THE REBIRTH: Richie Evans

INTERVIEW KB TINDAL PHOTO @SHOTBYDUB

When we think of the West Coast and Hip Hop we think of the greats like Snoop, Dre, Ice Cube, Tupac, Kendrick, and many more. The thing is, they are all from California. But when we think about Phoenix, Arizona which is right next door to Cali, all we hear are crickets when it comes to a Hip Hop superstar.

Well, one artist has already made waves of contributions to the culture to change that narrative. Richie Evans formerly known as Juice from The Game’s Black Wall Street crew is now the owner of his own label, The Evans Administration, and he is on a mission to put the city of Phoenix and the state of Arizona on his back and bring a platinum plaque to his city. With a niche for making songs for the ladies like Wale and Fab, and the ability to bar it down lyrically with the best of the best, Richie has a lot in his arsenal to get to the next level. His new EP Highly Favored drops in January of 2023. Richie has worked with everyone from Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, Maino, Jay Rock, Eric Bellinger, Jake & Papa, and Vedo, just to name a few. And if his consistent work ethic and talent continue to blossom, there is nothing stopping Richie from being the next household name in Hip Hop.

Validated Magazine got the chance to talk with Richie and the following is his testament about his grind, along with personal accounts of his past, present, and future as an artist and a businessman. Tap in and enjoy the ride.

RICHIE EVANS: My guy, what's going on family?

VALIDATED: It's always a pleasure when I tap into an artist that I really haven't heard of before, and I'm impressed by what they're doing, especially in today's age. Definitely, man, you definitely got some bangers under your belt. Let's get into it, man. I want to go back to the beginning a little bit. You’re from Phoenix, Arizona so how did Phoenix influence you when you were coming up? What were some of the good things that you remember, and some of the bad things that you remember about growing up there?

RICHIE EVANS: Oh, man, Phoenix from the positive standpoint it was just always love. You got to keep in mind, we got great weather and great women. Phoenix was always, I will say, like a brother to LA, just with less water. But the downfall was just we necessarily didn't have the attention, or the influence, or the infrastructure of a major city like Los Angeles or like New York or like Chicago. So, if you was in the entertainment world, the sports world, or somewhat like that, you never really got your respect to just do because nobody kind of really knew what we have pumping out here, even though we definitely got the same energy and same vibe with some of these other major spots. So, like I said, Phoenix is definitely, how can I say, a diamond in the rough, if I would say.

VALIDATED: I heard you talk about going to an Ice Cube concert early on, as a kid man. My next question is, what was your earliest memory of hip-hop and the culture?

RICHIE EVANS: It was that. For me, that was the day that changed my life.

VALIDATED: What tour was that?

RICHIE EVANS: I think it was the Amerikkka's Most Wanted tour.

VALIDATED: The first album tour?

RICHIE EVANS: The first one, yeah. So, I was a young kid, man, and my uncle, he was like my big brother. He was older, he was in high school. I don't know where the communication went wrong, but my mom and pops was going on a vacation, and he would go on a date that night to take his lady to the Ice Cube concert. And my mom was like, “Nah, you got to watch your nephew.” He wasn't going to miss the concert at all. So he was like, “You just gonna have to come, hopefully, they don't got no age check.” And, back then, they didn't have an age restriction-type thing poppin’. He took me, man, and I saw Ice Cube come out in that black fur coat and that hat that said, “Nigga,” it was over. It was over, I was… Bro, it was over. I'm talking about when it was over, man, I got back to the crib, and I'm still in his tapes. I think Boyz N The Hood came out maybe a little time after that, and Cube really fucked up my life at that point. (Laughs)

VALIDATED: (Laughs) That's crazy, man. That's a dope ass first memory, though. Like you said, that's life-changing, absolutely. So, to get started in the industry, you went to a club, and you handed your CD to The Game personally. That sparked his interest, you became a part of the Black Wall Street crew. You used to go by the name Juice. Why the name change to Richie Evans? Is that your real name?

RICHIE EVANS: Yeah. Definitely, definitely. It was a couple of different reasons. At that particular time in Black Wall Street, we was really buzzing heavy. Heavy in the streets, heavy worldwide. We was touring. XXL, The Source, mixtapes, and DJ Skee was popping them out.

VALIDATED: I just talked to Nu Jerzey Devil, I did an interview with him a couple of weeks back. Yeah, no doubt.

