June 9, 2025 • 24 mins
Unrestricted Queer, Boricua,Brilliance. This artist from Bayamon, PR doesn’t care about the rules. Nohemy’s artistry and her codigos for those aspiring to rise in the industry.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Please go to some son you know me being me.
I feel like a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Of artists can be passive a little bit when speaking
with me, especially at first, because they're nervous and like
you though I get then they see that I'm a
vibe and they're like a aye, and their edges softened.
Then there are some artists who are never scared to
speak their mind, just quick with it, and I.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Appreciate that too. I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You don't want to sound like you're saying the wrong
thing and get canceled. I never been gathered in an
interview before, and that's exactly what Naami did.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
She got me together and you know what, respect all.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Girls said, no assumptions around queerness, bo equo, identity or
even her artistic process. And I soaked up every single
moment of it. It was refreshing different for sure, even
know you're not so you know that stuff that is
not me, But that's what happened, and I respect that.
I really do for those of you getting to know
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her for the first time. She's a brilliant artist from Bayamo,
Puerto Rico who brings an impressive refresh to fusions of
house and and the colleague of.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Today with childco s A k.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Army not getting I say, and La La La La
La La Mike twos. Then Notori's work with Mike Tyris
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has brought some of the most favorable cultural moments in
recent years, and it wasn't easy for them to get here,
neither full Harmony or Noam.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Let's get into their story.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I guess I'm got that have the honor of interviewing
the amazing creative an artist that is. I mean, thank
you so much for being here. How are you doing today?
I say, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I guess I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Rest, last night so good?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Crazy week because Grammys we're not so much going on.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, but it's dope.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
You know, everybodys doing what they love and you know,
connecting the people.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Their best selves. I'm especially happy to speak with you.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's hitting me because we're both, of course women in
this space, but we're also both.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Queer in this space.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Like my second interview, Oh no, no mea, this is
amazing thing, like but you let girl experience know, in.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Which case I think Americanship is something that is just
so beautiful. And so with that said, I just want
to say I'm sor happy to exist anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I'm happy here.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's nascoligos.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're talking about the cheat codes of what it means
to be successful, be great, be knowing me right.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So I would like to know, you know, what is
an example of you putting your cell phone?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Chekoke? What do I call your life?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Putting myself on, showing up, really just being everywhere, you know,
with the right attitude, being yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I feel like that's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Thing you're gonna do for yourself, not just show up
to a place and try to fit in, but like,
you know, be yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I appreciate that, especially because your style is very unique
to you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You're very intentional and different aspects of your artistry of course,
but also your presentation. I'm always so excited to know, like, Okay,
what's she gonna look like now? Like last summer sommer
she had flames in her hair. I was like, I
just love it, Yeah, because it's authentic with you, and
it gives an attitude.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Of like I'm doing what the fuck I want.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, but it's more powerful than people give creditude. Absolutely,
So in regards to like going back to like your
artist stream talk me.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
About what this path has been for you. It's going good.
You know, you're doing a lot of exciting things.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, it's exciting.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I mean it's been a long journey, so much more
to go, right, but a little bit of everything. I
feel like you have to go through a little bit
of everything, and if it's just like handed to you
and you get there and like with no issue and
good to whoever that works for it. But it's been
a little bit of everything, you know, but it all
has worked out to get me to where I am today.
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So I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Being very patient with the process, enjoying it the goods,
the bad, the highs and downs, you.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Know, all of that really like just trains your mind,
your artistry into becoming who you need to become. Because
I feel like it's easy to go through certain things
that take away your motivation and just call it quits
and go do something else.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But like my manager was saying when you were talking
to her, like the consistency can't stop even.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
When it goes up or down, Like you just have
to stay being the north and then then you just
have to keep going and get through each one of
those things. So yeah, it's it's been fun overall, honestly,
like all the downs hasn't been because like we chose,
it's because it was meant to be like that. I
feel like that's why it's easy to accept anything that
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comes my way, because everything we go through is we.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Just accept it. With her it is good bad.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So as a creative I often say, like, oh my god,
like I really appreciate what you're saying, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Like you just gotta keep going regardless of like what
you're hearing, Like you just have to keep at it right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think as an artist, for me, like what
is difficult about that is that sometimes you don't resonate
with or artist with For me, I won't project sometimes
for me, like I look back at art work I've
done before and I'm like, this has nothing to do
with who I am now, you know what I want
to say, now, where I'm at now.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Stuff like that. So it's hard to like keep that
as part of the collection of like who I am
because it no longer speaks to me and promotes what I.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Wanted to and in which case, you know, being able
to push through regardless of that, it is something that
I battle with. It's something that's like the hardest thing
for me as an artist because it's like you're trying
to figure out what that line is.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But with you and now I am projecting, I feel
like you have a very clear idea of who No.
I am is.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, but once upon a time I was where you
were at and I feel like that's where I say, like,
some downs are part of the process, and when you
look at it from that perspective, it's like how you
look at things, you know. I mean, you can look
at something and give it the meaning that you want
to give it to, you know, you know what I'm saying.
