November 10, 2025 • 40 mins
In this episode, we interview the new CEO of the iconic mexican independent label, Del Records. Del Records was established in 2009 by Angel Del Villar. Andrew Del Villar (his son) steps up to take his position. In the episode Andrew del Villar expresses his experience watching his dad Build his empire. Through out the years Andrew Del Villar learns the record label business while being mentored by his day(Angel Del Villar). He expressed that he did not expect to take this important position so early on but feel more than ready to be the CEO of the family owned label.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something that we had to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What we had you here is about your dad and
you know, like the legal case that's been going on.
You know we I feel like most of us have
seen it on the news. How has that process been
like for you? I know that's a very like it
must be a very tough situation. And personally, how do
you feel when you see you know, hundreds of people
you know talking about your dad some stuff is you
know it's false, it's false, or you know, just like
(00:24):
negative criticism or you know, just talking ship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How does that make you feel? And then also you
mentioned you know you stepped up because you know, because
of what's going on. Did you have to step up
sooner because of what happened or were those the plans originally?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What's Up?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Guys, Welcome back to another podcasting Because are new to
this channel, make sure you guys like coming and subscribe
and listen to us on the iHeartRadio app or wherever
you listen to your podcast. But today, guys, we're bringing
the guests back. Today we have a very special guest.
Yes sir, the new CEO of Dell Records are Homie
too and go Thank you, Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I know it's been long overdue and we I know
we talked about it too, but yeah, of course everything
happens for a reason, and now we're here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Damn that title sounds crazy. How do you feel when
you when you hear that?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Good? I know it's something that of course we knew
was going to be coming sooner than later as well,
because I know my dad's plan was always to have
me take over after after he would have stepped down.
And like I said, feel good, feel happy, confident, I'm
ready to work.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So this was like your dad's and you know when
he first brought it up to you, was this something
that like you were like, oh, I'm down, I'm down
to do this, or were you kind of like let
me see how.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It is and then no, I feel like it was
always my dad's plan. Like I said, I've been working
with my dad and the company for like nine years.
I think I started when I was like seventeen, So,
like I said, of course, he's been prepping me throughout
the years, and of course the time finally came or
he made the decision to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So when you were seventeen old, are you right now
twenty six twenty six. Yes, now they made too. No,
we're twenty five. He's gonna be twenty.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I'm gonna be twenty six, So we're gonna be saying.
But you know the CEOPA, this is why I'm not
invited him to my birthday party.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He's almost thirty twenty six and invited his birthday party.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I happened to you know who your true friends? Right bro?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For it was how do you know who your true
friends are and invite you to their party?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Matter the last year? Reason? At wa, y'all think about
that for real, you guys, let me know. But once again, congrats.
I mean, the news isn't out yet. We're filming this
before you know, by the time you guys are watching
the you know, like the news is I'm pressure Bill
where and all these like crazy people are posting about it.
Once again, congrats. You know we're going to see each
other in Oh no, that already passed. We saw each
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other in Vegas when I seen you in Vegas at
like and uh, but yeah, tell us a little bit
about yourself. We've known you know. Obviously your dad is
on hinto the beach. He started created the records, which
is one of the big, one of the biggest uh
Muskami Kana record labels. And you know, I feel like
not a lot of people knew who Andrew was. They
will now, but tell us a little bit about yourself.
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You know, how you got started, you know, growing up,
you know, your dad having like the label and like
you know, and all these crazy artists.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of course, how I grew up, Like I said, I
think my dad started the label when I was like
eight nine years old. It was in no way laid away,
so of course I kind of grew into the music,
if I'm being honest. At first, I was in a
fan I want to hear this music because growing up,
but little by little got more involved hearing the music,
liking the music, And like I said, I don't think
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it was that crazy in my eyes, just because I know,
of course, if you put people in my position, they
had a lot of artists in the past decade, of course,
like you said, Adiel Regulo, Herrado, Los Pleves Lisis, And
for me, I just saw more as family when they
were here. I never saw them as nothing bigger, just
because for me, it's just I think we're all the
same at the end of the day, doesn't matter how
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big how small you are. So even today, like when
I see these big artists, I congratulate them and I
just wish everybody the best as well. So, like you said, me,
growing up, I never really felt like you say, starstruck
or nothing, especially being in this industry so young.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah, that's a really good answer.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then when you were in school, like, did people
know that your dad owned the records?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not? Really, always try to keep it low key. It's
because I never liked the attention. I don't like being
in the limelight or nothing. But of course I know
over time, and it's funny because me and my dad
always talk about it's something that I don't like, but
I know it's something I'm gonna have to grow into
and put myself out there, especially with the big label
we have. I know someday it was gonna come or
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I have to step up, be on the limelight and
do things like this, where of course I'm uncomfortable doing it,
especially right now, but it's like I'm un comfortable, but
it's something I know I have to get used to
and of course continue doing as well.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And during these nine years of you seeing you know,
your dad build this business, what are some challenges and
struggles that you see that that you've seen your dad
like go through to build this, you know, this huge
record label, and I mean it's of course it's like
super iconic. It's almost a staple in the in the industry.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Oh thank you, No, it's it's been a it's been
a good you could say, seventeen years. And of course
the struggle as well, you've had a when he first
started in Oao nine, it's when, of course cities were
still very popular in demand. He had they call me
just fail. When my dad started all this and he
had a lot of obstacles, there was not many independent labels.
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So my dad, of course he was he's always been
a go getter, always been somebody to keep on pushing himself.
It's never been he's never been a person to be comfortable.
So he always wants more and more and more, just
to keep on pushing. And like you said, like in
these past seventeen years, the struggles were of course those
struggles and after that I think it went very well
from as well, because of course heardo and his time
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was a monster. He had a regular Noeldores adel Camancho,
Luis coronet and a bunch of artists after as well,
So he had it was a it was a good
It was a struggle, I say in the beginning. But
after that, of course he just had a bunch of
great artists after that as well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And then growing up a growing up did you ever
have like other careers in mind?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Not? The only thing I could say is or I
think you mentioned when you're growing up as a kid,
you're like, I want to be police, so I want
to be a firefighter. It's like those things where you're
growing up as a kid and you have those things
in mind. I never knew what I said. That was
my main thing when I was a kidding, but you're
talking about when I was six seven eight. But since
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I grew into this, it just this became what I
fell in love with. I don't think I see myself
doing anything else other of course, other ventures, but music
is something I always like doing.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So like in high school and stuff like, you weren't
like trying to send up to college or things like that,
or you already knew like.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I did go to college for a little bit, not
that long.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How long we went for I think that's how long.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Did you go for half and half a semester.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I know, I went for two days.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Schools not for me.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Ill when I rewent for my second semester because I
went half half some I'm like, all right, I'm gonna
go back, and I went somewhere closer to my house
and then I just signed up and I never.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Went because he dropped out first and then I dropped
out after. But before I dropped out, I remember we
saw a friend from high school and he's like, hey,
how's Jason doing? And then I was like, oh, like
you just dropped out of he dropped out of school.
He's not working around like, oh, he's making it big.
Now you're not doing he stepped on.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You know what I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be imna,
I'm gonna keep it real with you. So the reason
why I didn't go continue like going to college is
because I thought, like my my fast food didn't go through.
So I was just like, because you're what my fast
foo is basically like like where the government potentially, I
was like, my ship didn't go through, Like I gotta
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drop out and do something else, you know, but I
should have went back.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He didn't try that hard to like the whole paperwork
is pretty tough.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It is, like it was.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was something new for us because like nobody we
knew went to college.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But I remember I was I wasn't that mad when
I got kicked out because my fas had just gone
through and I remember they gave me like five thousand
dollars and I was like I was walking up for
like three months.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What did you do with those five thousand and nine Mmmm?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They actually literally do much.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think just like every day spending stuff for me,
hanging out with these guys is expensive. Nah, we actually
kind of made you drop out of Yeah, that was
kind of great. We didn't make you, but like it
just happened. Because what happened was they when they started
the podcast. Since I had like my own like thing
going on, I just went to school and then I
remember like like more stuff like started happening or like
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oh we're going here, we're going there, and remember I missed.
What happened was I missed one class, and I guess
you can only miss one. So when I missed the
second one and I went back and they're like they
did like the like the calling the names, the row caller.
Yougo and they're like, oh that if I didn't call you,
like let me know, and you didn't call me, Oh,
you're not in here, you've been dropped.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I was like, what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's like, all you've been dropped for missing two classes.
