Matt Connarton Unleashed: FateOne

0:00 Speaker 1: What a great track to kick off, and we have a fate one here with us in studio. How are you welcome?

0:04 Speaker 2: I'm doing well, I'm doing well. How are we today?

0:07 Speaker 1: Good?

0:07 Speaker 3: Good?

0:07 Speaker 1: Uh? Did we meet you through Hope the Rapper?

0:10 Speaker 3: Was?

0:12 Speaker 4: I believe that a post that Hope the Rapp will put up is oh what led us to be here today?

0:18 Speaker 1: Right right?

0:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, something he put up, and then I reached out to that directly to Jen.

0:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've got We've been doing this ten weeks of New World radio premieres of Hope the Rapper singles, and yeah, it's been a big success. And today this was week ten, the last one eviction. Notice that we played a little bit ago. But yeah, another great track from him. He's he's amazing, he's so talented, and of course he was with us during the first hour today.

0:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. I think you guys did Problems right, Yes, yes, I was on Problem.

0:47 Speaker 1: You were on that one? Oh okay, cool? Cool? Yeah you've done Have you done a couple of tracks with him?

0:56 Speaker 4: I have a few that I have done, some unreleased and oh some release.

1:01 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, okay, And that track I don't know, is that brand new.

1:05 Speaker 2: Uh that's fairly new.

1:06 Speaker 4: Okay, the one that I'm pushing right now that I've just been working on, uh, you know, just making sure to get it out there. It's some plain, bold message, nice quick sweet Yeah yeah.

1:18 Speaker 2: Can you pull that mic in a little Yeah?

1:20 Speaker 1: That that? Yeah? That makes up?

1:22 Speaker 2: How are we doing? Oh?

1:22 Speaker 1: That's better? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely right. So you said you were talking off air about you've got a video coming up for that or.

1:31 Speaker 4: Yes, So I shot a video about two weeks ago and I'll be releasing it next week next Saturday, on my birthday.

1:39 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, is that the Will this be the first video you've done?

1:43 Speaker 2: No, this will be my ninth video.

1:45 Speaker 1: Oh okadd yeah yeah, oh wow.

1:47 Speaker 4: It'll be the first video I do with Crispy Pick, which is a photographer out of Manchester.

1:52 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you get connected with uh? Is that is? Is that a person or is that there the company?

1:59 Speaker 2: That is a person and a company.

2:02 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, gotcha.

2:03 Speaker 4: So Crispy Pick we originally connected about two years ago. I booked him for a showcase as a photographer. Yeah, We've been working ever since.

2:16 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, this will be Did you say this will be the first one with.

2:21 Speaker 2: Uh with Crispy?

2:22 Speaker 1: Okay, how did you do the previous ones? Did you work with somebody else.

2:26 Speaker 4: Or was it all they So all the previous ones, I have dealt with probably three or four videographers. Yea, So out of my nine videos, four of those videos are from One Eye Visuals.

2:43 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, hope, hope work.

2:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

2:47 Speaker 4: Him and I we you know, around the same circle, around the same people, and we've been lucky enough to just have great talent and then just great people around us to continue.

2:57 Speaker 2: To work with us.

2:59 Speaker 4: And then you know a few other videographers Dynamic TV and Gil Videos, you know, which is just all great people all around and stuff like that. I've mainly worked a lot with One Eye Visuals and I continue I'm going to continue working with him as well as we have some plans and some ideas for some future projects and stuff like that.

3:26 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, how do you define the genre that that you're working in, because it's it's.

3:32 Speaker 4: Kind of so it's a mix. So I'm a singer songwriter. However, the way that I write, I write like a rapper.

3:42 Speaker 1: Right, That's interesting to me.

3:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

3:46 Speaker 4: My writing process is like, you know, rapper brain almost, so I throw in you know, punchlines, the ball entendres, and then I'm singing it. So I like to call it something like an R and B hip hop because ninety percent of the beats I choose our hip hop. Yeah, but I'm always singing behind them, whether I'm doing it in a different tone or you know, less vocals, more vocals, you know. So say I sound like a rapper, Yeah, but I don't classify myself as a rapper.

4:17 Speaker 2: I'm a singer, songwriter, vocal engineer.

4:20 Speaker 1: Right right.

4:20 Speaker 3: Yeah.

4:21 Speaker 1: No, that's interesting to me because when I first when you sent me your music and I'm I'm it's like each of the tracks, it starts out it sounds like I'm expecting rapping, and then you're singing and it's like, oh, it's interesting.

4:33 Speaker 2: Yeah.

4:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, It's how I diversify myself. And you know, it's just what I originally loved. You know, I grew up listening to hip hop, hip hop, R and B, Latin music, merengue. Yeah, it's just a melting pot of music, and I've taken those influences and just have kind of created my own sound. Where I have mastered it, and you know, I feel like it's I'm one of the only ones doing that kind of sound. You don't hear many artists like myself today, you know, And it's just something that I enjoyed doing.

5:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was commenting to off air. I appreciated that I didn't not that I mind doing it, but I didn't have to make any radio editsa which was nice.

5:23 Speaker 2: Yeah.

5:24 Speaker 4: You know, I pride myself in making not only my job easier, but also you know, making sure that my lyrics and everything fit into play so that way I don't have to censor myself I have to change lyrics. I don't have to, you know, memorize two different versions of a song, yes, which is something that's difficult within itself, you know, right, you know, when you have a portfolio like myself, you know, it's a lot to remember, you got me. Yeah, just keeping it simple, you know, Simplicity is genius.