RICHIE EVANS: Shout out to my guy, Nu Jerzey Devil. Like I said, we was really pushing in a cold line, but the notable beef between 50 and Game was just such at a high level, I don't think that people understood the contractual obligation between them two that was causing the rift. People fail to realize, Game was pretty much one of the biggest artists out at that time, but 50 was the biggest artist out at that time. And when you got two powerhouses like that under the same umbrella, and in the same building, it’s definitely gonna cause some conflicts and really stir up some things. 50 and Game, we got to rifting with the beef. The management, shout out to Jimmy Henchman, that was Game’s original manager, and he ended up getting federal life in prison. It was a bunch of things going on that I felt were kind of hindering me. One of the biggest things about myself was I was always the cool nigga from Wall Street. I talked that fly nigga jargon, and it was really a bar spitter, but I was the cool nigga. I had a lot of corporate businesses, Vitamin Water, and Nike. I had my own car deal and things like that, and those things were starting to disrupt the business for me.

VALIDATED: Gotcha.

RICHIE EVANS: So, time started going by and I felt like I had to make a decision for myself, and one of those decisions I made was... well,  Game came clean about his contractual obligation with Fif. Like, “Man, I got two more albums. I gotta give this nigga and then, I'm out of here.” He was like, “I can't put none of y'all out. I know some of y'all got some other interests and there are some other labels interested. I'm willing to let y'all go and experience that if that's what you want to do.” So, I know myself, Nu Jerzey Devil, we felt like we wanted to go explore them other options. The loyalty and family vibe was still there, and we still represent it to the fullest, but as far as handling our business, we really wanted to step away and try to make a situation go. So, like I said, at that time, so much negative shit was going on, and for me, I think I had a stigma and an aura around that I felt I could never walk in my own light if that makes sense. I was Juice, like, “Oh, that's Game’s artist, that's Juice,” because wherever you see Game, you see Juice. And then, plus on top of that, he stamped the name so heavy on the Black Wall Street Journal volume one, where he was like, “I met this kid from Phoenix named Juice, and blah, blah, blah.” Juice, I felt I could never get my maximum shine if I didn't come from out of his light. Me personally, I felt I had to dead the whole shit.

VALIDATED: The umbrella was blocking the shine.

RICHIE EVANS: Right, good and bad, whatever that was. So, I said, “Man, if I’mma stand out here and really push this line and stand on my own 2, I really got to do it.” So, I ended up dropping the Juice moniker, and then, I end up, like I said, going by Richie Evans, and my ultimate decision about that is there's nothing more realer than the name your mama gave you, bro.

VALIDATED: You got that right.

RICHIE EVANS: So, I felt that was just to the world this was authentically me walking in my truth. If you gonna fuck with me, you gonna fuck with me, just get it.

VALIDATED: No doubt, no doubt. From those days, you spent a lot of time touring. You spent time penning songs and everything like that. What were some of the pros and what were some of the cons of the business that you learned at that time?

RICHIE EVANS: I tell people all the time, man, one of the biggest things that I've learned from Game was a lot from his successes, but even also, from his mistakes. I was a real student to him. Game helped me understand and garnish an ear for production. He really showed me how to create records, or create great bodies of work. No matter what people say about Game, I don't think he gets his just due and his respect in this Hip Hop world, not because of his music. I just think because of sometimes his off-court antics kind of overshadow a lot of his hard work. But I tell people, man, when Chuck was focused, man, he was a machine, like for real. And he created music at a high, high level, and I definitely learned that from him. I really learned how to maneuver. I'm from Phoenix, LA is completely different. Yeah. The terrain and the vibe is completely different. You really got to understand your surroundings, and who’s who, and what hood is this, and that. Luckily, I had the opportunity to learn that early on with him because that definitely helped me when I'm standing on my own, what to do and what not to do, or how to go about doing it the right way before I do. So, definitely, there was a lot of learning, and a lot of just me sitting on the wall soaking up as much game from him as possible, and dissecting what is the right info and what is the wrong info.

VALIDATED: No doubt. We keep losing our kings in this game at a young age, man. Like, Takeoff just got murdered, and rest in peace to Takeoff, and condolences to his family. It's only our genre of music and our people that kind of go through this, man. What's your take on the deaths that happened in Hip Hop, and what do you think we can do to shift the thinking of the culture so that we preserve our people and our art form?

