Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-17-24 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: That is I don't know. That is Fate One, who

0:02 Speaker 1: is here with us in studio and we're going to

0:04 Speaker 1: speak with him in just a moment. Really looking forward

0:06 Speaker 1: to this. But what a great track to kick off

0:09 Speaker 1: the third hour, hour number three of Matt Connorton unleashed

0:13 Speaker 1: on this Saturday, August seventeen, twenty twenty four. Jenny is

0:18 Speaker 1: here as well, of course, at the news table, President

0:20 Speaker 1: and account of our Yes, yes, and we have Fate

0:23 Speaker 1: One here with us in studio. How are you welcome?

0:25 Speaker 2: I'm doing well, I'm doing well. How are we today?

0:28 Speaker 3: Good?

0:28 Speaker 1: Good? Did we meet you through Hope the Rapper?

0:31 Speaker 4: Was?

0:33 Speaker 2: I believe that a post that Hope the Rap will

0:35 Speaker 2: put up is oh what led us to be here today?

0:39 Speaker 1: Right right?

0:39 Speaker 3: Yeah?

0:40 Speaker 2: Something he put up? And then I reached out to

0:42 Speaker 2: that directly to Jen.

0:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've got We've been doing this ten weeks

0:47 Speaker 1: of New World Radio premieres of Hope the Rapper Singles,

0:51 Speaker 1: and yeah it's been a big success, and today this

0:54 Speaker 1: was week ten, the last one eviction notice that we

0:57 Speaker 1: played a little bit ago. But yeah, another great track

1:00 Speaker 1: from him. He's he's amazing, he's so talented, and of

1:02 Speaker 1: course he was one of us during the first hour today.

1:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. I think you guys

1:06 Speaker 2: did problems right, Yes, yes, I was on problem.

1:11 Speaker 4: Us.

1:12 Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool? Yeah you've done. Have you done a

1:16 Speaker 1: couple of tracks with him?

1:17 Speaker 2: I have a few that I have done, some unreleased

1:20 Speaker 2: and some released, yes, okay, okay.

1:24 Speaker 1: And that track I don't know is that brand new?

1:26 Speaker 3: Uh?

1:27 Speaker 2: That's fairly new.

1:28 Speaker 1: Okay.

1:28 Speaker 2: The one that I'm pushing right now that I've just

1:31 Speaker 2: been working on, uh, you know, just making sure to

1:34 Speaker 2: get it out there. It's some plain, bold message, nice

1:37 Speaker 2: quick sweet. Yeah. Yeah.

1:39 Speaker 1: Can you pull that mic in a little yeah that yeah,

1:43 Speaker 1: that makes up?

1:43 Speaker 2: How are we doing?

1:44 Speaker 1: Oh that's better? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. So you said,

1:49 Speaker 1: you know, you were talking off air about you've got

1:51 Speaker 1: a video coming up for.

1:52 Speaker 2: That or yes, So I shot a video about two

1:55 Speaker 2: weeks ago and I'll be releasing it next week Nextaturday

2:00 Speaker 2: on my birthday.

2:01 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay? Is that the Will this be the

2:03 Speaker 1: first video you've done?

2:05 Speaker 2: No, this will be my ninth video. Oh ok yeah yeah,

2:08 Speaker 2: oh wow. It'll be the first video I do with

2:10 Speaker 2: Crispy Pick, which is a photographer out of Manchester.

2:14 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you get connected with UH?

2:18 Speaker 1: Is that is? Is that a person or is that

2:20 Speaker 1: there the company?

2:21 Speaker 2: That that is a person and a company?

2:24 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, gotcha.

2:25 Speaker 2: So Crispy Pick we originally connected about two years ago.

2:32 Speaker 2: I booked him for a showcase as a photographer. Yeah,

2:36 Speaker 2: he's been working ever since.

2:38 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, this will be did you say

2:41 Speaker 1: this will be the first one with UH with Crispy? Okay?

2:45 Speaker 1: How did you do the previous ones? Did you work

2:47 Speaker 1: with somebody else or was it all DIY.

2:49 Speaker 2: Or so all the previous ones I have dealt with

2:55 Speaker 2: probably three or four videographers. Yeah. So out of my

3:00 Speaker 2: nine videos, four of those videos are from One Eye Visuals.

3:05 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Hope Hope work.

3:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Him and I we you know, around the

3:11 Speaker 2: same circle, around the same people, and we've been lucky

3:15 Speaker 2: enough to just have great talent and then just great

3:17 Speaker 2: people around us to continue to work with us. And

3:21 Speaker 2: then you know a few other videographers Dynamic TV and

3:26 Speaker 2: Guild Videos okay, you know, which is just all great

3:30 Speaker 2: people all around and stuff like that. I've mainly worked

3:34 Speaker 2: a lot with One Eye Visuals and I continue I'm

3:39 Speaker 2: going to continue working with him as well as we

3:42 Speaker 2: have some plans and some ideas for some future projects

3:47 Speaker 2: and stuff like that.

3:48 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, how do you define the genre that that

3:52 Speaker 1: you're working in, because it's.

3:53 Speaker 2: It's kind of so it's a mix. So I'm a

3:58 Speaker 2: singer songwriter, yeah, However, the way that I write, I

4:02 Speaker 2: write like a.

4:02 Speaker 1: Rapper, right, Yeah, that's interesting to me. Yeah.

4:06 Speaker 2: So my writing process is like you know, rapper brain almost,

4:11 Speaker 2: you know. So I throw in you know, punchlines, the

4:14 Speaker 2: ball entendres, yeah, and then I'm singing it. Yeah. So

4:18 Speaker 2: I like to call it something like an R and

4:21 Speaker 2: B hip hop because ninety percent of the beats I

4:24 Speaker 2: choose our hip hop. Yeah, but I'm always singing behind them,

4:27 Speaker 2: whether I'm doing it in a different tone or you know,

4:31 Speaker 2: less vocals, more vocals, you know. Yeah, so say I

4:34 Speaker 2: sound like a rapper, Yeah, but I don't classify myself

4:38 Speaker 2: as a rapper. I'm a singer, songwriter, vocal engineer.

4:41 Speaker 1: Right right. Yeah, No, that's interesting to me because when

4:45 Speaker 1: I first when you send me your music and I'm

4:47 Speaker 1: I'm It's like each of the tracks it starts out,

4:50 Speaker 1: it sounds like I'm expecting rapping and then you're singing

4:53 Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it's interesting. Yeah.

4:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, It's how I diversify myself. And you know, it's

5:01 Speaker 2: just what I originally loved. You know. I grew up

5:03 Speaker 2: listening to hip hop, hip hop, R and B, Latin music, merengue.

5:10 Speaker 2: It's just a melting pot of music. And I've taken

5:14 Speaker 2: those influences and just have kind of created my own

5:17 Speaker 2: sound where I have mastered it, and you know, I

5:23 Speaker 2: feel like it's I'm one of the only ones doing

5:26 Speaker 2: that kind of sound. You don't hear many artists like

5:29 Speaker 2: myself today, you know, And it's just something that I

5:34 Speaker 2: enjoyed doing.

5:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I was commenting to off air. I appreciated

5:38 Speaker 1: that I didn't not that I mind doing it, but

5:41 Speaker 1: I didn't have to make any radio edits.

5:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, which was nice. Yeah. You know, I pride myself

5:47 Speaker 2: of making not only my job easier, but also, you know,

5:52 Speaker 2: making sure that my lyrics and everything fit into play

5:56 Speaker 2: so that way I don't have to censor myself I

5:58 Speaker 2: have to change lyrics. I don't have to, you know,

6:04 Speaker 2: memorize two different versions of a song, yes, which is

6:09 Speaker 2: something that's difficult within itself.

6:11 Speaker 1: You know right right.

6:13 Speaker 2: You know, when you have a portfolio like myself, you know,

6:18 Speaker 2: it's a lot to remember.

6:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, you get me.

6:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, just keeping it simple, you know, simplicity is genius.

6:25 Speaker 2: I do believe in the words that I say as well,

6:29 Speaker 2: just practice what I preach.

6:31 Speaker 1: How many you mentioned your portfolio? How many songs have

6:33 Speaker 1: you recorded.

6:36 Speaker 2: So released? I have, you know, anywhere from twenty to

6:41 Speaker 2: thirty songs? Oh okay, yeah, so out. Yeah, you know,

6:45 Speaker 2: it could could be a little less, but I don't

6:48 Speaker 2: have that exact number unreleased. I have over one hundred songs.

6:53 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:54 Speaker 2: I own my own studio, so I have the ability

6:56 Speaker 2: to just go wake up, go right into my studio

7:01 Speaker 2: and get get to working.

