or speak death until you speak prosperity or speak curses into you so that when we see a lot of the the teenagers listening to only like emotional depressing i want to die songs yeah we're like look that's why you're stuck in your emotional depression it's because you're only allowing that substance to chant that into your life so you need to get it over yourself you need to allow you need to have balance at least if you if you ain't gonna like you know uh ted talk all your music at least have a balance like if you listen to one sad song and it makes you feel away you know it's like watching a scary movie if that scary movie freaked you out to the point where you can't go to sleep you might want to watch a cartoon yeah i tell people all the time uh you are what you eat so be careful what you feed your mind that's it um we i think we have a mutual friend i think he tried to hook us up after i interviewed him about two years ago i mentioned uh andy bird psalm y'all know him oh yes um yeah he uh he told me that he's like man you should get those guys on i was like i was like man i tried to email them a while back i never got a response or whatever and yeah he's like yeah man i'll talk to him and that was two years ago and i know i've tried to get you guys on i probably emailed the wrong address or emailed an account that wasn't valid anymore or something but but yeah shout out to him he uh had him on a couple years ago that's what's up yeah yeah yeah i mean if we would have saw true seeker tonight we would have been like we listen to dude that's crazy i remember me from the south though man there's only i feel like there's only a few people who who remember that stuff i love that stuff man when we listen to a song it's not like we throw away songs when new songs come like we if we like a certain song it's stuck in our playlist so like yeah it's in there music is timeless and what that's what we tell folks and so i mean you remember mike shelton yeah mike shelton i still talked to him on instagram nice what about so karma oh yeah so calm hey we did a couple shows with him we get his his first show we actually hooked up through the south and the south and sound click maybe i one or the other but we we got hooked up when he first got started he did his first show as a christian rapper with me he drove dude drove like 24 hours to come and we set up a show here locally and his first show he did we did our features together then i ad-libbed him and he did we mixed our sets together it was really fun so shout out to socom yeah yeah man a lot of good memories with the sound yeah and i i and then uh they sold it and and put they pretty much monetized it you know what i'm saying they made it to where like they had that form where i miss it man because people could come together and we would do features like that's how i hooked up with mike shelton was through there and we like i traded work i used to do the graphic art especially on the on the uh myspace days i get a feature from graphics and hook that myspace up you know and so i've got songs with you know saying mike shelton and socom everybody and it was through the south but then they took the forms away and made it pay the they made it rapzilla payton if you want your stuff on here if you want to collab if you want to get noticed you got to pay us and it wasn't cheap you know and um yeah i hate that they did that man that was something beautiful they had back in the day before facebook and social media and stuff right you see now i do agree that you can invest in yourself in certain things but like for us a pay-to-play thing like i love organic because that makes me see uh who's actually putting in work to hunt for our music mm-hmm i don't want i don't want fake views or yeah fake likes like likes yeah i've paid for facebook and twitter and instagram uh just to test it out yeah and then when i would i'm i must be dirty or creepy or shady like that but i would go through and try to repay people who liked the video or the the content and i would go through and try to blow them up real quick just to let them know i appreciate it yeah and that's another thing and it'd be robots yeah and i'm like man that's dirty i pay for robots that's messed up and plus if if you pay for likes and all that i mean those people ain't coming to your shows so it's like a letdown and the people ain't those likes that you pay for are not gonna buy the merchandise and stream the music or buy the music um and it's not gonna tell their friends and family it's gotta be organic yeah i like to know i'm with you i like to know what i'm doing like what like if the video's getting out there is it being messed up by the algorithms like of people seeing it and it's so weird that like over the years the algorithms have changed man to like you guys know this like being in it for so long you do a video and it blows up now you put out a video and just the traction's really slow and it gets stuck and it won't go any further like youtube's not not even showing it to your subscribers and all kinds of stuff dog like yeah yeah that sucks but at least you know what it's doing yeah so like it's just like they they give you a taste of what you could have and then all of a sudden they'd be like they give you that suggestion you know you get more views if you pay us this much and we're like i'm good so i think uh our twitter that's one thing we don't like about our twitter is the algorithms all messed up tick tock on the other hand but i think that's more uh organic yeah you know organically but you know what about tick tock if it'll get you the exposure i don't just in my mind even like we're trying to buy an ad or promo with tic toc or something because it's huge right now i love it but um i feel like it would be hard to get people off of tick tock to come to your channel like to get people off a tic tac because tick tock is like just thumb scrolling let me pass some time and scroll scroll scroll scroll so for someone to stop on your video and go to you know your youtube or your facebook at least they know who you are from that later on um but for me it was like there's like a disconnect of trying