And I was like and then they sat in front
of everybody too, So I was kind of like, I
don't know what to do, so I just walked out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I never went back.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I didn't even ask questions or anything, went for roll
con left. I don't think it's because it was a
little class, so you can really do that, damn.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And kind of going back to the label thing, what
is some advice that your dad gives you on on
running and label? I'm pretty sure it's like probably the
most difficult thing to do, you know, it is out of.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Some advice it gives me. Don't take nothing personal. It's
a business at the end of the day, because I
know sometimes you'll fall in love projects, and of course
things happen overnight or within time. So like you said,
just don't take stuff personal. And there's always gonna be
uh people get and then there's always gonna be people
talking no matter whether you do good or bad. Yeah,
(10:39):
So not taking nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, that's kind of that's honestly, like a really good advice.
I mean, we started a record label not that long ago,
and you know there was like some projects that we
tried to work with and like we just it was
absolutely to go through. But then he like, you know,
like there's a lot of more out there and like
just just keep exploring, like don't fall in love with
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like the artists, like with the project, like just just
move on. And yeah, that's something we had to like
learn last week.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, we couldn't sleep, he said, he even man for
two months. That was until like three days ago.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
One almost been and Dell Record's obviously been a label
that's been, you know, in the spotlight for years. How
do you guys do or how do you deal with
their criticism because, like you said, someone always has something
to say, whether you know you do a really good
job or whether you know it doesn't do as good.
How do you deal with that, you know, that pressure
of the to be.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Honest, like if I see it on social media something,
I don't even look at it. It just like scroll
past it, just because like you said, there's always people
going to be talking no matter what you do. Good
or bad. So it's just like like for me, I
just not don't let it get to me. For the
most part, I don't even look at it. I just
start scrolling past it because it's like, of course you
don't want that bad energy also around you. So it's
like I'd rather just not see it or not hear
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it or just things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, And I feel like that's one of the toughest
things about a label too, because like, let you say,
you know, you a label and an artist like get
into an argument. The fans always choose the artists. Yeah,
And honestly, like before we started this podcast, like we
would look at it and be like, oh, you know,
like well they labeled that, that's just fucked up. But
as you like learn more and like you get really
get into it, and you know, like you started learning
little details, you're kind of like, damn, like the artist
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is kind of in the raw, but like the label
is not gonna be like they're not gonna make a
whole ass fucking video like hey, you know, funck there's
the artist or whatever, you know, because that's like a
bad look.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So of course it's a bad look, and of course
it's happened in the past as well with us. But
it's like, of course, at the end of the day,
people are always inside with the artists no matter what,
because at the end of the day, when you guys
hear music, you guys are friends of artists, not the
label for the of the part. And like I said,
so for us, for me, it's just more not to
hear or even argue with them, just whenever, whenever we
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have to whatever commitment we have it with ours, we
just try to finish with them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And yeah, yeah, I feel that's gonna be something to
I mean, well, he's actually gonna be He's gonna be
our first artists.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I was sitting him a little bit, but we already
talked to you like he will you fight. I don't
think we're gonna be a professional lady. I would be like, okay,
let's go Instagram life, let's get into it. And then
do you like, did you take that stance like kind
of on your own or is that kind of like
what your dad taught you or is that what you
saw him do? What stands as well as in as
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in like you know, being.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Professional, just like you know, don't pay attention to the criticism.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think it's more on myself just because how I
am as a personal drama or nothing like that. So
it's like, of course, it's like I've dealt with it
a little bit in the past, and when it starts happening,
it just like because you start distingus yourself with them
and whenever they commitments over personalel and like I said,
I just try not to let it get to me
because at the end of the day, there's always gonna
be a lot of bad comments, especially like saying the
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industry we're in and especially people are gonna be signing
with the artists, So I'd rather just not see it
or just not even pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And and then you mentioned how like you know you've
gone through this like in the past and you try
to not let it get to you, but at the
same time it could be draining, Like has it ever
like affected you like mentally or like to a point
where you're like, fuck, I don't want to do this shit.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, of course it has. I think, especially when you're
in that position, it's gonna drain you mentally, and sometimes
you're like we have to do this all over again.
But like I said, it's the part of the business,
especially you want to be in the music industry. It's
going to happen no matter what, if any good, any
bad you do, especially of course even if you do good,
no matter what, it's going to happen sooner later most
of the for the majority of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, because this is like a twenty four to seven job,
you know, something that's like for it's nighttime and like
you still got to be dealing with people because it's
not like the other jobs were like you know, you
clock out and you know, pisau. But yeah, I feel
like it's it's something that's that's pretty tough that people
don't see.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, And then do you feel like I kind of
like really want to get into it. How do you
feel having to step into you know, like kind of
like your dad shoes that role that you know, he
that he did, you know with Dout Records. I think
there's a lot of history behind it, like you know,
incredible success. How how do you feel having to you know,
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now do that knowing how much like success and legacy
you know he's leaving.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Behind, you know what. And it's funny because me and
my dad just talked about it yesterday too, And I
told him this, I'm not nervous. I'm not worried. I know,
of course, we have a lot of good talent on
a roster right now. We have an amazing team and
an amazing infrastructure as well. And it's not just only me.
It's a whole team behind me, and it was behind
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my dad as well. So, like I said, I'm not nervous,
I'm excited because I know what we're able to bring
to the table.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I mean, has he and he told you like certain
expectations or like what that he kind of like expects
from you in that sense.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, not really. I've been working with my dad for
so long. I really know what he expects. Yeah, so
like I don't, he doesn't really tell me much, but
I really know what to what he expects from me
as well.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, and the one thing I remember from like when
we interview your dad is that he told us how
like you guys are very like selective with like who
you guys signed, do you plan on continuing you know,
being selective or do you guys plan on like sending
a few more artists or.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Like, of course we're always going to be signing, but
we're not just going to sign anyone. We're always selective
of who we signed, who we thinks has potential. We
don't want to have twenty thirty artists. For the artists signed,
I think fifteen to They just say, I think fifteen
is a sweet spot to have signed because at the
end of the day, every artist needs their attention, their time. Yea,
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So I think with the fifteen is more than enough
to work on and develop them as well.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And have you guys signed any new talent recently or like,
are you planning to sign any new talent? Maybe after
the announcement.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Right now, we have three artists that of course we're
trying to sign by the end of the year. We're
just in those last couple of steps. And then we
just recently signed three other artists, Andy Luan, Marco Grania
and Koba Montana.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Damn, you guys got some heavy hitters then, Yeah, so
I wanted to ask so, like, oh, remember from when
we interviewed that it was a he likes to sign
artists and like develop them. He doesn't really like to
sign like an artist or already like known or it's
just like you know, but do you ever have any
plans of like signing like a big artist, like bring
them to the record.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Of course there's the opportunity comes why not, But I
think it's better to start in the development stage, so
like that he could kind of mode them and tell
them how to work and things like that, because when
you sign a big artist, they have already high expectations.
They already come from who's ever developed up in the past,
and it just it's it's a whole different ball game
as well. So for me, I prefer an artist in development.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, and then that's something that you need to have
patience with because like developing like it's gonna maybe take
like you know, like a year take it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Could take a month, two months, yeah, six months, three years,
four years, never.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeh never, be honest, you could be Yeah. Can you
tell us a little bit about that process. So you know,
an artist signs with you guys, what is that development process?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Looks like it could be from video content, so we
usually and then it's marketing video content, getting them studio,
choosing the right singles for them to push on their
social platforms, and just we come up a whole game
time behind that to start pushing out their music. And
like you said, it could take three, four six months too,
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however long it might take them to hit or they
might never hit.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And now that it's up to you, what are you
going to look for in an artist to sign to
the records?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think just look at what's not me when it
comes to artists ISOs ghanas because at the end of
the day, like there's a lot of artists in the
day and age right now where they just say they
signed to a label and they just sit back and
they want us to do all the work, when in reality,
when people sign they should be putting more work than
they were really doing. Now they have to do a
lot more work. They have, of course the infrastructure, the
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team behind them to help them and guide them. But
now it's it's of course it's a lot different.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I think there's a huge misconception right there that
artists think that they made it once they signed to
like a major label. But I feel like that's when
the when the major works start, you know, that's when
you start hustling and grinding to put yourself on the limelight.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, that's when you have, like you know, like a
real fighting chance IM making it once he signed to
the label.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So that's when you gotta go ten times hard. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
And talking about like developing artists, is there an artist
that you've seen developed from literally from the ground up
all the way to the top and like really surprised
you and kind of like you saw them from the
very bottom and up to like become a superstar. And
what was that experience like for you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
It's been It's happened a couple of times, of course
with the releases, and I think Lenny as well have
been artists that we developed from the ground up. Leases
was an upcoming artist. I think at that time he
only had the son, but of course it wasn't nothing major,
And of course they releases became a monster overnight. My
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dad pushed them. I had a whole marketing strategy behind him,
and he did what he did, and Lenny as well. Lenny,
I feel it took a little longer, but he had
a lot of hits. Joan recorded on the Manuel, so
like I said, it was just a process over time,
and when he hit, he hit, and he did very
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well for himself as well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah. I remember we were talking between the three of us,
how one of like the craziest things that do regers
has done is like you know first and then those
pleasure then like Relasa's like just back to back.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And like remember I remember your dad saying that nobody
else has really done that, you know, developing three artists
in a row from nothing all the way up. So
I mean, you guys must really have like that formula
dialed in.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, but it's like you said, it's not just us.
