Matt Connarton Unleashed: FateOne

0:00 Speaker 1: What a great track to kick off, and we have

0:02 Speaker 1: a fate one here with us in studio. How are

0:04 Speaker 1: 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

0:15 Speaker 4: 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

0:21 Speaker 4: to that directly to Jen.

0:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've got We've been doing this ten weeks

0:26 Speaker 1: of New World radio premieres of Hope the Rapper singles,

0:30 Speaker 1: and yeah, it's been a big success. And today this

0:33 Speaker 1: was week ten, the last one eviction. Notice that we

0:36 Speaker 1: played a little bit ago. But yeah, another great track

0:38 Speaker 1: from him. He's he's amazing, he's so talented, and of

0:40 Speaker 1: 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

0:44 Speaker 4: did Problems right, Yes, yes, I was on Problem.

0:47 Speaker 1: You were on that one? Oh okay, cool? Cool? Yeah

0:53 Speaker 1: 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

0:59 Speaker 4: and oh some release.

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

1:04 Speaker 1: 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

1:09 Speaker 4: just been working on, uh, you know, just making sure

1:13 Speaker 4: to get it out there. It's some plain, bold message,

1:15 Speaker 4: 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

1:28 Speaker 1: you were talking off air about you've got a video

1:30 Speaker 1: coming up for that or.

1:31 Speaker 4: Yes, So I shot a video about two weeks ago

1:35 Speaker 4: and I'll be releasing it next week next Saturday, on

1:38 Speaker 4: my birthday.

1:39 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, is that the Will this be the

1:41 Speaker 1: 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,

1:49 Speaker 4: which is a photographer out of Manchester.

1:52 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you get connected with uh?

1:57 Speaker 1: Is that is? Is that a person or is that

1:58 Speaker 1: 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.

2:10 Speaker 4: I booked him for a showcase as a photographer. Yeah,

2:14 Speaker 4: We've been working ever since.

2:16 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, this will be Did you say

2:19 Speaker 1: 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

2:25 Speaker 1: work with somebody else.

2:26 Speaker 4: Or was it all they So all the previous ones,

2:33 Speaker 4: I have dealt with probably three or four videographers. Yea,

2:38 Speaker 4: So out of my nine videos, four of those videos

2:41 Speaker 4: 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,

2:50 Speaker 4: around the same people, and we've been lucky enough to

2:54 Speaker 4: just have great talent and then just great people around

2:56 Speaker 4: 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

3:04 Speaker 4: and Gil Videos, you know, which is just all great

3:09 Speaker 4: people all around and stuff like that. I've mainly worked

3:13 Speaker 4: a lot with One Eye Visuals and I continue I'm

3:17 Speaker 4: going to continue working with him as well as we

3:20 Speaker 4: have some plans and some ideas for some future projects

3:25 Speaker 4: and stuff like that.

3:26 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, how do you define the genre that that

3:30 Speaker 1: 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,

3:39 Speaker 4: 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,

3:50 Speaker 4: so I throw in you know, punchlines, the ball entendres,

3:54 Speaker 4: and then I'm singing it. So I like to call

3:58 Speaker 4: it something like an R and B hip hop because

4:01 Speaker 4: ninety percent of the beats I choose our hip hop. Yeah,

4:03 Speaker 4: but I'm always singing behind them, whether I'm doing it

4:06 Speaker 4: in a different tone or you know, less vocals, more vocals,

4:11 Speaker 4: you know. So say I sound like a rapper, Yeah,

4:15 Speaker 4: 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

4:24 Speaker 1: you sent me your music and I'm I'm it's like

4:26 Speaker 1: each of the tracks, it starts out it sounds like

4:29 Speaker 1: I'm expecting rapping, and then you're singing and it's like, oh,

4:32 Speaker 1: it's interesting.

4:33 Speaker 2: Yeah.

4:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, It's how I diversify myself. And you know, it's

4:39 Speaker 4: just what I originally loved. You know, I grew up

4:42 Speaker 4: listening to hip hop, hip hop, R and B, Latin music, merengue. Yeah,

4:48 Speaker 4: it's just a melting pot of music, and I've taken

4:52 Speaker 4: those influences and just have kind of created my own sound.

4:57 Speaker 4: Where I have mastered it, and you know, I feel

5:02 Speaker 4: like it's I'm one of the only ones doing that

5:04 Speaker 4: kind of sound. You don't hear many artists like myself today,

5:09 Speaker 4: 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

5:16 Speaker 1: that I didn't not that I mind doing it, but

5:19 Speaker 1: 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

5:28 Speaker 4: job easier, but also you know, making sure that my

5:31 Speaker 4: lyrics and everything fit into play so that way I

5:35 Speaker 4: don't have to censor myself I have to change lyrics.

5:39 Speaker 4: I don't have to, you know, memorize two different versions

5:45 Speaker 4: of a song, yes, which is something that's difficult within itself,

5:49 Speaker 4: you know, right, you know, when you have a portfolio

5:53 Speaker 4: like myself, you know, it's a lot to remember, you

5:58 Speaker 4: got me. Yeah, just keeping it simple, you know, Simplicity

6:03 Speaker 4: is genius. I do believe in the words that I

6:05 Speaker 4: say as well, just practice what I preach.

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

6:12 Speaker 1: 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,

6:23 Speaker 4: you know, it could could be a little less, but

6:26 Speaker 4: I don't have that exact number unreleased. I have over

6:30 Speaker 4: one hundred songs.

6:32 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:32 Speaker 4: I own my own studio, so I have the ability

6:35 Speaker 4: to just go wake up, go right into my studio

6:40 Speaker 4: and get get to working. Yeah, so I have that

6:44 Speaker 4: freedom and that accessibility. So that's an upside rather than

6:49 Speaker 4: having to go book a session work, you know, pay

6:52 Speaker 4: for two hours, which I still do, sure, but I

6:58 Speaker 4: would much.

6:58 Speaker 2: Rather it at home.

