June 10, 2026 • 27 mins
Anthony Ramos joins us to talk about his new single “New York City,” going independent after years on a major label, nearly walking away from music altogether, reconnecting with his Puerto Rican roots through salsa, and why this new chapter feels like the first time he's truly found his voice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
How excited I got when you shouted out the bronx
because so many people are always like Brooklyn, I'm like,
hello late.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Wait, hold on, back up, I didn't hear anything about
Settn Island and there thank god, Anthony, Anthony Rooms is
here all right. We got to watch the dump button.
This guy has a foul mouth. No, no, that that
was That sounds who who wouldn't love that sound? You know,
even if you didn't speak English or Spanish, you would
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love that sound. You can hear, you can hear the energy,
you can you can hear the lyrics without even knowing
who the words are. That that says a lot. Even
I'm saying you're a bad singer or anything, but I'm
saying that. He said, you know, Anthony, you can't sing,
but the rhythm. Yeah, there is the energy, the energy
that that band's powerful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That was awesome. Thanks, thanks you so great to see y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You love your hometown.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I love being from New York. You know, it's not
like it's nothing like being from New York. It's crazy
like even when we when I you know, when I
wrote this song, I was like, I think it was
my boy Nazarie's idea, Like, uh, you know Nazrie, the Nazarie.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He's the least singer of magic.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I've heard of magic.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, so he's a I mean, he's a prolific songwriter.
And I think Nazary was like, you know, Anthony, we
gotta do. You gotta do like an anthem for New York.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I was like, yo, you know what, that's right, But
it really came from it came from a breakup. Like
I had a breakup. I broke with my ex girlfriend
in like Europe.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I can hear the sadness in that song, and I
was like that about break up.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, And I was struggling to find the first line.
We like, we were like playing around with a bunch
of different first lines.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And then I'm just like, why don't we just say
what happened? Took up with?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You broke up over Yeah, but here you are, even
after a breakup, you heal in New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah. I was like, yo, I gotta get out of here.
Where do I go? You know? By the way, For
the record, she's a great girl, She's amazing, But it was.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just, yeah, it was you know, I was just I
was out there and I was like, man, I had
just flown out there. I was there for like probably
two seconds, and I was like, Yo, this isn't you know?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I got it? I got it in this And the
next thing, you know, I'm like, dang, where do I go?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Like, I just need to go somewhere where where I
can feel like I can like, you know, rejuvenate, recharge, feel,
be surrounded by love.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And the first thing I thought about was New York.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There is in your auntie's basement, my auntie's basement. I
just got goosebumps. By the way, let's talk about it, Anthony.
You know what, uh, this business you're in, you came
into it at a very unique time. You actually saw
the tail end of what was the music business, and
then you experienced what it evolved into. And it still
is evolving today. It's not what it used to be.
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I mean, it's rough. If and Anthony will tell you
maybe in your own words, I'll open it up for you.
In this business, you've got to be working round the clock.
You got to be everywhere. You gotta have your your
foot in every single puddle in the music business. Otherwise
you become irrelevant. Overnight and you feel like you're drowning
and you don't You're like, don't what do I do? Yeah,
and this is sort of what you were feeling in
(03:06):
this business a little bit, right, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I was talking to me about it earlier.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I was like, you know, it's it's uh, yeah, it's tough,
you know, Like I mean, the last time I saw y'all,
I was like twenty nineteen or something like that, right,
And and I love music. I mean, I don't know
if I love anything more than music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And it was just but it was really really hard
like it for a while there, I just like, I
don't know if I want to do this anymore. I
was signed. I was signed for like seven years or
something like that. But thankfully I had a really great
relationship with the president of the label and we had
we had an amazing talk.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Like it was like it was such a good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was like how you would want to break up
to be like, you know somebody like this mutual love
and respect and you're just like, hey, like this ain't
working for you, it's not working for me, Like can
we please? Can we please end this? Like can I
please try to? A while on my own and and
and give it a shot. You know it's not it
is I'm not enjoying this anymore. I don't want to
do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You're ready to just give it up. I just want
to what were you going to do? Yo?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I mean I was it was. It was interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I was even talking about my my manager like today
and yesterday about it like I was like, like three
days ago, I just wanted to quit it all together,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Wow, because it's just a wild business.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Like you think about it, right, Like we're constantly and
again right like Nate, we were talking about it right,
like it's always like you feel like you're in this
and like you know, no punitentd Like I ran the
New York City Marathon last year and it was crazy,
I'm in this marathon and it just felt like such
a microcosm for my life. Like you think about it, right,
you're running these twenty six and nobody tells you about
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the point two miles.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Nobody, right, but you're running this marathon.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You run this marathon and you're just like all I
was just like one mile at a time, one mile
at a time.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you and I think in this business.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Us they teach us that it's not about you know,
it's not about the marathon, right, I think, especially I
think a lot of executives, it's about how much money
can we make, How can we monetize as quickly as possible,
How can we make as much money as we can
off of this person, you know, as quickly as possible.
And then when that starts to fade, who's the next
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person we can make the most money off of? And
then they just kind of forget about the five that
they made millions off.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of, you know. And and that's just a cycle.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So when you're an artist, you constantly you feel like
you got you have to keep running, and you got
to be running as fast as you can to try
to stay at the front of the line. But who
can sustain that?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's got to really wear you down.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I mean it's tiring. It's tiring, and you're just kind
of like yo, like, well but.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're still here though, So talk about that. But I
want to hear that because you could have just exited
that highway, but you decided to stay on it. We
just heard that you the person who's giving up doesn't
make a song like that, so obviously something something woke
you up and said, nah, we still have it. Let's
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do it this way. Yeah, that's what you did.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You know it was you know honestly, it really just
started off with that call. And I just like called
and I said, hey, like, can you know, can I
just I really want to take a shot and go
out on my own. I really want to do this
on my own if I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Gonna mean it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So, I want to go independent. I don't want to
I don't want to be on a label. I don't
want to be you know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I want to pay for it all. I pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, Like, and thank you acting. I'm not quitting because
thank you for paying for the music.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But really, like, and I started.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Even when I do movies, when I'm on set, I
know why I'm there, I know that I'm doing it
because yo. But I love first of all, I do
love to act. I love the art of it. I
love creating something. I love looking at a script, and
I love like looking.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
At it all.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Right, where the beginning in the middle of the end,
How can we how can we expand on this character?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
How can we improve this character's dialogue?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
This doesn't feel deep enough for this doesn't feel funny enough,
like this is actually a crazy situation. As characters in
this ship. Sorry, this thing should be sorry that slip
nothing nobody. Okay, great and.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Let's go next.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Let's go next.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
As an actor, you need to enunciate better better, So
thank god you didn't there. Okay anyway, But so you
you love the art of acting, Yeah, I love I
love it.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I love the work, I love the craft.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love going into the studio and making us writing
a song like you going there and there's nothing, there's nothing.