We also, of course we work kind of hand with
the artists and when the artists I feel like at
times when the artists knowledge, it throws that's where sometimes
you have that little conflict between But yeah, like I think, yeah,
we have the formula, we have the team to make
it happen for a lot of artists. Back the end
of the day, we also we have to work as
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a team. It's not just us and it's not just them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, the artists are to do the part because we
couldn't get an artist was one. Damn that's crazy too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was actually like mentioning when we started the recording
over there that sometimes it's like the things that you
don't really think about, you know, you'd think an artist
would want to, you know, give one hundred and well
two hundred percent you know now that they have the
chance opportunity to you know, like Chase, what they've been
saying is their dream and for you not to see
like that energy reciprocated, you know what to do?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know what to do. It's I don't know.
And then they blame the label.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And then what are you do in that case? Like
you have you know, like you're doing your part, they're
not really doing theirs. How do you go from there?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It just for us, well for me, I just like
you said, just keep on following up, keep on reaching
out to them, because at the end, you need the content,
you need the music, You need those things for the
artists to be in development, to create their own fan
base to create music. Of course, I think the major
thing when the artist doesn't post or put stuff on
social media, they don't because they have no fan base.
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They can't identify them. When they take off sound or nothing,
I'm like, oh, who's this artist? If they have no
following or nothing behind them.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
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We Hustled, kept their eyes on the price, locked in and.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Flow for you like Sprite Lanetta Studio, cut through the Rescue, Sprite, Sprite,
Obey your thirst. Guess we are back from the break.
And what I wanted to ask was, you know, aside
from the records, do you have any involvement in District
seven because I know you guys like started this whole
distribution company.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, of course, yeah, as well in Distro seven, I'm
also heavily involved. And of course we're there also trying
to sign artists to sign up for Distro et cetera.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And what's what's that like?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Honestly, for the people that don't know what is it,
what is the distribution company?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
A distribution company is pretty much of course, you need
somebody needs to put up your music. You can't feel yourself.
A lot of people there's multiple different dishal companies. And
my dad also it's been a couple of years he's
been wanting to planet, so we have also everything in house.
But besides that, we're also seen in the day and
age where a lot of artists they don't want to
(23:22):
sign to a label, they want to be independent, So
of course it's like being signed to deal with the
whole team infrastructure, but you're not signed to Dell and
we still support them on the distal side as well. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And what's the difference, Well, for like the people that
don't know, what's the difference between them uploading like on
like distro kid or toom core compared to like Distreal seven.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It's if you upload to let's just say, what is
that on.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Distro good DISCRIKID.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, okay, when you upload to dish o kid, it's
just pretty much you put in the song, you upload yourself.
But if something happens with claims, et cetera, there's nobody
that they're going to be able to help you physically.
And then as us distal saying we have a whole
team behind you and if something happens, of course we're
there to support you also and also talk to DSPs
replacement and just things like that.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's complicated.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
It's like three hundred things you have to do, and
that's why you want to start the rect label.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Man. You know what, I don't know you have to
do all this.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I didn't know what a distribution company was.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Then, so you guys can see it's not very but
I thought I was just gonna be like Don kiddie. Honestly,
it's pretty interesting how like there's so many moving components
to like a regulabel and distribution. I think something that
we've learned is getting on those playlist is probably one
of the most crucial things that can help you develop
as an artist. Something I just wanted that isn't there.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Switching up the topic, one of the I think like
one of the coolest days on my life, low key
was when we all hung out. I think we posted
a picture and for the people that don't know Andrew
Loki Rich as I pulled up.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We pulled up to his house. There was a bar
that's crazy, I've.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Never seen one, Lambo SVJ Lambell.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And then we each got to driving. Well, we didn't
get to drive, but we all got no. I wouldn't
drive that, okay. I went with Andrew in the Pegotti
and that she was crazy, Like bro, it was crazy.
Everybody turns like like you know, like they break their
necks like crazy, like you know, like the old white
vehetosmember when we passed by, like bro, everybody was like
bringing their necks and ship. And then one of the
(25:25):
craziest things to that I noticed that day is that
when we went to go eat, usually I feel like
it's like, you know, like the Mexicans looking at like
the rich white people, but it was like the opposite
that they had all the like.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, because they would break their neck to look at
the car and.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Then they would be like.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, and then like parking in the front and everything.
I had never experienced that. How do you feel about,
like about the cars, like you were, which was your favorite?
D WI is the Bugatti?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, it's for me. It's the smoothest sentence, the fastest car.
Some of the ones are a little jerky. So it's like, yeah,
like you said, you shouldn't be scared of driving them either.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It just.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You shouldn't be scared about letting me already.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
When you have your own. It's because it's like I
just say, like any other car, of course, just on
more speed. But like I said, don't be scared. It's
because one of my dad's friends sometimes you'll drive and
he's scared of driving. And sometimes like we're all going
like back to back from each other, and you see,
I'm like ten cars behind you see, like little PRIs
passing them like end up calling him like, bro, hurry up,
(26:30):
and he's like, bro, I'm scared to drive the car.
But I'm like, you can't be scared drivers. Of course
there it's a lot more price for your car, but
you just have to treat like any other car. Yeah,
but how you driving everything?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, it's a crazy experience. And then you guys have
like all these cars, but like personally like which ones
like have you bought or like?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Or that are your favorite or that are yours?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The ones that I that are mine is the what
was it?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The yours?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And the rain driver damn are the ones that usually
drive or use. But of course I I personally don't
like borrowing the cars, and I feel comforable driving any
other car because I usually get like driven every day
and I'd rather just be like that where I don't
have to drive or worry about it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, being traffic tray from from where.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I lived to to the offices hectic. Sometimes it's an
hour round trip every day, I mean our two hour
round trip. Sorry damn.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So I feel like I don't know when we're ever
going to be able to ask someone that you know
owns a Bugatti of uh Pugani all tho school cars,
which was the fastest one you've ever driven or been in?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Uh for me, the fastest that Bugatti by far. Yeah,
that's the one that picks up the fastest.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
For like two weeks, every person willing to listen to me.
I told him how that shit was crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I got.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I got to ride with your dad and he probably
stepped on it, like I think just twice, like throughout
the whole day.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But it was round like driving my daddy drives crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
No, No, he wasn't crazy that day.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
For me, I get scared.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, I just remember he stepped on it like right
when we got out out of the parking lot and
it was like one hundred miles an hours, like, but
it just seems crazy, like it's different. It's not like
a normal car, yeah, because it picks up a lot faster.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
So yeah, it was really in those cars, especially passenger
in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, no, I don't know what to think, more as
a passenger than the driver. Huh.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Yeah, driver feel nothing driving as a passenger.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Damn.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
When I was in the fucking the GG three RS,
I was like.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Fucking like there getting bullied all day.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Like Westles or some shpy skeleton west anything skinny bro, Yeah,
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And then what other like let's say, you, what do
you decide to like spend your money on or like
like a guilty pleasure as they say, or like a
hog or something like that.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Let me think about that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
He's like about my about a yall on Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
All right now, I don't really spend it I think before,
of course, growing up you'll spend it on. I think
damn things like close or sometimes going out and stuff
like that. Right now, just I would say either watches
it's probably my guilty pleasure right now, or a car
here and there. But I don't really try to overspend
it as much as before, especially when I was younger,
(29:14):
but I would always buy or going out constantly. Right now,
I just try to come down.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So let's say going out and you know you're saying
you kind of like regret a little bit. Is there
a time that you know comes to mind that you
remember like fuck, like the next day you're like take
the card away, like lock me in the room.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I'm never going out. No, I never had the experience
like that, okay, or like that you.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Remember like it was like, I don't know, a lot
of money at the club, like ten thousand dollars or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I don't want to disclose that.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I remember the car, remember he said, I Yeah, we
spent Like was it how much we spent one time?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I live, not that much left we still have, like
we're hurting you guys are still playing on Karna.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah America after those for that one, it was a
well four thousand just at the club, yeah, or was
it less well the whole trip in general?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think it was like seven thousands one day in Miami,
just one day, like literally, it wasn't even like twenty.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Four common subscriber please we no, no, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know they do like something at clubs. I
just want to I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
It's it's the alcohol, bro, it happens.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Do you have any hobbies, bro, Like, what do you
like to do besides you know, the record label thing
and spend money and watches?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
To be honest, bro, right now, I think more like
since I was always traveling when I was younger, I
have free time right now, especially on weekends where I'm
not traveling or as busy on the weekends, I'd rather
just be home chilling well my family, visit my mom,
visiting my dad. I have a lot of I have
two little siblings as well. I have He's eating who's
(30:59):
a year and a half, and then also Angela, who
is five, So I try to spend also time with
them since they're the smallest ones. And then besides that,
of course, also my other brothers with my mom, and
I also try to spend time with them as well
when I can.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
That's right, very family orientated.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I like that. I feel like that's so important too,
because I mean I feel like we're I mean, we're busy,
but not like I'm pretty sure you have like a
lot of things going on, but I feel like one
of the things that it's important is like family, you know,
because like you have, like all these artists, you got
to take care of they're basically like your kids, so
you got to take care of them, you know, you
got to be all their attention. Yeah, so I feel like,
(31:37):
you know, family is one of the most important things,
but the most important things, you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Know, and then once you know, you take on this
role like I was thinking of, you know how presidents
say like, oh, you know, my first one hundred days
in office, I guess what I'm gonna done, Like like
as soon as you like, you know, walk in their
CEO the records, like, what are the first things you're doing?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I feel like it's not I wouldn't say the first
things because it's already been like or my dad's give
me a lot of literalty throughout the years or even
more of the past couple of months, and I think,
of course I try to change certain things that my
dad would do, because of course you have to evolve
and do different things to stay more relevant. So it's
(32:16):
a it could be a bunch of different things. We
just had a we had a writing camp for the
artists just basically all the artists we have signed, the
newer artists, we had them all. We did a little
camp at the officer there for like six days writing music.