7:04 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:04 Speaker 2: So I have that freedom and that accessibility. So that's

7:09 Speaker 2: an upside rather than having to go book a session work,

7:13 Speaker 2: you know, pay for two hours, which I still do sure,

7:18 Speaker 2: but I would much rather have it at home. The

7:23 Speaker 2: reason why I learned to engineer and to edit my

7:28 Speaker 2: own vocals was because I would go to a studio

7:31 Speaker 2: and it would hear my vocals and immediately want to

7:34 Speaker 2: add auto tune to it. Yeah, and it's cool. I

7:37 Speaker 2: understand what that that plugin does and what it's for

7:44 Speaker 2: but certain songs didn't need it, certain songs didn't call

7:48 Speaker 2: for it. But every engineer that I wanted wanted to

7:51 Speaker 2: add into it. So I learned, you know, I sat

7:54 Speaker 2: down with these engineers side by side while paying for

7:58 Speaker 2: my time, and I, you know, watch and just paid

8:03 Speaker 2: attention and that I did some further research, educated myself,

8:09 Speaker 2: took classes on pro tools, a pro tool certified engineer,

8:13 Speaker 2: and you know it's been going from there. That song

8:18 Speaker 2: I don't know, mix and mastered by myself.

8:21 Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, outstanding.

8:24 Speaker 2: So it's nice when you can do it yourself, and

8:27 Speaker 2: therefore you don't have to explain what you're looking for, right.

8:31 Speaker 2: You know, that sound in your head right, and you

8:34 Speaker 2: can just pretty much duplicated right then and there yea me.

8:38 Speaker 2: And that's the beauty of musicaalistically. That's one thing that

8:42 Speaker 2: I love is just hearing something in my head and

8:44 Speaker 2: then creating it and putting it in sound.

8:47 Speaker 1: That's That's one of the things that's so interesting about

8:49 Speaker 1: creating music is that, you know, everyone everyone's different and

8:53 Speaker 1: has kind of their own process. And we were even

8:55 Speaker 1: talking about this today with Hope the Rapper when he

8:58 Speaker 1: was on with us in the first hour because he's

9:00 Speaker 1: someone who really likes to collaborate and kind of have

9:04 Speaker 1: somebody else's ideas brought into the process, whereas it sounds

9:08 Speaker 1: like you're more someone who you knows what you know,

9:11 Speaker 1: what you want and that's that's what you're gonna do,

9:14 Speaker 1: to the point that you took the time to learn

9:16 Speaker 1: how to do it yourself exactly.

9:19 Speaker 2: You know, nothing against other engineers or anything, but you

9:23 Speaker 2: know when you're telling an engineer like all right, let's

9:26 Speaker 2: do it this way, this way, this way, and then

9:29 Speaker 2: they try everything that they can to get that sound,

9:32 Speaker 2: but you know, you go and then you get a

9:34 Speaker 2: final mix and it's not what you want and you

9:36 Speaker 2: need a revision that requires more money, more time. One

9:40 Speaker 2: thing I don't like doing in this world is wasting

9:42 Speaker 2: time or money. Money we can get back. We can

9:47 Speaker 2: never get our time back. True, you know, so time

9:51 Speaker 2: to me is very important. You know, money is replaceable.

9:55 Speaker 1: You know, when when you would run into that, like

9:58 Speaker 1: the engineer or the producer who's telling you no, no, no,

10:01 Speaker 1: we should do it this way. Is that like what

10:04 Speaker 1: is their motive? Like do they are they kind of

10:07 Speaker 1: saying to you, this is how you have to do

10:09 Speaker 1: it to fit in so you can have a hit

10:12 Speaker 1: or or is it more just we just think it

10:14 Speaker 1: sounds better this way.

10:16 Speaker 2: It could be more of the we just think it

10:19 Speaker 2: sounds better this way, you know, more opinionative, you know,

10:25 Speaker 2: And that's good, that's awesome. I take constructive criticism very well.

10:31 Speaker 2: But that's not how I want it to sound. Yeah,

10:33 Speaker 2: if I'm paying for this time and I'm paying for

10:36 Speaker 2: something to sound a certain way, I would expect it

10:40 Speaker 2: to be the way at least you know, close to

10:43 Speaker 2: what I want.

10:44 Speaker 3: Right.

10:45 Speaker 2: It's like when you go purchase something at a store

10:47 Speaker 2: and you want that item. You know you're gonna go

10:50 Speaker 2: get that item at that size, right, You're not gonna

10:54 Speaker 2: go get it two sizes larger or the one that's

10:56 Speaker 2: a different color, but it still has all the same wordings.

10:59 Speaker 2: It's not what you really wanted, right, Yeah, try and

11:02 Speaker 2: you know, make sure you get that that particular thing.

11:04 Speaker 2: And you know, I could blame some of my OCD

11:07 Speaker 2: for that, but that's why it took the time to

11:10 Speaker 2: learn it, you know.

11:11 Speaker 3: And then.

11:13 Speaker 2: You know, if ah and being in this studio, you know,

11:20 Speaker 2: I've had people where they were suggestive towards the way

11:23 Speaker 2: I should do certain things. You know. The song problems

11:28 Speaker 2: would help the rapper. I did not write that chorus.

11:34 Speaker 2: That was something that Hope wrote. He's a great lyricist,

11:38 Speaker 2: you know, so he has a good time when it

11:41 Speaker 2: comes to writing. And then, you know, we changed it

11:44 Speaker 2: last minute in the studio, and then I took a

11:48 Speaker 2: couple of takes, you know, and they were like, all right,

11:51 Speaker 2: we got to do it over again. You know this

11:52 Speaker 2: that all right? Boom? That was it? That one? All right,

11:56 Speaker 2: we gotta dub that. So now I got to replicate that,

11:59 Speaker 2: you know. And it's that criticism is always accepted, but

12:04 Speaker 2: you know, when it's someone's opinion, you know, everybody has one. Yeah,

12:09 Speaker 2: and we can you know know where that goes from.

12:14 Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, it's I always try to give

12:20 Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt when it comes to experience

12:23 Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But I've been in this a

12:25 Speaker 2: long time too. I've only recently started taking serious, taking

12:30 Speaker 2: it serious over the course of the past four or

12:32 Speaker 2: five years. Really, yeah, me, who knows where I'd be

12:35 Speaker 2: had I been taking it a lot serious a lot earlier,

12:38 Speaker 2: you know. But that's not here nor there. We're here today,

12:42 Speaker 2: and I'm very appreciative and humble to be sitting in

12:45 Speaker 2: his chair and meeting you as well, you know, and

12:50 Speaker 2: going forward from there on.

12:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, we're glad you're here. Do you work

12:54 Speaker 1: with other artists in terms of producing, since you obviously

12:58 Speaker 1: you have that skill set?

13:00 Speaker 2: Yes and no, so I have, you know, Like like

13:04 Speaker 2: I said, Hope and I have worked h a long time.

13:08 Speaker 2: I've done a couple of songs for his for him

13:13 Speaker 2: titles I can't tell you off the off the back

13:15 Speaker 2: because he has so much music and I listened to

13:18 Speaker 2: a lot of it, so like you know, I can't

13:20 Speaker 2: tell you the title of the song. But you know,

13:21 Speaker 2: there were a few of those that were recorded in

13:23 Speaker 2: my studio. They could have been they could have started

13:27 Speaker 2: as reference tracks in my studio and then been brought

13:30 Speaker 2: to another studio and been like, all right, this is

13:32 Speaker 2: how I wanted to sound, and you know he reached that.

13:37 Speaker 2: And then who else My nephew, Jordi dt A. He's

13:43 Speaker 2: also a local artist out of Nashville, and he's been

13:47 Speaker 2: in my studio multiple times. I hope to work with

13:53 Speaker 2: mister Goodbard soon working in his studio artists. Yeah, hell

14:00 Speaker 2: An artist, great educator. He has so much information and

14:04 Speaker 2: he's one of those artists that I respect because he

14:06 Speaker 2: doesn't keep any of that information. Yeah, excuse me, he

14:11 Speaker 2: puts it out, Yeah, something similar to what I do.

14:14 Speaker 2: You know. If I know something, you know, I'm gonna

14:18 Speaker 2: share it.

14:19 Speaker 1: Yeah.

14:19 Speaker 2: I have no secrets. I don't gate keep. All you

14:23 Speaker 2: need to do is ask me, and if I have

14:25 Speaker 2: the answer, I'm going to give it to you.

14:26 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

14:28 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:28 Speaker 1: Good Bars is amazing too because he's so diverse, like

14:31 Speaker 1: he produces so many different kinds of music. It's remarkable.

14:34 Speaker 2: I originally started following good Bars when he was with

14:38 Speaker 2: the band Sepsis.

14:39 Speaker 1: Yeah.

14:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, as their keyboardist. And I think I.

14:42 Speaker 1: Think that's when I first met him too.

14:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how long I've been following him. Yeah, And

14:46 Speaker 2: then I think over this past year we met face

14:51 Speaker 2: to face. We've always had social interactions online and stuff,

14:55 Speaker 2: and this year we were at the same show and

14:59 Speaker 2: we met and and you know, one of the things

15:01 Speaker 2: that I remember him saying was like, see, ye I

15:04 Speaker 2: know about you. He goes, You're one of those artists

15:06 Speaker 2: that got all the ducks in a row, and I

15:08 Speaker 2: was like, yeah, you know, like I just I do

15:10 Speaker 2: a lot of behind the scenes things. I don't frag.

15:15 Speaker 2: I don't share many things they can all share the

15:18 Speaker 2: day of and you know, I don't have too much

15:21 Speaker 2: of an online presence because I'm so busy trying to

15:24 Speaker 2: do things in the real world. Yeah, yeah, you know,

15:28 Speaker 2: so I got to figure out a way to get

15:31 Speaker 2: both of them, you know, but with time that will come.

15:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where are you from? Did you grow

15:37 Speaker 1: up here?

15:37 Speaker 2: I'm originally from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and I've been living in

15:42 Speaker 2: Nashville for over the past thirteen years. You know, so

15:46 Speaker 2: I represent Nashville. It's I'm not one of those where

15:50 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I'm from Lawrence. No, I represent where

15:53 Speaker 2: I'm at. Yeah, you know, and I'm in Nashua. It's

15:56 Speaker 2: been a beautiful community to me. A lot of good

15:59 Speaker 2: things happening there has brought me a lot of success.

16:02 Speaker 2: I've shot multiple videos in that city. The video I

16:06 Speaker 2: don't know that's coming out next week is shot right

16:10 Speaker 2: in the middle of Main Street. Yeah, We're going right

16:13 Speaker 2: down Main Street, you know, have people interacting and stuff

16:17 Speaker 2: like that, and just really had a good time doing it,

16:21 Speaker 2: showing some of the businesses and the beauty of Nashville.

16:26 Speaker 2: You know, how many people get to show that or

16:28 Speaker 2: they don't want to you know. Me on the other hand,

16:32 Speaker 2: I do know some artists get upset there, you know,

16:37 Speaker 2: They're like, oh, my community don't support me. Well, what

16:41 Speaker 2: have you done for your community?

16:43 Speaker 1: Right exactly.

16:45 Speaker 2: So I'm doing things backwards and I'm trying to give

16:48 Speaker 2: back to my community, doing small events and stuff, back

16:53 Speaker 2: to school give backs, you know, hopefully partner up with

16:57 Speaker 2: somebody like mister good Bars and be able to help

16:59 Speaker 2: the kids learn how to engineer, learn how to you know,

17:03 Speaker 2: deal with music production and things like that. Yeah, you know,

17:08 Speaker 2: those are the hopes, you know. Yeah, yeah, just if

17:12 Speaker 2: we speak it into existence and put the work into it,

17:14 Speaker 2: it is possible.

17:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope was talking about in the first hour too.

17:18 Speaker 1: And I didn't know this. At the Boys and Girls

17:19 Speaker 1: Club in Nashville, they've got like they have a studio there,

17:23 Speaker 1: which is I had no idea. That's really cool.

17:26 Speaker 2: I only know that because both my nephews went to

17:30 Speaker 2: the Boys and Girls Club when I first moved in

17:33 Speaker 2: moved to Nashville thirteen fourteen years ago. Yeah, and that's

17:37 Speaker 2: something that they lived in the studio, my nephew learned

17:41 Speaker 2: how to create beats and you know, live sound audio

17:47 Speaker 2: and it all stemmed from the Boys and Girls Club

17:50 Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. You got me. Imagine if someone you know,

17:55 Speaker 2: my age thirty four had that opportunity to be able

17:58 Speaker 2: to go to the Boys and Girls Club and the

18:00 Speaker 2: inside of a studio, you know, who knows. Again, where

18:04 Speaker 2: I would have been memory for me a Boys and

18:07 Speaker 2: Girls club was at the ping pong table. You know,

18:10 Speaker 2: we're over here and doing this that on the ping

18:13 Speaker 2: pong table exactly. And no slight on the Lawrence Boys

18:19 Speaker 2: and Girls Club, but you know, hopefully they have stepped

18:21 Speaker 2: it up. I don't know, but yeah, with such a

18:26 Speaker 2: large music scene and then you know, it seems like

18:29 Speaker 2: if it's just growing and growing, so you know, hopefully

18:33 Speaker 2: it's something that they do have. Yea, I know they

18:35 Speaker 2: have multiple studios out there, but what are we doing

18:38 Speaker 2: for the community right right?

18:39 Speaker 1: Exactly? Yeah, yeah, because when I think of the Boys

18:42 Speaker 1: and Girls Club, I think of athletic type things. So

18:45 Speaker 1: I was surprised when he was talking about the studio,

18:47 Speaker 1: but I said, that's that's really cool.

18:48 Speaker 2: It's an opportunity for those young kids that do love music,

18:51 Speaker 2: all that are lost and don't know something what to do?

18:54 Speaker 2: You know you're good with video editing, you're good with

18:57 Speaker 2: this that you know you have a great opportunity to

19:02 Speaker 2: become something you know, self made. Right, you get me

19:07 Speaker 2: where you don't have to depend on the corporate America

19:12 Speaker 2: right and actually live the American dream as they say.

19:15 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly, exactly. Well we should play another track, definitely,

19:21 Speaker 1: so which I'll let you pick if I.

19:26 Speaker 2: Would have to pick. All I Know, All I Know. Yeah,

19:29 Speaker 2: that's one of my most popular singles. Oh okay, it's

19:35 Speaker 2: a crowd pleaser. It's a song that I wrote and

19:37 Speaker 2: dedicated to my wife.

19:39 Speaker 1: Oh very nice, very nice?

19:41 Speaker 5: Is she?

19:41 Speaker 1: Is she listening?

19:43 Speaker 2: She should be, I hope.

19:44 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, cool, All right, here we go. I

19:47 Speaker 1: got it. All right, we'll give this a listen. If

19:49 Speaker 1: you're just joining us. We have fate one here with

19:51 Speaker 1: us live in studio, and this is called All I Know.

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20:05 Speaker 6: you out your place yet, let me.

20:16 Speaker 7: Take you out to space, yet you have to spare.

20:19 Speaker 7: Let me take you at your place yet to pay?

20:21 Speaker 3: All I know is all I know?

20:23 Speaker 6: When I know, I can control what can be for.

20:27 Speaker 7: Let me take you out to space, yet you have

20:29 Speaker 7: to space. Let me take you out to your place yet.

20:33 Speaker 3: All I know is all I know.

20:34 Speaker 8: When I know I can't control what can be for.

20:38 Speaker 6: Let me take you out your comfort zone.

20:40 Speaker 9: You promise you won't be alone, just norm always coming.

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20:52 Speaker 10: you know moments undergo making sure we never making sure,

20:59 Speaker 10: we never brons. All I know underpression, never phone from

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21:09 Speaker 1: I know I can control work.

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21:14 Speaker 7: to spell. Let me take you at your place yet

21:17 Speaker 7: what you pay.

21:17 Speaker 6: All I know is all I know, and I know

21:19 Speaker 6: I can control.

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21:24 Speaker 7: yet you have to spell. Let me take you out

21:27 Speaker 7: your place yet. All I know is all I know,

21:30 Speaker 7: and I know I can't control work can be for.

21:34 Speaker 7: Let me hear your heart, don't hunt, discuss amazing just the.

21:38 Speaker 9: Way you are.

21:39 Speaker 6: Trust the loyalty goles fun. Let me take you to Mark.

21:42 Speaker 9: We can see the stars walk down.

21:45 Speaker 7: Hollywood, but firehouses and parts set some goals to stop.

21:49 Speaker 2: So we gotta things month.

21:51 Speaker 6: Did some get it easy?

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22:02 Speaker 8: came to grow.

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22:08 Speaker 7: of space.

22:09 Speaker 3: You want to spell?

22:10 Speaker 6: Let me take you out your place.

22:12 Speaker 3: Yet to play. All I know is all I know

22:14 Speaker 3: when I.

22:15 Speaker 9: Know what can control work?

22:16 Speaker 7: Cayful, let me take you on to spaceic you want

22:21 Speaker 7: to space, Let.

22:22 Speaker 6: Me take you out to your place.

22:23 Speaker 3: Yet. All I know is all I know.

22:26 Speaker 8: When I know I can control work, came beful.

22:48 Speaker 4: Mmm, that's nice, beautiful.

