It's been a minute since you first started rapping. How did you launch your music career?

I always forget exactly when it was, but it was like I had artists signed to me at that point and stuff, and there was a point I just decided I wanted to try to make a song. So I hit up my buddy, my boy Southside. I just hit him and I was like, 'Can I come record a song?' And I did, and I just enjoyed it. It was something special about being able to just do it and make it. Before that I was doing film, and there was something about just being able to just make a song and it be done in that night and that speed of it was cool. And I just kept recording.

You started dropping music under the name "MG Fresh." Then you recently rebranded and changed your name to Playboy Fresh. Let's talk about that. What inspired that rebrand?

I think it takes a certain amount of time to actually learn how to express yourself through any artistic medium. I felt like, when I finally had figured out how I wanted to express myself, it was just time for a fresh start. It wasn't the same as the music before. I started releasing music this time around in July of last year, a little less than a year.

You recently released your new project The Heartbreak Tape Deluxe. Talk about the creative process behind your latest project under this new name.

I had a six song EP called H.I.M. that came out first, but really it was just like I had a lot of s**t from my breakup that I had wanted to talk about. I actually initially had wanted to put it out first before H.I.M., but by the time I kind of had everything organized and sort sorted and was ready to start dropping music, it was summertime, so it didn't feel like heartbreak season. That's why I went with Him and then came back to The Heartbreak Tape. It was a chapter in my life that I felt like I wanted to make a lot of songs about. I wanted to really express that and get that out as part of my story and then move on from it. That's kind of part of it too. There's a lot of emotion wrapped up in a lot of that music, and I definitely wanted to get that out, but I also wanted to get past it and put it out so I could move forward. I gave people the full experience of that chapter, but not staying in it any longer.

Which song would you say is the most impactful record on that project?

Probably "Sacrifice" or "Numb." They both very much talk about the feelings of expressing how much I gave and how little I got, you know. I mean how much I put in and how underappreciated it was. "Sacrifice" is more of a slower somber tone. "Numb" is a bit more of an aggressive tone, but the subject matter on them is very, very similar.

Who helped you produce those songs on the album?

I think "Numb" was Few and Up North. "Sacrifice" is Up North. Those two really did most of the songs on the project. Few is out in Atlanta and Up North is a group of three producers out of Northern Europe, and they're dope too, especially when it comes to that darker kind of sound. I think they live somewhere that's very cold and s**t, you know what I mean? So I think they kind of make that dark sound.

How have the fans reacted to your latest project? Is it still resonating with them?

I wanted to put it out because what I'm making new music about now is different. I definitely very much feel a connection to that project and I think fans have as well. It's probably the most vulnerable work I've put out. So I definitely seen people resonate with it, and I definitely love it for that purpose and that reason.

I know you've toured with a lot of artists before, but this one with Shordie Shordie was a little bit different for you. Talk about the Bunny Gang and how you recruited all these ladies with real diamond chains.

I want to do something different. I want to do something special. I figured everybody got merch and people going to wear it whenever they wear it, but you got a little diamond pendant, you know what I'm saying? You probably going to wear that a lot more. It go with a lot more. You wear it with everything. So that was kind of the idea behind that was, and then creating a community out of it. That was fun.