We're gonna probably do another one December, just to get
more content, especially them being at the office, because I
know sometimes they're like a bro when we're not there,
(32:37):
like they feel like not left out, but it's more
like they don't feel as united just because everybody's also
far away, and especially when they're together, they could all
be creative they call rite together and just things like that.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Has it Has there been an instant instance like you
were saying right now that you kind of tell your
dad like hey, you know like things are kind of
being done like this or this is like the new way.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And No, it's just more like we I think we
talk a lot. We just get ideas off of each other,
like I'll be like, hey, what do you think about
this or that? Or he'll tell me and then we
could just we pretty much just pay back off of
each other and just see, of course what way we
want to do it and not to do Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
That's that's super dope. And something about you know, having
a record label is seeing what's coming. What's the next wave?
What do you think is next for Muana? What do
you think is going to be the next wave?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I don't that's something. Of course, there's a lot of
different things. You have artists like you could say Victim
and d V and it's something different. Of course, Yayid
was something that's very different. Yes, there's there's always gonna
be new wave, something different coming up. And we've seen
in the past where there's always a new wave every
couple of years. It just of course, we just have
to see analyzing, try to catch it before it takes off.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
And you and your dad have been in the music
game for such a long time. When you guys see
an artist like, do you just know, like you know
there's going to be successful.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, you could say there's been artists like either I
catch for my dad catches like before they're successful. And
there's been times where I'm like, Dad, we should sign
and we should sign him. And sometimes, of course, sometimes
he's busy just with his own things, either personal or
just or with other artists that he doesn't of course see,
and it's likewise with him he'll be like, hey, what
do you think about them? And I'm yeah, And then
(34:19):
of course it just like I said, we just try
to also pay back up, paid back off of each other.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And have you guys ever sign Well, basically what you said,
can you name, like any artists that you guys that
maybe that you told your dad or your dad told
you you were like no or vice versa, and like
disorders just ended up popping off.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, Like for me, it's been a couple like I
told my dad a group of feared mean before they
took off, group of front THEA before they took off
and recently Tumble Chillo I think like also before he
really made that big step as well.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, it's crazy with MBO music.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Also, you brought up Dumbo to.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Your dad, like I think maybe a year and a
half ago.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
In a while.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Something that's very interesting about this industry is like the pace.
It's super hard to keep up with, but I feel
like when you're in the moment and you get it right,
I think it's a beautiful thing. I think that's the
beauty about this industry. It's like it's like magic almost.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah. And do you have any goals like set for
next year like with the label or is there like
an artists you want to develop and like you would
want to see them like in the top ten chargetheah,
of course there.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
We always have goals and there's I think a lot
of our artists, like I mentioned, have potential and it's
just to break one or two of the artists is
I think our goal is a team to develop them
and break them by next year. And like you said,
we have I think a pretty good roster. They're all
like I know they're not big names right now, but
I can see the potential in the future in them
where they could reach that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, because this is a long game. It's not something
that's like, oh, you sign it right away're gonna be
the next big start in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I wish something that we had to talk about what
we had you here is about your dad and you know,
like the legal case that's been going on, you know,
we I feel like most of us have seen it
on the news. How has that process been like for you?
I know that's a very like it must be a
very tough situation.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Yeah, of course, and we're always gonna stand by my
dad and always be here supportive.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Of course, that's why I'm also stepping up and and
being there for him and for the company as well. So,
like I said, we just all have to be positive
and always can't have a negative mindset went into.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
This And personally, how do you feel when you see,
you know, hundreds of people you know talking about your
dad some stuff is you know, it's false, it's false. Oh,
you know, just like negative criticism or you know, just
talking shit, Like how does that make you feel?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
It's like how you mentioned earlier, It just people are
gonna talk no matter what nobody's gonna know the truth
besides us. So it's like we're not gonna as well,
especially me. I'm gonna talk for myself. I'm not gonna
be here and be upset or mad or whatever. What
people are saying is, like I said, there's always gonna
be bad publicity. There's always be bad comments gaining towards you,
(37:00):
lot of hate, and that it is what it is.
Especially like if you're in this industry, you're gonna get
always a lot of hate if you do good or bad.
So I just try not like get to me, and
it doesn't get to me at all.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, And I think your dad is you know, it's
a huge player in this business. You know, he even
has like his own fans.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think people that you know like stand by him
like that.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
How does he how is he holding up? How would
you say?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
My dad is a very positive person. He's selding up.
Well it's blah blah, And I say he's always been
positive and he just keeps on moving forward even to
his day. He's always working no matter what.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And then also you mentioned you know you stepped up
because you know, because of what's going on, did you
have to step up sooner because of what happened or
were those the plans Originally.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
The plan was gonna it was always gonna come one day,
we just never knew when. And I've been stepping up
of course, even before everything that's happened. I've always been
a major part of the company. I Like I said,
I've been working with the guys every day. We're always
there making decisions with him being there not being there
these last couple of months or years, So it's always
(38:08):
of course, it's just never been I would say, the title,
but it's I've always been there with the guys, and
of course I've always stepped up when I needed to.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, So it's more of like of a title then
like a title change or something more a little more symbolic,
and it's not where maybe you weren't involved.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
At all, like you you've been you know.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yeah, like I said, I've been involved for countless years already.
But it's of course now taking that major step like
doing stuff like this, putting myself out is more because
at the end of the day, I'm gonna have to
be the new face of the company as well.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
And then with your data, you know, leaving, do you
like have you like prepared yourself for it? I mean
I don't know how like someone could prepare for something
like that, but like have you liked then?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I don't know how to explain this, like maybe like
emotionally maybe like what's your mindset or something like that.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
No, like you said, trying not let think about that
and just being positive, always have a positive mindset and
just keep them moving forward. You can't let those native thoughts.
Of course, I would not say that with it at all.
It is what it is, and you just have to
be positive and just keep them moving forward.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And where do you get that?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Like where do you get that energy to keep moving
forward and being so positive?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
With my dad he's always been a positive person and
come home with in promaccy and no Madoland, I mean,
so there's a balancy and word why am I going
to be worth? So just to keep them moving forward?
It's we have, like I said it just in every aspect.
Just keep me, just keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Very well.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
More than anything, we want to congratulate you, thank you
for taking the time to be here. It means a
lot to us. Like you said, you and your dad
have done a lot for Moana and more than anything.
Thank you for your time, Congrats on all the success
that you guys have had, and anything is want to
add or do you have a message for the people
watching this video.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I would say, just always be positive and never let
of course things get to you, because at the end
of the day, when you let things get to you,
it put you on a negative mindset and you just
start overthinking. So just always be positive and never let
bad things or negative energy get to you.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
That's right, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Once again, thank you for your time. Thank you for
letting us be one of like the first interviews. You know,
the news already out well, I mean it's not out yet,
but I tell you guys are watching, You're to get
used to interviews, so, you know, thank you for your time.
You know, shout out to you and your dad. You
guys were also one of the first labels who like
reached out to us, took us for our first one
of our first concerts, and I just remember invited us
(40:26):
to like the offices. Yeah, thank you to everyone who watched.
The very end, we're gonna like come and subscribe, you
know all that rest.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
And before this ends, I want to give a huge
round applause to the new CEO of GOT Records. You guys,
peace out guys.