22:52 Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't eve that. I didn't even want

22:54 Speaker 1: to talk over the end. It's just nice. I just

22:56 Speaker 1: wanted to let it fade out. You know that's cool,

22:58 Speaker 1: that's really nice. If you're just joining us, we have

23:01 Speaker 1: a fate one here with us alive in studio, and

23:05 Speaker 1: that is called all I know. Great track, And yeah

23:07 Speaker 1: you were. You were kind of staying off air like

23:08 Speaker 1: you have to. You have to play it at every

23:10 Speaker 1: show where people will get people get upset if they

23:12 Speaker 1: don't hear it.

23:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of my most popular songs.

23:15 Speaker 2: You know, if they don't hear it, they're like, you know,

23:18 Speaker 2: it's whether I start with it or I end with it. Yeah,

23:21 Speaker 2: there's you know, the one time I think I didn't

23:25 Speaker 2: do it, they were like, where's that cong I know, like,

23:28 Speaker 2: you know, I was like, I didn't have enough time,

23:30 Speaker 2: Like yeah, But every time I perform, I try and

23:33 Speaker 2: make sure that I get it all there, and you know,

23:35 Speaker 2: I've gotten up to the point where I sing it

23:37 Speaker 2: almost completely live, with the exception of the chorus.

23:40 Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you uh? Do you play out a lot?

23:44 Speaker 1: Do you do a lot of shows?

23:46 Speaker 2: This past year? No, last year I was on a

23:50 Speaker 2: Crazy Show run, and then the year before I was

23:53 Speaker 2: on a Crazy Show run as well, working with multiple promoters,

23:58 Speaker 2: one our Visuals being one of them. Talk of the

24:01 Speaker 2: town being another one with Jesse Hendrix. He is, you know,

24:07 Speaker 2: out of the Boston area and stuff like that, so

24:09 Speaker 2: I was able to network with him and expand my

24:13 Speaker 2: outlet over there towards that area, you know. And then

24:17 Speaker 2: when I Visuals, we did a lot of things mainly

24:19 Speaker 2: in Lowell. Was able to learn a lot of things

24:23 Speaker 2: from both these great promoters to the point where, you know,

24:27 Speaker 2: I last year I exercised my first show and my

24:30 Speaker 2: hat to them because I I ran my own show.

24:34 Speaker 2: And let me tell you, one of the hardest things

24:35 Speaker 2: to do is to manage other artists with them, you know,

24:41 Speaker 2: managing their music sets, the DJ and this that. And

24:45 Speaker 2: I did that show with another artist as well, my

24:49 Speaker 2: buddy Karan, and we collabed and we did that show,

24:54 Speaker 2: and we did it as a competition for one I Visuals.

24:58 Speaker 2: He was like, oh, you know, like a lot of

25:01 Speaker 2: your artists talk about this that you know that you're

25:03 Speaker 2: gonna do your own show this stuff, but you don't

25:05 Speaker 2: know what it takes to do it. I challenged you

25:07 Speaker 2: to do this. The only one that accepted the challenge

25:11 Speaker 2: was Karan and I. You know, so we did it

25:14 Speaker 2: and we had a successful show. We won his challenge.

25:18 Speaker 2: You know, we were able to continue to work with

25:20 Speaker 2: him and then you know, we've done a couple shows

25:24 Speaker 2: since then. But I've been really focusing on the back

25:29 Speaker 2: ends of the things with the music and you know,

25:33 Speaker 2: focusing on promotion. I released my EP last year and

25:39 Speaker 2: we got some good numbers and good results on there.

25:42 Speaker 2: But I am very adamant of not dropping any new

25:45 Speaker 2: music until I surpassed a certain amount of streams on

25:49 Speaker 2: my EP, you know, which is one hundred thousand streams,

25:54 Speaker 2: and I'm a little over halfway throughout the whole project.

25:59 Speaker 2: You get me. You know, once I reach that goal,

26:03 Speaker 2: I'll start releasing because I am ready to release. But

26:06 Speaker 2: it's just some people just focus on releasing new music,

26:12 Speaker 2: new music, trying boost the algorithm, failing to realize that

26:15 Speaker 2: you're actually sitting and killing on your own music. You

26:19 Speaker 2: get me. You can drop every week, every month and

26:24 Speaker 2: stuff like that, but you're not letting the rest of

26:26 Speaker 2: your music settle and let that be heard. You can

26:30 Speaker 2: oversaturate that one, yeah, exactly, And I understand that there's

26:34 Speaker 2: over one hundred thousand songs being uploaded on streaming platforms

26:39 Speaker 2: on a daily basis. But if you focus on the

26:42 Speaker 2: stuff that you already have out and you promote that stuff,

26:47 Speaker 2: when you continue to release those listeners that you have

26:51 Speaker 2: now grown and you have now connected with with that

26:54 Speaker 2: original sound, are going to continue to listen to your

26:57 Speaker 2: new stuff and potentially show it to somebody new. You know,

27:02 Speaker 2: So I do a lot of the back end studying.

27:06 Speaker 2: You know, I try to always inform myself with a

27:10 Speaker 2: lot of things that are going on, you know. Like

27:14 Speaker 2: I said, I've been in this many years, you know,

27:18 Speaker 2: and I did things the wrong way many times up

27:23 Speaker 2: until this last rebrand you get me. I rebranded myself

27:27 Speaker 2: over the course of the five years, you know, trademark

27:30 Speaker 2: my logo, trademark my company, and then been able to

27:34 Speaker 2: just learn and you know, apply some of the things

27:38 Speaker 2: that I learned from hard lessons into this now and

27:42 Speaker 2: it's working at me. So now I can apply those

27:45 Speaker 2: things with some of my artists and try and help

27:50 Speaker 2: them out, you know, because I'm all about giving back

27:53 Speaker 2: giving forward. If somebody didn't teach me, you know, or

27:59 Speaker 2: excuse me, it's somebody taught me, you know, And I

28:02 Speaker 2: kept that to myself. How right would I be by

28:05 Speaker 2: keeping that, you know, instead of passing it forward, right

28:09 Speaker 2: right exactly? That almost be hypocritical, yeah, I and I

28:13 Speaker 2: try out to be that. So try to educate as

28:15 Speaker 2: best as I can, you know, what I've learned.

28:19 Speaker 1: What do you think or do you have any examples

28:22 Speaker 1: of like mistakes that you made that you had to

28:26 Speaker 1: learn from that you then try to pass on to

28:29 Speaker 1: other people.

28:29 Speaker 2: So one thing, you know, Ah, in my early early

28:36 Speaker 2: start of music career, you know, I was putting out

28:38 Speaker 2: music and I was wondering, why wasn't it catching attention

28:41 Speaker 2: or are these other artists catching attention this that, you know?

28:45 Speaker 2: And I got envious and jealous thinking that, you know, oh,

28:49 Speaker 2: I don't get support you know from my community, this

28:52 Speaker 2: that my family and this that. No, it was actually

28:55 Speaker 2: that I wasn't doing the work. I was just going

28:57 Speaker 2: into the studio and recording things, you know, and then

29:00 Speaker 2: posting it online and expecting it to blow up. You know.

29:04 Speaker 2: I didn't know the business things behind it. I didn't

29:07 Speaker 2: know the promotion ends behind it, you know, getting the

29:10 Speaker 2: licensing this that. So those were some of the mistakes

29:13 Speaker 2: you know where you know, I got copyright stricken where

29:17 Speaker 2: I had to take something down, used it without permission,

29:20 Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, what's copyright? You know, learned

29:23 Speaker 2: about it all right, didn't make this mistake again. I

29:29 Speaker 2: used to complain about support and then I was like wondering,

29:32 Speaker 2: you know this that, and then as you see, it's

29:35 Speaker 2: completely opposite now where it's like, all right, you know,

29:39 Speaker 2: I know why people aren't supporting me. I'm not doing much,

29:43 Speaker 2: you know. But over the the past four years, I've

29:47 Speaker 2: been doing shows, I've been working with other artists, going

29:49 Speaker 2: to go support their shows, whether I'm on it, whether

29:52 Speaker 2: I'm not, and just focusing on doing the groundwork so

29:58 Speaker 2: that way I can actually have something to fall back

30:02 Speaker 2: on and be like, yeah, no, I did last year,

30:05 Speaker 2: I did forty shows. The year before that, I did

30:07 Speaker 2: eighty the year before that. We you know, were at

30:11 Speaker 2: one hundred shows and stuff like that almost every two week,

30:16 Speaker 2: you know, and it can be overwhelming, but it's something

30:20 Speaker 2: that comes with this business. You have to do a

30:23 Speaker 2: lot of work before you actually even see any of

30:27 Speaker 2: the benefits, you know. So understanding that as well, you

30:31 Speaker 2: know it, stardom doesn't come overnight. A lot of these

30:35 Speaker 2: stars that you think broke out overnight you go to

30:38 Speaker 2: you go to see their documentary and feel to realize like, oh,

30:42 Speaker 2: they've been doing this since twenty ten, they doing this

30:46 Speaker 2: since two thousand and five. Yeah, exactly, it's just now

30:50 Speaker 2: that you're getting to know them. That's the difference, you know.