RICHIE EVANS: Man, it's crazy that you say that because I was having a discussion the other day, and I was saying about the Takeoff situation and the PnB Rock situation. I was like, “Man, these deaths are really just starting to become a dime a dozen, left and right, like this is supposed to happen in our culture, and it's not.” The best thing that I can sum it up is just we as artists, or people in this particular industry, we gotta let our pride aside and really start making the necessary adjustments that are needed. What I mean by that is, the Takeoff situation. Migos is multi, multi-millionaires, man. There ain’t no way that you need to be shooting 20,000 on the side of a corner of the bowling alley. And I get it, we all want to try to save a buck from time to time and have our man hold the pistol to be security, but when you get to that level of some of these particular situations, baby, you better be hiring John Wick professionally.

VALIDATED: You got to move different.

RICHIE EVANS: Yeah, definitely. The goal is to sell records, entertain, and do great things, but being able to come home and spread that love and vibe with your family. So, I definitely would say that, man, I think we all as a community got to drop the ego and pride, and really not try to compete or belittle our brother, or sister in this Hip Hop field, man. Start making the right necessary adjustments as far as security goes, and being more aware of our surroundings and where we at when we’re not in our own backyards.

VALIDATED: Facts, no doubt, definitely. All right, so, the latest single is titled “Pressure.” featuring Jay Rock from TDE, EastSide K-Boy. How did that single, and that collaboration come about with those guys?

RICHIE EVANS: Man, I was out there in LA, and I was working on an EP coming out called Highly Favored. The last couple of records that I kind of tested the water with was more female-based, more of a radio vibe. Sitting out, I was trying to get out of that mixtape realm because that's all that I did when I was with Game. I have a full body of work, everything was mixtapes and mixtapes, and I necessarily didn't want people to box me into just that mixtape artist. So, I dropped a couple of records, I dropped the record with my guy Vedo, we ended up getting number 48 up on the charts, so we started getting some traction for the record. It did me well. So, I was like, “You know what? I want to apply something for the streets.” Sometimes you want to remind a nigga, like, I got a couple of radio records, but I can bar it down too. I'm at the stu and K-Boy dropped by on me and I was playing the record, and he was like, “Man.” I was like, “Come on, you want to jump on this.” So, me and him, we laid our joints, and I was like, “Man, I'm gonna call Jay Rock and see if Rock gonna hop on it.” Called Rock, sent it to him, he was like, “This shit hard. Come on, what we doing?” He laid his verse, and Top cleared it. Now we on, man. I can't even fake it, Pressure’s doing a lot more organically than kind of what I thought. I thought that that record would be a little bit too aggressive for the general population. But it’s crazy, man, looking at the demographic and shit, I'm seeing college students over here rocking it to death. The white boy at the skater park. I drove by the other day, shit ringing out there on the street. So, it's definitely picking up some momentum and people's definitely starting to listen and keep their ear tuned to what I got going on.

VALIDATED: Absolutely. To double back a little bit on the female records, I remembered the single “For You,” but I didn't remember it until I started doing the research on you, and I was watching videos. I was like, Oh, all right, I remember this joint right here. Then there’s the joint “One Time” with Eric Ballenger, both of those were fire. And, that R&B Hip Hop sound as far as in Hip Hop records is a very niche sound, right?

RICHIE EVANS: Yeah. That's my lane, though.

VALIDATED: Yeah. I was about to get to that. Like, dudes that can actually make good records for the ladies, there are a few that do it well. Fab does it well, Wale does it well. And you do it well. Are there going to be more types of those records on this project, “Highly Favored”? And is there any kind of tea you can spill on that?

RICHIE EVANS: Yeah, yeah. I definitely got a record. I got a crazy record called “Quit Playing” that's basically in that vibe, but I pumped it up a little bit and made sure it’s something we can knock in the club. I definitely jumped in my bag on that, something for the ladies and something for the fellas. The ride too while they vibing off that. And it's crazy that you bring up Wale because the “For You” record, once we started getting traction, I was gonna reach out to Wale to do the remix. I was like, yo, that's his lane too.

VALIDATED: Yeah, for sure.

RICHIE EVANS: That's definitely his lane. But schedule conflicts, and then, plus, at that particular time, man, I was... I literally was right next to him a lot of the times, but, like I said he was working on his stuff, I was working on mine. But, nah, nah, that female lane is definitely one of my strong suits for sure.