Something that we had to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
What we had you here is about your dad and
you know, like the legal case that's been going on.
You know we I feel like most of us have
seen it on the news. How has that process been
like for you? I know that's a very like it
must be a very tough situation. And personally, how do
you feel when you see you know, hundreds of people
you know talking about your dad some stuff is you
know it's false, it's false, or you know, just like
(00:24):
negative criticism or you know, just talking ship.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How does that make you feel? And then also you
mentioned you know you stepped up because you know, because
of what's going on. Did you have to step up
sooner because of what happened or were those the plans originally?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What's Up?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Guys, Welcome back to another podcasting Because are new to
this channel, make sure you guys like coming and subscribe
and listen to us on the iHeartRadio app or wherever
you listen to your podcast. But today, guys, we're bringing
the guests back. Today we have a very special guest.
Yes sir, the new CEO of Dell Records are Homie
too and go Thank you, Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I know it's been long overdue and we I know
we talked about it too, but yeah, of course everything
happens for a reason, and now we're here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Damn that title sounds crazy. How do you feel when
you when you hear that?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Good? I know it's something that of course we knew
was going to be coming sooner than later as well,
because I know my dad's plan was always to have
me take over after after he would have stepped down.
And like I said, feel good, feel happy, confident, I'm
ready to work.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So this was like your dad's and you know when
he first brought it up to you, was this something
that like you were like, oh, I'm down, I'm down
to do this, or were you kind of like let
me see how.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It is and then no, I feel like it was
always my dad's plan. Like I said, I've been working
with my dad and the company for like nine years.
I think I started when I was like seventeen, So,
like I said, of course, he's been prepping me throughout
the years, and of course the time finally came or
he made the decision to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So when you were seventeen old, are you right now
twenty six twenty six. Yes, now they made too. No,
we're twenty five. He's gonna be twenty.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I'm gonna be twenty six, So we're gonna be saying.
But you know the CEOPA, this is why I'm not
invited him to my birthday party.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He's almost thirty twenty six and invited his birthday party.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I happened to you know who your true friends? Right bro?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
For it was how do you know who your true
friends are and invite you to their party?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Matter the last year? Reason? At wa, y'all think about
that for real, you guys, let me know. But once again, congrats.
I mean, the news isn't out yet. We're filming this
before you know, by the time you guys are watching
the you know, like the news is I'm pressure Bill
where and all these like crazy people are posting about it.
Once again, congrats. You know we're going to see each
other in Oh no, that already passed. We saw each
(03:24):
other in Vegas when I seen you in Vegas at
like and uh, but yeah, tell us a little bit
about yourself. We've known you know. Obviously your dad is
on hinto the beach. He started created the records, which
is one of the big, one of the biggest uh
Muskami Kana record labels. And you know, I feel like
not a lot of people knew who Andrew was. They
will now, but tell us a little bit about yourself.
(03:46):
You know, how you got started, you know, growing up,
you know, your dad having like the label and like
you know, and all these crazy artists.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of course, how I grew up, Like I said, I
think my dad started the label when I was like
eight nine years old. It was in no way laid away,
so of course I kind of grew into the music,
if I'm being honest. At first, I was in a
fan I want to hear this music because growing up,
but little by little got more involved hearing the music,
liking the music, And like I said, I don't think
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it was that crazy in my eyes, just because I know,
of course, if you put people in my position, they
had a lot of artists in the past decade, of course,
like you said, Adiel Regulo, Herrado, Los Pleves Lisis, And
for me, I just saw more as family when they
were here. I never saw them as nothing bigger, just
because for me, it's just I think we're all the
same at the end of the day, doesn't matter how
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big how small you are. So even today, like when
I see these big artists, I congratulate them and I
just wish everybody the best as well. So, like you said, me,
growing up, I never really felt like you say, starstruck
or nothing, especially being in this industry so young.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah, that's a really good answer.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then when you were in school, like, did people
know that your dad owned the records?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Not? Really, always try to keep it low key. It's
because I never liked the attention. I don't like being
in the limelight or nothing. But of course I know
over time, and it's funny because me and my dad
always talk about it's something that I don't like, but
I know it's something I'm gonna have to grow into
and put myself out there, especially with the big label
we have. I know someday it was gonna come or
(05:17):
I have to step up, be on the limelight and
do things like this, where of course I'm uncomfortable doing it,
especially right now, but it's like I'm un comfortable, but
it's something I know I have to get used to
and of course continue doing as well.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
And during these nine years of you seeing you know,
your dad build this business, what are some challenges and
struggles that you see that that you've seen your dad
like go through to build this, you know, this huge
record label, and I mean it's of course it's like
super iconic. It's almost a staple in the in the industry.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Oh thank you, No, it's it's been a it's been
a good you could say, seventeen years. And of course
the struggle as well, you've had a when he first
started in Oao nine, it's when, of course cities were
still very popular in demand. He had they call me
just fail. When my dad started all this and he
had a lot of obstacles, there was not many independent labels.
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So my dad, of course he was he's always been
a go getter, always been somebody to keep on pushing himself.
It's never been he's never been a person to be comfortable.
So he always wants more and more and more, just
to keep on pushing. And like you said, like in
these past seventeen years, the struggles were of course those
struggles and after that I think it went very well
from as well, because of course heardo and his time
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was a monster. He had a regular Noeldores adel Camancho,
Luis coronet and a bunch of artists after as well,
So he had it was a it was a good
It was a struggle, I say in the beginning. But
after that, of course he just had a bunch of
great artists after that as well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And then growing up a growing up did you ever
have like other careers in mind?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Not? The only thing I could say is or I
think you mentioned when you're growing up as a kid,
you're like, I want to be police, so I want
to be a firefighter. It's like those things where you're
growing up as a kid and you have those things
in mind. I never knew what I said. That was
my main thing when I was a kidding, but you're
talking about when I was six seven eight. But since
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I grew into this, it just this became what I
fell in love with. I don't think I see myself
doing anything else other of course, other ventures, but music
is something I always like doing.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So like in high school and stuff like, you weren't
like trying to send up to college or things like that,
or you already knew like.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I did go to college for a little bit, not
that long.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
How long we went for I think that's how long.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Did you go for half and half a semester.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I know, I went for two days.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Schools not for me.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Ill when I rewent for my second semester because I
went half half some I'm like, all right, I'm gonna
go back, and I went somewhere closer to my house
and then I just signed up and I never.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Went because he dropped out first and then I dropped
out after. But before I dropped out, I remember we
saw a friend from high school and he's like, hey,
how's Jason doing? And then I was like, oh, like
you just dropped out of he dropped out of school.
He's not working around like, oh, he's making it big.
Now you're not doing he stepped on.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You know what I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be imna,
I'm gonna keep it real with you. So the reason
why I didn't go continue like going to college is
because I thought, like my my fast food didn't go through.
So I was just like, because you're what my fast
foo is basically like like where the government potentially, I
was like, my ship didn't go through, Like I gotta
(08:42):
drop out and do something else, you know, but I
should have went back.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He didn't try that hard to like the whole paperwork
is pretty tough.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It is, like it was.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was something new for us because like nobody we
knew went to college.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But I remember I was I wasn't that mad when
I got kicked out because my fas had just gone
through and I remember they gave me like five thousand
dollars and I was like I was walking up for
like three months.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What did you do with those five thousand and nine Mmmm?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They actually literally do much.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I think just like every day spending stuff for me,
hanging out with these guys is expensive. Nah, we actually
kind of made you drop out of Yeah, that was
kind of great. We didn't make you, but like it
just happened. Because what happened was they when they started
the podcast. Since I had like my own like thing
going on, I just went to school and then I
remember like like more stuff like started happening or like
(09:29):
oh we're going here, we're going there, and remember I missed.
What happened was I missed one class, and I guess
you can only miss one. So when I missed the
second one and I went back and they're like they
did like the like the calling the names, the row caller.
Yougo and they're like, oh that if I didn't call you,
like let me know, and you didn't call me, Oh,
you're not in here, you've been dropped.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I was like, what does that mean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's like, all you've been dropped for missing two classes.
And I was like and then they sat in front
of everybody too, So I was kind of like, I
don't know what to do, so I just walked out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I never went back.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I didn't even ask questions or anything, went for roll
con left. I don't think it's because it was a
little class, so you can really do that, damn.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And kind of going back to the label thing, what
is some advice that your dad gives you on on
running and label? I'm pretty sure it's like probably the
most difficult thing to do, you know, it is out of.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Some advice it gives me. Don't take nothing personal. It's
a business at the end of the day, because I
know sometimes you'll fall in love projects, and of course
things happen overnight or within time. So like you said,
just don't take stuff personal. And there's always gonna be
uh people get and then there's always gonna be people
talking no matter whether you do good or bad. Yeah,
(10:39):
So not taking nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, that's kind of that's honestly, like a really good advice.