7:01 Speaker 4: The reason why I learned to engineer and to edit

7:06 Speaker 4: my own vocals was because I would go to a

7:08 Speaker 4: 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

7:21 Speaker 4: it's for, but certain songs didn't need it, certain songs

7:25 Speaker 4: didn't call for it. But every engineer that I wanted

7:29 Speaker 4: wanted to add into it. So I learned. You know,

7:32 Speaker 4: I sat down with these engineers side by side while

7:36 Speaker 4: paying for my time, and I you know, watched and

7:41 Speaker 4: just paid attention. And that I did some further research,

7:45 Speaker 4: educated myself, took classes on pro tools, a pro tool

7:50 Speaker 4: certified engineer, and you know, it's been going from there.

7:55 Speaker 4: 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

8:06 Speaker 4: therefore you don't have to explain what you're looking for, right,

8:09 Speaker 4: you know that sound in your head, right, and you

8:12 Speaker 4: can just pretty much duplicated right then and there. Yeah, me,

8:16 Speaker 4: And that's the beauty of music. Yeaalistically, that's one thing

8:20 Speaker 4: that I love is just hearing something in my head

8:22 Speaker 4: 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

8:28 Speaker 1: creating music is that you know everyone, everyone's different and

8:31 Speaker 1: has kind of their own process. And we were even

8:34 Speaker 1: talking about this today with Hope the Rapper when he

8:37 Speaker 1: was on with us in the first hour, because he's

8:38 Speaker 1: someone who really likes to collaborate and kind of have

8:43 Speaker 1: somebody else's ideas brought into the process, whereas it sounds

8:47 Speaker 1: like you're more someone who you knows what you know,

8:49 Speaker 1: 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

8:54 Speaker 1: how to do it yourself exactly.

8:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, nothing against other engineers or anything. But

9:01 Speaker 4: you know when you're telling an engineer like all right,

9:04 Speaker 4: let's do it this way, this way, this way, and

9:06 Speaker 4: then they try everything that they can to get that sound.

9:10 Speaker 4: But you know, you go and then you get a

9:12 Speaker 4: final mix and it's not what you want and you

9:15 Speaker 4: need a revision that requires more money, more time. One

9:19 Speaker 4: thing I don't like doing in this world is wasting

9:21 Speaker 4: time or money. Money we can get back. We can

9:25 Speaker 4: never get our time back. True, you know, so time

9:29 Speaker 4: to me is very important. You know, money is replaceable.

9:34 Speaker 1: You know, when when you would run into that, like

9:37 Speaker 1: the engineer or the producer who's telling you, no, no, no,

9:39 Speaker 1: we should do it this way. Is that like what

9:42 Speaker 1: is their motive? Like, do they are they kind of

9:45 Speaker 1: saying to you this is how you have to do

9:48 Speaker 1: it to fit in so you can have a hit

9:50 Speaker 1: or or is it more just we just think it

9:53 Speaker 1: sounds better this way.

9:54 Speaker 4: It could be more of the we just think it

9:57 Speaker 4: sounds better this way. Yeah, you know, more opinionative, you know,

10:03 Speaker 4: And that's good, that's awesome. I take constructive criticism very well,

10:09 Speaker 4: but that's not how I want it to sound. You know,

10:11 Speaker 4: if I'm paying for this time and I'm paying for

10:14 Speaker 4: something to sound a certain way, I would expect it

10:18 Speaker 4: to be the way at least, you know, close to

10:21 Speaker 4: what I want.

10:23 Speaker 1: Right.

10:23 Speaker 4: It's like when you go purchase something at a store

10:25 Speaker 4: and you want that item. You know you're gonna go

10:29 Speaker 4: get that item at that size, right, You're not gonna

10:32 Speaker 4: go get it two sizes larger or the one that's

10:34 Speaker 4: a different color, but it still has all the same wordings.

10:37 Speaker 4: That's not what you really wanted, right, Yeah, try and

10:40 Speaker 4: you know, make sure you get that that particular thing.

10:42 Speaker 4: And you know, I could blame some of my OCD

10:46 Speaker 4: for that, but that's why it took the time to

10:48 Speaker 4: 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

10:59 Speaker 4: people where they suggestive towards the way I should do

11:02 Speaker 4: certain things. You know, the song problems would help the rapper.

11:09 Speaker 4: I did not write that chorus. That was something that

11:13 Speaker 4: Hope wrote. He's a great lyricist, you know, so he

11:17 Speaker 4: 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

11:23 Speaker 4: the studio and then I took a couple of takes,

11:27 Speaker 4: you know, and they were like, all right, we got

11:29 Speaker 4: to do it over again.

11:30 Speaker 2: You know this that all right? Boom? That was it?

11:34 Speaker 2: That one? All right, we gotta dub that. So now

11:36 Speaker 2: I got to replicate that, you know.

11:37 Speaker 4: And it's that criticism is always accepted, but you know,

11:43 Speaker 4: when it's someone's opinion, you know, everybody has one. Yeah,

11:47 Speaker 4: and we can you know know where that goes from.

11:52 Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, it's I always try to give

11:59 Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt when it comes to experience

12:01 Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But I've been in this a

12:04 Speaker 4: long time too. I've only recently started taking serious, taking

12:08 Speaker 4: it serious over the course of the past four or

12:10 Speaker 4: five years. Really, yeah, me, who knows where I'd be

12:14 Speaker 4: had I been taking it a lot serious a lot earlier,

12:17 Speaker 4: you know. But that's not here nor there. We're here today,

12:21 Speaker 4: and I'm very appreciative and humble to be sitting in

12:23 Speaker 4: his chair and meeting you as well, you know, and

12:28 Speaker 4: going forward from there on.

12:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, we're glad you're here. Do you work

12:33 Speaker 1: with other artists in terms of producing since you obviously

12:36 Speaker 1: you have that skill set?

12:38 Speaker 4: Yes, and no, so I have, you know, like like

12:42 Speaker 4: I said, Hope and I have worked a long time.

12:47 Speaker 4: I've done a couple of songs for his for him titles.

12:51 Speaker 4: I can't tell you off the off the back because

12:53 Speaker 4: he has so much music and I listened to a

12:57 Speaker 4: lot of it, so like, you know, I can't tell

12:58 Speaker 4: you the title of the song, but know there were

13:00 Speaker 4: a few of those that were recorded in my studio.

13:04 Speaker 4: They could have been they could have started as reference

13:06 Speaker 4: tracks in my studio and then been brought to another

13:09 Speaker 4: studio and been like, all right, this is how I

13:11 Speaker 4: want it to sound. 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

13:25 Speaker 4: 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

13:35 Speaker 4: of an artists amazing, yeah, hell of an artist, great educator.