30:54 Speaker 2: So starting with the roots of the community, you know,

31:00 Speaker 2: working with the ICE, I keep on saying the community,

31:03 Speaker 2: you know, because that's who's I'm looking to support me first.

31:08 Speaker 2: If something happens, I know that it happened because of

31:11 Speaker 2: my community, yeah me. Not because I sold my soul

31:17 Speaker 2: or not because you know, I got lucky and stuff. No,

31:21 Speaker 2: I've been putting in the groundwork. I've been working with

31:24 Speaker 2: my community so that way they can have something to

31:27 Speaker 2: be proud of, yeah me, and just move forward from

31:31 Speaker 2: there on. You know, the definition of fate is the definite,

31:36 Speaker 2: the development of events beyond the person's control, right, So

31:43 Speaker 2: I try to always foresee the events that could potentially happen.

31:48 Speaker 2: That's kind of how I got my name.

31:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was curious about that. Where the name comes from.

31:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, it's like where when I was younger,

31:58 Speaker 2: you know, I would tell my friends like, hey, like,

32:00 Speaker 2: you know, something's gonna happen. I got a bad feeling.

32:02 Speaker 2: You know. They were like okay, like you know, like

32:04 Speaker 2: we're gonna call you destiny. And I was like, I

32:07 Speaker 2: didn't like that too much, you know, So I went

32:09 Speaker 2: into the dictionary and I looked up the you know

32:12 Speaker 2: a similar word to destiny. Yeah, fate it was. And

32:15 Speaker 2: then I liked it and I stuck with it. Then

32:18 Speaker 2: I added the one at the end for various reasons,

32:24 Speaker 2: you know, in the tag in you know, graffiti industry,

32:31 Speaker 2: A lot of times when you add one, you're paying

32:33 Speaker 2: homage to somebody that passed away, paying some paying homage

32:37 Speaker 2: to somebody that has been in jail. So like one love,

32:40 Speaker 2: you know, okay, so yeah, And then the other way

32:45 Speaker 2: is like, you know, I am one of a kind.

32:49 Speaker 2: I am the only one. You know, there might be

32:53 Speaker 2: other fates out there, but I am yeah, want and

32:58 Speaker 2: you know that's trademarked license, then don't mess with it.

33:01 Speaker 2: I consume you you know, and that that's where that

33:07 Speaker 2: name came from, you know. And I'm not an artist

33:11 Speaker 2: where I have a persona. This is me. I live

33:16 Speaker 2: the same way. I try to always be positive. I

33:20 Speaker 2: try to always foresee what's coming for me, always plan

33:24 Speaker 2: ahead and try and fix something if I can't. And

33:30 Speaker 2: if I can't, you know, I gotta let go, yeah,

33:33 Speaker 2: and let whatever else is, you know fix it. Yeah,

33:36 Speaker 2: it's not in my control. Why am I going to

33:38 Speaker 2: stress myself over it? And that's where that name stems from.

33:44 Speaker 2: And I've always stuck with it, and it's the nice

33:47 Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, And I try to try to make

33:51 Speaker 2: sure that anything I sing about, anything that I write about,

33:56 Speaker 2: it's whether it's something that I lived, you know, I

34:00 Speaker 2: went through. I don't want to end up, you know,

34:05 Speaker 2: having to go back on myself or you know, get

34:10 Speaker 2: called out for something that I don't really do and

34:14 Speaker 2: then it, you know, then all things fall apart or

34:18 Speaker 2: my persona gets killed because of that like that. No,

34:22 Speaker 2: I just live the way I live. I am who

34:24 Speaker 2: I am.

34:24 Speaker 1: Yeh, that's interesting way you say there, because yeah, a

34:28 Speaker 1: lot of artists will try to you know, create a persona. Yeah,

34:31 Speaker 1: you know, and and something either either bigger than you know,

34:35 Speaker 1: sort of bigger than life, or or maybe even something

34:38 Speaker 1: kind of kind of negative like yeah, like they want

34:40 Speaker 1: to come across as like they're some sort of violence.

34:43 Speaker 2: Going to be myself man, Yeah, yeah, you know, whether

34:46 Speaker 2: my past obviously had something to do with it, but

34:49 Speaker 2: it's irrelevant today. Yeah. I mean, I'm not that same

34:52 Speaker 2: person that I was fifteen years ago, but I have

34:55 Speaker 2: learned from my mistakes of the past, whether I did

34:58 Speaker 2: certain things, I'll always try to make sure that, you know,

35:01 Speaker 2: one thing, I don't incriminate myself in music. I also

35:04 Speaker 2: don't tell a lie, you know, And on top of

35:08 Speaker 2: making sure I don't tell a lie. I try to

35:10 Speaker 2: always keep it positive for the most part, even though

35:15 Speaker 2: it's not the most popular thing out there. You know,

35:19 Speaker 2: my song I Don't Know is pretty much stating that

35:21 Speaker 2: I really don't care what most people think about me.

35:25 Speaker 2: You know, your opinion is your opinion, and you're entitle

35:28 Speaker 2: to it, and of the day, it doesn't make you right,

35:30 Speaker 2: doesn't make you wrong, and that's how you feel about me, then,

35:34 Speaker 2: you know, so be it. You know, if I treated

35:38 Speaker 2: somebody disrespectful, you know, or if I treated somebody with love,

35:44 Speaker 2: and I always think, I always say believe both of them.

35:47 Speaker 2: I treat people accordingly, you know. So if I was

35:51 Speaker 2: rude to you, you deserved it. That was nice to you.

35:54 Speaker 2: You know, you also deserved it as well. And that's

35:57 Speaker 2: always what I try to do, because I just try

35:59 Speaker 2: to treat people the way i'd like to be treated.

36:01 Speaker 2: We're all human beings, if you know, we're cut at

36:05 Speaker 2: the end of the day, we bleed the same way,

36:07 Speaker 2: were brief, we eat the same way. You know, they

36:09 Speaker 2: all need the same things. We're all humans. Yeah, and

36:11 Speaker 2: that's the way I look at it.

36:12 Speaker 3: Well.

36:12 Speaker 1: Plus, you know, by just kind of being honest about everything.

36:15 Speaker 1: You know, it's what's the expression, it's uh, tell the truth,

36:19 Speaker 1: it's less to remember or something.

36:21 Speaker 3: You know.

36:22 Speaker 2: Lives are hard to keep up with.

36:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Then you got to remember who you

36:27 Speaker 1: told what.

36:28 Speaker 2: Yeh good with that? I'd rather not, yeah, exactly exactly.

36:33 Speaker 2: Keeping up with those lives is crazy.

36:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, to be so positive and everything, if if

36:40 Speaker 1: you had mentors in the music industry, are there are

36:42 Speaker 1: there people who've helped you along the way? I mean,

36:44 Speaker 1: obviously you know you're you're willing to dig in and

36:46 Speaker 1: learn everything yourself, But are there are there people who've

36:49 Speaker 1: been an influence on you in the industry.

36:52 Speaker 2: Or just you know, in the industry, I have many,

36:57 Speaker 2: you know, influences. I would and say that they're all

37:01 Speaker 2: positive because of the way that their music is brought out,

37:04 Speaker 2: you know, someone like Big Pun, you know. But then

37:07 Speaker 2: I go, I can go in my rolodex and literally

37:11 Speaker 2: go to somebody like John Legend, you know, you know,

37:14 Speaker 2: which is complete opposite. Yeah, you know, you know, so

37:19 Speaker 2: being influenced too. To just stay positive is just something

37:24 Speaker 2: that I learned to live. How I learned to live

37:27 Speaker 2: because negativity, it just doesn't phaze me, and then it's

37:32 Speaker 2: just very toxic. I don't like that, you know, I'd

37:36 Speaker 2: rather not be in a toxic environment or not be

37:39 Speaker 2: in a negative environment, you know, whether positivity is the

37:44 Speaker 2: most popular thing or not. I'm being myself, yeah, I mean,

37:49 Speaker 2: that's that's my main thing, is that I'm being myself

37:52 Speaker 2: and that you know, it's potentially you know, help somebody else. Yeah,

38:00 Speaker 2: and you know that that would be great if I

38:03 Speaker 2: help somebody else at least one. If I reached one person,

38:06 Speaker 2: you know, and I reached one every day the goal man.