And then with this like I had never had experienced
writing south side music, so I didn't know what like
so nails are so nails are like these ad libs
that southside singers do, like you know, so so so Elvis,
you made a joke about how like man south side music,
it feels like it goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It does.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But that song is just as.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Long that The length of that song is just this
is the length of a regular pop song that has
a double chorus at the end, or has a pre
and a you know, or broke down chorus.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But music social music also do you go into different
phases of different sounds. It sounds like different songs, but
it's all compacted, and that's that's what I love about
it because it's so musical, it's so like you. You're
not You're not sitting in one frequency right, Like I'm
taking you in three minutes and three seconds, I'm taking
you in like four or five different vibes in the
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same song, but with the same time signature and the
same It's that clive right, that is that percussion that
keeps you, that keeps you going. But what I love
this is why you're still in it. That's why I
love it, man, I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You know, Sergio George, you know, I don't know if
y'all know who he is, but he's Sergio George is
probably arguably the greatest South Side producer of all time,
and he produced all of Mark Anthony's albums. He produced
you know, Laindia, like all the Sousade legends, right d
LG all these guys. And I'm from New York, so
like I grew up listening to all of these artists,
(09:03):
but they were all singing in Spanish, so I felt
like there was a disconnect, or I felt like there
was a uh, you know, when you feel so close
to something, but you know you feel like when you're
at the aquarium, You're like, Wow, that's so beautiful, but
I'll never be able to touch that animal.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Gandhi's actually jumped in and.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah there was. She's like, let them shock, you know,
just wild.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
But you know what, the disconnect is gone. You know
you can hear it. It's it's there. Yeah, what's that noise?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That's mine?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh my god, sound like a porn what you're watching
it on the way to the station? This?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know, this is actually my teacher, Sarah Steinwise. She
did like a listening right now. I don't know, maybe
I talked that's the Hey, I'm gonna be on Z
one hundred this morning. Listen, and she she made like
a motivational kind of video about the Nicks and their
journey and uh yeah, yeah, she's Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
She was my theater teacher in high school. I feel
like I talked about her last time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You did very much so you cried.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, she's she's so special. She's so special.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I'm glad you didn't throw in the towel.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, me too.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm glad you had some money from acting. By the way, God,
I mean, you know, I'm counting it every day. I
mean like musicians dance. I was like, you know, we
didn't even talk to you since then In the Heights
came out, and I'll tell you question that was. I
thought you did such a beautiful job. That was such
a beautiful film. I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Next Door, then you're okay in it? Next door to
New York.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Next door at the New York City Center. They're doing
In the Heights next year, a limited run. I'm wondering,
are you going to be in it?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, no, I'm not a part of that, but I
got some friends in it, so I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I believe you.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm writing a musical though, Okay, yeah. Yeah, So that
that's been fun. That's that's been really fun working on that.
I've been doing that for like five years. Oh wow,
you know, six years or something like that. But but yeah,
you know, hopefully I'll be back on stage at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That scares me.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Being on the stage scares me.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It scares me too.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know, when you've got a camera, they can cut
all that. That was bad. Let's do it again. Yeah, when
you're when you're in a studio recording, oh lip soock,
Let's do it again. When you're on stage food. Anthony
Ramos is here by the way, if you're just turning
us on. And of course we just played in New
York City. It's out now. Uh, Gundhi, what's up?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Were you about to say that you're removing one of
the barriers of saw some music because you're doing it
in English. I feel like you were getting to it,
and then I cut you off with the Shark.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
No, it's okay. The shark story was dope, though I
was worth being cut off for it. But it's yeah,
you know, Southside Southside is uh has always been in Spanish.
And you know when Sergio George, you know, I met
him backstage at Mark Anthony show in Miami and and
I had sent him this song I wrote with my
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boy will Wells, who I've worked with for years. Uh
and uh and another guy named Bobby Love. We wrote
a song called I was the one that that Surgerio
I sent him. I sent him this song like a
couple of years ago, and it was in English. It
was an English pop song, just a pop song. But
but nas Ree's like, I think this could be a SASA,
so I sent it to Surge. Surge is like I
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liked the song and that was it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was okay. Great.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
A year goes by. I bump into him backstage. He's like, yo, yo, man,
what are you doing with that song? I was like, oh, Serger,
I don't know, man, nothing. He's like, he's like, y'all,
let me get that. I was like, oh, you want
it for real? He's like yes. I was like, go ahead,
do whatever you want with it. He turns it over
in like two weeks. He produced it all out, He
got all the players, turned this pop song into a
complete south Side and I'm talking about like that mister
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faked out. It was crazy listening to this, and honestly,
it really it really was like a like a light
bulb moment where I was like, I was like, that's
kind of fire. And he put the song out, kind
of went viral on TikTok, and he keeps texting me,
I think we have something. I think we have something.
