Jake Brennan Talks Here Comes the Break and Soundtrack Release

Here Comes the Break inventively threads together a scripted story—starring EMMY® Award-nominated Asante Blackk and Daniella Perkins—and unscripted interviews with Def Jam’s rising new talent, including Bobby Sessions, Saint Bodhi, Nasty C, Bino Rideaux, and more, to create a high-concept fusion of fictional narrative and real-life conversations with buzzing stars.

And in celebration of Hip Hop Recognition month, Double Elvis and Def Jam commemorate the first season of Here Comes the Break with a podcast soundtrack. The album tells a unique story, fusing music and podcasting with the theme of mental health awareness.

Binge the entire first Season of Here Comes the Break and stream the soundtrack wherever you get your audio content.

Executive Producer: Asante Blackk

Producer: Daniella Perkins

Starring: Asante Blackk and Daniella Perkins

Co-Starring: Bobby Cius, Rayme Cornell, Christopher V. Edwards and Taylor Bettinson

Written by: Taylor Bettinson and Nakia Hill

Directed By: Christopher V. Edwards

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When did You Fall in Love with Hip Hop? Close
Out hip Hop Recognition Month, def Jam and Double Elvis
present Here Comes the Breaks Soundtrack and Oh to the
yester years of hip hop and the music and storytelling
We're one experienced tracks by artists like Bobby Sessions, Nasty c, Novaa,
Jo Lee, Being Overdo, and introducing Boston's Own, all in
a continuous blend of original music, scenes from the podcast,

(00:22):
story and artist interviews. Listen to the Here Comes the
Break Soundtrack by Def Jam and Double Elvis on Spotify,
Apple Music, Title or wherever you stream music. And to
tell you more about the podcast and the featured artists,
here's Jake Brennan, host of Disgrace Land, so on your show,
Here Comes to Break, can't talk about Here Comes to
Break without first talking about deaf jam. Def Jam, as

(00:44):
you probably know, has been a massive force in popular
music for almost forty years now. Ever, since Russell Simmons
and Rick Ruben decided to create a record label out
of a dorm room at n y U back in
the nineteen eighties, we've covered some huge def Jam legacy
artists in dis Raceline episodes, most notably Run DMC and
Jay z and it's been really incredible for Double Elvis

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to collaborate with def Jam on this hip hop inspired podcast.
But instead of focusing on legacy artists from def jam
stack catalog, Here Comes the Break's host Asanty Black, you
might know from NBC's This Is Us. He uses the
narrative of the show to talk with emerging artists and
they debut songs from those artists on the podcast on

(01:27):
Here Comes to Break, new songs that you can't find
anywhere else. The show is super unique, and then it
combines these real interviews with a fictional narrative told from
the point of view of a young podcaster named Reuben,
played by a Santy Black, Reuben Rick Ruben def Jam
Here Comes to Break. But I digress. At the pulse
of this show are these real, live interviews and if
you haven't heard yet, here's a little taste. There's so

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much going on in the world. What role does your
music played during the time of revolution? That's crazy because
I've been like reflecting on that. It's anitas to own
interview that she did, and she said that as an artist,
our job is to reflect the time, and so I've
been been pushing It's difficult because when you start off
as a certain type of artist, everyone's just like ARTI
standing this lame, famous lane. But when you start seeing

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your people, in your black women and black men dealing
with so many things, you start kind of getting that
revolutionary strike going on. And so it's just been forcing
me to more so speak about what I've dealt with
as an African American artist. You know, sometimes you can't
just release a record we want to. So I've just
been kind of hammering people on the head like this
isn't right. Aggressive. I guess you can say I've been

(02:34):
a really aggressive artist. This is not only their problem,
it's my problem. Don't sounds central? Yeah, how's the influence
she was an artist? I appreciate my experience kind of
like moded me as a woman and as a human.
I've seen a lot of things. I've seen a lot
of darkness of you know, just I can go down
the list, but it helps me. I guess it helps
you be strong and sensitive at the same time and creativity,

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Like it's so much art. I know. Sometimes I'll just
drive onto the hood and I like, I'm in the
hood all the time and I'm shopping. Slawson and everything,
and that's where all the art comes from. It doesn't
come from being in Beverly Hills and being in Talking
Santa Monica and all these things. It's like the arts
where the people are. I have show remember all the grinding,
and so sometimes I'm just like, I deserve this. I