VALIDATED: Yeah. That's a fact. I love when artists can be super versatile and vulnerable on their music because I always say the truth sells. You can have a gimmick all fucking day, but that gimmick ain't gonna last forever. So yeah, I love when that happens. Who else can we expect to see on “Highly Favored” artists-wise and producer-wise?

RICHIE EVANS: Like I said, man, of course, I got Vedo one there, Jay Rock on there, EastSide K-Boy. Shout out to my man Rozay, I got a record with Rick Ross called “Can’t Knock The Hustle.” That is definitely, I'm hoping it’s gonna take me to where I need to be. It's really a special record. It's one of them records that I just feel in my spirit, like, I'm going to be competing for the number one spot here shortly. I got Rozay on there. Shout out to Paul Cabbin, and Tereek, Track PROS, my man Kofi, The Olympics. So, I've been working with a few different production teams that really been delivering the sound that I've been wanting to create this whole body of work for the EP.

VALIDATED: Okay. AIl right. In retrospect, looking throughout your career, who was an artist or a producer, that made you step your game up in the studio, or just in general as an artist?

RICHIE EVANS: Kendrick is one, Nipsey was another, Jay Rock was another. When I first got to LA being from Phoenix, I didn't really have too many peers out there. The peers that I ended up getting, like I said, I was in the studio with Dot (Kendrick) a lot. I was in the lab with Jay Rock a lot… Nu Jerzey Devil. Those are all my peers. We all had our own ways of working and creating our craft. I seen the greatness in Kendrick long before now. Yeah. He was in there, Kendrick was one of them ones who was definitely way ahead of his time, same with Nip. They would come into the lab, man, and would be so locked in that it threw me for a loop. I was always sharp with the pen, always locked in my bag too, but to see him locked in, Kendrick didn’t even write his verses down. So, I thought I was doing something because it would take me 10, 15 minutes to write. I would memorize my joint and go on in there, my dog would go in there with nothing. Same with Nip. I was like, “Yo, okay, I thought I was doing something, I gotta kinda…”

VALIDATED: (Laughs)

RICHIE EVANS: In my city, they looking at me like I'm Hovy. I come to LA and I met with Kendrick, and I'm like, yeah, I got this. Let me get that… Hold on man, let me put this in my phone real quick, 10 minutes. When they walked in with nothing. I said, “Oh yeah, they something different.”

VALIDATED: That’ll make you step the game up for sure.

RICHIE EVANS: It definitely did. Now, they definitely helped me raise the bar production-wise. Like I said, man, I think I've always had a good ear for production by definitely picking up on The Game, and watching how he orchestrated some of his records and put things together. Really, really, really helped me garnish a better ear as well.

VALIDATED: No doubt. So, tell me about The Evans Administration. Tell me about your team. Tell me about this distribution deal and things that you got going on, or are you still fully on the independent side? Give me the breakdown on that.

RICHIE EVANS: So, shout out to everybody on my squad, at The Evans Administration, man. I wanted to build something legendary, I wanted to find people with the same hunger and visual passions that I had to create, to go against the grain and see if we can crack this code from being out here in Phoenix. Like I said, man, having a platinum plaque has never been done. And I think that we have all the pieces to the journey to do it, but necessarily, things come with time. We got to put the time in, and definitely, we got to do the work, and I think that we are definitely doing that. I think, right now, we got probably one of the biggest buzzes in the city. We're starting to get this national recognition, a national buzz going. We definitely out to be compared or to be in the same conversations as a TDE, or MMG, a likable crew of that sort. We do have a distribution label situation with an independent company called Ingrooves. Tech N9ne is under Ingrooves, Kelly Roland, Young MA. So, they just got picked up by Universal, so it is under the Universal brand. We still building it to where it needs to be, we do have some support and assistance as far as helping understand how we get these records in front of the new eyeballs and ears of people, and doing some of that back leg work that we need to grow. Like I said, “Highly Favored” is the first project off of TEA. I'm very excited about it because I think that we got some records on it that definitely competes with everything going. We just working man. Like I said, my ultimate goal is to try to put some points on the board so we can own a platinum or gold plaque one day, man. That's the driving force and that's the motivation, and to bring some respect in the music and entertainment field from the city I come from.

VALIDATED: Yeah. You definitely got the city on your back, man, that's a fact. I always tell artists too, if you ain't trying to compete to stand next to the best of the best, you're in the wrong genre, bro.