to get them to leave you can get them to you know click on facebook video and go to youtube or something that we do that's different i'm like um we say oh we got free music on our website go to mikebonemedia.com and or sometimes they just like the shirts that we're wearing and we're like go to mikeballmedia.com and that that helps a lot because i put every social media link and anywhere that you could download our music is at the very top in the link so it's just like they they have that quick when they see that logo they'll be like oh they're on there too bang let me get on there and check it but like yeah we got everyone yeah so people don't turn down free music so i'm like yeah that's that's a cool thing um we have free downloads of different albums on our site and then if if you like that you can buy our albums that you know that we charge for it and then y'all's uh merch games on point two i see you i'm saying shout out to seven you said something about seven they're you know saying they got the merch game on lock but y'all's merch game is pretty dope too right it's pretty pretty good i'm working on um i'm working on a rated r shirt right now not like that though it looks like the rated rated r logo uh or whatever they think and it's gonna say resilient and it's gonna have some scriptures on there so we got a ton of them t-shirts uh leggings we got face masks now since that's a thing and we got all kinds of stuff like we've been sharing we made a separate couple separate pages we got pow wow swag which is for more of the uh native and indigenous people and that's just all kind of fits that and then we have faith-based teas and that's you know faith-based like crosses and different things about god and so what's up i went to my first um green corn ceremony a couple years ago it was cool i didn't oh they had some medicine that they were doing but i didn't i didn't get in on that because i was like an outsider um and so but you know it was really cool to to be a part of that and i didn't stay the whole time like we just came for you know several hours but it's like two or three days where they go out and fast and um ever they got the family outside and everything big big ceremony it was it was it was really cool to uh see them because it's a little part of our of our tribe here at uh porch creek where like that they're like trying to maintain some of the indigenous ways you know what i'm saying versus like because i've always heard like after the pow wow while everyone's in town like after the powwow they go into the woods and really do a powwow they got the fire going they're partying they're dancing they're really getting it in and i was like man i always wanted to get in on one of those man but nobody would tell you it's like invite only and stuff and finally we you know we went to the powwow we stopped at the uh museum up here and somebody there was talking about it and invited my mom and and my mom wasn't gonna go but she told me and i was like hey let me get y'all's number and so i was invited to the green corn ceremony and it was awesome really cool so i wish i was able to do the medicine with them i don't know exactly what it was they were saying they didn't really tell me saying it was some type of a blend of herbs and plants and stuff like that that they they scratch themselves put little scratches on them and put the medicine in there and kind of helps them to fast and work to get some things out of them and stuff like that but yeah it was pretty cool yeah we made um some kind of tea that we saw somebody else doing it was actually pretty good tea and i guess it was supposed to cleanse everything out and also boost your immunity um so like our whole family was like had scratchy throats or whatever um we were like man we getting this out and so i made that tea and cleared everybody up i'm like dang that's crazy some uh some questions here really quick if anybody has any questions let me know i'm gonna ask them but um uh chris lopez says uh what what tribe are you guys from uh we are pawnee and choctaw yes sir bonnie and uh that's the central plane indians from the wolf clan so i got a tattoo actually i don't know if you guys can see that but it's basically the wolf the logo nice i i took out the peace part because we don't like really promoting smoking anything so that's one reason i took that out so um let's see also i got this tattoo as you can see there's alpha and omega live for the creator and god is love so throw it up that's dope and this in sign languages i love you with love so dope dope dope uh um we got another question says what are the challenges associated with the career that you've chosen and what are the benefits so challenges doing what you guys are doing and the benefits i would say the challenge is financial right um because we don't own a studio yeah uh it gets really pricey when making an album yeah so like between fifty dollars to a hundred dollars an hour depending on how much you want to spend on the quality of a song and then the beach oh yeah and then the beat yeah jesus the mixing and mastering and and the fact that we're independent doesn't help yeah so like but you spend all that money on an album and we don't we don't we we try to fill up the whole album so like for us a cd is like an hour long or whatever and we try to fill up that whole hour of music and we've always put out like 20 tracks per album yes so like it gets real pricey for us so like um we just try to give the the fans what they pay for because i mean we we didn't see the the justice and artists putting out on five and ten track albums like come on now i want an album yeah um and then the the that's i guess that would be the con part the pros are um just seeing our seeing what good our works do yes uh powerful impacts it's making in people's lives so like um one testimony would be like a fan uh was diagnosed with cancer and told that she was not gonna live and um you know we told her you know well one of her bucket list was to come hang out with us and we told her yeah we'll clear our schedule if you if you make your way down here we'll we'll call that a show i guess and we'll meet up with