13:39 Speaker 4: He has so much information and he's one of those

13:43 Speaker 4: artists that I respect because he doesn't keep any of

13:46 Speaker 4: that information.

13:48 Speaker 2: Excuse me. He puts it out something similar to what

13:52 Speaker 2: I do. You know?

13:53 Speaker 4: If I know something, you know, I'm gonna share it.

13:57 Speaker 4: I have no secrets, I don't keep. All you need

14:02 Speaker 4: to do is ask me, and if I have the answer,

14:04 Speaker 4: 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

14:08 Speaker 1: so diverse, like he produces so many different kinds of music.

14:11 Speaker 1: It's remarkable.

14:12 Speaker 4: I originally started following good Bars when he was with

14:16 Speaker 4: the band Sepsis yea yea yeah, as their keyboardist, and

14:20 Speaker 4: 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

14:25 Speaker 4: then I think over this past year we met face

14:29 Speaker 4: to face. We've always had social interactions online and stuff,

14:34 Speaker 4: and this year we were at the same show and

14:37 Speaker 4: we met, and you know, one of the things that

14:39 Speaker 4: I remember him saying was like, see, I know about you.

14:43 Speaker 4: He goes, You're one of those artists that got all

14:45 Speaker 4: the ducks in a row, and I was like, yeah,

14:47 Speaker 4: you know, like I just I do a lot of

14:49 Speaker 4: behind the scenes things. I don't brag. I don't share

14:54 Speaker 4: many things they can all share the day of and

14:58 Speaker 4: you know, I don't have too much of an online

15:00 Speaker 4: 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

15:08 Speaker 4: a way to get both of them, you know, but

15:10 Speaker 4: with time that will come.

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

15:15 Speaker 1: up here?

15:16 Speaker 4: I'm originally from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and I've been living in

15:20 Speaker 4: Nashville for over the past thirteen years, you know, so

15:24 Speaker 4: to represent Nashville, it's I'm not one of those where

15:28 Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I'm from Lawrence. No, I represent where

15:31 Speaker 4: i'm at. Yeah, you know, and I'm in Nashua. It's

15:34 Speaker 4: been a beautiful community to me. Yeah, a lot of

15:37 Speaker 4: good things happening there.

15:38 Speaker 3: Yeah.

15:38 Speaker 4: It has brought me a lot of success. I've shot

15:41 Speaker 4: multiple videos in that city. The video I don't know

15:45 Speaker 4: that's coming out next week is shot right in the

15:49 Speaker 4: middle of Main Street. Oh yeah, We're going right down

15:52 Speaker 4: Main Street, you know, have people interacting and stuff like that. Yeah,

15:57 Speaker 4: and just really had a good time doing it, showing

16:00 Speaker 4: 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

16:06 Speaker 4: they don't want to, you know. Me, on the other hand,

16:11 Speaker 4: I do.

16:12 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:13 Speaker 4: Some artists get upset there, you know, they're like, oh,

16:16 Speaker 4: my community don't support me. Well, what have you done

16:20 Speaker 4: 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

16:27 Speaker 4: back to my community, doing small events and stuff, back

16:31 Speaker 4: to school give backs, you know, hopefully partner up with

16:35 Speaker 4: somebody like mister good Bars and be able to help

16:37 Speaker 4: the kids learn how to engineer, learn how to you know,

16:41 Speaker 4: 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

16:52 Speaker 4: the work into it, it is possible.

16:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope was talking about it in the first

16:56 Speaker 1: hour or two, and I didn't know this. At the

16:57 Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club in Nashville, they've got like they

17:00 Speaker 1: 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

17:09 Speaker 4: the Boys and Girls Club when I first moved in

17:12 Speaker 4: moved to Nashville thirteen fourteen years ago, and that's something

17:16 Speaker 4: that they lived in the studio. My nephew learned how

17:20 Speaker 4: to create beats and you know, live sound audio and

17:25 Speaker 4: it all stemmed from the Boys and Girls Club in

17:28 Speaker 4: New Hampshire.

17:29 Speaker 2: You got me.

17:31 Speaker 4: Imagine if someone you know, my age thirty four had

17:35 Speaker 4: that opportunity to be able to go to the Boys

17:37 Speaker 4: and Girls Club and be inside of a studio, you know,

17:41 Speaker 4: 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.

17:49 Speaker 4: We were over here and doing this that on the

17:51 Speaker 4: ping pong table exactly, And no slight on the Lawrence

17:57 Speaker 4: Boys and Girls Club. But you know, hopefully they have

17:59 Speaker 4: stepped up. I don't know, but yeah, with such a

18:04 Speaker 4: large music scene and then you know, it seems like

18:07 Speaker 4: if it's just growing and growing, So you know, hopefully

18:11 Speaker 4: it's something that they do have. Yeah, I know they

18:13 Speaker 4: have multiple studios out there, but what are we doing

18:16 Speaker 4: for the community right right?

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

18:20 Speaker 1: and Girls Club, I think of athletic type things. Yeah,

18:23 Speaker 1: so I was surprised when he was talking about the studio,

18:25 Speaker 1: 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,

18:29 Speaker 4: all that are lost and don't know something what to do.

18:32 Speaker 4: You know, you're good with video editing, you're good with

18:36 Speaker 4: this that you know you you have a great opportunity

18:40 Speaker 4: to become something you know, self made, right, you get

18:45 Speaker 4: me where you don't have to depend on the corporate

18:49 Speaker 4: 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,

18:59 Speaker 1: So which I'll let you pick if I would have

19:04 Speaker 1: to pick.

19:05 Speaker 4: All I know, all I know. Yeah, that's one of

19:09 Speaker 4: my most popular singles. Oh okay, it's a crowd pleaser.

19:14 Speaker 4: 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

19:26 Speaker 1: got it. All right, we'll give this a listen. If

19:27 Speaker 1: you're just joining us, We have fate one here with us,

19:30 Speaker 1: live in studio, and this is called all I know.

19:37 Speaker 5: Let me take you out to space. Let me take

19:44 Speaker 5: you out your place yet, let me take you out

19:55 Speaker 5: to space.

19:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, you out to space. Let me take you out

19:58 Speaker 6: your place? Yeah play. All I know is all I

20:01 Speaker 6: know when I know I can control what canby for.