RICHIE EVANS: I’m up on this, I’m like, “What you're doing?”

VALIDATED: So let's be real clear, though. You've done a lot in this industry, from being on David Letterman, BET Hip Hop Awards, Phoenix Suns players advocating for you, creating the music for a Nike commercial. You were endorsed by Vitaminwater. You said you worked with Kendrick. You got the new single “Can’t Knock The Hustle” coming out with Rozay. You’ve released several singles and EPs. Tell me what the details of the Nike deal were and how that came about, and also, how the relationship with Rozay came about and how you guys put that record together.

RICHIE EVANS: The Nike situation, man, it was just really me putting in the work in the city. At that particular time, man, we was, like I said, campaigning heavy, we was out campaigning heavy. A couple of The Suns players, shout out to my man Amar’e, Amar’e Stoudemire used to play for The Suns before he went to NY and got that big hundred milli. We was out doing what you got to do as a artist. We buying champagne, handing them out, high fiving. Me and Amar’e just ended up hitting it off, like a great relationship at that point. I’ll say even outside of a friendship and me being a fan of him, he was a fan of me. I've had mixtapes flowin through the city, and a lot of positive things going on. He got his shoe deal, and he was like, “Yo, I want you to do the music for my shoe.” I thought it was a big deal because I was like, “Man, now I can cross-market and cross-promote not just from the Hip Hop scene, but into the athletic scene.” He was definitely a advocate and a person who was fighting for me to not just get a check but build a relationship with Nike. I did the music, and then, when they were shooting the video for it, he was like, Nah, he got to fly on the Nike plane too to go to the set. He really was advocating to helping me, like I said, stand out in my profession. Same with the Vitaminwater situation, Vitaminwater at that time, of course, they had 50, and had some other people representing, but they was going to certain markets and picking some of the new artists up, and they was giving them these little endorsement deals. They helped market and promote who I was. Of course, I got unlimited supply of Vitaminwater and got a nice check, so definitely put some solid business moves in order, as well as, some solid business relationships.

VALIDATED: Yeah. Relationships, that's what it all comes down to. It's all about relationships, man, always. How did everything with Rozay come about?

RICHIE EVANS: Man, with Ross, it's funny because I was in LA working on “Highly Favored”, and we end up staying at the same hotel. We got a bunch of mutual people, so a lot of communication was really always there. It's crazy because Ross, I think, Ross did everything in this industry except for one thing, and that one thing was he never signed a West Coast artist. He tried. He tried with Nip. But, like I said, Nip wanted his All Money In situation, and then, unfortunately, RIP Nip, the thing that happens from that, I think, from that standpoint, I don't want to say put a sour taste in Rozay’s mouth, but again the West Coast is different, fam.

And I think that at the place he is in his career, especially with the Belaire and the Wingstops, he necessarily don't need anything to fuck that up. I'm sure he don't want no liabilities from no artists out here in the streets, gang banging. So, we end up chopping it up, and he was like, “Hey, you was one of the artists that came to my mind from the West, what's your situation? What you trying to do?” And I just told him, I was like, “Man, The Game thing took a lot out of me.” I put a lot of time into it, I put a lot of energy, and plus, like I said, I already started the verge of building my own company, TEA. I don’t know or didn’t think that I would want to sign with another artist again. If I did, of course, MMG would probably be the one to do it, them or TDE, but outside of that, I really wasn't even in the mind space of trying to sign with another artist. I was just like, “Yo, I'm trying to put the work in and do some business.” So, once we got to having a conversation, and he kind of understood where I was coming from. I was like, “Yo, but I would like you to jump on my EP. I got this record that I think that you would definitely vibe with. If it's something that you would rock with, vibe with me.” I played the record right then and there, actually. He was like, “Man, this is something that I would have picked for my album.” So, I knew that that was a good start. He ended up leaving, I ended up staying in LA for about another week working, and then, a week later, man, he sent me back the files. He shot me a text, and he was like, “Yo, my verse is on the way.” He was like, “Let me know,” I was like, “Man, this shit is fire.” So, we end up from that point, man, keeping a great relationship. We end up vibing, and then, like I said, man, we end up shooting the video for it. We've got everything locked and loaded in. Like I said, man, January, you're gonna hear the single “Can't Knock the Hustle,” featuring Rozay. It's gonna be my biggest record to date, and I think it's really going to give me them wings to fly.