6:03 Speaker 4: I do believe in the words that I say as well, just practice what I preach.

6:09 Speaker 1: How many you mentioned your portfolio? How many songs have you recorded.

6:14 Speaker 2: So released?

6:16 Speaker 4: I have, you know, anywhere from twenty to thirty songs? Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, you know, it could could be a little less, but I don't have that exact number unreleased. I have over one hundred songs.

6:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:32 Speaker 4: I own my own studio, so I have the ability to just go wake up, go right into my studio and get get to working. Yeah, so I have that freedom and that accessibility. So that's an upside rather than having to go book a session work, you know, pay for two hours, which I still do, sure, but I would much.

6:58 Speaker 2: Rather it at home.

7:01 Speaker 4: The reason why I learned to engineer and to edit my own vocals was because I would go to a studio and it would hear my vocals and immediately want to.

7:12 Speaker 2: Add autotune to it. Yeah, and it's cool.

7:15 Speaker 4: I understand what that that plugin does and what what it's for, but certain songs didn't need it, certain songs didn't call for it. But every engineer that I wanted wanted to add into it. So I learned. You know, I sat down with these engineers side by side while paying for my time, and I you know, watched and just paid attention. And that I did some further research, educated myself, took classes on pro tools, a pro tool certified engineer, and you know, it's been going from there. That song I don't know, uh, mix and mastered by myself.

8:00 Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, outstanding.

8:02 Speaker 4: So it's nice when you can do it yourself, and therefore you don't have to explain what you're looking for, right, you know that sound in your head, right, and you can just pretty much duplicated right then and there. Yeah, me, And that's the beauty of music. Yeaalistically, that's one thing that I love is just hearing something in my head and then creating it and putting it in sound.

8:25 Speaker 1: That's that's one of the things that's so interesting about creating music is that you know everyone, everyone's different and has kind of their own process. And we were even talking about this today with Hope the Rapper when he was on with us in the first hour, because he's someone who really likes to collaborate and kind of have somebody else's ideas brought into the process, whereas it sounds like you're more someone who you knows what you know, what you want and that's that's what you're gonna do.

8:52 Speaker 1: To the point that you took the time to learn how to do it yourself exactly.

8:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, nothing against other engineers or anything. But you know when you're telling an engineer like all right, let's do it this way, this way, this way, and then they try everything that they can to get that sound. But you know, you go and then you get a final mix and it's not what you want and you need a revision that requires more money, more time. One thing I don't like doing in this world is wasting time or money. Money we can get back. We can never get our time back. True, you know, so time to me is very important.

9:31 Speaker 4: You know, money is replaceable.

9:34 Speaker 1: You know, when when you would run into that, like the engineer or the producer who's telling you, no, no, no, we should do it this way. Is that like what is their motive? Like, do they are they kind of saying to you this is how you have to do it to fit in so you can have a hit or or is it more just we just think it sounds better this way.

9:54 Speaker 4: It could be more of the we just think it sounds better this way. Yeah, you know, more opinionative, you know, And that's good, that's awesome. I take constructive criticism very well, but that's not how I want it to sound. You know, if I'm paying for this time and I'm paying for something to sound a certain way, I would expect it to be the way at least, you know, close to what I want.

10:23 Speaker 1: Right.

10:23 Speaker 4: It's like when you go purchase something at a store and you want that item. You know you're gonna go get that item at that size, right, You're not gonna go get it two sizes larger or the one that's a different color, but it still has all the same wordings. That's not what you really wanted, right, Yeah, try and you know, make sure you get that that particular thing. And you know, I could blame some of my OCD for that, but that's why it took the time to learn it.

10:48 Speaker 2: You know. Then you know, if.

10:55 Speaker 4: I and being in this studio, you know, I've had people where they suggestive towards the way I should do certain things. You know, the song problems would help the rapper. I did not write that chorus. That was something that Hope wrote. He's a great lyricist, you know, so he has a good.

11:19 Speaker 2: Time when it comes to writing.

11:20 Speaker 4: And then you know, we changed it last minute in the studio and then I took a couple of takes, you know, and they were like, all right, we got to do it over again.

11:30 Speaker 2: You know this that all right? Boom? That was it? That one? All right, we gotta dub that. So now I got to replicate that, you know.

11:37 Speaker 4: And it's that criticism is always accepted, but you know, when it's someone's opinion, you know, everybody has one. Yeah, and we can you know know where that goes from. But yeah, you know, it's I always try to give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to experience and stuff like that. But I've been in this a long time too. I've only recently started taking serious, taking it serious over the course of the past four or five years. Really, yeah, me, who knows where I'd be had I been taking it a lot serious a lot earlier, you know.

12:17 Speaker 4: But that's not here nor there. We're here today, and I'm very appreciative and humble to be sitting in his chair and meeting you as well, you know, and going forward from there on.

12:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, we're glad you're here. Do you work with other artists in terms of producing since you obviously you have that skill set?

12:38 Speaker 4: Yes, and no, so I have, you know, like like I said, Hope and I have worked a long time. I've done a couple of songs for his for him titles. I can't tell you off the off the back because he has so much music and I listened to a lot of it, so like, you know, I can't tell you the title of the song, but know there were a few of those that were recorded in my studio. They could have been they could have started as reference tracks in my studio and then been brought to another studio and been like, all right, this is how I want it to sound.