20:05 Speaker 6: Let me take you out of space yet you have

20:08 Speaker 6: to spell. Let me take you out to place yet.

20:11 Speaker 6: 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

20:20 Speaker 8: won't be alone. Just nor Molas coming clocking out after

20:26 Speaker 8: 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,

20:45 Speaker 7: king to grow.

20:46 Speaker 6: I know all I know I can't control. Let me

20:50 Speaker 6: take you out of space. It you have to spell.

20:53 Speaker 6: Let me take you at your place, Yet you play.

20:56 Speaker 6: All I know is all I know.

20:57 Speaker 7: When I know I can control what can evil? Let

21:01 Speaker 7: me take you out of space, yack, you have to spell.

21:04 Speaker 7: 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

21:12 Speaker 7: 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

21:26 Speaker 7: 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,

21:32 Speaker 6: some get it easy. I rather work hard.

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

21:38 Speaker 7: from the concrete.

21:39 Speaker 6: We don't rose from the jungle, came to grow. I

21:43 Speaker 6: know I can't control work. Let me take you out

21:47 Speaker 6: to space. Sick you are to spell. Let me take

21:49 Speaker 6: you out your place, Yet you play. All I know

21:52 Speaker 6: 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

22:32 Speaker 1: to talk over the end. It's just nice. I just

22:34 Speaker 1: wanted to let it fade out. You know, that's cool.

22:36 Speaker 1: That's really nice. If you're just joining us. We have

22:39 Speaker 1: a fate one here with us alive in studio and

22:43 Speaker 1: that is called all I Know, great track And yeah

22:45 Speaker 1: you were you were kind of staying off air like

22:47 Speaker 1: you have to. You have to play it every show

22:48 Speaker 1: where people will get people get upset if they don't

22:50 Speaker 1: hear it. Yeah.

22:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's one of my most popular songs. You know,

22:54 Speaker 4: if they don't hear it, they're like, you know, it's

22:56 Speaker 4: whether I start with it or I end with it.

22:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, there is. You know. The one time I think

23:03 Speaker 2: 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,

23:08 Speaker 4: Like yeah, But every time I perform, I try and

23:11 Speaker 4: make sure that I get it all there. And you know,

23:14 Speaker 4: I've gotten up to the point where I sing it

23:16 Speaker 4: almost completely live, with the exception of the chorus.

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

23:22 Speaker 1: Do you do a lot of shows?

23:24 Speaker 4: This past year? No, last year I was on a

23:28 Speaker 4: Crazy Show run, and then the year before I was

23:32 Speaker 4: on a Crazy Show run as well, working with multiple promoters,

23:36 Speaker 4: one Our Visuals being one of them. Talk of the

23:39 Speaker 4: Town being another one with Jesse Hendrix. He is, you know,

23:45 Speaker 4: out of the Boston area and stuff like that. So

23:47 Speaker 4: I was able to network with him and expand my

23:51 Speaker 4: outlet over there towards that area, you know. And then

23:55 Speaker 4: when I Visuals we did a lot of things, mainly

23:57 Speaker 4: in Lowell. Was able to learn a lot of things

24:02 Speaker 4: from both these great promoters, to the point where, you know,

24:05 Speaker 4: I last year I exercised my first show and my

24:09 Speaker 4: hat to them because I ran my own show. And

24:12 Speaker 4: let me tell you, one of the hardest things to

24:14 Speaker 4: do is to manage other artists, yes with them, you know,

24:19 Speaker 4: managing their music sets, the DJ and this that. And

24:24 Speaker 4: I did that show with another artist as well, my

24:27 Speaker 4: buddy Koran, and we collabed and we did that show

24:32 Speaker 4: and we did it as a competition for one I Visuals.

24:36 Speaker 4: He was like, oh, you know, like a lot of

24:39 Speaker 4: your artists talk about this that you know that you're

24:41 Speaker 4: gonna do your own show this stuff, but you don't

24:43 Speaker 4: know what it takes to do it. I challenged you

24:46 Speaker 4: to do this. The only one that accepted the challenge

24:49 Speaker 4: was Karan and I. You know, so we did it

24:52 Speaker 4: and we had a successful show. We won his challenge.

24:56 Speaker 4: You know, we were able to continue to work with

24:59 Speaker 4: him and then you know, we've done a couple of

25:02 Speaker 4: shows since then. But I've been really focusing on the

25:07 Speaker 4: back ends of the things with the music, you know,

25:11 Speaker 4: focusing on promotion. I released my EP last year and

25:17 Speaker 4: we got some good numbers and good results on there.

25:20 Speaker 4: But I am very adamant of not dropping any new

25:24 Speaker 4: music until I surpassed a certain amount of streams on

25:27 Speaker 4: my EP, you know, which is one hundred thousand streams,

25:33 Speaker 4: 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,

25:41 Speaker 4: I'll start releasing because I am ready to release. But

25:44 Speaker 4: it's just some people just focus on releasing new music,

25:50 Speaker 4: new music, trying boost the algorithm, failing to realize that

25:54 Speaker 4: you're actually sitting and killing on your own music you

25:58 Speaker 4: get Me. You can drop every week, every month and

26:03 Speaker 4: stuff like that, but you're not letting the rest of

26:05 Speaker 4: 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

26:14 Speaker 4: being uploaded on streaming platforms on a daily basis. But

26:19 Speaker 4: if you focus on the stuff that you already have

26:22 Speaker 4: out and you promote that stuff, when you continue to

26:27 Speaker 4: release those listeners that you have now grown and you

26:31 Speaker 4: have now connected with with that original sound, are going

26:34 Speaker 4: to continue to listen to your new stuff and potentially

26:37 Speaker 4: show it to somebody new, you know. So I do

26:41 Speaker 4: a lot of the back end studying, you know. I

26:45 Speaker 4: try to always inform myself with a lot of things

26:49 Speaker 4: 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,

26:56 Speaker 4: and I did things the wrong way many times up

27:02 Speaker 4: until this last rebrand you get Me. I rebranded myself

27:05 Speaker 4: over the course of the five years, you know, trademark

27:08 Speaker 4: my logo, trademark my company, and then been able to

27:13 Speaker 4: just learn and you know, apply some of the things

27:16 Speaker 4: that I learned from hard lessons into this now and

27:20 Speaker 4: it's working at me. So now I can apply those

27:24 Speaker 4: things with some of my artists and try and help

27:28 Speaker 4: them out, you know, because I'm all about giving back,

27:31 Speaker 4: giving forward. If somebody didn't teach me, you know, or

27:37 Speaker 4: excuse me, if somebody taught me, you know, and I

27:40 Speaker 4: kept that to myself, how right would I be by

27:43 Speaker 4: keeping that, you know, instead of passing it forward exactly?