I think and you know again, I was I was
kind of like opposed to it because you know that
(13:10):
again that doubt creeps in, that doubt about like man,
like is it worth doing music again? Is it worth
throwing myself into it again? Like and giving it the
effort that it takes right to really to really like
be successful in music. You gotta be all be successful
for anything, you gotta be all in. And and I
was like, I don't even know if I want to
do that at this point. And and he he just
(13:31):
kept pressing and pressing and pressing, keeps texting me. He's like,
I'm telling you we got something. So finally I'm you know,
we get on call a couple of calls and and
he says, I think we should do a whole album.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I was like, whoa.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I was like that sounds expensive. He's like, Noahna, we're good.
We're good.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like, no, you know how expensive is making an album?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
But I'll be honest, I will say that that it's
different front when you're paying for it and you own it.
It's it's you know, because when you think about it,
we get this money from these labels, but it's alone,
so I got to pay them back.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Right, you know. And And and although it's that business sucks,
I mean the business.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's again right, like I'm blessed
that that I've been blessed to be able to to
pay for this record.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But I will say, right like Serge gave me the
homey deal. He did, he gave me, he gave me
the ultra Hoby deal.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And and and there are ways to do it right,
you give more on the back end or right, there's
there's ways to make it work and to make it
make sense for every creative accountant.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, if I own this radio station, we wouldn't be
in midtown Manhattan, where would be a Trader park out.
And if I said this is high.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But you I heard you use the words I don't
give an f If they don't like it, yeah, I
don't get that. But but today and on the station, no, no,
I think it's empowering to say, don't I'm doing this
for me. If they don't like it, that's their problem,
not mine. And that's what a true artist has to do,
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to get the courage to just blow it out like
you've done.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There you go, Yeah, I mean I just think you
know I made I made a joke with you guys
before where it's like yo, like if somebody walks into
my house, I love my house.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I bought it and I love it. Like if you
don't like it, that's cool. You don't have to stay right,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm gonna stay though, and I'm as sleep here like
a baby. So this album is your house.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, this is like it feels like I'm home, Like
I feel like I've settled into you know, when they're like, oh,
you gotta find your sound, and they love to say
that's the favorite is you got to find your sound.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But I think I found. I found my song, you know,
more than my sound. I found what my song is.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I watched this play called Joe Turner's. It's on brab
right and and and you know, there's a monologue that
who says it? Ruben says it basically like I don't
know the name of his character, but he tells he
tells my boy Josh Boone, right, Josh Boone's character.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I can't remember the name of the character.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I know the people, the names of the people, but
not the character. And he tells him, He's like, you
forgot how to sing your song. And I think for
seven years, not that I forgot, I just didn't know
how to sing my song because I never felt like
I had the space to do it, or I didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I kept just trying to listen to other people and
and I'm like, okay, well if they if they've had
success in this, then maybe I should sing a song
like that. Or if they've had success that way, man,
maybe instead of me trying to.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Find my own. So you lost your way, I've just
lost my way? And how many.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
People listening to this right now could apply that to
themselves or someone they love life, even if music is
not involved. You know what, you have a family, you love,
You do everything you can to make sure they're taking
care of whatever, and then one day it's just isn't
the same? You lost your song? You know, if you've
lost your way in any business or anything you're doing
and you lose it, that you lose your song. It's
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the same thing. Everyone listening right now is understanding what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, And with Sergio, I just like when he asked
me to do this record, I said the only way
I'll do it is in English and he looked at me.
I'm talking about wreck a scratch right right, and he said,
why see, I'm glad you did. I said, because that's
the language I grew up speaking. That's how I know
how to write a song.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But all the fans want to hear it. I mean,
there are a lot of people who don't really speak
Spanish all that well, but they love the field, saw
some music, and so I'm one of them. I'm little
Scottish white boy from Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
What do I have that?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But you know what, I can't wait to see Elphs
dance in South You need to get that, you I will.
I will be pregnant by the end of the night. Hey, look,
I got to be a godfather. Maybe the father. Hey question,
uh speaking of music, speaking of turning people onto music,
they need to be turned onto What do you What
(18:07):
are your feelings about Bad Bunny halftime at Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I think I think what he did was again groundbreaking, right,
like all in Spanish, So you think about that's the
reverse of what I'm doing, right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
God got saying English, she sang, she did, She's sang
in English, she did.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But but but right, he opened the door for her
to come and do that style of music, right, like
that's she sang a South South song? Yeah right, And
and it was like what was so funny was that
Sergio text me as soon as he saw that. He said,
and I'm telling you we're on the right track, Like
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he'd be sending me random messages. Anything he sees a
sign or something, he's say, we're doing it. This is
the you know, we're on the right. I love you, Sergio.
He's amazing, Sergio George like and and and you know,
he's like, you know, he's he was you know, I
I think, what what what Benito did? You know, what
Bad Bunny did was just so groundbreaking in the sense
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that he brought, especially bringing Puerto Rican culture like that
to you know, with the light poles, they were different,
there were different like uh, you know, like small things
that he put in the production. You know that that
really like we're you know, paid homage to Puerto Rico
and the culture and the life you know, and and
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and what the Puerto Rican people have been through over
over the years. And uh, you know, and I think
that he just he's just so he's such a creative.
He has such a creative mind. And for him to
have the platform to do that, I think opened the
open the eyes and of I think artists like me
where we were like, oh yeah, like let's go, it
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was perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We about to break this wife.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I watched it again the other day. I watched it
like every month or two, and you know a friend
of mine from Puerto Rico. She said, there was one
scene in there that only my people understand. Everyone in
the town gets together, has the big party at the
house and their kids. The parents keep going for the
kids they can't sleeping, they find a place to curl
up and go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I loved it, and they get carried home at the night.
Everyone had something out of that performance.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And Ricky Martin, you know, what he was singing about
in Spanish was very like political, you know, for him
to be singing that at the super Bowl at the
most patriotic yeah thing.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A lot of people were totally pissed off of them.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I couldn't even believe that they let Ricky Martin sing that,
Like yeah, I was like wow, But he did what
he did and I was like yo. I was like yo,
Benito's a g for this, Like he's like all of them.
