He’s worked hard to get to where he is, but Don Toliver certainly hasn’t reached the goal of where he wants to be. The rapper is an artist to watch on the hip hop scene and recently his acclaimed collaboration with the JackBoys earned him even more recognition. Next, Toliver will be releasing his anticipated project Heaven or Hell that’s expected to drop March 13 so he chatted with Sway Calloway about his career.

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Don Toliver revisited those stories from his past as an artist traveling from city to city in an effort to get his music heard by anyone with influence. Toliver revealed that years ago he was even able to slide his CD Sway’s way when they happened to have met in Houston. Toliver shared that his main goal was to get his music out and unlike many others, he really didn’t think through making millions or stacking his bank account. He just wanted to get away from the street life and be a respected artist.

The rapper also talked about initially knowing Travis Scott by name and reputation but said he didn’t officially meet the Astroworld artist until 2017. “I was [nervous],” Toliver admitted. “He was my idol. He’s from Houston, all that. It was probably the most nervous I’ve ever been in my life, to be honest. He was just real. It was just crazy to me. At that point, I was already signed on my own thing, whatever, but I still didn’t believe the stuff that I was like, really trying to achieve was happening the way it was happening.”

Toliver added that not only does Travis give him advice, but the whole Cactus Jack team keeps each other in check. “We are a collective here to uplift each other,” he said. “We all kinda give each other advice, pointers, and Travis for sure is very hands-on when it comes to creative direction. Like, ideas I might have.” Check out what else Don Toliver had to say about Heaven or Hell and his come up in the industry below.

Chicago was in the building on Sway in the Morning. G Herbo has been steadily promoting his latest release PTSD, and to show that he “still got bars,” he visited Sway in the Morning to partake in their famous freestyle session. The 24-year-old was eager to drop a few bars over Jeezy‘s “The Real is Back” from the rapper’s 2011 mixtape of the same name. 

“Never seen penitentiary / But the streets been sentenced me / How the f*ck he try and protect himself and get a century / I’m smarter than my enemies / Not give them my energy / I’m too rich to be in the streets but too street to be industry / In serenity, that’s where I like to be / Keep enemies close like they right with me / I’m paranoid as f*ck but got the right to be / Steady poppin’ pain pills to try and fight my sleep,” Herbo rapped methodically.

The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus had a front seat for the freestyle as he was also a guest on Sway in the Morning and sang Herbo’s praises. Meanwhile, as Herbo has been promoting his latest release, he’s been using the opportunity to highlight the importance of addressing mental health. “It’s like, we kind of don’t know that we suffer from these mental health issues,” he told HipHopDX. 

“I’m a product of that. I was shot at. I seen my first murder at nine-years-old,” he added. “A lot of this stuff that we encounter on a day-to-day basis, we think is normal just because it’s our reality. We think it’s something we’re supposed to be going through. I feel like in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods, a lot of us are suffering from PTSD. I thought it was important for me because I know it’s a lot of people who are like me.” Watch G Herbo’s freestyle session below.

It was a reunion of sorts on Sway in the Morning after Oakland natives Kamaiyah and Sway Calloway reminisced on their days in the Bay Area. After Kamaiyah talked about raking in the dough as a teen while shooting dice on the block, Sway asked the Got It Made rapper about the September 2019 incident that left her behind bars. There were reports that Kamaiyah discharged a firearm in a movie theater, but she cleared the air once and for all.

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Kamaiyah said that the media made things out to be more than they were. “They took that the wrong way,” she told Sway. “People will see me, they see my philanthropy and all the stuff, and the moment that a situation like that happen they make it seem like I’m not the same person that was just out her donating money to the Boys and Girls Club.”

As a public figure, Kamaiyah said he has to protect herself so she legally obtained a firearm. “What happened was, somebody had my gun and brung it back to me and the safety wasn’t on,” she said. She and her friends were inside her apartment building’s private screening room at the time. The group was enjoying an episode of Power when Kamaiyah decided to check the gun’s safety. Unexpectedly, Kamiayh said the gun went off. The security cameras caught everything.

“That’s all that happened,” the rapper added. “They made it seem like I walked in the movie theater, watching a movie, and shot the motherf*cker. C’mon man. What kind of sense does that even make?” Watch Kamaiyah’s interview with Sway in the Morning below.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have embarked on their Bad Boys For Life press run, meaning that we’ll have several hilarious interviews from the duo over the next week. Smith and Lawrence stopped by Sway’s Universe to promote the new flick, but the host switched things up on The Fresh Prince. Smith was expecting to talk Bad Boys For Life, but Sway slyly brought up his favorite song that Will ever made, “Brand New Funk.”  The 1988 single was a collaboration with DJ Jazzy Jeff and was featured on the multi-platinum album He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper.

First, Sway starts rapping the single himself before Smith hops in and finishes the lyrics. Then, during the commercial break, Smith ends up lip-synching along to the first verse as the track plays in the background. You can see his energy going up as he continues, and it transforms into Smith rapping the entire second verse in his full Fresh Prince persona. Smith looks like he’s channeling the energy of his teenage self as he’s really enjoying the moment. Hopefully, the good moments last for him. Bad Boys For Life is set to hit theaters on January 17. Are you excited about the threequel?