13:12 Speaker 4: And you know he reached that.

13:15 Speaker 2: And then who else? My nephew, Jordi dt A.

13:21 Speaker 4: He's also a local artist out of Nashville and he's been in my studio multiple times.

13:29 Speaker 2: I hope to.

13:31 Speaker 4: Work with mister Goodbard soon working in his studio. Hell of an artists amazing, yeah, hell of an artist, great educator. He has so much information and he's one of those artists that I respect because he doesn't keep any of that information.

13:48 Speaker 2: Excuse me. He puts it out something similar to what I do. You know?

13:53 Speaker 4: If I know something, you know, I'm gonna share it. I have no secrets, I don't keep. All you need to do is ask me, and if I have the answer, I'm gonna give it.

14:04 Speaker 2: To you.

14:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good Bars is amazing too, because he's so diverse, like he produces so many different kinds of music. It's remarkable.

14:12 Speaker 4: I originally started following good Bars when he was with the band Sepsis yea yea yeah, as their keyboardist, and I think.

14:20 Speaker 1: I think that's when I first met him too.

14:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how long I've been following him. Yeah, and then I think over this past year we met face to face. We've always had social interactions online and stuff, and this year we were at the same show and we met, and you know, one of the things that I remember him saying was like, see, I know about you. He goes, You're one of those artists that got all the ducks in a row, and I was like, yeah, you know, like I just I do a lot of behind the scenes things. I don't brag. I don't share many things they can all share the day of and you know, I don't have too much of an online presence because I'm so busy trying to do things in.

15:03 Speaker 2: The real world.

15:04 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you know, so I got to figure out a way to get both of them, you know, but with time that will come.

15:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where are you from Did you grow up here?

15:16 Speaker 4: I'm originally from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and I've been living in Nashville for over the past thirteen years, you know, so to represent Nashville, it's I'm not one of those where I'm like, oh, I'm from Lawrence. No, I represent where i'm at. Yeah, you know, and I'm in Nashua. It's been a beautiful community to me. Yeah, a lot of good things happening there.

15:38 Speaker 3: Yeah.

15:38 Speaker 4: It has brought me a lot of success. I've shot multiple videos in that city. The video I don't know that's coming out next week is shot right in the middle of Main Street. Oh yeah, We're going right down Main Street, you know, have people interacting and stuff like that. Yeah, and just really had a good time doing it, showing some of the businesses and the beauty of Nashville.

16:03 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

16:04 Speaker 4: You know how many people get to show that or they don't want to, you know. Me, on the other hand, I do.

16:12 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:13 Speaker 4: Some artists get upset there, you know, they're like, oh, my community don't support me. Well, what have you done for your community?

16:21 Speaker 1: Right exactly?

16:24 Speaker 4: So I'm doing things backwards and I'm trying to give back to my community, doing small events and stuff, back to school give backs, you know, hopefully partner up with somebody like mister good Bars and be able to help the kids learn how to engineer, learn how to you know, deal with music production and things like that.

16:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, those are the hopes, you know.

16:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, just if we speak it into existence and put the work into it, it is possible.

16:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope was talking about it in the first hour or two, and I didn't know this. At the Boys and Girls Club in Nashville, they've got like they have a studio, which I had no idea. That's really cool.

17:05 Speaker 4: I only know that because both my nephews went to the Boys and Girls Club when I first moved in moved to Nashville thirteen fourteen years ago, and that's something that they lived in the studio. My nephew learned how to create beats and you know, live sound audio and it all stemmed from the Boys and Girls Club in New Hampshire.

17:29 Speaker 2: You got me.

17:31 Speaker 4: Imagine if someone you know, my age thirty four had that opportunity to be able to go to the Boys and Girls Club and be inside of a studio, you know, who knows.

17:41 Speaker 2: Again, where I would have been memory for me.

17:45 Speaker 4: Boys and Girls Club was at the ping pong table. We were over here and doing this that on the ping pong table exactly, And no slight on the Lawrence Boys and Girls Club. But you know, hopefully they have stepped up. I don't know, but yeah, with such a large music scene and then you know, it seems like if it's just growing and growing, So you know, hopefully it's something that they do have. Yeah, I know they have multiple studios out there, but what are we doing for the community right right?

18:18 Speaker 1: Exactly? Yeah, yeah, because when I think of the Boys and Girls Club, I think of athletic type things. Yeah, so I was surprised when he was talking about the studio, but I said, that's that's really cool.

18:26 Speaker 4: It's an opportunity for those young kids that do love music, all that are lost and don't know something what to do. You know, you're good with video editing, you're good with this that you know you you have a great opportunity to become something you know, self made, right, you get me where you don't have to depend on the corporate America right and actually live the American dream as they say.

18:53 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly exactly. Well, we should play another track yeah, definitely, So which I'll let you pick if I would have to pick.

19:05 Speaker 4: All I know, all I know. Yeah, that's one of my most popular singles. Oh okay, it's a crowd pleaser. It's a song that I wrote and dedicated to my wife.

19:17 Speaker 1: Oh very nice, very nice? Is she is she listening?

19:21 Speaker 3: Uh?

19:21 Speaker 2: She should be, I hope.

19:22 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah cool, All right, here we go. I got it. All right, we'll give this a listen. If you're just joining us, We have fate one here with us, live in studio, and this is called all I know.