It just made me feel so proud to be Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I was like, yo, speaking of who's the king of
the Puerto Rican Day Parades this Sunday, I wonder, are
you the king of the Puerto Rican Day Parade? My mom,
she's going to be.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The one riding around the convertible. She must be so excited.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Oh, she's hip so high. I want to invite this friend.
I want to invite that for Anthony was coming. I
was like, man, I promise you. I don't know nothing
about the logistics. I'm just gonna pull up. I don't
know anything.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You're getting the best day ever.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I gotta tell you. One day I was in the city.
They said, you don't go to the city today, Porto
Rican Day Parade. It's going to be angels are crazy.
You don't drive, you can take a train.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yo. That accent that sally from Like.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So, I'm driving my little Volkswaggen on the West Side
Highway and I'm stopped and I'm going, oh damn, this
is Puerto Rican Day Parade. It's the first one I
ever experienced. This is years ago. And somehow, you know,
there's a park off the side of the West Side
Highway on the Hudson River, And somehow I ended up
in that park and there's barbecuing in there. Man. They
I was by myself. I was there for four or
(21:42):
five hours.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
This family brought me in, got me drunk. You went
to the park. Yeah, I loved it. They made me
on no, I was in there.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I was.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It was the best day ever.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I was eating the food.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I was, wow, what's your beach?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Big?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It was amazing what you put razings in your picle?
What are you doing? So?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I know this? Now? What did they give you? They
gave you like the moonshine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They gave me everything.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I couldn't drive.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I couldn't drive. They had to give me a ride
to my friend's apartment. Anyways, Look, they get you drunk,
give you a ride. Look, I love my people. I
know what America gives me. On Puerto Rican date parade day. Look,
so Anthony Ramos will be now 's your mom with
you in the car?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah, that's so cool. I'm still trying to decide if
I even want to be in the car. I was like,
I want to walk with my friends. I want to walk. Okay,
they were like, now you got to be in the car.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I was like, for what, let me just they'll kidnap
you and get you drunk.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, So talk about this album. When do I hear more?
When do I hear more of? See more of you?
Like you're now you know what you're in? You're in
gear now again doing gear? Doing what you truly should
be doing.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
We got the car on the road, like we're back.
You know, I'm back, you know, And this is my
favorite music. I mean, I love all the music I've
ever made, but this for sure feels the most authentic
to me. And and the live shows, like I've already
performed live and uh.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know, can I talk about Jimmy Jimmy fallon tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
We've heard Jimmy fallon?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, Yo, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What was crazy was I ran into Jimmy I f
one so I'm I'm coming out of the thing and
he's coming in.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm like, yo, Jimmy, what's He's like, hey, Bud. We
started talking. He's like, what's up with your music? And
I was like it was just so cool like that.
He He's like, man, dude, when when when you put
more music out there? And I was like, well, it's funny, bro.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I was like, the first song comes out on Friday,
and he's like, oh man, we got to get you
on the show. We'll support you, and and uh, you know,
I shot him a text and uh and I just
sent him the song and he's like, yo, just send
me and uh, we you know, we had her back
for a little bit, and all of a sudden the publicsher.
You know, they hit me like, hey, Jimmy Fallon performance
(23:55):
through uh the eleventh, what's today tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Oh my gosh, you know it's tomorrow. It's tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's right down the street from here, by the way.
You'd either hold your hand walk please.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
See this is how it gets It gets crazy. You know,
things are popping. When things get crazy, you don't even
know you're on Jimmy Fallon Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, but I'm just so excited, Like we got all
the dancers, we got the band, we got a big
band playing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And Jimmy loves that. Yeah, you're in the perfect placeat
He'll take good care of you, Anthony. It's so great
to have you before before you wear run out though,
you want to say something.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh, I do have one question.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yes, you said three days ago you were at the
verge of hanging it all up, you were about to
be done. What were you going to do instead?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah? I asked you that. You never answered, baskin Robins.
What are we thinking?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Dog sanctuary?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Maybe come on, it could be what would you do?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You had no idea?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Honestly, I really had no idea. You know, you know,
I've been I've been really enjoying producing. I've been producing
stuff lately too, and helping other people make movies, which
has been great. And uh and uh so that's been
really really fun. Like one of my production partners right
now is here, my boy Rio over here. He's a
director and incredible writer, and you know, so it's it's
(25:10):
been awesome working with him and my brother. We start
our own company, and you know, we've been really like,
you know, thankfully, I've you know, been blessed again to
meet a lot of people and and you know, and
I think I know when a script is good. So
it's just like the hardest thing to find is a
good story, right and once you find that good story,
(25:30):
it's like, yo, we got a good script. Most actors
all they want to do is a good script.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You know. You get that, you get the writers, you
build a community, sirum, maybe produce it or.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Something, you know, something behind the camera. I'm really enjoying
the Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna for sure do that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I want to say thank you for not quitting music
because I came in and said to Elvis, this is
my new favorite song. Driving in every day, I see
Times Square, I see you know whatever. And this morning
I was stopped. I haven't took a video of it.
I was stopped at the light and I was listening
to it. I was like, I am from here. This
song is freaking awesome and it made me feel so good,
(26:08):
and I was like, I love this so thank you
for not giving up and for doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
NBA just bought this rights to this song. Yeah. Timing
is pretty timing is pretty excellent hearing.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Next next, we're in the playoffs the New York Knicks.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
If you're listening anybody from the Knicks, put this in
the garden.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Put this in the garden.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think I can make a phone call Anthony Ramos.
Thank you for coming into.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Thanks for having me. I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Guys Like, Okay, I can either push this button or
this button? Which button? Sure I pushed choose wisely?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Wait first before, I just want to say again Nate
on the air, I'm so happy to see you, brother.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I'm happy to see you healthy, but said I was
in the hospital. But after the second stroke, and who
do I get a message from this guy right here?
Nice and make.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Sure you leave him when he has a third one
to leave him. Leave him a message. Consistency pays off. Okay,
do I push this button or this button? Choose wisely
the right button.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is broke. When my good damn, it's over.