38:09 Speaker 1: And I assume you probably have heard from people who

38:12 Speaker 1: approached you and said, yeah, you know you're I.

38:14 Speaker 2: Love your music. That you know, it has happened, you know,

38:20 Speaker 2: and it's a great feeling, you know, when you can

38:22 Speaker 2: get somebody to identify with your trials and relations, you know, yeah,

38:27 Speaker 2: you know, and just just it's a beautiful thing again yeah.

38:30 Speaker 1: Yeah. And in terms of of your singing, is there

38:34 Speaker 1: anyone who's kind of like who who inspires your your

38:39 Speaker 1: style or there are there singers who have been an

38:42 Speaker 1: influence on you in terms of how you sing.

38:46 Speaker 2: One there's a couple, so you know, again it's it's

38:50 Speaker 2: like usher for me, Yeah, I grew up listening to Usher,

38:55 Speaker 2: you know, ladies man always singing to the ladies and

38:58 Speaker 2: stuff like that. I love that, I mean, you know.

39:02 Speaker 2: And then uh Tony Sunshine, which is very similar to

39:07 Speaker 2: my style where he's he's dealing with a lot of

39:09 Speaker 2: hip hop, but he's singing in it, you know, and

39:13 Speaker 2: he's bringing out those emotions out of those songs with

39:17 Speaker 2: you know, the Terror Squad and stuff like that. Yeah,

39:21 Speaker 2: you know. And then there's Marc Anthony Y's you know,

39:26 Speaker 2: Salo ninety. I mean, a lot of a lot of

39:33 Speaker 2: AA at the end of the day, is you know

39:37 Speaker 2: about again about stories? You know, Mark Anthony played a

39:41 Speaker 2: role in a movie for Ector Lavos, and he pretty

39:46 Speaker 2: much captured that guy's persona and that guy's voice and

39:49 Speaker 2: everything to the point where they were like whoa, whoa

39:52 Speaker 2: is that Mark Anthony or Ector Lavos. Yeah, but these things,

39:58 Speaker 2: you know, they bring out the trials and relations a.

40:02 Speaker 2: Lovos used to sing about his drug use impression, you know,

40:07 Speaker 2: the life that he lived and stuff like that. So

40:09 Speaker 2: just combining all those things, all those artists and just

40:16 Speaker 2: you know, creating my sound off of that. You know,

40:22 Speaker 2: I can sing any Usher song, you know, word for word,

40:27 Speaker 2: you know, to a point where I could almost duplicate

40:29 Speaker 2: some of his tones, stuff like that, most of Tony

40:33 Speaker 2: Sunshine's almost every Mark Anthony and then you know, you

40:36 Speaker 2: go further back, that's actor Lovoe as well, which is

40:40 Speaker 2: all SALTSA. I listened to a lot of music, not

40:45 Speaker 2: just hip hop, R and B. You get me being

40:47 Speaker 2: Puerto Rican, growing up in a Puerto Rican household and

40:51 Speaker 2: in an urban area. You'd be surprised the things that you hear.

40:56 Speaker 2: You know, dance all afrobeats, I can imagine, you know,

41:00 Speaker 2: and again, the beauty of music is just being able

41:03 Speaker 2: to move and hear that and feel that rhythm. And

41:06 Speaker 2: that's what I love about it. Yeah. I feel the

41:09 Speaker 2: most comfortable when I'm in front of a mic.

41:11 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, me.

41:13 Speaker 2: I get nervous at first, but the moment that I'm

41:15 Speaker 2: on stage and stuff like that, and you know, or

41:18 Speaker 2: in front of a podcast, that I just feel like

41:21 Speaker 2: I'm at home right right, and it's just it feels great.

41:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can, I can relate to that. I'm I'm

41:29 Speaker 1: actually I'm naturally an introvert, but I uh, but I'm

41:35 Speaker 1: most I'm so because of that. It's just how my

41:38 Speaker 1: brain is wired. I'm actually most comfortable in front of

41:41 Speaker 1: a microphone, whether it's doing the show or or I'm

41:44 Speaker 1: a musician. I don't I'm not active with that, but

41:47 Speaker 1: I used to play a lot of bands, or being

41:48 Speaker 1: on stage or public speaking, like like, I'm actually more

41:52 Speaker 1: comfortable doing that than I am at say a party

41:55 Speaker 1: where you know, I'm trying to have a conversation with

41:57 Speaker 1: a stranger or something.

41:58 Speaker 2: Same, you know, yeah, I you know, I usually go

42:02 Speaker 2: out to these venues if i'm performing. You know, I

42:07 Speaker 2: am a homebody. The reason why I have a home studio. Yeah, yeah,

42:14 Speaker 2: you know, you know, And not trying to be cheap

42:19 Speaker 2: or anything, but that you know, you can go outside nowadays,

42:22 Speaker 2: and you spend one hundred dollars a moment that you

42:24 Speaker 2: go outside. You know, that's just gassing food, you know,

42:31 Speaker 2: and you know, so it's just trying to stay out

42:35 Speaker 2: of the way. You know. I try to go out

42:38 Speaker 2: when it's necessary. I'm a very family first guy. Excuse me,

42:46 Speaker 2: So I'd rather spend time with my family. You know,

42:49 Speaker 2: if I'm not in the studio, I'm with family. I'm

42:51 Speaker 2: not an event. I'm with family. If I'm not working

42:54 Speaker 2: I'm with family, yeah, you know, and just try and

42:58 Speaker 2: do that, you know, whether it's laying down in bed

43:00 Speaker 2: watching a movie or just sitting down in the couch

43:03 Speaker 2: playing some video games, right, you know, it's it's it's okay.

43:08 Speaker 2: You know, I'd rather be doing that than out and about,

43:12 Speaker 2: you know, getting into trouble or you know, who knows

43:16 Speaker 2: what can happen nowadays in the world that we live

43:18 Speaker 2: in a servy place, right, yeah, you know, or having

43:23 Speaker 2: to be prepared for those kind of situations and stuff

43:26 Speaker 2: like that. Not a person that really has anxiety, but

43:30 Speaker 2: those things kind of give me.

43:32 Speaker 1: Anxiety, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, if you've always

43:36 Speaker 1: been like that or were you were you different when

43:39 Speaker 1: you were younger, because like I can tell you, like

43:40 Speaker 1: in my case, people assume that when I.

43:43 Speaker 3: Was yeah, as.

43:45 Speaker 2: A bad kid. Yeah, so I had. I had a

43:48 Speaker 2: very early upbringing, you know, where I was just running

43:51 Speaker 2: around early on.

43:52 Speaker 3: Yeah.

43:53 Speaker 2: I mentioned that I was doing music for many of years.

43:56 Speaker 2: I was in a club at fourteen fifteen years old,

44:00 Speaker 2: singing this one Spanish song that didn't even belong to me.

44:04 Speaker 2: Because my brother was a club promoter and he would

44:06 Speaker 2: bring a lot of the Spanish artists down to Lawrence. Yeah,

44:10 Speaker 2: you know, and you know I would always be an

44:13 Speaker 2: opening act, you know. So I shared stages with some

44:16 Speaker 2: of these major artists like Nikki, jam Ecto, Ridito, The Call,

44:23 Speaker 2: and some of these names. You may know, some of

44:26 Speaker 2: these you may not. But in the Latin culture and

44:29 Speaker 2: the Latin community, they know those names are very big.

44:33 Speaker 2: You know. I have the pleasure of saying that I

44:34 Speaker 2: shared this stage with them at fourteen years old.

44:37 Speaker 1: That's not a bad way to start me.

44:39 Speaker 2: That was twenty years ago. You got me. But I

44:42 Speaker 2: was young, dumb, you know, and I was focused on

44:46 Speaker 2: all the wrong things. Yeah, you know, not focusing on

44:50 Speaker 2: my schooling, not focusing and just focusing on all the

44:53 Speaker 2: wrong things.

44:54 Speaker 1: But it's kind of a double edged sword, right because

44:56 Speaker 1: you may have focused on the wrong things in one sense,

44:59 Speaker 1: but at the same time you had that amazing opportunity.

45:01 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you got that. And then I learned, you know,

45:04 Speaker 2: and I learned, and you know, I just supply a

45:06 Speaker 2: lot of the things that I learned growing up, and

45:10 Speaker 2: I just actually applied it. You know. It's like, how

45:12 Speaker 2: can you fix something if you don't know about it,

45:15 Speaker 2: you know, But if you know about it and you

45:16 Speaker 2: did nothing about it to fix it, and you want

45:19 Speaker 2: to change. Well, that's insanity right there, my friend. Yeah,

45:22 Speaker 2: you know, I mean so it's just all about knowing

45:26 Speaker 2: and you know, trying.