19:37 Speaker 5: Let me take you out to space. Let me take you out your place yet, let me take you out to space.

19:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, you out to space. Let me take you out your place? Yeah play. All I know is all I know when I know I can control what canby for. Let me take you out of space yet you have to spell. Let me take you out to place yet. All I know is all I know when I.

20:13 Speaker 7: Know I can't control what can be for.

20:16 Speaker 8: Let me take you out your comfort zone. Promise you won't be alone. Just nor Molas coming clocking out after the close, No matter.

20:28 Speaker 6: If I'm on the row, you know, moments.

20:32 Speaker 7: Under go, making sure we never making sure we never broke.

20:39 Speaker 6: And this is all I know under question.

20:41 Speaker 7: Never vote from the concrete, wen rose from the jungle, king to grow.

20:46 Speaker 6: I know all I know I can't control. Let me take you out of space. It you have to spell. Let me take you at your place, Yet you play. All I know is all I know.

20:57 Speaker 7: When I know I can control what can evil? Let me take you out of space, yack, you have to spell. Let me take you out of place.

21:05 Speaker 6: Yet all I know is all I know.

21:08 Speaker 7: When I know I can't control, work came for Let me hear your heart.

21:14 Speaker 8: Don't hunt, discuss amazing just the way you are.

21:18 Speaker 6: Trust some loyal tingles fun. Let me take you to mark.

21:21 Speaker 7: We can see the stars walk down Hollywood. But firehouses and carts set some goals to start.

21:28 Speaker 6: So we gotta things.

21:29 Speaker 3: Man.

21:29 Speaker 6: Did some get it easy? I rather work hard? Yes, some get it easy. I rather work hard.

21:35 Speaker 7: And so this all I know on depression, never fall from the concrete.

21:39 Speaker 6: We don't rose from the jungle, came to grow. I know I can't control work. Let me take you out to space. Sick you are to spell. Let me take you out your place, Yet you play. All I know is all I know when I know I can control work.

21:55 Speaker 7: Cabful, let me take you out of space.

21:59 Speaker 6: Ck you are to let me take you out to place.

22:06 Speaker 3: Beatful m.

22:27 Speaker 2: That's nice. It's a beautiful song.

22:30 Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't eve that. I didn't even want to talk over the end. It's just nice. I just wanted to let it fade out. You know, that's cool. That's really nice. If you're just joining us. We have a fate one here with us alive in studio and that is called all I Know, great track And yeah you were you were kind of staying off air like you have to. You have to play it every show where people will get people get upset if they don't hear it. Yeah.

22:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's one of my most popular songs. You know, if they don't hear it, they're like, you know, it's whether I start with it or I end with it.

22:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, there is. You know. The one time I think I didn't do it, they were like, where's that song?

23:05 Speaker 1: I know?

23:06 Speaker 4: Like you know, I was like I didn't have enough time, Like yeah, But every time I perform, I try and make sure that I get it all there. And you know, I've gotten up to the point where I sing it almost completely live, with the exception of the chorus.

23:19 Speaker 1: Yeah do you uh? Do you play out a lot? Do you do a lot of shows?

23:24 Speaker 4: This past year? No, last year I was on a Crazy Show run, and then the year before I was on a Crazy Show run as well, working with multiple promoters, one Our Visuals being one of them. Talk of the Town being another one with Jesse Hendrix. He is, you know, out of the Boston area and stuff like that. So I was able to network with him and expand my outlet over there towards that area, you know. And then when I Visuals we did a lot of things, mainly in Lowell. Was able to learn a lot of things from both these great promoters, to the point where, you know, I last year I exercised my first show and my hat to them because I ran my own show.

24:12 Speaker 4: And let me tell you, one of the hardest things to do is to manage other artists, yes with them, you know, managing their music sets, the DJ and this that. And I did that show with another artist as well, my buddy Koran, and we collabed and we did that show and we did it as a competition for one I Visuals. He was like, oh, you know, like a lot of your artists talk about this that you know that you're gonna do your own show this stuff, but you don't know what it takes to do it. I challenged you to do this.

24:46 Speaker 4: The only one that accepted the challenge was Karan and I. You know, so we did it and we had a successful show. We won his challenge. You know, we were able to continue to work with him and then you know, we've done a couple of shows since then. But I've been really focusing on the back ends of the things with the music, you know, focusing on promotion. I released my EP last year and we got some good numbers and good results on there. But I am very adamant of not dropping any new music until I surpassed a certain amount of streams on my EP, you know, which is one hundred thousand streams, and I'm a little over halfway throughout the whole project.

25:37 Speaker 4: You get me, you know, once I reached that goal, I'll start releasing because I am ready to release. But it's just some people just focus on releasing new music, new music, trying boost the algorithm, failing to realize that you're actually sitting and killing on your own music you get Me. You can drop every week, every month and stuff like that, but you're not letting the rest of your music settle and let that be heard.

26:08 Speaker 1: You can oversaturate that way, yeah, exactly.

26:11 Speaker 4: And I understand that there's over one hundred thousand songs being uploaded on streaming platforms on a daily basis. But if you focus on the stuff that you already have out and you promote that stuff, when you continue to release those listeners that you have now grown and you have now connected with with that original sound, are going to continue to listen to your new stuff and potentially show it to somebody new, you know. So I do a lot of the back end studying, you know. I try to always inform myself with a lot of things that are going on.