I mean, we started a record label not that long ago,
and you know there was like some projects that we
tried to work with and like we just it was
absolutely to go through. But then he like, you know,
like there's a lot of more out there and like
just just keep exploring, like don't fall in love with
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like the artists, like with the project, like just just
move on. And yeah, that's something we had to like
learn last week.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, we couldn't sleep, he said, he even man for
two months. That was until like three days ago.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
One almost been and Dell Record's obviously been a label
that's been, you know, in the spotlight for years. How
do you guys do or how do you deal with
their criticism because, like you said, someone always has something
to say, whether you know you do a really good
job or whether you know it doesn't do as good.
How do you deal with that, you know, that pressure
of the to be.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Honest, like if I see it on social media something,
I don't even look at it. It just like scroll
past it, just because like you said, there's always people
going to be talking no matter what you do. Good
or bad. So it's just like like for me, I
just not don't let it get to me. For the
most part, I don't even look at it. I just
start scrolling past it because it's like, of course you
don't want that bad energy also around you. So it's
like I'd rather just not see it or not hear
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it or just things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, And I feel like that's one of the toughest
things about a label too, because like, let you say,
you know, you a label and an artist like get
into an argument. The fans always choose the artists. Yeah,
And honestly, like before we started this podcast, like we
would look at it and be like, oh, you know,
like well they labeled that, that's just fucked up. But
as you like learn more and like you get really
get into it, and you know, like you started learning
little details, you're kind of like, damn, like the artist
(12:21):
is kind of in the raw, but like the label
is not gonna be like they're not gonna make a
whole ass fucking video like hey, you know, funck there's
the artist or whatever, you know, because that's like a
bad look.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So of course it's a bad look, and of course
it's happened in the past as well with us. But
it's like, of course, at the end of the day,
people are always inside with the artists no matter what,
because at the end of the day, when you guys
hear music, you guys are friends of artists, not the
label for the of the part. And like I said,
so for us, for me, it's just more not to
hear or even argue with them, just whenever, whenever we
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have to whatever commitment we have it with ours, we
just try to finish with them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And yeah, yeah, I feel that's gonna be something to
I mean, well, he's actually gonna be He's gonna be
our first artists.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I was sitting him a little bit, but we already
talked to you like he will you fight. I don't
think we're gonna be a professional lady. I would be like, okay,
let's go Instagram life, let's get into it. And then
do you like, did you take that stance like kind
of on your own or is that kind of like
what your dad taught you or is that what you
saw him do? What stands as well as in as
(13:24):
in like you know, being.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Professional, just like you know, don't pay attention to the criticism.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think it's more on myself just because how I
am as a personal drama or nothing like that. So
it's like, of course, it's like I've dealt with it
a little bit in the past, and when it starts happening,
it just like because you start distingus yourself with them
and whenever they commitments over personalel and like I said,
I just try not to let it get to me
because at the end of the day, there's always gonna
be a lot of bad comments, especially like saying the
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industry we're in and especially people are gonna be signing
with the artists, So I'd rather just not see it
or just not even pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And and then you mentioned how like you know you've
gone through this like in the past and you try
to not let it get to you, but at the
same time it could be draining, Like has it ever
like affected you like mentally or like to a point
where you're like, fuck, I don't want to do this shit.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, of course it has. I think, especially when you're
in that position, it's gonna drain you mentally, and sometimes
you're like we have to do this all over again.
But like I said, it's the part of the business,
especially you want to be in the music industry. It's
going to happen no matter what, if any good, any
bad you do, especially of course even if you do good,
no matter what, it's going to happen sooner later most
of the for the majority of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, because this is like a twenty four to seven job,
you know, something that's like for it's nighttime and like
you still got to be dealing with people because it's
not like the other jobs were like you know, you
clock out and you know, pisau. But yeah, I feel
like it's it's something that's that's pretty tough that people
don't see.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, And then do you feel like I kind of
like really want to get into it. How do you
feel having to step into you know, like kind of
like your dad shoes that role that you know, he
that he did, you know with Dout Records. I think
there's a lot of history behind it, like you know,
incredible success. How how do you feel having to you know,
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now do that knowing how much like success and legacy
you know he's leaving.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Behind, you know what. And it's funny because me and
my dad just talked about it yesterday too, And I
told him this, I'm not nervous. I'm not worried. I know,
of course, we have a lot of good talent on
a roster right now. We have an amazing team and
an amazing infrastructure as well. And it's not just only me.
It's a whole team behind me, and it was behind
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my dad as well. So, like I said, I'm not nervous,
I'm excited because I know what we're able to bring
to the table.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I mean, has he and he told you like certain
expectations or like what that he kind of like expects
from you in that sense.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, not really. I've been working with my dad for
so long. I really know what he expects. Yeah, so
like I don't, he doesn't really tell me much, but
I really know what to what he expects from me
as well.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, and the one thing I remember from like when
we interview your dad is that he told us how
like you guys are very like selective with like who
you guys signed, do you plan on continuing you know,
being selective or do you guys plan on like sending
a few more artists or.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Like, of course we're always going to be signing, but
we're not just going to sign anyone. We're always selective
of who we signed, who we thinks has potential. We
don't want to have twenty thirty artists. For the artists signed,
I think fifteen to They just say, I think fifteen
is a sweet spot to have signed because at the
end of the day, every artist needs their attention, their time. Yea,
(16:30):
So I think with the fifteen is more than enough
to work on and develop them as well.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And have you guys signed any new talent recently or like,
are you planning to sign any new talent? Maybe after
the announcement.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Right now, we have three artists that of course we're
trying to sign by the end of the year. We're
just in those last couple of steps. And then we
just recently signed three other artists, Andy Luan, Marco Grania
and Koba Montana.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Damn, you guys got some heavy hitters then, Yeah, so
I wanted to ask so, like, oh, remember from when
we interviewed that it was a he likes to sign
artists and like develop them. He doesn't really like to
sign like an artist or already like known or it's
just like you know, but do you ever have any
plans of like signing like a big artist, like bring
them to the record.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Of course there's the opportunity comes why not, But I
think it's better to start in the development stage, so
like that he could kind of mode them and tell
them how to work and things like that, because when
you sign a big artist, they have already high expectations.
They already come from who's ever developed up in the past,
and it just it's it's a whole different ball game
as well. So for me, I prefer an artist in development.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, and then that's something that you need to have
patience with because like developing like it's gonna maybe take
like you know, like a year take it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Could take a month, two months, yeah, six months, three years,
four years, never.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeh never, be honest, you could be Yeah. Can you
tell us a little bit about that process. So you know,
an artist signs with you guys, what is that development process?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Looks like it could be from video content, so we
usually and then it's marketing video content, getting them studio,
choosing the right singles for them to push on their
social platforms, and just we come up a whole game
time behind that to start pushing out their music. And
like you said, it could take three, four six months too,
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however long it might take them to hit or they
might never hit.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And now that it's up to you, what are you
going to look for in an artist to sign to
the records?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I think just look at what's not me when it
comes to artists ISOs ghanas because at the end of
the day, like there's a lot of artists in the
day and age right now where they just say they
signed to a label and they just sit back and
they want us to do all the work, when in reality,
when people sign they should be putting more work than
they were really doing. Now they have to do a
lot more work. They have, of course the infrastructure, the
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team behind them to help them and guide them. But
now it's it's of course it's a lot different.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I think there's a huge misconception right there that
artists think that they made it once they signed to
like a major label. But I feel like that's when
the when the major works start, you know, that's when
you start hustling and grinding to put yourself on the limelight.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, that's when you have, like you know, like a
real fighting chance IM making it once he signed to
the label.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
So that's when you gotta go ten times hard. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
And talking about like developing artists, is there an artist
that you've seen developed from literally from the ground up
all the way to the top and like really surprised
you and kind of like you saw them from the
very bottom and up to like become a superstar. And
what was that experience like for you.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
It's been It's happened a couple of times, of course
with the releases, and I think Lenny as well have
been artists that we developed from the ground up. Leases
was an upcoming artist. I think at that time he
only had the son, but of course it wasn't nothing major,
And of course they releases became a monster overnight. My
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dad pushed them. I had a whole marketing strategy behind him,
and he did what he did, and Lenny as well. Lenny,
I feel it took a little longer, but he had
a lot of hits. Joan recorded on the Manuel, so
like I said, it was just a process over time,
and when he hit, he hit, and he did very
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well for himself as well.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah. I remember we were talking between the three of us,
how one of like the craziest things that do regers
has done is like you know first and then those
pleasure then like Relasa's like just back to back.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
And like remember I remember your dad saying that nobody
else has really done that, you know, developing three artists
in a row from nothing all the way up. So
I mean, you guys must really have like that formula
dialed in.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, but it's like you said, it's not just us.