(03:18):
deserve this, I deserve this. I created this, I made this.
But what I've been noticing now as a young woman,
is that my over it. And so because I dealt
with so many traumatic experiences like throughout my career, and
so the thing that's helping me let it go is alright,
creating music. Talk your feelings out and then you have
to let it go or else I'm not gonna be

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able to evolve until the next person if I keep
holding onto all the trauma. And so I think that's
how the background is starting to shape me. It's just
I'm starting to process. Hello, dude, you're not always okay,
and this ship was sucked up and you gotta release.
And so that's what it's doing. I don't make music,
and it might sound crazy, it's like, I don't really
make music because I want to to help people. But

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I'm doing it because this is my only sense of
therapy at itself. I can't talk to someone about it
because no one gets it. If I make the music
for some reason, that's the only way I can help. Wow. Wow,
that's powerful. That's powerful. Um Okay, what advice would you
give to emerging artists just getting started who want to
signs for labels? I mean, I guess the best advice
to be you gotta be patient. You know, this is

(04:23):
a new generation, no only my twenties, and so we
want ship expeditiously like instant coffee. Be patient, have intuition
about the situation. There's gonna be times where everyone is
wrong and you're the right one, and you're gonna have
to speak up for yourself and just like now, man like,
that's not the hell I want to do. But you
also have to continue to be humble because you know,
don't shoot yourself at the foot because your label, they're

(04:43):
all working for you, not against you. Sew them in
to start off too serious. But in learning your bank story,
I learned that when you were young, your mom was
in prison and you and your siblings were left to
survive on your own until thankfully and relatives stepped in
to support you. How old. You know, I'm twenty four,
and then happened when you were a teenager? Yeah, yeah,

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I was about I want to say, maybe about thirteen
or twelve or fourteen. Maybe I don't want to make assumptions,
But now that you're an adult and you're pursuing your
own dreams as a music artist, why would you say
it contributed from that experience to what type of person
you are now because of it. I mean, honestly, I
feel like I feel like the main thing that made
me is just like it made me really strong, because
I feel like I tell my story to people and

(05:27):
they're like not amazed, but they're just like really like wow,
like you went through that. But to me, it's kind
of normal. I feel like it's like, yeah, like that's
is that bad? And I just feel like it made
me strong because if I look at that like, oh
that's it's it's nothing. Yeah. I just feel like it
made me like a really strong person, Like the way
I look at things, the way I handle certain situations,

(05:47):
the way I react. I just feel like it definitely
toughed me up. You know, I'm just a simple person.
I like the simple things. I'm just like a cool
chilled person. When I think of Florida, I don't think
of put as far as like all this is concerned.
I know that all artists out there, but my mind
goes first to say Miami, to talk about what the

(06:08):
music scene is like in Temple. It's kind of like
a love hate relationship, you know how So it's kind
of like a love hate relationship. If you ask ten
different rappers, you're gonna get ten different answers in Tampa
because you know, certain people on on different levels to
other people, so they feel like they were teasing and
stuff like that. When you build your fan base to

(06:29):
what they like from you, that makes the fans. So,
I mean, we don't really have a specific sound right now,
but we got a few artists that signed, and we
got a few artists doing anything agingly too, so you know, yeah,
like listening to their music. And and also I went
back and like Rick Ross has his own sound. Ace
Hood who's from Florida too, has his own sound trick Daddy.

(06:52):
So that's interesting that you said that bigger picture. Can
you talk about being signed to a major label and
how has that transition? What was that transition like for you?
I mean it was pretty easy because I always kind
of like care of myself, like I was important anyway
before I was signed, So it's like it's just like
a label. Now I'm actually signed, so you know, I

(07:15):
have a reason not to go to the club all
the time and stuff help me save more money and
a long run. How did you develop your fan base?
Instagram is the most amazing thing that guy ever crazy.
Do you feel like you're collected to your fans that way?
Do you recomments? Do you respond back to comments? Oh yeah,

(07:37):
I clapped back on the regular. Like if you say
something to me on the screenshot, go on your page,
get one of your ugly pictures and post it so
the world can see that this is a person I
was talking about me alright. That is a little taste
of our new show, Here Comes to Break. Please check
it out. You can find it anywhere you get podcasts,
Amazon Music, Apple, Spotify. Go out there and get it.

(07:59):
You definitely want to check the show up. Awesome sound
to sign, awesome storytelling. You're going to dig it.