you we hung out with her we prayed for her and she went back got tested got tested and she was clear no cancer yeah and that's on youtube as well mike ball music on youtube uh let's see uh just different people saying that our songs like one of our latest songs god's got this it has just saved their life has impacted their life and helped them to get through tough situations and just see that you know god still has a plan and even though it's life is crazy he's still in control so i know another con hey um chris when you do well yeah when you do get a kind of like a like a status and a status point you get a lot of people who claim they're your friends or or that they support you in a way and then uh it just it turns out not to be that case a lot of people trying to use you too or yeah or like even relationship wise we've been single for like a long time it's hard to find that certain person who's with you because of you and not for your status yeah not not for the fame and not for the money uh we actually have a song called wifey and that was our big hit before rain dance and the wifey is it's me singing and it's just saying waiting on my wifey and saying that um it's like talking about not taking uh what's it called approaches by females and not giving in to the temptation and just not giving in to your flesh and just waiting for that marriage to give you know to give in so to speak so and then we wanted to do a video for that we we plan to do a video for that where it's like a bedroom scene and you know type of stuff the guys denying it uh we also got a request from fans to do a remix called hubby for the ladies so they can sing waiting on their hubby so hopefully yeah we'll get that in the works that's what's up for sure so um up in um oklahoma have you guys ever been to turner falls tournament falls yeah falls creek yeah when i went up there my mom lived up there for a little bit of time and um we went and visited and went there it was pretty dope that's what's up yeah it's changed a lot that's what's up so listen man if uh people want to book you guys they want to get merch all that cool stuff what's a good place for them to go you guys on all spotify and all that stuff too yes sir online everywhere mikebonemedia.com for all the links yep all the links you could think of is on mikebonemedia.com like you said we got t-shirts we got free downloads face mask if you want to look cool and represent and support mikebonemedia.com um and we got songs about everything too so any occasion pretty much uh we actually had to write a funeral song because we kept getting booked to do funerals because people wanted to remember their loved ones in in a happy way you know not sad you know so we wrote a song called after party and it's just talking about we will meet again at the after party and and it's an upbeat song so it's not it's not like when you hear it you're gonna be like dang it it's more of a dance track and you know you can clap to it and bounce to it and yeah we still get booked for the uh the funerals uh matter of fact i just hit somebody on twitter and they're going to use that song at their memorial so it's pretty awesome that's what's up man so hey thanks for coming on the podcast guys and really appreciate what you guys are doing all of it you know i'm saying the indigenous side staying true to that your your love and relationship for christ huge too man i'm a fan thanks so much for hanging out man i really appreciate it guys thank you for having a song man it's been a blessing for sure y'all be blessed man shalom peace nice to finally meet you for sure guys we'll have to catch up man definitely definitely peace peace mike bone uh little mike and funny bone y'all remember them from agt we fell in love with them like my family were rooting for them i'm pretty sure that we voted for them um just yeah i fell in love with them and their their swag and then and you know the christian rapture representing for the lord good stuff love what they're doing man and it's cool that that they go back and we have some uh our paths crossed they knew who i was from from back in the day that's pretty cool pretty cool well i hope you all enjoyed this episode make sure to subscribe wherever you're listening to this at uh make sure that you check out everything that we got coming out um my book is here again if you have not had a chance to get that get you a copy also you can get it for free at audibletrial.com backslash truth seeker so go there and you can get a free version of the audi audiobook and it doesn't cost you a thing and i still get a kickback on that so make sure you check that out um we have our our co-ed retreat coming up it's uh december the 12th at the time that this is out um october the first there's literally two female sea seats left and i think we have five male seats for anybody who wants to get in on our co-ed retreat reset refresh and renew and october the 18th we're kicking off the launch of my course that's almost two years in the making we're kicking off the uh path of the healer course that i've been working on so we talked about healing healers so if anybody's looking to step out in that uh go through your own inner healing process we're gonna be doing that but we're also gonna launch you and set you up where you can take other people through intuitive healing uh one-on-one sessions how to book it all that stuff i'm gonna teach you everything that i know and everything that i do on that end so if you're interested in that it's an eight week program we're starting october the 18th check it out at truthseeker.com more music coming got some more music on my patreon right now i think there's three new songs up there getting ready to finish up another new one that i'm feeling really really good about you get access to that on patreon so go check it out patreon.com backslash truth seeker we'll do it again very soon guys peace peace shalom well that does it for this episode folks to hear more episodes of the truth zika podcast head over to truthseeker.com and if you're wanting to support the show and get rewards go to our patreon page at patreon.com forward slash truth seeker you