27:48 Speaker 4: That almost be hypocritical, and I try not to be that,

27:52 Speaker 4: 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

28:00 Speaker 1: like mistakes that you made that you had to learn

28:05 Speaker 1: 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

28:14 Speaker 4: of music career, you know, I was putting out music

28:16 Speaker 4: and I was wondering, why wasn't it catching attention? Or

28:19 Speaker 4: are these other artists catching attention? This that, you know,

28:24 Speaker 4: and I got envious and jealous thinking that, you know,

28:27 Speaker 4: oh I don't get support you know from my community,

28:30 Speaker 4: this that my family and this that. No, it was

28:33 Speaker 4: actually that I wasn't doing the work. I was just

28:35 Speaker 4: going into a studio and recording things, you know, and

28:38 Speaker 4: then posting it online and expecting it to blow up, right,

28:41 Speaker 4: 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,

28:48 Speaker 4: getting the licensing this that. So those were some of

28:51 Speaker 4: the mistakes you know, where you know, I got copyright

28:55 Speaker 4: stricken where I had to take something down, used it

28:58 Speaker 4: without permission, and I was like, okay, what's copyright? You know,

29:01 Speaker 4: 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

29:09 Speaker 4: like wondering, you know this that, And then as you see,

29:13 Speaker 4: it's completely opposite now where it's like, all right, you know,

29:17 Speaker 4: I know why people aren't supporting me. I'm not doing much,

29:21 Speaker 4: you know. But over the past four years, I've been

29:25 Speaker 4: doing shows. I've been working with other artists, going to

29:28 Speaker 4: go support their shows, whether I'm on it, whether I'm not,

29:32 Speaker 4: and just focusing on doing the groundwork so that way

29:37 Speaker 4: I can actually have something to fall back on and

29:40 Speaker 4: be like, yeah, no, I did last year, I did

29:43 Speaker 4: forty shows, the year before that, I did eighty the

29:47 Speaker 4: year before that. We you know, were at one hundred

29:49 Speaker 4: shows and stuff like that almost every two week, you know,

29:55 Speaker 4: and it can be overwhelming, but it's something that comes

29:59 Speaker 4: with this business. You have to do a lot of

30:02 Speaker 4: work before you actually even see any of the benefits,

30:07 Speaker 4: you know, so understanding that as well, you know it,

30:10 Speaker 4: stardom doesn't come overnight. A lot of these stars that

30:14 Speaker 4: you think broke out overnight, you go to see their

30:18 Speaker 4: documentary and feel to realize like, oh, they've been doing

30:22 Speaker 4: this since twenty ten. They're doing this since two thousand

30:25 Speaker 4: and five exactly. It's just now that you're getting to

30:29 Speaker 4: know them. That's the difference, you know. So starting with

30:33 Speaker 4: the roots of the community, you know, working with the ICE.

30:39 Speaker 4: I keep on saying the community, you know, because that's

30:43 Speaker 4: who's I'm looking to support me First, if something happens,

30:48 Speaker 4: I know that it happened because of my community, yeah me.

30:52 Speaker 4: Not because I sold my soul or not because you know,

30:57 Speaker 4: 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

31:04 Speaker 4: can have something to be proud of, yeah me, and

31:08 Speaker 4: 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,

31:21 Speaker 4: So I try to always foresee the events that could

31:25 Speaker 4: 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

31:37 Speaker 4: my friends like, hey, like, you know, something's gonna happen.

31:39 Speaker 4: I got a bad feeling, you know, and they were like, okay,

31:42 Speaker 4: like you know, like we're gonna call you destiny. And

31:44 Speaker 4: I was like, I didn't like that too much, you know,

31:47 Speaker 4: So I went into the dictionary and I looked up

31:49 Speaker 4: the you know, a similar word to destiny and fate

31:53 Speaker 4: it was, and then I liked it and I stuck

31:56 Speaker 4: with it. Then I added the one at the end

32:00 Speaker 4: for various reasons, you know, in the tag in you know,

32:08 Speaker 4: graffiti industry. A lot of times when you add one,

32:11 Speaker 4: you're paying homage to somebody that passed away, paying some

32:15 Speaker 4: paying homage to somebody that has been in jail. So

32:17 Speaker 4: like one love, you know, okay, yeah, And then the

32:23 Speaker 4: other way is like, you know, I am one of

32:26 Speaker 4: 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

32:32 Speaker 4: I am want and you know that's trademarked license. Then

32:38 Speaker 4: don't mess with it I consume you you know, and

32:44 Speaker 4: that that's where that name came from, you know. And

32:46 Speaker 4: 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.

32:58 Speaker 4: I try to always foresee what's coming for me, always

33:02 Speaker 4: plan ahead and try and fix something if I can't.

33:08 Speaker 4: And if I can't, you know, I gotta let go, yeah,

33:11 Speaker 4: and let whatever else you know fix it. Yeah, it's

33:15 Speaker 4: not in my control. Why am I gonna stress myself

33:17 Speaker 4: over it? And that's where that name stems from. And

33:23 Speaker 4: 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

33:31 Speaker 4: I sing about, anything that I write about, it's whether

33:35 Speaker 4: 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

33:45 Speaker 4: 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

33:55 Speaker 4: fall apart or my persona gets killed because of that.

33:59 Speaker 4: Like this, I know, I just live the way I live.

34:02 Speaker 4: I am who I am.

34:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting way you say there, because yeah, a

34:06 Speaker 1: lot of artists will try to, you know, create a persona. Yeah,

34:10 Speaker 1: you know, and and something either either bigger than you know,

34:13 Speaker 1: sort of bigger than life, or or maybe even something

34:16 Speaker 1: kind of kind of negative, like yeah, like they want

34:18 Speaker 1: 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

34:25 Speaker 4: past obviously had something to do with it, but it's

34:27 Speaker 4: irrelevant today. Yeah, I mean, I'm not that same person

34:30 Speaker 4: that I was fifteen years ago, but I have learned

34:34 Speaker 4: from my mistakes of the past. Whether I did certain things,

34:38 Speaker 4: I always try to make sure that, you know, one thing,

34:40 Speaker 4: I don't incriminate myself in music. I also don't tell

34:43 Speaker 4: a lie, you know. And on top of making sure

34:47 Speaker 4: I don't tell a lie, I try to always keep

34:49 Speaker 4: it positive for the most part, even though it's not

34:53 Speaker 4: the most popular thing out there. I sure, you know,

34:57 Speaker 4: my song I Don't Know is pretty much stating that

34:59 Speaker 4: I don't care what most people think about me. You know,

35:04 Speaker 4: your opinion is your opinion, and you're entitle to it,

35:07 Speaker 4: and end of the day, it doesn't make you right,

35:08 Speaker 4: doesn't make you wrong, and that's how you feel about me,

35:12 Speaker 4: then you know, so be it. You know, if I

35:16 Speaker 4: treated somebody disrespectful, you know, or if I treated somebody

35:22 Speaker 4: with love, and I always think, I always say believe

35:25 Speaker 4: both of them. I treat people accordingly, you know. So

35:29 Speaker 4: if I was rude to you, you deserved it. That

35:32 Speaker 4: was nice to you. You know, you also deserved it well.

35:35 Speaker 4: And that's always what I try to do, because I

35:37 Speaker 4: just try to treat people the way I'd like to

35:39 Speaker 4: be treated. We're all human beings, if you know, we're

35:42 Speaker 4: cut at the end of the day, we bleed the

35:44 Speaker 4: same way, we breathe, we eat the same way. You know,

35:47 Speaker 4: they all need the same things. We're all humans. Yeah,

35:49 Speaker 4: 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.

35:54 Speaker 1: You know, it's what's the expression, it's tell the truth.

35:57 Speaker 1: 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

36:05 Speaker 1: told what.

36:07 Speaker 4: Good with that I'd rather not, yeah exactly exactly. Keeping

36:11 Speaker 4: up with those lives is crazy.

36:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, to to be so positive and everything. If

36:18 Speaker 1: if you had mentors in the music industry, are there

36:20 Speaker 1: are there people who've helped you along the way. I mean,

36:22 Speaker 1: obviously you know you're you're willing to to dig in

36:25 Speaker 1: and learn everything yourself. But are there are there people

36:27 Speaker 1: 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.

36:37 Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that they're all positive because of the

36:40 Speaker 4: way that the music is brought out, you know, Yeah,

36:43 Speaker 4: someone like Big Pun you know. But then I go

36:46 Speaker 4: I can go in my rolodex and literally go to

36:49 Speaker 4: somebody like John Legend, you know, you know, which a

36:53 Speaker 4: complete opposite. Yeah, you know, you know, so being influenced

36:59 Speaker 4: too to just stay positive. It's just something that I

37:03 Speaker 4: learned to live how I learned to live because negativity,

37:07 Speaker 4: 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

37:18 Speaker 4: be in a negative environment, you know, whether positivity is

37:23 Speaker 4: 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

37:29 Speaker 4: that I'm being myself and that you know, it's potentially

37:35 Speaker 4: you know, help somebody else, And you know that that

37:40 Speaker 4: would be great if I help somebody else, at least one,

37:43 Speaker 4: If I reach one person, you know, and I reach

37:46 Speaker 4: one every day the goal man.

37:48 Speaker 1: And I assume you probably have heard from people who

37:51 Speaker 1: 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

37:58 Speaker 4: it's a great feeling, you know, when you can get

38:00 Speaker 4: somebody to identify with your trials and relations you know, yeah,

38:05 Speaker 4: 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

38:13 Speaker 1: who's kind of like who who inspires your your style

38:18 Speaker 1: or there are there singers who have been an influence

38:21 Speaker 1: 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

38:28 Speaker 4: like Usher for me. Yeah, I grew up listening to Usher,

38:33 Speaker 4: you know, ladies man always singing.

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

38:38 Speaker 2: you know me, you know.

38:40 Speaker 4: And then uh Tony Sunshine, which it's very similar to

38:45 Speaker 4: my style where he's he's dealing with a lot of

38:48 Speaker 4: hip hop, but he's singing in it, you know, and

38:51 Speaker 4: he's bringing out those emotions out of those songs with

38:55 Speaker 4: you know, the Terror Squad and stuff like that. Yeah,

39:00 Speaker 4: 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

39:12 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, is you know again

39:15 Speaker 4: about stories. You know, Mark Anthony played a role in

39:20 Speaker 4: a movie for Ector Lavos, and he pretty much captured

39:25 Speaker 4: that guy's persona and that guy's voice and everything to

39:28 Speaker 4: the point where they were like, WHOA, WHOA is that

39:30 Speaker 4: Mark Anthony or Ector Lavos. But these things, you know,

39:36 Speaker 4: they bring out the trials and relations. Actor Lovos used

39:41 Speaker 4: to sing about his drug use impression, you know, the

39:45 Speaker 4: life that he lived and stuff like that. So just

39:49 Speaker 4: combining all those things, all those artists, and just you know,

39:55 Speaker 4: creating my sound off of that. You know, I can

40:00 Speaker 4: sing any Usher song, you know, word for word, you know,

40:06 Speaker 4: to a point where I could almost duplicate some of

40:08 Speaker 4: his tones, stuff like that, most of Tony Sunshine's almost

40:13 Speaker 4: every Mark Anthony and then you know, you go further back,

40:15 Speaker 4: that's act the love voice as well, which is all SALTSA.