26:51 Speaker 2: You know.

26:52 Speaker 4: Like I said, I've been in this many years, you know, and I did things the wrong way many times up until this last rebrand you get Me. I rebranded myself over the course of the five years, you know, trademark my logo, trademark my company, and then been able to just learn and you know, apply some of the things that I learned from hard lessons into this now and it's working at me. So now I can apply those things with some of my artists and try and help them out, you know, because I'm all about giving back, giving forward.

27:33 Speaker 4: If somebody didn't teach me, you know, or excuse me, if somebody taught me, you know, and I kept that to myself, how right would I be by keeping that, you know, instead of passing it forward exactly? That almost be hypocritical, and I try not to be that, So try to educate as best as I can.

27:55 Speaker 2: You know, what I've learned, What.

27:58 Speaker 1: Do you think or do you have any examples of like mistakes that you made that you had to learn from that you then try to pass on to other people.

28:08 Speaker 4: So one thing, you know, in my early early start of music career, you know, I was putting out music and I was wondering, why wasn't it catching attention? Or are these other artists catching attention? This that, you know, and I got envious and jealous thinking that, you know, oh I don't get support you know from my community, this that my family and this that. No, it was actually that I wasn't doing the work. I was just going into a studio and recording things, you know, and then posting it online and expecting it to blow up, right, you know, I didn't know the business things behind it.

28:45 Speaker 4: I didn't know the promotion ends behind it, you know, getting the licensing this that. So those were some of the mistakes you know, where you know, I got copyright stricken where I had to take something down, used it without permission, and I was like, okay, what's copyright? You know, learned about it all right, didn't make this mistake again.

29:07 Speaker 4: I used to complain about support and then I was like wondering, you know this that, And then as you see, it's completely opposite now where it's like, all right, you know, I know why people aren't supporting me. I'm not doing much, you know. But over the past four years, I've been doing shows. I've been working with other artists, going to go support their shows, whether I'm on it, whether I'm not, and just focusing on doing the groundwork so that way I can actually have something to fall back on and be like, yeah, no, I did last year, I did forty shows, the year before that, I did eighty the year before that.

29:48 Speaker 4: We you know, were at one hundred shows and stuff like that almost every two week, you know, and it can be overwhelming, but it's something that comes with this business. You have to do a lot of work before you actually even see any of the benefits, you know, so understanding that as well, you know it, stardom doesn't come overnight. A lot of these stars that you think broke out overnight, you go to see their documentary and feel to realize like, oh, they've been doing this since twenty ten. They're doing this since two thousand and five exactly.

30:26 Speaker 4: It's just now that you're getting to know them. That's the difference, you know. So starting with the roots of the community, you know, working with the ICE. I keep on saying the community, you know, because that's who's I'm looking to support me First, if something happens, I know that it happened because of my community, yeah me. Not because I sold my soul or not because you know, I got lucky and stuff.

30:59 Speaker 2: No, I've been putting in the groundwork.

31:01 Speaker 4: I've been working with my community so that way they can have something to be proud of, yeah me, and then just move forward from there on.

31:10 Speaker 6: You know.

31:12 Speaker 2: The definition of fate is.

31:14 Speaker 4: The definite, the the development of events beyond the person's control, right, So I try to always foresee the events that could potentially happen. Yeah, that's kind of how I got my name.

31:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was curious about that. Where the name comes from.

31:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know it's like.

31:35 Speaker 4: Where when I was younger, you know, I would tell my friends like, hey, like, you know, something's gonna happen. I got a bad feeling, you know, and they were like, okay, like you know, like we're gonna call you destiny. And I was like, I didn't like that too much, you know, So I went into the dictionary and I looked up the you know, a similar word to destiny and fate it was, and then I liked it and I stuck with it. Then I added the one at the end for various reasons, you know, in the tag in you know, graffiti industry.

32:09 Speaker 4: A lot of times when you add one, you're paying homage to somebody that passed away, paying some paying homage to somebody that has been in jail. So like one love, you know, okay, yeah, And then the other way is like, you know, I am one of a kind.

32:27 Speaker 2: I am the only one.

32:29 Speaker 4: You know, there might be other fates out there, but I am want and you know that's trademarked license. Then don't mess with it I consume you you know, and that that's where that name came from, you know. And I'm not an artist where I have a persona.

32:52 Speaker 2: This is me.

32:53 Speaker 4: I live the same way. I try to always be positive. I try to always foresee what's coming for me, always plan ahead and try and fix something if I can't. And if I can't, you know, I gotta let go, yeah, and let whatever else you know fix it. Yeah, it's not in my control. Why am I gonna stress myself over it? And that's where that name stems from. And I've always stuck with it, and it's the nice you know.

33:26 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:26 Speaker 4: And I try to try to make sure that anything I sing about, anything that I write about, it's whether it's something that I lived, you know, I went through.

33:41 Speaker 4: I don't want to end up, you know, having to go back on myself or you.

33:47 Speaker 2: Know, get called out for something that I don't.

33:50 Speaker 4: Really do and then it, you know, then all things fall apart or my persona gets killed because of that. Like this, I know, I just live the way I live. I am who I am.

34:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting way you say there, because yeah, a lot of artists will try to, you know, create a persona. Yeah, you know, and and something either either bigger than you know, sort of bigger than life, or or maybe even something kind of kind of negative, like yeah, like they want to come across as like they're some sort of violence going.