We also, of course we work kind of hand with
the artists and when the artists I feel like at
times when the artists knowledge, it throws that's where sometimes
you have that little conflict between But yeah, like I think, yeah,
we have the formula, we have the team to make
it happen for a lot of artists. Back the end
of the day, we also we have to work as
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a team. It's not just us and it's not just them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, the artists are to do the part because we
couldn't get an artist was one. Damn that's crazy too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was actually like mentioning when we started the recording
over there that sometimes it's like the things that you
don't really think about, you know, you'd think an artist
would want to, you know, give one hundred and well
two hundred percent you know now that they have the
chance opportunity to you know, like Chase, what they've been
saying is their dream and for you not to see
like that energy reciprocated, you know what to do?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't know what to do. It's I don't know.
And then they blame the label.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And then what are you do in that case? Like
you have you know, like you're doing your part, they're
not really doing theirs. How do you go from there?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It just for us, well for me, I just like
you said, just keep on following up, keep on reaching
out to them, because at the end, you need the content,
you need the music, You need those things for the
artists to be in development, to create their own fan
base to create music. Of course, I think the major
thing when the artist doesn't post or put stuff on
social media, they don't because they have no fan base.
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They can't identify them. When they take off sound or nothing,
I'm like, oh, who's this artist? If they have no
following or nothing behind them.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We'll be right back from the break.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What's up everyone, We're Angel Diego and Jason from aust.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We've never pretended to be anything but ourselves and now
we're the number one Mexican music regional podcast.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
We Hustled, kept their eyes on the price, locked in and.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Flow for you like Sprite Lanetta Studio, cut through the Rescue, Sprite, Sprite,
Obey your thirst. Guess we are back from the break.
And what I wanted to ask was, you know, aside
from the records, do you have any involvement in District
seven because I know you guys like started this whole
distribution company.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, of course, yeah, as well in Distro seven, I'm
also heavily involved. And of course we're there also trying
to sign artists to sign up for Distro et cetera.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And what's what's that like?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Honestly, for the people that don't know what is it,
what is the distribution company?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
A distribution company is pretty much of course, you need
somebody needs to put up your music. You can't feel yourself.
A lot of people there's multiple different dishal companies. And
my dad also it's been a couple of years he's
been wanting to planet, so we have also everything in house.
But besides that, we're also seen in the day and
age where a lot of artists they don't want to
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sign to a label, they want to be independent, So
of course it's like being signed to deal with the
whole team infrastructure, but you're not signed to Dell and
we still support them on the distal side as well. Yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And what's the difference, Well, for like the people that
don't know, what's the difference between them uploading like on
like distro kid or toom core compared to like Distreal seven.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It's if you upload to let's just say, what is
that on.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Distro good DISCRIKID.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, okay, when you upload to dish o kid, it's
just pretty much you put in the song, you upload yourself.
But if something happens with claims, et cetera, there's nobody
that they're going to be able to help you physically.
And then as us distal saying we have a whole
team behind you and if something happens, of course we're
there to support you also and also talk to DSPs
replacement and just things like that.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's complicated.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
It's like three hundred things you have to do, and
that's why you want to start the rect label.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Man. You know what, I don't know you have to
do all this.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I didn't know what a distribution company was.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Then, so you guys can see it's not very but
I thought I was just gonna be like Don kiddie. Honestly,
it's pretty interesting how like there's so many moving components
to like a regulabel and distribution. I think something that
we've learned is getting on those playlist is probably one
of the most crucial things that can help you develop
as an artist. Something I just wanted that isn't there.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Switching up the topic, one of the I think like
one of the coolest days on my life, low key
was when we all hung out. I think we posted
a picture and for the people that don't know Andrew
Loki Rich as I pulled up.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We pulled up to his house. There was a bar
that's crazy, I've.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Never seen one, Lambo SVJ Lambell.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And then we each got to driving. Well, we didn't
get to drive, but we all got no. I wouldn't
drive that, okay. I went with Andrew in the Pegotti
and that she was crazy, Like bro, it was crazy.
Everybody turns like like you know, like they break their
necks like crazy, like you know, like the old white
vehetosmember when we passed by, like bro, everybody was like
bringing their necks and ship. And then one of the
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craziest things to that I noticed that day is that
when we went to go eat, usually I feel like
it's like, you know, like the Mexicans looking at like
the rich white people, but it was like the opposite
that they had all the like.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, because they would break their neck to look at
the car and.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Then they would be like.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, and then like parking in the front and everything.
I had never experienced that. How do you feel about,
like about the cars, like you were, which was your favorite?
D WI is the Bugatti?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, it's for me. It's the smoothest sentence, the fastest car.
Some of the ones are a little jerky. So it's like, yeah,
like you said, you shouldn't be scared of driving them either.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It just.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You shouldn't be scared about letting me already.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
When you have your own. It's because it's like I
just say, like any other car, of course, just on
more speed. But like I said, don't be scared. It's
because one of my dad's friends sometimes you'll drive and
he's scared of driving. And sometimes like we're all going
like back to back from each other, and you see,
I'm like ten cars behind you see, like little PRIs
passing them like end up calling him like, bro, hurry up,
(26:30):
and he's like, bro, I'm scared to drive the car.
But I'm like, you can't be scared drivers. Of course
there it's a lot more price for your car, but
you just have to treat like any other car. Yeah,
but how you driving everything?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, it's a crazy experience. And then you guys have
like all these cars, but like personally like which ones
like have you bought or like?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Or that are your favorite or that are yours?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The ones that I that are mine is the what
was it?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
The yours?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And the rain driver damn are the ones that usually
drive or use. But of course I I personally don't
like borrowing the cars, and I feel comforable driving any
other car because I usually get like driven every day
and I'd rather just be like that where I don't
have to drive or worry about it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, being traffic tray from from where.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I lived to to the offices hectic. Sometimes it's an
hour round trip every day, I mean our two hour
round trip. Sorry damn.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So I feel like I don't know when we're ever
going to be able to ask someone that you know
owns a Bugatti of uh Pugani all tho school cars,
which was the fastest one you've ever driven or been in?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Uh for me, the fastest that Bugatti by far. Yeah,
that's the one that picks up the fastest.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
For like two weeks, every person willing to listen to me.
I told him how that shit was crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I got.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I got to ride with your dad and he probably
stepped on it, like I think just twice, like throughout
the whole day.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But it was round like driving my daddy drives crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
No, No, he wasn't crazy that day.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
For me, I get scared.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, I just remember he stepped on it like right
when we got out out of the parking lot and
it was like one hundred miles an hours, like, but
it just seems crazy, like it's different. It's not like
a normal car, yeah, because it picks up a lot faster.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
So yeah, it was really in those cars, especially passenger
in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, no, I don't know what to think, more as
a passenger than the driver. Huh.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Yeah, driver feel nothing driving as a passenger.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Damn.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
When I was in the fucking the GG three RS,
I was like.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Fucking like there getting bullied all day.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Like Westles or some shpy skeleton west anything skinny bro, Yeah,
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And then what other like let's say, you, what do
you decide to like spend your money on or like
like a guilty pleasure as they say, or like a
hog or something like that.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Let me think about that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
He's like about my about a yall on Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
All right now, I don't really spend it I think before,
of course, growing up you'll spend it on. I think
damn things like close or sometimes going out and stuff
like that. Right now, just I would say either watches
it's probably my guilty pleasure right now, or a car
here and there. But I don't really try to overspend
it as much as before, especially when I was younger,
(29:14):
but I would always buy or going out constantly. Right now,
I just try to come down.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So let's say going out and you know you're saying
you kind of like regret a little bit. Is there
a time that you know comes to mind that you
remember like fuck, like the next day you're like take
the card away, like lock me in the room.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I'm never going out. No, I never had the experience
like that, okay, or like that you.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Remember like it was like, I don't know, a lot
of money at the club, like ten thousand dollars or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I don't want to disclose that.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I remember the car, remember he said, I Yeah, we
spent Like was it how much we spent one time?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
I live, not that much left we still have, like
we're hurting you guys are still playing on Karna.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah America after those for that one, it was a
well four thousand just at the club, yeah, or was
it less well the whole trip in general?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think it was like seven thousands one day in Miami,
just one day, like literally, it wasn't even like twenty.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Four common subscriber please we no, no, no, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I think.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know they do like something at clubs. I
just want to I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
It's it's the alcohol, bro, it happens.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Do you have any hobbies, bro, Like, what do you
like to do besides you know, the record label thing
and spend money and watches?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
To be honest, bro, right now, I think more like
since I was always traveling when I was younger, I
have free time right now, especially on weekends where I'm
not traveling or as busy on the weekends, I'd rather
just be home chilling well my family, visit my mom,
visiting my dad. I have a lot of I have
two little siblings as well. I have He's eating who's
(30:59):
a year and a half, and then also Angela, who
is five, So I try to spend also time with
them since they're the smallest ones. And then besides that,
of course, also my other brothers with my mom, and
I also try to spend time with them as well
when I can.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
That's right, very family orientated.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I like that. I feel like that's so important too,
because I mean I feel like we're I mean, we're busy,
but not like I'm pretty sure you have like a
lot of things going on, but I feel like one
of the things that it's important is like family, you know,
because like you have, like all these artists, you got
to take care of they're basically like your kids, so
you got to take care of them, you know, you
got to be all their attention. Yeah, so I feel like,
(31:37):
you know, family is one of the most important things,
but the most important things, you.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Know, and then once you know, you take on this
role like I was thinking of, you know how presidents
say like, oh, you know, my first one hundred days
in office, I guess what I'm gonna done, Like like
as soon as you like, you know, walk in their
CEO the records, like, what are the first things you're doing?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I feel like it's not I wouldn't say the first
things because it's already been like or my dad's give
me a lot of literalty throughout the years or even
more of the past couple of months, and I think,
of course I try to change certain things that my
dad would do, because of course you have to evolve
and do different things to stay more relevant. So it's
(32:16):
a it could be a bunch of different things. We
just had a we had a writing camp for the
artists just basically all the artists we have signed, the
newer artists, we had them all. We did a little
camp at the officer there for like six days writing music.