40:20 Speaker 4: 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

40:27 Speaker 4: Puerto Rican household and an urban area, you'd be surprised

40:33 Speaker 4: the things that you hear, you know, dance all afrobeats,

40:36 Speaker 4: so I can imagine, you know, and again, the beauty

40:40 Speaker 4: of music is just being able to move and hear

40:42 Speaker 4: that and feel that rhythm. And that's what I love

40:45 Speaker 4: about it. Yeah. I feel the most comfortable when I'm

40:48 Speaker 4: 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

40:53 Speaker 4: on stage and stuff like that, and you know, or

40:57 Speaker 4: in front of a podcast, that I just feel like

40:59 Speaker 4: 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

41:07 Speaker 1: actually I'm naturally uh an introvert, but I uh but

41:13 Speaker 1: I'm most I'm so because of that. It's just how

41:16 Speaker 1: my brain is wired. I'm actually most comfortable in front

41:19 Speaker 1: of a microphone, whether it's doing the show or or

41:23 Speaker 1: I'm a musician. I don't I'm not active with that,

41:25 Speaker 1: but I used to play a lot of bands, or

41:26 Speaker 1: being on stage or public speaking, like like, I'm actually

41:30 Speaker 1: more comfortable doing that than I am at say a

41:33 Speaker 1: party where you know, I'm trying to have a conversation

41:35 Speaker 1: with a stranger or something.

41:36 Speaker 4: Same, you know, yeah, yeah, I you know, I usually

41:40 Speaker 4: go out to these venues if I'm performing, you know,

41:45 Speaker 4: 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

41:57 Speaker 4: be cheap or anything, but that you know, you can

41:59 Speaker 4: go out side nowadays, and you spend one hundred dollars

42:02 Speaker 4: a moment that you go outside. You know, that's just

42:06 Speaker 4: gassing food, you know, and you know, so it's just

42:12 Speaker 4: 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

42:21 Speaker 4: very family first guy.

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

42:27 Speaker 2: You know.

42:27 Speaker 4: If I'm not in the studio, I'm with family. If

42:30 Speaker 4: I'm not an event, I'm with family. If I'm not working,

42:32 Speaker 4: I'm with family, you know. And just try and do that,

42:36 Speaker 4: you know, whether it's laying down in bed watching a

42:39 Speaker 4: movie or just sitting down in the couch playing some

42:42 Speaker 4: video games. You know, it's it's it's okay. You know,

42:47 Speaker 4: I'd rather be doing that than out and about, you know,

42:51 Speaker 4: getting into trouble or you know, who knows what can

42:55 Speaker 4: happen nowadays and the world that we live in a

42:57 Speaker 4: heavy place, right, you know, or having to be prepared

43:02 Speaker 4: for those kind of situations and stuff like that. Not

43:06 Speaker 4: a person that really has anxiety, but those things kind

43:09 Speaker 4: 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

43:18 Speaker 1: can tell you, like in my case, people assumed that

43:21 Speaker 1: 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

43:29 Speaker 4: 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,

43:38 Speaker 4: singing this one Spanish song that didn't even belong to

43:41 Speaker 4: me because my brother was a club promoter and he

43:44 Speaker 4: would bring a lot of the Spanish artists down to Lawrence. Yeah,

43:48 Speaker 4: you know, and you know I would always be an

43:51 Speaker 4: open and act you know. So I shared stages with

43:54 Speaker 4: some of these major artists, some like Nikki jam Ecto,

43:58 Speaker 4: Ritito they well call it on and some of these

44:03 Speaker 4: names you may know, some of the you may not.

44:05 Speaker 4: But in the Latin culture and the Latin community, they

44:09 Speaker 4: 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

44:13 Speaker 4: stage with them at fourteen years old. That's not a

44:16 Speaker 4: bad way to start me. That was twenty years ago,

44:18 Speaker 4: you get me. But I was young, dumb, you know,

44:23 Speaker 4: and I was focused on all the wrong things. Yeah,

44:27 Speaker 4: you know, not focusing on my schooling, not focusing just

44:31 Speaker 4: focusing on all the wrong things.

44:32 Speaker 1: But it's kind of a double edged sword, right because

44:34 Speaker 1: you may have focused on the wrong things in one sense,

44:37 Speaker 1: 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

44:44 Speaker 4: just apply a lot of the things that I learned

44:47 Speaker 4: 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

44:52 Speaker 4: know about it, you know, But if you know about

44:54 Speaker 4: it and you did nothing about it to fix it, Yeah,

44:57 Speaker 4: and you want to change, well, that's insanity right there,

45:00 Speaker 4: 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

45:09 Speaker 1: that kind of changed things, that kind of changed your

45:11 Speaker 1: mindset or was it a gradual thing?

45:13 Speaker 4: My mother passing away really yeah, yeah, she passed away

45:17 Speaker 4: six years ago. It was one of the toughest things

45:19 Speaker 4: that I deal with on a daily basis, and I

45:23 Speaker 4: was on the verge of giving up music because of that,

45:25 Speaker 4: the lack of support and you know, just not knowing,

45:28 Speaker 4: not being educated about it. And one of the promises

45:32 Speaker 4: I made, you know, while she was you know, on

45:35 Speaker 4: her last day, was that I'm going to continue with

45:39 Speaker 4: my music, you know, and that's exactly what I did.

45:43 Speaker 4: In twenty eighteen, I dropped the project that was nowhere

45:46 Speaker 4: near released, ready to be released, but I didn't anyways,

45:51 Speaker 4: just so I can you know, claim it and start it,

45:55 Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, you know, I I pride myself in

45:58 Speaker 4: knowing you know, maybe a fact or not, but you know,

46:02 Speaker 4: I want to say I was one of these artists

46:06 Speaker 4: that was on streaming platforms before a lot of other

46:10 Speaker 4: people because of the research and the information that I gained. Like,

46:15 Speaker 4: you know, in twenty eighteen, I dropped my first project

46:18 Speaker 4: 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

46:23 Speaker 4: streaming platforms where they were on Spotify, Apple, And next thing,

46:27 Speaker 4: 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

46:32 Speaker 4: anything like that, but I know I was one of

46:35 Speaker 4: the first artists that started doing it, and I even

46:38 Speaker 4: learned from that, you know, not having quality music. You know,

46:44 Speaker 4: it's like, oh yeah, like I could play this, but

46:47 Speaker 4: it's not mixing masters correctly. It's not going to sound

46:49 Speaker 4: the best and think, oh okay, all right this, you know,

46:52 Speaker 4: but then your ego gets the best of you, you know,

46:56 Speaker 4: and so I had to struggle with that. Yeah, and

46:58 Speaker 4: I was like, all right, well, let's learn how to

47:01 Speaker 4: mix and master. 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