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
How excited I got when you shouted out the bronx
because so many people are always like Brooklyn, I'm like,
hello late.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Wait, hold on, back up, I didn't hear anything about
Settn Island and there thank god, Anthony, Anthony Rooms is
here all right. We got to watch the dump button.
This guy has a foul mouth. No, no, that that
was That sounds who who wouldn't love that sound? You know,
even if you didn't speak English or Spanish, you would
(00:29):
love that sound. You can hear, you can hear the energy,
you can you can hear the lyrics without even knowing
who the words are. That that says a lot. Even
I'm saying you're a bad singer or anything, but I'm
saying that. He said, you know, Anthony, you can't sing,
but the rhythm. Yeah, there is the energy, the energy
that that band's powerful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That was awesome. Thanks, thanks you so great to see y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You love your hometown.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I love being from New York. You know, it's not
like it's nothing like being from New York. It's crazy
like even when we when I you know, when I
wrote this song, I was like, I think it was
my boy Nazarie's idea, Like, uh, you know Nazrie, the Nazarie.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He's the least singer of magic.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I've heard of magic.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, so he's a I mean, he's a prolific songwriter.
And I think Nazary was like, you know, Anthony, we
gotta do. You gotta do like an anthem for New York.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I was like, yo, you know what, that's right, But
it really came from it came from a breakup. Like
I had a breakup. I broke with my ex girlfriend
in like Europe.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I can hear the sadness in that song, and I
was like that about break up.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, And I was struggling to find the first line.
We like, we were like playing around with a bunch
of different first lines.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And then I'm just like, why don't we just say
what happened? Took up with?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You broke up over Yeah, but here you are, even
after a breakup, you heal in New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah. I was like, yo, I gotta get out of here.
Where do I go? You know? By the way, For
the record, she's a great girl, She's amazing, But it was.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just, yeah, it was you know, I was just I
was out there and I was like, man, I had
just flown out there. I was there for like probably
two seconds, and I was like, Yo, this isn't you know?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I got it? I got it in this And the
next thing, you know, I'm like, dang, where do I go?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Like, I just need to go somewhere where where I
can feel like I can like, you know, rejuvenate, recharge, feel,
be surrounded by love.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And the first thing I thought about was New York.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There is in your auntie's basement, my auntie's basement. I
just got goosebumps. By the way, let's talk about it, Anthony.
You know what, uh, this business you're in, you came
into it at a very unique time. You actually saw
the tail end of what was the music business, and
then you experienced what it evolved into. And it still
is evolving today. It's not what it used to be.
(02:44):
I mean, it's rough. If and Anthony will tell you
maybe in your own words, I'll open it up for you.
In this business, you've got to be working round the clock.
You got to be everywhere. You gotta have your your
foot in every single puddle in the music business. Otherwise
you become irrelevant. Overnight and you feel like you're drowning
and you don't You're like, don't what do I do? Yeah,
and this is sort of what you were feeling in
(03:06):
this business a little bit, right, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I was talking to me about it earlier.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I was like, you know, it's it's uh, yeah, it's tough,
you know, Like I mean, the last time I saw y'all,
I was like twenty nineteen or something like that, right,
And and I love music. I mean, I don't know
if I love anything more than music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And it was just but it was really really hard
like it for a while there, I just like, I
don't know if I want to do this anymore. I
was signed. I was signed for like seven years or
something like that. But thankfully I had a really great
relationship with the president of the label and we had
we had an amazing talk.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Like it was like it was such a good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was like how you would want to break up
to be like, you know somebody like this mutual love
and respect and you're just like, hey, like this ain't
working for you, it's not working for me, Like can
we please? Can we please end this? Like can I
please try to? A while on my own and and
and give it a shot. You know it's not it
is I'm not enjoying this anymore. I don't want to
do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You're ready to just give it up. I just want
to what were you going to do? Yo?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I mean I was it was. It was interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I was even talking about my my manager like today
and yesterday about it like I was like, like three
days ago, I just wanted to quit it all together,
all of it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Wow, because it's just a wild business.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Like you think about it, right, Like we're constantly and
again right like Nate, we were talking about it right,
like it's always like you feel like you're in this
and like you know, no punitentd Like I ran the
New York City Marathon last year and it was crazy,
I'm in this marathon and it just felt like such
a microcosm for my life. Like you think about it, right,
you're running these twenty six and nobody tells you about
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the point two miles.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Nobody, right, but you're running this marathon.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You run this marathon and you're just like all I
was just like one mile at a time, one mile
at a time.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you and I think in this business.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Us they teach us that it's not about you know,
it's not about the marathon, right, I think, especially I
think a lot of executives, it's about how much money
can we make, How can we monetize as quickly as possible,
How can we make as much money as we can
off of this person, you know, as quickly as possible.
And then when that starts to fade, who's the next
(05:21):
person we can make the most money off of? And
then they just kind of forget about the five that
they made millions off.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of, you know. And and that's just a cycle.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So when you're an artist, you constantly you feel like
you got you have to keep running, and you got
to be running as fast as you can to try
to stay at the front of the line. But who
can sustain that?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's got to really wear you down.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I mean it's tiring. It's tiring, and you're just kind
of like yo, like, well but.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're still here though, So talk about that. But I
want to hear that because you could have just exited
that highway, but you decided to stay on it. We
just heard that you the person who's giving up doesn't
make a song like that, so obviously something something woke
you up and said, nah, we still have it. Let's
(06:08):
do it this way. Yeah, that's what you did.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You know it was you know honestly, it really just
started off with that call. And I just like called
and I said, hey, like, can you know, can I
just I really want to take a shot and go
out on my own. I really want to do this
on my own if I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Gonna mean it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So, I want to go independent. I don't want to
I don't want to be on a label. I don't
want to be you know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I want to pay for it all. I pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, Like, and thank you acting. I'm not quitting because
thank you for paying for the music.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But really, like, and I started.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Even when I do movies, when I'm on set, I
know why I'm there, I know that I'm doing it
because yo. But I love first of all, I do
love to act. I love the art of it. I
love creating something. I love looking at a script, and
I love like looking.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
At it all.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Right, where the beginning in the middle of the end,
How can we how can we expand on this character?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
How can we improve this character's dialogue?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
This doesn't feel deep enough for this doesn't feel funny enough,
like this is actually a crazy situation. As characters in
this ship. Sorry, this thing should be sorry that slip
nothing nobody. Okay, great and.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Let's go next.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Let's go next.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
As an actor, you need to enunciate better better, So
thank god you didn't there. Okay anyway, But so you
you love the art of acting, Yeah, I love I
love it.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I love the work, I love the craft.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love going into the studio and making us writing
a song like you going there and there's nothing, there's nothing.