You can say like you were going through that and
it's a struggle. But if you keep saying that, it's
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a struggle and that's what it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
In your artistry.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
It's more so like when I was going through that
process where I'm.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Like, hey, I'm making these type of sounds and these
type of songs, like music that I don't feel like
I identify.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
With, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
But if I didn't try doing those songs and identify
that that's not the sound.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
That I want to do, then I would I have
never done the album that I'm about to put out,
you know what I'm saying. So it's like everything plays
a part and like where you're going to become.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
So you have to go through those lows and be like, Okay,
this doesn't really go with me, So now you know
not to really tap into it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Maybe as much, maybe you see it more later on.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, It's not necessarily.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's a bad thing. So an example like pet don't
I'll make.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
A doone song and I'll sound good and in my
mind just like oh you did like big things sound
like it sounds good and I'm like cool, like I
like it, but it doesn't feel the same when I
do like a pop or house or any alternative telling
you know what I mean, Because I feel that that
identity very clear on those sounds.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Not that Reggeddon is bad.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I just feel like more clear on this path. But
I'll still tap into Reggeddon, you know what I'm saying.
It's not like I'm gonna be like no, you're canceled,
like no, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So then the part comes in where you have to
listen to yourself as an artist as a writer, like okay.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Like then let me sit down make it because that's
what's sounding right now.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
No, like I'm gonna sit down and listen to myself
what the fuck I want to talk about and then
just talk about it and whether I do I want
to talk about it or acoustic whatever.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You just have to really go for like what feels right.
So that's my end of that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Can you describe to me, like the story like imagine
if many like memories with all of your songs are
all personal to you, Can you tell me a story
of like when that like artistic process really like pushed
you and in a way that really has helped you
get to.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Live where you are right now? Does anything come to mine? Yeah,
there's this song.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I have like three songs out of all of them
that I feel like they're very very special because they
they gifted me like a different feeling from when I
created other songs, Like for example, like be Ahead, Yeah
yahe was one of tho songs where like I was
like hold on, Like my producer sent me that beat,
and because I was like you'll send me be, send
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me be, He's like you have done nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I got some stuff here.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I was doing some weird stuff, but like send me
weird stuff, I don't care. And then he sent me
that song and I went to the studio that same day.
While I was driving, I wrote it and then when
I got to the studio, I recorded because it just
felt right. But that was the first song that I
experimented like really tapping into like that more like electronic pop,
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more like you know what I mean if you like,
because he did that and I had I didn't play
a part in that production, like he's He sent me that,
and I was like, yo, like I like the color
and the feeling of and the energy that this beat
like gives me.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it was so easy for me to flow on it.
You know, some songs are more difficult for me to
write because maybe you know, it's just the I'm not
flowing naturally and that's okay.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
But I find myself flowing naturally like in songs like
with that type of color.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So that song, yeah, I will say it was.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I still listened to it, and I can still remember
that feeling of like, Okay, this is gonna take me
somewhere else, And that's exactly what it did. Because when
you listen to my next album. You can feel that
influence from that song.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He's trying to let the smell that the album is
coming and that we need to be paying attention.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would love to know a story of, like when
you put on either for yourself or for others.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm leave that open too.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I would like to really say when I decided to
buy my whole.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
My studio equipment, you know what I mean, and throwing
myself in a world of engineering and things like that
that I wasn't educated on because I never really understood
how to record myself.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But I feel like I better myself and I put
on for myself. Just educating myself in that sense and
having that creative control of.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Writing for myself, recording myself, chopping my vocals and yeah,
and also the discipline that comes with that because I'm
in the studio in my house but myself, nobody's telling
me to clock and clock out, So having that discipline,
I'm telling myself, like, hey, wake up at ten because from.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Eleven to four you're gonna work on this song and
literally doing it like that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So I feel like that is one. Oh my god,
Miami is a.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
She's amazing. I'll be back with more of her after
these messages, I, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yes, I'll go back.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I didn't understand the power that comes with recording yourself.
It's very different, and I'm sure you can explain, like
when someone records you and how intimate it is when
you're recording.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yourself and they allowing yourself to be like silly or
some however, And.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Thank you for saying power, because I had someone one
time tell me that, oh, if you get your studio equipment, you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Might you might become lazy. No, because you don't have
you don't have the initiative of getting out of your
house and whatever. And I remember going back to that
person and being like, hey, yo, you remember.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
When you told me this.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I just want to tell you that you were wrong, you.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Know, because if it wasn't for that decision.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
That I made about like buying myself and recording myself
and really depending on me, like on the on the
creative side of making my music, like I wouldn't be
sitting here today.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like that's facts, I bet.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
That person, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Also didn't consider the fact that you're a woman, you know,
like and like recording spaces sometimes aren't always.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The baddest, you know, like in regards of comfortability.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
There's a little better.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Everything is as as an industry that is dominated by
male and then there's this perception and you know, I mean,
I've been to the studio session where guys, you know,
I'd like to have a lot of women around because
they like the energy and they're like, you know, writing
with that, that's not if you're wrong with that. So
sometimes men seeing that all the time, then they start
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to think that that's what women are here for or
something like that, like an object to just motivate them.