47:17 Speaker 4: it was no, it was twenty twenty actually, because it

47:20 Speaker 4: 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

47:32 Speaker 4: tune in there, you know, which I kind of wanted

47:35 Speaker 4: because you know, I was like, this is a little rough,

47:37 Speaker 4: you know, I recorded it in my studio, this that

47:40 Speaker 4: you know, sent them some nice clean vocals and you

47:43 Speaker 4: know my song. I didn't send it to you, but

47:46 Speaker 4: I will eventually. The song I'm blessed, you know, it

47:50 Speaker 4: is what I kind of started back off with. Yeah,

47:52 Speaker 4: you know, that was where I rebranded myself, had my

47:55 Speaker 4: new logo, had a song that was mixed and mastered,

48:00 Speaker 4: ready for distribution, ready for radio, you know, and I

48:05 Speaker 4: took pride in that, so I went recorded a video

48:07 Speaker 4: to it. Then I released everything, just like you know,

48:10 Speaker 4: a mainstream artist would do everything on the same day,

48:13 Speaker 4: the video, the vocals, all that released, you know, and

48:18 Speaker 4: that was one of my you know, greatest moments. It's

48:23 Speaker 4: one of my least sought out after songs, because again,

48:27 Speaker 4: 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

48:38 Speaker 4: social media that's going to become viral versus something that

48:42 Speaker 4: you know is very positive and could also be viral

48:45 Speaker 4: and have the same effect, but they won't do it

48:47 Speaker 4: because it's positive, you know. So I try to always

48:50 Speaker 4: 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

48:57 Speaker 4: can always I go find myself on social media wanted

48:59 Speaker 4: to say something negative, like delete, and then I find myself, well,

49:04 Speaker 4: I almost wrote something negative on this post, but I didn't.

49:08 Speaker 4: You know, I get congratulates story things from friends and

49:12 Speaker 4: stuff like that, like, okay, you're trying to stay all right, yeah,

49:16 Speaker 4: 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,

49:32 Speaker 4: 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.

49:39 Speaker 4: He had more of a following than I was. I

49:42 Speaker 4: happened to be in the same studio and I played

49:51 Speaker 4: him a beat and I showed him the chorus, you know,

49:53 Speaker 4: because that's how I start all my songs. I always

49:55 Speaker 4: have a chorus for all my songs. And you know,

49:59 Speaker 4: he like, oh, I like that, Let's do that a

50:01 Speaker 4: like boom and then that that came on and then

50:03 Speaker 4: 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,

50:13 Speaker 4: had to change the release date because you know, it

50:16 Speaker 4: was a little too soon. The editing stuff wasn't done,

50:19 Speaker 4: you know, and I got a little lashing from one

50:21 Speaker 4: of visuals. It was like, don't do that again, you know.

50:23 Speaker 4: He was like, you guys, shouldn't do that until it's ready.

50:25 Speaker 4: I was like, you're right, you know, And then I

50:28 Speaker 4: learned from that, you know, so to make sure that

50:31 Speaker 4: I'm not releasing nothing unless or setting a date on

50:34 Speaker 4: 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

50:40 Speaker 4: actually complete, you know, and then you know, you set

50:43 Speaker 4: false expectations that can also screw you over as an

50:46 Speaker 4: artist too, because you're over here selling dreams, selling dreams,

50:49 Speaker 4: and you know, realistically there's nothing to sell right right,

50:53 Speaker 4: you know, So just making sure that I have everything

50:55 Speaker 4: 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

51:10 Speaker 4: as I can, just in case if things fall through.

51:13 Speaker 4: You know that way, I don't look a certain type

51:15 Speaker 4: 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.

51:22 Speaker 4: I was like, you know, I'll be on ninety five

51:24 Speaker 4: point three, you know, I copied the link and I

51:26 Speaker 4: shared it to a few of my family members, a

51:28 Speaker 4: few of my friends, yea, you know, and I told

51:31 Speaker 4: them I'll be on at this time. Like you know,

51:33 Speaker 4: I knew I was coming, I made it happen. And

51:35 Speaker 4: once I knew that that was happening, all right, boom

51:38 Speaker 4: made time to be here, you know. And yeah, it's

51:41 Speaker 4: been good so far. You know, it's not a far

51:43 Speaker 4: drive thirty five minutes.

51:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah we're not far Yeah, well

51:47 Speaker 1: we are, however, almost out of time. The time goes

51:50 Speaker 1: so quick, so we'll un plus when you're having fun,

51:52 Speaker 1: we'll close out the show with this track app business.

51:54 Speaker 1: But just quickly, what should people know about how to

51:58 Speaker 1: follow you online? Where should they go to keep up

52:00 Speaker 1: with everything that you're doing?

52:02 Speaker 4: Yes, so I am pretty nice and simple as f

52:07 Speaker 4: A T E O N E underscore HSM across all platforms.

52:12 Speaker 4: That's TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even. You can also go

52:18 Speaker 4: to my website I am fightwe dot com where you'll

52:22 Speaker 4: find all my music, you'll find any ways to reach me,

52:26 Speaker 4: all of my socials as well, you know, and then

52:30 Speaker 4: if you have me as a friend on Facebook, you

52:33 Speaker 4: know that I am yes, well fight one Marquez, you know,

52:37 Speaker 4: because again this is not a persona, this is who

52:39 Speaker 4: I am. So I try to always keep it, you know, Yes,

52:43 Speaker 4: I keep my work world separate versus the music world,

52:47 Speaker 4: but eventually they will not collide, but you know, almost

52:51 Speaker 4: blend stuff. Like you know, the work that I do

52:56 Speaker 4: allows me to pay for the stuff that I need,

52:59 Speaker 4: you know, and just be able to you know, open

53:03 Speaker 4: doors for me and stuff like that, and just continue

53:07 Speaker 4: 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,

53:15 Speaker 4: 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

53:22 Speaker 1: before we go, Absolutely, you got you got a lot

53:24 Speaker 1: going on lately.

53:26 Speaker 9: I have, actually, yes, and I still have some stuff

53:28 Speaker 9: to update on the website, but you can check it

53:30 Speaker 9: 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,

53:38 Speaker 9: you can check out twelve of my darkest paintings, yes,

53:41 Speaker 9: hanging on display for the month of August at the

53:44 Speaker 9: 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

53:56 Speaker 1: have you on. Absolutely