45:28 Speaker 1: What what changed for you? Was there a moment that

45:30 Speaker 1: that kind of changed things, that kind of changed your mindset?

45:33 Speaker 1: Or was it a gradual thing?

45:35 Speaker 2: My mother passing away?

45:36 Speaker 1: Really yeah?

45:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she passed away six years ago. It was

45:39 Speaker 2: one of the toughest things that I deal with on

45:41 Speaker 2: a daily basis. And I was on the verge of

45:45 Speaker 2: giving up music because of that, the lack of support

45:48 Speaker 2: and you know, just not knowing, not being educated about it.

45:52 Speaker 2: And one of the promises I made, you know, while

45:56 Speaker 2: she was you know, on her last day, well that

46:00 Speaker 2: I'm going to continue with my music, you know, And

46:03 Speaker 2: that's exactly what I did. In twenty eighteen, I dropped

46:06 Speaker 2: the project that was nowhere near released ready to be released,

46:11 Speaker 2: but I did it anyways, just so I can, you know,

46:15 Speaker 2: claim it and start it, you know. You know, I

46:19 Speaker 2: pride myself in knowing. You know, it may be a

46:22 Speaker 2: fact or not, but you know, I want to say

46:25 Speaker 2: I was one of these artists that was on streaming

46:30 Speaker 2: platforms before a lot of other people because of the

46:33 Speaker 2: research and the information that I gained. Like, you know,

46:37 Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, I dropped my first project with CD Baby.

46:41 Speaker 2: I didn't see any of my artists friends, or any

46:44 Speaker 2: of them dropping on streaming platforms where they were on Spotify, Apple,

46:48 Speaker 2: And next thing, you know, twenty nineteen, everybody's doing it.

46:51 Speaker 2: You know, I'm not saying that I started it or

46:54 Speaker 2: anything like that, but I know I was one of

46:56 Speaker 2: the first artists that started doing it and even learned

47:00 Speaker 2: from that, you know, not having quality music. You know,

47:06 Speaker 2: it's like, oh yeah, like I could play this, but

47:09 Speaker 2: it's not mixing masters correctly. It's not gonna sound the best,

47:12 Speaker 2: and think, oh okay, all right this, you know, but

47:14 Speaker 2: then your ego gets the best of you, you know,

47:18 Speaker 2: and so I had to struggle with that. Yeah, and

47:20 Speaker 2: I was like, all right, well, let's learn how to

47:22 Speaker 2: mix and master. Learn that, you know, and then I

47:28 Speaker 2: think in twenty nineteen, I partnered with a audio engineer

47:34 Speaker 2: out of Las Vegas, and it was no, it was

47:40 Speaker 2: twenty twenty actually, because it was around COVID where everybody

47:45 Speaker 2: was online. Everybody was thaying, you know, I sent them

47:47 Speaker 2: my vocals. He mixed and edited, threw a little bit

47:53 Speaker 2: of auto tune in there, you know, which I kind

47:56 Speaker 2: of wanted because you know, I was like, this is

47:58 Speaker 2: a little rough, you know, I recorded in my studio.

48:01 Speaker 2: Is that, you know, sent them some nice clean vocals

48:04 Speaker 2: and you know my song. I didn't send it to you,

48:07 Speaker 2: but I will eventually. The song I'm Blessed, you know,

48:11 Speaker 2: it is what I kind of started back off with.

48:14 Speaker 2: You know, that was where I rebranded myself, had my

48:17 Speaker 2: new logo, had a song that was mixed and mastered,

48:22 Speaker 2: ready for distribution, ready for radio, you know, and I

48:26 Speaker 2: took pride in that, so I went recorded a video

48:29 Speaker 2: to it. Then I released everything just like a you know,

48:32 Speaker 2: a mainstream artist would do everything on the same day,

48:35 Speaker 2: the video, the vocals, all that released, you know, and

48:39 Speaker 2: that was one of my you know, greatest moments. It's

48:44 Speaker 2: one of my least sought out after songs because again,

48:49 Speaker 2: the positivity. Not many people go towards positive you know,

48:56 Speaker 2: they're there. You're bound to have something negative posted on

48:59 Speaker 2: social media that's going to become viral, versus something that

49:03 Speaker 2: you know is very positive and could also be viral

49:06 Speaker 2: and have the same effect, but they won't do it

49:09 Speaker 2: because it's positive, you know. So I try to always

49:12 Speaker 2: shed light on those positive things, you know. I try

49:16 Speaker 2: not to post negative things, you know, I can always

49:19 Speaker 2: I go find myself on social media wanting to say

49:21 Speaker 2: something negative like delete, and then I find myself, well,

49:25 Speaker 2: I almost wrote something negative on this post, but I didn't.

49:29 Speaker 2: You know. I get congratulates story things from friends and

49:34 Speaker 2: stuff like that, like Okay, you're trying to stay all right, yeah,

49:38 Speaker 2: you know, but everybody's human, you know. And that song

49:44 Speaker 2: started it off for me. And then I did a

49:48 Speaker 2: song with local artists as well, GMT Mark B. That

49:55 Speaker 2: was like my first feature. You know. He was more

49:58 Speaker 2: established out in Nashville and I was. He had more

50:01 Speaker 2: of a following than I was. I happened to be

50:06 Speaker 2: in the same studio and I played him a beat

50:13 Speaker 2: and I showed him the chorus, you know, because that's

50:15 Speaker 2: how I start all my songs. I always have a

50:17 Speaker 2: chorus for all my songs. And you know, he was like, oh,

50:22 Speaker 2: I like that, Let's do that boom and then that

50:24 Speaker 2: that came on and then did the same thing again.

50:28 Speaker 2: That was my first video with one I Visuals. You know,

50:32 Speaker 2: partnered with him said a release date. Had to change

50:35 Speaker 2: the release date because you know, it was a little

50:38 Speaker 2: too soon. The editing stuff wasn't done, you know, and

50:41 Speaker 2: I got a little lashing from one of visuals. It

50:43 Speaker 2: was like, don't do that again, like, you know, he

50:45 Speaker 2: was like, you guys, shouldn't do that until it's ready.

50:47 Speaker 2: I was like, you're right, you know, And then I

50:50 Speaker 2: learned from that, you know, so to make sure that

50:53 Speaker 2: I'm not releasing nothing unless or setting a date on

50:55 Speaker 2: something before it's actually complete.

50:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

51:00 Speaker 2: Setting a date on an EP before it's actually complete,

51:02 Speaker 2: you know, and then you know, you set false expectations.

51:06 Speaker 2: That can also screw you over as an artist too,

51:09 Speaker 2: because you're over here selling dreams, selling dreams, and you know,

51:12 Speaker 2: realistically there's nothing to sell right right, you know, So

51:15 Speaker 2: just making sure that I have everything ready before I

51:18 Speaker 2: even announce it.

51:20 Speaker 1: Ummm no, that makes sense. Yeah, you know, like I.

51:25 Speaker 2: Tried, I avoid from making any announcements as best as

51:32 Speaker 2: I can, just in case if things fall through. You

51:35 Speaker 2: know that way I don't look a certain type of way.

51:38 Speaker 1: I totally get that.

51:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, like today I think I made

51:43 Speaker 2: them and I was like, you know, I'll be on

51:45 Speaker 2: ninety five point three. You know. I copied the link

51:48 Speaker 2: and I shared it to a few of my family members,

51:50 Speaker 2: a few of my friends, you know, and I told

51:53 Speaker 2: them I'll be on at this time. Like you know,

51:55 Speaker 2: I knew I was coming. I made it happen. And

51:57 Speaker 2: once I knew that that was happening, all right, boom

52:00 Speaker 2: may time to be here, you know, And it's been

52:03 Speaker 2: good so far. You know, it's not a far drive

52:05 Speaker 2: thirty five minutes.

52:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not far. Yeah, well we are, however,

52:10 Speaker 1: almost out of time. The time goes so quick, so

52:12 Speaker 1: we'll n plus when you're having fun, we'll close out

52:14 Speaker 1: the show with this track app business. But but just quickly,

52:18 Speaker 1: what should people know about how to follow you online?

52:21 Speaker 1: Where should they go to keep up with everything that

52:23 Speaker 1: you're doing?