We're gonna probably do another one December, just to get
more content, especially them being at the office, because I
know sometimes they're like a bro when we're not there,
(32:37):
like they feel like not left out, but it's more
like they don't feel as united just because everybody's also
far away, and especially when they're together, they could all
be creative they call rite together and just things like that.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Has it Has there been an instant instance like you
were saying right now that you kind of tell your
dad like hey, you know like things are kind of
being done like this or this is like the new way.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And No, it's just more like we I think we
talk a lot. We just get ideas off of each other,
like I'll be like, hey, what do you think about
this or that? Or he'll tell me and then we
could just we pretty much just pay back off of
each other and just see, of course what way we
want to do it and not to do Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
That's that's super dope. And something about you know, having
a record label is seeing what's coming. What's the next wave?
What do you think is next for Muana? What do
you think is going to be the next wave?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I don't that's something. Of course, there's a lot of
different things. You have artists like you could say Victim
and d V and it's something different. Of course, Yayid
was something that's very different. Yes, there's there's always gonna
be new wave, something different coming up. And we've seen
in the past where there's always a new wave every
couple of years. It just of course, we just have
to see analyzing, try to catch it before it takes off.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
And you and your dad have been in the music
game for such a long time. When you guys see
an artist like, do you just know, like you know
there's going to be successful.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, you could say there's been artists like either I
catch for my dad catches like before they're successful. And
there's been times where I'm like, Dad, we should sign
and we should sign him. And sometimes, of course, sometimes
he's busy just with his own things, either personal or
just or with other artists that he doesn't of course see,
and it's likewise with him he'll be like, hey, what
do you think about them? And I'm yeah, And then
(34:19):
of course it just like I said, we just try
to also pay back up, paid back off of each other.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And have you guys ever sign Well, basically what you said,
can you name, like any artists that you guys that
maybe that you told your dad or your dad told
you you were like no or vice versa, and like
disorders just ended up popping off.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, Like for me, it's been a couple like I
told my dad a group of feared mean before they
took off, group of front THEA before they took off
and recently Tumble Chillo I think like also before he
really made that big step as well.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, it's crazy with MBO music.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Also, you brought up Dumbo to.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Your dad, like I think maybe a year and a
half ago.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
In a while.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Something that's very interesting about this industry is like the pace.
It's super hard to keep up with, but I feel
like when you're in the moment and you get it right,
I think it's a beautiful thing. I think that's the
beauty about this industry. It's like it's like magic almost.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah. And do you have any goals like set for
next year like with the label or is there like
an artists you want to develop and like you would
want to see them like in the top ten chargetheah,
of course there.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
We always have goals and there's I think a lot
of our artists, like I mentioned, have potential and it's
just to break one or two of the artists is
I think our goal is a team to develop them
and break them by next year. And like you said,
we have I think a pretty good roster. They're all
like I know they're not big names right now, but
I can see the potential in the future in them
where they could reach that.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, because this is a long game. It's not something
that's like, oh, you sign it right away're gonna be
the next big start in the world.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I wish something that we had to talk about what
we had you here is about your dad and you know,
like the legal case that's been going on, you know,
we I feel like most of us have seen it
on the news. How has that process been like for you?
I know that's a very like it must be a
very tough situation.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Yeah, of course, and we're always gonna stand by my
dad and always be here supportive.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Of course, that's why I'm also stepping up and and
being there for him and for the company as well. So,
like I said, we just all have to be positive
and always can't have a negative mindset went into.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
This And personally, how do you feel when you see,
you know, hundreds of people you know talking about your
dad some stuff is you know, it's false, it's false. Oh,
you know, just like negative criticism or you know, just
talking shit, Like how does that make you feel?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
It's like how you mentioned earlier, It just people are
gonna talk no matter what nobody's gonna know the truth
besides us. So it's like we're not gonna as well,
especially me. I'm gonna talk for myself. I'm not gonna
be here and be upset or mad or whatever. What
people are saying is, like I said, there's always gonna
be bad publicity. There's always be bad comments gaining towards you,
(37:00):
lot of hate, and that it is what it is.
Especially like if you're in this industry, you're gonna get
always a lot of hate if you do good or bad.
So I just try not like get to me, and
it doesn't get to me at all.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, And I think your dad is you know, it's
a huge player in this business. You know, he even
has like his own fans.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I think people that you know like stand by him
like that.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
How does he how is he holding up? How would
you say?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
My dad is a very positive person. He's selding up.
Well it's blah blah, And I say he's always been
positive and he just keeps on moving forward even to
his day. He's always working no matter what.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And then also you mentioned you know you stepped up
because you know, because of what's going on, did you
have to step up sooner because of what happened or
were those the plans Originally.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
The plan was gonna it was always gonna come one day,
we just never knew when. And I've been stepping up
of course, even before everything that's happened. I've always been
a major part of the company. I Like I said,
I've been working with the guys every day. We're always
there making decisions with him being there not being there
these last couple of months or years, So it's always
(38:08):
of course, it's just never been I would say, the title,
but it's I've always been there with the guys, and
of course I've always stepped up when I needed to.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, So it's more of like of a title then
like a title change or something more a little more symbolic,
and it's not where maybe you weren't involved.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
At all, like you you've been you know.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yeah, like I said, I've been involved for countless years already.
But it's of course now taking that major step like
doing stuff like this, putting myself out is more because
at the end of the day, I'm gonna have to
be the new face of the company as well.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
And then with your data, you know, leaving, do you
like have you like prepared yourself for it? I mean
I don't know how like someone could prepare for something
like that, but like have you liked then?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I don't know how to explain this, like maybe like
emotionally maybe like what's your mindset or something like that.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
No, like you said, trying not let think about that
and just being positive, always have a positive mindset and
just keep them moving forward. You can't let those native thoughts.
Of course, I would not say that with it at all.
It is what it is, and you just have to
be positive and just keep them moving forward.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And where do you get that?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Like where do you get that energy to keep moving
forward and being so positive?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
With my dad he's always been a positive person and
come home with in promaccy and no Madoland, I mean,
so there's a balancy and word why am I going
to be worth? So just to keep them moving forward?
It's we have, like I said it just in every aspect.
Just keep me, just keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Very well.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
More than anything, we want to congratulate you, thank you
for taking the time to be here. It means a
lot to us. Like you said, you and your dad
have done a lot for Moana and more than anything.
Thank you for your time, Congrats on all the success
that you guys have had, and anything is want to
add or do you have a message for the people
watching this video.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I would say, just always be positive and never let
of course things get to you, because at the end
of the day, when you let things get to you,
it put you on a negative mindset and you just
start overthinking. So just always be positive and never let
bad things or negative energy get to you.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
That's right, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Once again, thank you for your time. Thank you for
letting us be one of like the first interviews. You know,
the news already out well, I mean it's not out yet,
but I tell you guys are watching, You're to get
used to interviews, so, you know, thank you for your time.
You know, shout out to you and your dad. You
guys were also one of the first labels who like
reached out to us, took us for our first one
of our first concerts, and I just remember invited us
(40:26):
to like the offices. Yeah, thank you to everyone who watched.
The very end, we're gonna like come and subscribe, you
know all that rest.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
And before this ends, I want to give a huge
round applause to the new CEO of GOT Records. You guys,
peace out guys.
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