And then with this like I had never had experienced
writing south side music, so I didn't know what like
so nails are so nails are like these ad libs
that southside singers do, like you know, so so so Elvis,
you made a joke about how like man south side music,
it feels like it goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It does.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But that song is just as.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Long that The length of that song is just this
is the length of a regular pop song that has
a double chorus at the end, or has a pre
and a you know, or broke down chorus.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But music social music also do you go into different
phases of different sounds. It sounds like different songs, but
it's all compacted, and that's that's what I love about
it because it's so musical, it's so like you. You're
not You're not sitting in one frequency right, Like I'm
taking you in three minutes and three seconds, I'm taking
you in like four or five different vibes in the
(08:30):
same song, but with the same time signature and the
same It's that clive right, that is that percussion that
keeps you, that keeps you going. But what I love
this is why you're still in it. That's why I
love it, man, I love it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You know, Sergio George, you know, I don't know if
y'all know who he is, but he's Sergio George is
probably arguably the greatest South Side producer of all time,
and he produced all of Mark Anthony's albums. He produced
you know, Laindia, like all the Sousade legends, right d
LG all these guys. And I'm from New York, so
like I grew up listening to all of these artists,
(09:03):
but they were all singing in Spanish, so I felt
like there was a disconnect, or I felt like there
was a uh, you know, when you feel so close
to something, but you know you feel like when you're
at the aquarium, You're like, Wow, that's so beautiful, but
I'll never be able to touch that animal.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Gandhi's actually jumped in and.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah there was. She's like, let them shock, you know,
just wild.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
But you know what, the disconnect is gone. You know
you can hear it. It's it's there. Yeah, what's that noise?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That's mine?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh my god, sound like a porn what you're watching
it on the way to the station? This?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know, this is actually my teacher, Sarah Steinwise. She
did like a listening right now. I don't know, maybe
I talked that's the Hey, I'm gonna be on Z
one hundred this morning. Listen, and she she made like
a motivational kind of video about the Nicks and their
journey and uh yeah, yeah, she's Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
She was my theater teacher in high school. I feel
like I talked about her last time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You did very much so you cried.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, she's she's so special. She's so special.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I'm glad you didn't throw in the towel.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
No, me too.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I'm glad you had some money from acting. By the way, God,
I mean, you know, I'm counting it every day. I
mean like musicians dance. I was like, you know, we
didn't even talk to you since then In the Heights
came out, and I'll tell you question that was. I
thought you did such a beautiful job. That was such
a beautiful film. I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Next Door, then you're okay in it? Next door to
New York.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Next door at the New York City Center. They're doing
In the Heights next year, a limited run. I'm wondering,
are you going to be in it?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, no, I'm not a part of that, but I
got some friends in it, so I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I believe you.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm writing a musical though, Okay, yeah. Yeah, So that
that's been fun. That's that's been really fun working on that.
I've been doing that for like five years. Oh wow,
you know, six years or something like that. But but yeah,
you know, hopefully I'll be back on stage at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That scares me.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Being on the stage scares me.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It scares me too.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know, when you've got a camera, they can cut
all that. That was bad. Let's do it again. Yeah, when
you're when you're in a studio recording, oh lip soock,
Let's do it again. When you're on stage food. Anthony
Ramos is here by the way, if you're just turning
us on. And of course we just played in New
York City. It's out now. Uh, Gundhi, what's up?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Were you about to say that you're removing one of
the barriers of saw some music because you're doing it
in English. I feel like you were getting to it,
and then I cut you off with the Shark.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
No, it's okay. The shark story was dope, though I
was worth being cut off for it. But it's yeah,
you know, Southside Southside is uh has always been in Spanish.
And you know when Sergio George, you know, I met
him backstage at Mark Anthony show in Miami and and
I had sent him this song I wrote with my
(12:00):
boy will Wells, who I've worked with for years. Uh
and uh and another guy named Bobby Love. We wrote
a song called I was the one that that Surgerio
I sent him. I sent him this song like a
couple of years ago, and it was in English. It
was an English pop song, just a pop song. But
but nas Ree's like, I think this could be a SASA,
so I sent it to Surge. Surge is like I
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liked the song and that was it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was okay. Great.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
A year goes by. I bump into him backstage. He's like, yo, yo, man,
what are you doing with that song? I was like, oh, Serger,
I don't know, man, nothing. He's like, he's like, y'all,
let me get that. I was like, oh, you want
it for real? He's like yes. I was like, go ahead,
do whatever you want with it. He turns it over
in like two weeks. He produced it all out, He
got all the players, turned this pop song into a
complete south Side and I'm talking about like that mister
(12:47):
faked out. It was crazy listening to this, and honestly,
it really it really was like a like a light
bulb moment where I was like, I was like, that's
kind of fire. And he put the song out, kind
of went viral on TikTok, and he keeps texting me,
I think we have something. I think we have something.
I think and you know again, I was I was
kind of like opposed to it because you know that
(13:10):
again that doubt creeps in, that doubt about like man,
like is it worth doing music again? Is it worth
throwing myself into it again? Like and giving it the
effort that it takes right to really to really like
be successful in music. You gotta be all be successful
for anything, you gotta be all in. And and I
was like, I don't even know if I want to
do that at this point. And and he he just
(13:31):
kept pressing and pressing and pressing, keeps texting me. He's like,
I'm telling you we got something. So finally I'm you know,
we get on call a couple of calls and and
he says, I think we should do a whole album.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I was like, whoa.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I was like that sounds expensive. He's like, Noahna, we're good.