34:21 Speaker 4: To be myself man, Yeah, yeah, you know, whether my past obviously had something to do with it, but it's irrelevant today. Yeah, I mean, I'm not that same person that I was fifteen years ago, but I have learned from my mistakes of the past. Whether I did certain things, I always try to make sure that, you know, one thing, I don't incriminate myself in music. I also don't tell a lie, you know. And on top of making sure I don't tell a lie, I try to always keep it positive for the most part, even though it's not the most popular thing out there.

34:56 Speaker 4: I sure, you know, my song I Don't Know is pretty much stating that I don't care what most people think about me. You know, your opinion is your opinion, and you're entitle to it, and end of the day, it doesn't make you right, doesn't make you wrong, and that's how you feel about me, then you know, so be it. You know, if I treated somebody disrespectful, you know, or if I treated somebody with love, and I always think, I always say believe both of them. I treat people accordingly, you know. So if I was rude to you, you deserved it.

35:31 Speaker 4: That was nice to you. You know, you also deserved it well. And that's always what I try to do, because I just try to treat people the way I'd like to be treated. We're all human beings, if you know, we're cut at the end of the day, we bleed the same way, we breathe, we eat the same way. You know, they all need the same things. We're all humans. Yeah, and that's the way I look at it.

35:51 Speaker 3: Well.

35:51 Speaker 1: Plus, you know, by just kind of being honest about everything. You know, it's what's the expression, it's tell the truth. It's less to remember or something.

35:59 Speaker 2: You know, lives are hard to keep up with.

36:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. That you got to remember who you told what.

36:07 Speaker 4: Good with that I'd rather not, yeah exactly exactly. Keeping up with those lives is crazy.

36:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, to to be so positive and everything. If if you had mentors in the music industry, are there are there people who've helped you along the way. I mean, obviously you know you're you're willing to to dig in and learn everything yourself. But are there are there people who've been an influence on you in the industry or.

36:30 Speaker 4: Just you know, in the industry, I have many, you know, influences. I wouldn't say that they're all positive because of the way that the music is brought out, you know, Yeah, someone like Big Pun you know. But then I go I can go in my rolodex and literally go to somebody like John Legend, you know, you know, which a complete opposite. Yeah, you know, you know, so being influenced too to just stay positive. It's just something that I learned to live how I learned to live because negativity, it just doesn't phaze me.

37:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it's just very toxic. I don't like that,

37:14 Speaker 2: you know.

37:14 Speaker 4: I'd rather not be in a toxic environment or not be in a negative environment, you know, whether positivity is the most popular thing or not.

37:25 Speaker 2: I'm being myself.

37:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's that's my main thing, is that I'm being myself and that you know, it's potentially you know, help somebody else, And you know that that would be great if I help somebody else, at least one, If I reach one person, you know, and I reach one every day the goal man.

37:48 Speaker 1: And I assume you probably have heard from people who approached you and said, yeah, you know you're.

37:53 Speaker 2: I love your music.

37:54 Speaker 4: Is that you know, it has happened, you know, and it's a great feeling, you know, when you can get somebody to identify with your trials and relations you know, yeah, you know, and just just it's a beautiful thing again.

38:08 Speaker 1: Yeah.

38:08 Speaker 2: Yeah.

38:09 Speaker 1: And in terms of of your singing, is there anyone who's kind of like who who inspires your your style or there are there singers who have been an influence on you in terms of how you sing.

38:24 Speaker 4: One, there's a couple so you know again it's it's like Usher for me. Yeah, I grew up listening to Usher, you know, ladies man always singing.

38:35 Speaker 2: To the ladies and stuff like that. I love that, you know me, you know.

38:40 Speaker 4: And then uh Tony Sunshine, which it's very similar to my style where he's he's dealing with a lot of hip hop, but he's singing in it, you know, and he's bringing out those emotions out of those songs with you know, the Terror Squad and stuff like that. Yeah, you know. And then there's Mark Anthony. Yes, there's you know, Salo.

39:08 Speaker 2: Ninety.

39:10 Speaker 4: I mean a lot of a lot of the salsa at the end of the day, is you know again about stories. You know, Mark Anthony played a role in a movie for Ector Lavos, and he pretty much captured that guy's persona and that guy's voice and everything to the point where they were like, WHOA, WHOA is that Mark Anthony or Ector Lavos. But these things, you know, they bring out the trials and relations. Actor Lovos used to sing about his drug use impression, you know, the life that he lived and stuff like that.

39:47 Speaker 4: So just combining all those things, all those artists, and just you know, creating my sound off of that. You know, I can sing any Usher song, you know, word for word, you know, to a point where I could almost duplicate some of his tones, stuff like that, most of Tony Sunshine's almost every Mark Anthony and then you know, you go further back, that's act the love voice as well, which is all SALTSA. I listen to a lot of music, not just hip hop.

40:24 Speaker 2: R and B.

40:24 Speaker 4: You got me being Puerto Rican, growing up in a Puerto Rican household and an urban area, you'd be surprised the things that you hear, you know, dance all afrobeats, so I can imagine, you know, and again, the beauty of music is just being able to move and hear that and feel that rhythm. And that's what I love about it. Yeah. I feel the most comfortable when I'm in front of a mic.

40:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me.