VALIDATED: So far, what has been your most memorable moment as an artist?

RICHIE EVANS: Truthfully, may not be big to some people, but to me, man, when we dropped that “For You” record, and we got the… What do you want to call it? The radio... What do you call it? I'm blanking right now. When we got our radio rankings, or whatever.

VALIDATED: Mediabase, SoundScan?

RICHIE EVANS: Mediabase. Yeah, yeah. I'm looking at my Mediabase scans, and I'm seeing, of course, DJ Khaled was number one, but it was Khaled, myself, and BIA. I'm just looking at it, I'm like, “Man, damn, I'm over here competing with the ones.” Being a independent, that really, really stood out to me. It really made the vision a little bit more clear. It made the vision a little bit more, like, I'm not crazy out here. Then looking at it, I'm looking to Khaled, it says, “Of course, We The Best/Epic”. Then I see mine, The Evans Administration/Ingrooves, that was a big deal. So, small shit like that, man, we definitely take as motivation. We take them small wins as much as we can, man, to keep thriving.

VALIDATED: No doubt. As a Hip Hop artist, what do you feel your responsibility is to the culture?

RICHIE EVANS: Like I said, man, for me to just deliver authentic music from my side, in my view. Like I said, I'm a person who speaks about real life, and sometimes, real life ain't the most glorified thing to speak about, but I think that that's one thing about music, man, it's an outlet for people to understand that we all see and understand lives from different perspectives. So, I definitely would just say, man, being true to myself and keeping it authentically one thousand. But also trying to do my part to be solid in a industry full of chaos. I've seen this industry turn some of the greatest men to something else. You definitely got to have a balance and a sense of peace in this mothafucker to survive. I definitely will say, man, just really trying to do all the right shit to be heard and seen as a artist and as a businessman. Like I said, hopefully, people respect the way that I move in and really understand  it.

VALIDATED: As an artist, man, what are some of the sacrifices that you had to make along the way because you invested in your artistry?

RICHIE EVANS: Man, a lot, man, shit. Of course, a lot of time away from your family, that's always a big thing. If you got a wife, kid, brother, sister, mom, whatever. Other things, of course, is the financial responsibility, especially independently. Putting it together at first, you definitely got to put in a lot of time and a lot of resources to do what you got to do. That's definitely another thing. Even just time for yourself. I'm always big on, like I said, balance and peace. I feel like in order to do anything in this particular industry, man, you got to have a solid foundation, we're shaking real fast. Man, you got to have thick skin, every day is not a success. I think that people always see the end of… Well, not the end of your journey, but whenever I say the end of your journey, it’s like, people see the videos, and see the interviews. You niggas didn’t see the 6:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. when y’all in the studio putting your last $5000 for a session and eating 20 piece nuggets, or something to try to create the music that people was creating.

VALIDATED: Yeah. Grind, it’s the grind that people don't see.

RICHIE EVANS: Yeah, man. So, it's definitely a grind, but I definitely wouldn't have it no other way, though.

VALIDATED: Last question, man, what does Hip Hop mean to you?

RICHIE EVANS: Man, Hip Hop to me is everything, man. It gave me a platform, it gave me a voice, it gave me a outlet, just like I said, to speak my truth. And outside of being an artist, man, I'm also a fan of others. Like I said, I love the feeling, I love the energy, I love the vibe of it, and I'mma do my part to keep it thriving the best way that I can.

VALIDATED: That’s what it is. Tell everybody how they can keep up with you on social media, and any other ventures, or anything else that you might be working on that you want us to know about?

RICHIE EVANS: I’ll just say, man, you know. Man, it's your man, Richie Evans, man, the face of Phoenix. Man, make sure y'all get that new “Pressure” single featuring my man, EastSide K-Boy and Jay Rock. It’s out on all platforms right now. We also got the “For You” record out right now featuring Vedo that’s turning up, so make sure that y’all go ahead and grab that. Make sure y'all follow me on Instagram, it’s @whoisrichie. @whoisrichie is my handle on Twitter and Facebook. And stay tuned, man, for January 20th, that Highly Favored EP.

VALIDATED:“Highly Favored” on the way.

RICHIE EVANS: Come on, man, I'm definitely talking my shit. I feel like I put a great body of work together, man. Hopefully, y'all enjoy it as much as I did.