We're good.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Like, no, you know how expensive is making an album?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
But I'll be honest, I will say that that it's
different front when you're paying for it and you own it.
It's it's you know, because when you think about it,
we get this money from these labels, but it's alone,
so I got to pay them back.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Right, you know. And And and although it's that business sucks,
I mean the business.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's again right, like I'm blessed
that that I've been blessed to be able to to
pay for this record.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But I will say, right like Serge gave me the
homey deal. He did, he gave me, he gave me
the ultra Hoby deal.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
And and and there are ways to do it right,
you give more on the back end or right, there's
there's ways to make it work and to make it
make sense for every creative accountant.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, if I own this radio station, we wouldn't be
in midtown Manhattan, where would be a Trader park out.
And if I said this is high.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But you I heard you use the words I don't
give an f If they don't like it, yeah, I
don't get that. But but today and on the station, no, no,
I think it's empowering to say, don't I'm doing this
for me. If they don't like it, that's their problem,
not mine. And that's what a true artist has to do,
(15:12):
to get the courage to just blow it out like
you've done.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There you go, Yeah, I mean I just think you
know I made I made a joke with you guys
before where it's like yo, like if somebody walks into
my house, I love my house.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I bought it and I love it. Like if you
don't like it, that's cool. You don't have to stay right,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm gonna stay though, and I'm as sleep here like
a baby. So this album is your house.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, this is like it feels like I'm home, Like
I feel like I've settled into you know, when they're like, oh,
you gotta find your sound, and they love to say
that's the favorite is you got to find your sound.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But I think I found. I found my song, you know,
more than my sound. I found what my song is.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I watched this play called Joe Turner's. It's on brab
right and and and you know, there's a monologue that
who says it? Ruben says it basically like I don't
know the name of his character, but he tells he
tells my boy Josh Boone, right, Josh Boone's character.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I can't remember the name of the character.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I know the people, the names of the people, but
not the character. And he tells him, He's like, you
forgot how to sing your song. And I think for
seven years, not that I forgot, I just didn't know
how to sing my song because I never felt like
I had the space to do it, or I didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I kept just trying to listen to other people and
and I'm like, okay, well if they if they've had
success in this, then maybe I should sing a song
like that. Or if they've had success that way, man,
maybe instead of me trying to.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Find my own. So you lost your way, I've just
lost my way? And how many.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
People listening to this right now could apply that to
themselves or someone they love life, even if music is
not involved. You know what, you have a family, you love,
You do everything you can to make sure they're taking
care of whatever, and then one day it's just isn't
the same? You lost your song? You know, if you've
lost your way in any business or anything you're doing
and you lose it, that you lose your song. It's
(17:15):
the same thing. Everyone listening right now is understanding what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, And with Sergio, I just like when he asked
me to do this record, I said the only way
I'll do it is in English and he looked at me.
I'm talking about wreck a scratch right right, and he said,
why see, I'm glad you did. I said, because that's
the language I grew up speaking. That's how I know
how to write a song.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But all the fans want to hear it. I mean,
there are a lot of people who don't really speak
Spanish all that well, but they love the field, saw
some music, and so I'm one of them. I'm little
Scottish white boy from Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
What do I have that?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But you know what, I can't wait to see Elphs
dance in South You need to get that, you I will.
I will be pregnant by the end of the night. Hey, look,
I got to be a godfather. Maybe the father. Hey question,
uh speaking of music, speaking of turning people onto music,
they need to be turned onto What do you What
(18:07):
are your feelings about Bad Bunny halftime at Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I think I think what he did was again groundbreaking, right,
like all in Spanish, So you think about that's the
reverse of what I'm doing, right.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
God got saying English, she sang, she did, She's sang
in English, she did.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But but but right, he opened the door for her
to come and do that style of music, right, like
that's she sang a South South song? Yeah right, And
and it was like what was so funny was that
Sergio text me as soon as he saw that. He said,
and I'm telling you we're on the right track, Like
(18:45):
he'd be sending me random messages. Anything he sees a
sign or something, he's say, we're doing it. This is
the you know, we're on the right. I love you, Sergio.
He's amazing, Sergio George like and and and you know,
he's like, you know, he's he was you know, I
I think, what what what Benito did? You know, what
Bad Bunny did was just so groundbreaking in the sense
(19:05):
that he brought, especially bringing Puerto Rican culture like that
to you know, with the light poles, they were different,
there were different like uh, you know, like small things
that he put in the production. You know that that
really like we're you know, paid homage to Puerto Rico
and the culture and the life you know, and and
(19:26):
and what the Puerto Rican people have been through over
over the years. And uh, you know, and I think
that he just he's just so he's such a creative.
He has such a creative mind. And for him to
have the platform to do that, I think opened the
open the eyes and of I think artists like me
where we were like, oh yeah, like let's go, it
(19:47):
was perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We about to break this wife.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I watched it again the other day. I watched it
like every month or two, and you know a friend
of mine from Puerto Rico. She said, there was one
scene in there that only my people understand. Everyone in
the town gets together, has the big party at the
house and their kids. The parents keep going for the
kids they can't sleeping, they find a place to curl
up and go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I loved it, and they get carried home at the night.
Everyone had something out of that performance.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And Ricky Martin, you know, what he was singing about
in Spanish was very like political, you know, for him
to be singing that at the super Bowl at the
most patriotic yeah thing.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
A lot of people were totally pissed off of them.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I couldn't even believe that they let Ricky Martin sing that,
Like yeah, I was like wow, But he did what
he did and I was like yo. I was like yo,
Benito's a g for this, Like he's like all of them.