52:24 Speaker 2: Yes, so I am pretty nice and simple as f

52:28 Speaker 2: A T E, O N E, underscore, HSM across all platforms. Okay,

52:34 Speaker 2: that's TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even. You can also go

52:40 Speaker 2: to my website I am fightwe dot com, where you'll

52:44 Speaker 2: find all my music, you'll find any ways to reach

52:48 Speaker 2: me all of my socials as well, you know, and

52:51 Speaker 2: then if you have me as a friend on Facebook,

52:54 Speaker 2: you know that I am. Yes, well fight one Marquez,

52:58 Speaker 2: you know, because again this is not persona, this is

53:00 Speaker 2: who I am. So I try to always keep it,

53:04 Speaker 2: you know. Yes, I keep my work world separate versus

53:07 Speaker 2: the music world, but eventually they will not collide, but

53:11 Speaker 2: you know, almost blend. Yeah, yeah, stuff like you know,

53:16 Speaker 2: the work that I do allows me to pay for

53:19 Speaker 2: the stuff that I need. Yeah, you know, and just

53:23 Speaker 2: be able to you know, open doors for me and

53:25 Speaker 2: stuff like that, and just continue to you know, move forward.

53:30 Speaker 3: Man.

53:30 Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, we really appreciate your coming in today.

53:34 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. I appreciate being here and meeting

53:37 Speaker 2: you guys, you know, and I look forward to what

53:39 Speaker 2: the future holds for us.

53:40 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And Jenny, you want to plug your website

53:43 Speaker 1: before we go, Absolutely.

53:45 Speaker 2: You got to.

53:45 Speaker 1: You got a lot going on lately.

53:48 Speaker 5: I have, actually, yes, and I still have some stuff

53:50 Speaker 5: to update on the website. But you can check it

53:52 Speaker 5: out at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N C

53:54 Speaker 5: O F F euy dot com. And if you happen

53:57 Speaker 5: to go down to Terminus tonight for the show, you

54:00 Speaker 5: can check out twelve of my darkest paintings.

54:02 Speaker 1: Yes, hanging on display.

54:04 Speaker 5: For the month of August at the Nashua Creative Collective.

54:09 Speaker 5: I said it wrong, Midnight Collective.

54:13 Speaker 1: Sorry for the time. And if you are listening live

54:17 Speaker 1: on Saturday, I will be at the event at the

54:21 Speaker 1: Sister Witch Company and Hook and Hooks it that actually

54:24 Speaker 1: starts at noon. I'll be arriving at about two pm.

54:27 Speaker 1: And so come on down and say hello and thank

54:30 Speaker 1: you to everyone who joined us today. A lot of

54:32 Speaker 1: Corvette of course, Hope the Rapper and Fate one, thank

54:35 Speaker 1: you again. Wonderful to have you on. Absolutely and if

54:39 Speaker 1: you missed any part of today's show, it'll be up

54:40 Speaker 1: in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot org and

54:43 Speaker 1: my website Matt Connorton dot com. And we leave you

54:45 Speaker 1: at this. This is Fate one and the track is

54:47 Speaker 1: called Business.

55:03 Speaker 9: My Business Build the Moment.

55:16 Speaker 11: I've been may my business man amount business, build a

55:20 Speaker 11: mountain bridges. I been by my business man a mount business,

55:27 Speaker 11: build them mount rigeous. Yeah, I'm trying to job like

55:31 Speaker 11: I'm talk.

55:33 Speaker 6: I know he's listening.

55:35 Speaker 9: Loh, forgive me for my tends.

55:36 Speaker 12: All I'm trying to do is when they can keep

55:39 Speaker 12: up with my friend, trying to keep up with my

55:41 Speaker 12: pen Welcome to my dentis sometime, but it depends. Some

55:45 Speaker 12: keep reaching and over spend, Some keep leaning towards the end.

55:48 Speaker 12: They regrett and I are saying, I'll stay January. It's

55:52 Speaker 12: not something you can lend. Some don't seem to comprehend

55:55 Speaker 12: I stay January.

55:57 Speaker 2: Gotta keep one out.

55:59 Speaker 8: For those who pretend I don't even know fake lin,

56:02 Speaker 8: no need, no no friends. Gotta keep one on man

56:06 Speaker 8: for those who pretend I don't need no fake live,

56:09 Speaker 8: no need, no no friends.

56:11 Speaker 11: I've been by my business, mine and mon business.

56:14 Speaker 6: Build them out riches hit.

56:18 Speaker 11: I've been by my business mine and mount business.

56:21 Speaker 6: Build them ount bridges hit.

56:25 Speaker 11: I've been for my business mine and mon business.

56:28 Speaker 6: Build them out riches.

56:30 Speaker 11: Yet, I've been for my business none of mown business,

56:35 Speaker 11: build them abridges.

56:38 Speaker 8: If you're talking money, better be ready to invest.

56:42 Speaker 9: Normal hand out.

56:43 Speaker 6: I can't focus on the rest, work at texts and.

56:46 Speaker 9: My best I'm too busy being blessed for nothing all

56:49 Speaker 9: my lessons. I don't need any more stress, been conquering

56:53 Speaker 9: all my teams.

56:54 Speaker 6: Burned up on my le just kept my head below it.

56:56 Speaker 9: Feelings started with nothing but the seasons.

56:59 Speaker 3: The seasons keep repeating. No, my girls have been defeated.

57:02 Speaker 6: Keep down at me, keep sleeping.

57:04 Speaker 9: I'm gonna keep feeding those.

57:05 Speaker 3: Don't need it.

57:06 Speaker 8: Keep one out pad for those who pretend I don't

57:09 Speaker 8: even know fake love. Don't need you know, no friends,

57:13 Speaker 8: Gotta keep one out pad for those who pretend.

57:16 Speaker 6: I don't even know fake love.

57:18 Speaker 3: No, no, no friends.

57:20 Speaker 6: I've been by my business mine and Mount Business. Spill

57:23 Speaker 6: the Mountain riches.

57:25 Speaker 11: Yeah, I've been by my business mine and mount Business

57:30 Speaker 11: spill the mount ridges.

57:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

57:33 Speaker 11: I've been from my business mine and Mount beustiness, build

57:37 Speaker 11: them mount riches.

57:39 Speaker 6: Yet I've been by.

57:41 Speaker 11: My business on the mount business fill the mount riches.

57:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, my bulliess young. The guy just want a chance.

57:57 Speaker 13: I'm want a chance to need a million advances like

58:00 Speaker 13: Toka Rum shifting my hands. I'll be counting my cards

58:02 Speaker 13: and devising him playing County.

58:04 Speaker 3: He didn't have done me. Come man.

58:05 Speaker 13: What he don't understand is his mama still got some meals.

58:08 Speaker 2: He keep on talking, no call.

58:09 Speaker 6: And like he just belonging on something like doctor Phil.

58:12 Speaker 3: I don't really know about y'all, but I know about me.

58:14 Speaker 13: That's how I sleep well at night, how a he

58:16 Speaker 13: gonna say he the man, but he's specially different a

58:18 Speaker 13: thing that he had mistake boss moves only y'all think

58:21 Speaker 13: it deans. I'm to get to own that time he

58:24 Speaker 13: gonna make my CAMARONI next time, mos you.

58:26 Speaker 3: Down for the holy Lena?

58:27 Speaker 13: When they keep on cooking all them shots and they

58:30 Speaker 13: keep on missing, keep spitting like my jall with loosen,

58:32 Speaker 13: I need to see the doctor, but I can't afford

58:34 Speaker 13: to that news.

58:35 Speaker 6: Still ain't got a deal with my no meal, So

58:37 Speaker 6: we're staying on go this time. We here to let

58:40 Speaker 6: him know next time we breaking on.

58:42 Speaker 14: A dough if you want to burst him senate checking

58:44 Speaker 14: our call the plays like I'm fellow checking.

58:46 Speaker 3: I don't understand those negligence.

58:48 Speaker 14: Type with my squall like a fellowship right.

58:50 Speaker 2: On my John sym fellowship.

58:52 Speaker 14: So I don't got any preferences if you touch on

58:55 Speaker 14: my references, my etiquette going with the delicates pemiship of

58:58 Speaker 14: point like a ballpin all in flicking risks like I'm

59:00 Speaker 14: mixing a culture initiated a Paul and someone call a

59:03 Speaker 14: bomb threat, feeling like Lebron did, feeling.

59:04 Speaker 6: Like I did last night.

59:05 Speaker 3: That's right, for you.

59:06 Speaker 14: For rapsite turned into a crash site hut like a

59:08 Speaker 14: craft for me, but right for you. Get slapped like

59:11 Speaker 14: Chris rock A pissed off. Let me event now Chris

59:13 Speaker 14: paul A criss cross, keep it in bound, Blitz y'all

59:15 Speaker 14: and kickoff.

59:16 Speaker 3: It's the first down. Kill y'all, don't feel y'all. Here's

59:18 Speaker 3: your hearse now, kill y'all. Don't feel y'all.

59:19 Speaker 4: Here's your hearse now.

59:20 Speaker 3: Blow yea.

59:36 Speaker 2: You are listening to double umin h

59:43 Speaker 8: Get command, don't get supremelya Maxio