40:51 Speaker 4: I get nervous at first, but the moment that I'm on stage and stuff like that, and you know, or in front of a podcast, that I just feel like I'm at home right right, and it's just it feels great.

41:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can, I can relate to that. I'm I'm actually I'm naturally uh an introvert, but I uh but I'm most I'm so because of that. It's just how my brain is wired. I'm actually most comfortable in front of a microphone, whether it's doing the show or or I'm a musician. I don't I'm not active with that, but I used to play a lot of bands, or being on stage or public speaking, like like, I'm actually more comfortable doing that than I am at say a party where you know, I'm trying to have a conversation with a stranger or something.

41:36 Speaker 4: Same, you know, yeah, yeah, I you know, I usually go out to these venues if I'm performing, you know, I am a homebody.

41:48 Speaker 2: The reason why I have a home studio.

41:50 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you know, you know, and not trying to be cheap or anything, but that you know, you can go out side nowadays, and you spend one hundred dollars a moment that you go outside. You know, that's just gassing food, you know, and you know, so it's just trying to stay out of the way.

42:15 Speaker 2: You know.

42:15 Speaker 4: I try to go out when it's necessary. I'm a very family first guy.

42:24 Speaker 2: Excuse me. So I'd rather spend time with my family. You know.

42:27 Speaker 4: If I'm not in the studio, I'm with family. If I'm not an event, I'm with family. If I'm not working, I'm with family, you know. And just try and do that, you know, whether it's laying down in bed watching a movie or just sitting down in the couch playing some video games. You know, it's it's it's okay. You know, I'd rather be doing that than out and about, you know, getting into trouble or you know, who knows what can happen nowadays and the world that we live in a heavy place, right, you know, or having to be prepared for those kind of situations and stuff like that.

43:05 Speaker 4: Not a person that really has anxiety, but those things kind of give me anxiety.

43:11 Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, have you always been like.

43:14 Speaker 3: That or were you?

43:16 Speaker 1: Were you different when you were younger, because like I can tell you, like in my case, people assumed that when I was.

43:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a bad kid. Yeah, so I had.

43:25 Speaker 4: I had a very early upbringing, you know, where I was just running around early on.

43:32 Speaker 2: I mentioned that I was doing music for many of years.

43:35 Speaker 4: I was in a club at fourteen, fifteen years old, singing this one Spanish song that didn't even belong to me because my brother was a club promoter and he would bring a lot of the Spanish artists down to Lawrence. Yeah, you know, and you know I would always be an open and act you know. So I shared stages with some of these major artists, some like Nikki jam Ecto, Ritito they well call it on and some of these names you may know, some of the you may not. But in the Latin culture and the Latin community, they know those names are very big.

44:11 Speaker 2: You know.

44:11 Speaker 4: I have the pleasure of saying that I shared this stage with them at fourteen years old. That's not a bad way to start me. That was twenty years ago, you get me. But I was young, dumb, you know, and I was focused on all the wrong things. Yeah, you know, not focusing on my schooling, not focusing just focusing on all the wrong things.

44:32 Speaker 1: But it's kind of a double edged sword, right because you may have focused on the wrong things in one sense, but at the same time you had that amazing opportunity.

44:40 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you got that. And then I learned.

44:42 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and I learned, and you know, I just apply a lot of the things that I learned growing up, and I just actually applied it.

44:49 Speaker 3: You know.

44:50 Speaker 4: It's like, how can you fix something if you don't know about it, you know, But if you know about it and you did nothing about it to fix it, Yeah, and you want to change, well, that's insanity right there, my friend.

45:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know me.

45:01 Speaker 2: So it's just all about knowing and you know, trying.

45:06 Speaker 1: What what changed for you? Was there a moment that that kind of changed things, that kind of changed your mindset or was it a gradual thing?

45:13 Speaker 4: My mother passing away really yeah, yeah, she passed away six years ago. It was one of the toughest things that I deal with on a daily basis, and I was on the verge of giving up music because of that, the lack of support and you know, just not knowing, not being educated about it. And one of the promises I made, you know, while she was you know, on her last day, was that I'm going to continue with my music, you know, and that's exactly what I did. In twenty eighteen, I dropped the project that was nowhere near released, ready to be released, but I didn't anyways, just so I can you know, claim it and start it, you know, Yeah, you know, I I pride myself in knowing you know, maybe a fact or not, but you know, I want to say I was one of these artists that was on streaming platforms before a lot of other people because of the research and the information that I gained.

46:15 Speaker 4: Like, you know, in twenty eighteen, I dropped my first project with CD Baby.

46:19 Speaker 2: I didn't see any.

46:20 Speaker 4: Of my artists friends or any of them dropping on streaming platforms where they were on Spotify, Apple, And next thing, you know, twenty nineteen, everybody's doing it.

46:29 Speaker 1: Yep.

46:30 Speaker 4: You know, I'm not saying that I started it or anything like that, but I know I was one of the first artists that started doing it, and I even learned from that, you know, not having quality music. You know, it's like, oh yeah, like I could play this, but it's not mixing masters correctly. It's not going to sound the best and think, oh okay, all right this, you know, but then your ego gets the best of you, you know, and so I had to struggle with that. Yeah, and I was like, all right, well, let's learn how to mix and master.

47:02 Speaker 4: Learned that, you know, and then.

47:06 Speaker 2: I think in twenty nineteen, I.

47:09 Speaker 4: Partnered with a audio engineer out of Las Vegas, and it was no, it was twenty twenty actually, because it was around COVID where everybody was online.