It just made me feel so proud to be Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I was like, yo, speaking of who's the king of
the Puerto Rican Day Parades this Sunday, I wonder, are
you the king of the Puerto Rican Day Parade? My mom,
she's going to be.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The one riding around the convertible. She must be so excited.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Oh, she's hip so high. I want to invite this friend.
I want to invite that for Anthony was coming. I
was like, man, I promise you. I don't know nothing
about the logistics. I'm just gonna pull up. I don't
know anything.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You're getting the best day ever.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I gotta tell you. One day I was in the city.
They said, you don't go to the city today, Porto
Rican Day Parade. It's going to be angels are crazy.
You don't drive, you can take a train.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yo. That accent that sally from Like.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So, I'm driving my little Volkswaggen on the West Side
Highway and I'm stopped and I'm going, oh damn, this
is Puerto Rican Day Parade. It's the first one I
ever experienced. This is years ago. And somehow, you know,
there's a park off the side of the West Side
Highway on the Hudson River, And somehow I ended up
in that park and there's barbecuing in there. Man. They
I was by myself. I was there for four or
(21:42):
five hours.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
This family brought me in, got me drunk. You went
to the park. Yeah, I loved it. They made me
on no, I was in there.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I was.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It was the best day ever.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I was eating the food.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I was, wow, what's your beach?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Big?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It was amazing what you put razings in your picle?
What are you doing? So?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I know this? Now? What did they give you? They
gave you like the moonshine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They gave me everything.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I couldn't drive.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I couldn't drive. They had to give me a ride
to my friend's apartment. Anyways, Look, they get you drunk,
give you a ride. Look, I love my people. I
know what America gives me. On Puerto Rican date parade day. Look,
so Anthony Ramos will be now 's your mom with
you in the car?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah, that's so cool. I'm still trying to decide if
I even want to be in the car. I was like,
I want to walk with my friends. I want to walk. Okay,
they were like, now you got to be in the car.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I was like, for what, let me just they'll kidnap
you and get you drunk.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, So talk about this album. When do I hear more?
When do I hear more of? See more of you?
Like you're now you know what you're in? You're in
gear now again doing gear? Doing what you truly should
be doing.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
We got the car on the road, like we're back.
You know, I'm back, you know, And this is my
favorite music. I mean, I love all the music I've
ever made, but this for sure feels the most authentic
to me. And and the live shows, like I've already
performed live and uh.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know, can I talk about Jimmy Jimmy fallon tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
We've heard Jimmy fallon?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, Yo, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What was crazy was I ran into Jimmy I f
one so I'm I'm coming out of the thing and
he's coming in.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I'm like, yo, Jimmy, what's He's like, hey, Bud. We
started talking. He's like, what's up with your music? And
I was like it was just so cool like that.
He He's like, man, dude, when when when you put
more music out there? And I was like, well, it's funny, bro.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I was like, the first song comes out on Friday,
and he's like, oh man, we got to get you
on the show. We'll support you, and and uh, you know,
I shot him a text and uh and I just
sent him the song and he's like, yo, just send
me and uh, we you know, we had her back
for a little bit, and all of a sudden the publicsher.
You know, they hit me like, hey, Jimmy Fallon performance
(23:55):
through uh the eleventh, what's today tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Oh my gosh, you know it's tomorrow. It's tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
It's right down the street from here, by the way.
You'd either hold your hand walk please.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
See this is how it gets It gets crazy. You know,
things are popping. When things get crazy, you don't even
know you're on Jimmy Fallon Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, but I'm just so excited, Like we got all
the dancers, we got the band, we got a big
band playing.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
And Jimmy loves that. Yeah, you're in the perfect placeat
He'll take good care of you, Anthony. It's so great
to have you before before you wear run out though,
you want to say something.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh, I do have one question.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yes, you said three days ago you were at the
verge of hanging it all up, you were about to
be done. What were you going to do instead?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah? I asked you that. You never answered, baskin Robins.
What are we thinking?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Dog sanctuary?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Maybe come on, it could be what would you do?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You had no idea?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Honestly, I really had no idea. You know, you know,
I've been I've been really enjoying producing. I've been producing
stuff lately too, and helping other people make movies, which
has been great. And uh and uh so that's been
really really fun. Like one of my production partners right
now is here, my boy Rio over here. He's a
director and incredible writer, and you know, so it's it's
(25:10):
been awesome working with him and my brother. We start
our own company, and you know, we've been really like,
you know, thankfully, I've you know, been blessed again to
meet a lot of people and and you know, and
I think I know when a script is good. So
it's just like the hardest thing to find is a
good story, right and once you find that good story,
(25:30):
it's like, yo, we got a good script. Most actors
all they want to do is a good script.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You know. You get that, you get the writers, you
build a community, sirum, maybe produce it or.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Something, you know, something behind the camera. I'm really enjoying
the Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna for sure do that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I want to say thank you for not quitting music
because I came in and said to Elvis, this is
my new favorite song. Driving in every day, I see
Times Square, I see you know whatever. And this morning
I was stopped. I haven't took a video of it.
I was stopped at the light and I was listening
to it. I was like, I am from here. This
song is freaking awesome and it made me feel so good,
(26:08):
and I was like, I love this so thank you
for not giving up and for doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
NBA just bought this rights to this song. Yeah. Timing
is pretty timing is pretty excellent hearing.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Next next, we're in the playoffs the New York Knicks.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
If you're listening anybody from the Knicks, put this in
the garden.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Put this in the garden.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think I can make a phone call Anthony Ramos.
Thank you for coming into.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Thanks for having me. I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Guys Like, Okay, I can either push this button or
this button? Which button? Sure I pushed choose wisely?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Wait first before, I just want to say again Nate
on the air, I'm so happy to see you, brother.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I'm happy to see you healthy, but said I was
in the hospital. But after the second stroke, and who
do I get a message from this guy right here?
Nice and make.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Sure you leave him when he has a third one
to leave him. Leave him a message. Consistency pays off. Okay,
do I push this button or this button? Choose wisely
the right button.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is broke. When my good damn, it's over.
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