47:24 Speaker 2: Everybody was saying, you know, I sent them my vocals.

47:28 Speaker 4: He mixed and edited, threw a little bit of auto tune in there, you know, which I kind of wanted because you know, I was like, this is a little rough, you know, I recorded it in my studio, this that you know, sent them some nice clean vocals and you know my song. I didn't send it to you, but I will eventually. The song I'm blessed, you know, it is what I kind of started back off with. Yeah, you know, that was where I rebranded myself, had my new logo, had a song that was mixed and mastered, ready for distribution, ready for radio, you know, and I took pride in that, so I went recorded a video to it.

48:07 Speaker 4: Then I released everything, just like you know, a mainstream artist would do everything on the same day, the video, the vocals, all that released, you know, and that was one of my you know, greatest moments. It's one of my least sought out after songs, because again, the positivity.

48:29 Speaker 2: Not many people go towards positive, you know.

48:34 Speaker 4: They're they're you're bound to have something negative posted on social media that's going to become viral versus something that you know is very positive and could also be viral and have the same effect, but they won't do it because it's positive, you know. So I try to always shed light on those positive things.

48:54 Speaker 2: You know.

48:54 Speaker 4: I try not to post negative things. You know, I can always I go find myself on social media wanted to say something negative, like delete, and then I find myself, well, I almost wrote something negative on this post, but I didn't. You know, I get congratulates story things from friends and stuff like that, like, okay, you're trying to stay all right, yeah, you know, but everybody's human, you know.

49:21 Speaker 2: And that song started it off for me.

49:24 Speaker 4: And then I did a song with local artists as well, GMT Mark B.

49:33 Speaker 2: And that was like my first feature. You know.

49:35 Speaker 4: He was more established out in Nashville than I was. He had more of a following than I was. I happened to be in the same studio and I played him a beat and I showed him the chorus, you know, because that's how I start all my songs. I always have a chorus for all my songs. And you know, he like, oh, I like that, Let's do that a like boom and then that that came on and then did the same thing again.

50:06 Speaker 2: That was my first video with one I Visuals.

50:08 Speaker 4: Oh, you know, partnered with him, set a release date, had to change the release date because you know, it was a little too soon. The editing stuff wasn't done, you know, and I got a little lashing from one of visuals. It was like, don't do that again, you know. He was like, you guys, shouldn't do that until it's ready. I was like, you're right, you know, And then I learned from that, you know, so to make sure that I'm not releasing nothing unless or setting a date on something before it's actually complete.

50:35 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.

50:38 Speaker 4: You know, setting a date on an EP before it's actually complete, you know, and then you know, you set false expectations that can also screw you over as an artist too, because you're over here selling dreams, selling dreams, and you know, realistically there's nothing to sell right right, you know, So just making sure that I have everything ready before I even announced it.

50:58 Speaker 1: Um No, that makes sense.

51:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like I.

51:04 Speaker 4: Right, I avoid from making any announcements. Yeah, as best as I can, just in case if things fall through. You know that way, I don't look a certain type of way.

51:16 Speaker 1: I totally get that.

51:17 Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, like today, I think I made them. I was like, you know, I'll be on ninety five point three, you know, I copied the link and I shared it to a few of my family members, a few of my friends, yea, you know, and I told them I'll be on at this time. Like you know, I knew I was coming, I made it happen. And once I knew that that was happening, all right, boom made time to be here, you know. And yeah, it's been good so far. You know, it's not a far drive thirty five minutes.

51:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah we're not far Yeah, well we are, however, almost out of time. The time goes so quick, so we'll un plus when you're having fun, we'll close out the show with this track app business. But just quickly, what should people know about how to follow you online? Where should they go to keep up with everything that you're doing?

52:02 Speaker 4: Yes, so I am pretty nice and simple as f A T E O N E underscore HSM across all platforms. That's TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even. You can also go to my website I am fightwe dot com where you'll find all my music, you'll find any ways to reach me, all of my socials as well, you know, and then if you have me as a friend on Facebook, you know that I am yes, well fight one Marquez, you know, because again this is not a persona, this is who I am. So I try to always keep it, you know, Yes, I keep my work world separate versus the music world, but eventually they will not collide, but you know, almost blend stuff.

52:52 Speaker 4: Like you know, the work that I do allows me to pay for the stuff that I need, you know, and just be able to you know, open doors for me and stuff like that, and just continue to you know, move forward.

53:08 Speaker 3: Man.

53:08 Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, well, we really appreciate your coming in today.

53:12 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.

53:13 Speaker 4: I appreciate being here and meeting you guys, you know, and I look forward to what the future holds for us.

53:18 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And Jenny, you want to plug your website before we go, Absolutely, you got you got a lot going on lately.

53:26 Speaker 9: I have, actually, yes, and I still have some stuff to update on the website, but you can check it out at Gencoffee dot com.

53:32 Speaker 3: J E.

53:32 Speaker 1: N N C O F f EI dot com.

53:34 Speaker 6: And if you.

53:35 Speaker 9: Happen to go down to Terminus tonight for the show, you can check out twelve of my darkest paintings, yes, hanging on display for the month of August at the Nashua Creative Collective. I said it wrong midnight, Sorry for the.

53:52 Speaker 1: Time, Fate one, Thank you again, thank you. Wonderful to have you on. Absolutely