I mean, I don't know, I'm not a man, but
I'm just thinking, like maybe that's what it was. And yeah,
maybe sometimes I went to a few studio sessions that
I wasn't really like given the opportunity, maybe because it
was a girl and stuff like that. But honestly, like
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like I said, like I just bought my own stuff
and I just got it done. And if something doesn't happen,
like if I'm not turning in music, I can't blame
studios in Jemmy, I can't blame nobody.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I just gotta blame myself, like because I have everything
right there.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
You know what I'm saying, But you know what it
is if we Another thing is like if we keep
talking about the same stuff, like I feel like, oh,
women in the in the industry, in the studio, Like
I feel like it's always gonna We're always going to
keep that conversation and that thing looking.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Like it's an issue.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, I don't know what I'm saying. No, I
hear what you're saying, because we give power to what
it is.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That we know.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I hear exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, And I feel like it has changed, and I
feel like men are on aut Yeah, and I feel
like men are really like understanding.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Like I don't feel like they're doing it on purpose
or they were.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I feel like it's just from what.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
They're seeing all the time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Before you wouldn't see a lot of women's in the
studio like making music, so maybe you know what I mean.
They're just like used to just that part and that's okay,
But now they're understanding, like, you know, womens are talented writers, producers, engineers,
and we can sit in the studio, we can make
good music.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And it's dope the fact that we are able to
now change that perception and like and just collabse. You know,
no matter the gender, what you like brown blue, like,
it doesn't matter, you know what I mean. And I'm
happy about that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I love that, and thank you for going there because
I'm with that. I don't want to ever enforce stereotypes.
So like, if there is something that we could just
go deeper on, I mean, this is why I like you.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's question perto Bayamo, Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What does it feel like to you know, honor your
culture and heritage and just simply exist with you know,
the full part of your adentity and your music?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What the what is that?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Like?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It's dope to to really like be a part of
a community, you know, specifically like Puerto Rico that plays
such a big part of in the Latin urban culture
and you know, musically, and it's just dope that I
can contribute to that in my own way, you know,
and bring another type of energy that maybe people were
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looking for, you know, And I'm excited for that, you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Know, because a lot of the things that we see
is that, you know, sometimes.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
When artists don't find their identity, they go about what's
going on around them. You know, and then that's why
everything becomes the same. But I feel like taking that
homework or really finding my identity as a person first,
because I feel like you have to be a dope
person first before adult artists. So taking the homework to
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do that just reflects on my music and it helps
me contribute in their way for my culture, the music
and the community.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So it's still you're so done. Thank you, And I'm
excited for your next album.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm promoting it. Yes, I'm gonna do a clothes and
I'm gonna do ask you why don't we handed? That
is all the time that we have for today.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Noami, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I know Wamy no Wymy, she's such a badass bro.
If it's anything I'm taking away from this conversation, it's
a reminder to say true to yourself despite everything going
on in the industry. At THENDOS three, you know they
won't won't eat bo get full of smoke and mirrors.
There's a major movie production. Look at Saba movie. When
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you're breathing rare air, it's easy to let go of
what got you there, and also to be convinced or
more so fooled that being refined is what's going to
distinguish you. But you know what, you're breathing, rare air.
You're there, right, and don't say cambiatake. This conversation with
Miami makes me think of the larger conversation of fame
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in Latin America. It functions very differently in the US,
and when you mix it coming from the Caribbean, baby
Oh through Lego, there's always a question from the.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Ely on if we quote unquote can fit in?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
But who made them?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The curators? A culture kicked.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Okay, historically the the Lulu is crazy on a tangible note,
this is the heart of the reason why certain artists
are able to appropriate while other artists get rewarded.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Noami is so refreshing, so talented, so real, and I
could say something like, okay, it's because she does whatever
she wants and you'll think, okay, got the does it everyone?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And there's the difference between selling out versus buying in,
which is like my major point here. Selling out you're
rewarded for bending over some organic aspects of yourself. When
you're buying in you're saying, this is all of who
I am, and if you're smart, you'll take it. When
I'm in the room, I'll impact it being all that
I am, which got me in the room in the
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first place. I respect it, I admire it, I aim
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's the bar for me. Miami is a jump for
all of you house lovers.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Get into her, show her some love and let's take it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
To the top because she deserves it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Me handed you know what, time it is time for
some rapririto where I get to speak with one of you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Let's get into it. Hey, what is your name and
what city you're from? My name is DJ Roses.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I am from the best city of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
A h town and the building.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
D that I'll say, tell me what is a regathon,
dream collab, dead or alive?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Dead or alive? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Okay, So I'm like I mentioned I'm from Houston, and
so we love like intersectional approaches here and what I've
been saying for the longest, and I'm like, I don't
know why they haven't done it yet.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I think that it's hiding.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
The Meghan is Stallion drop hops on like a real
reaton track and I'm waiting for Megan to collab with
Eat Quick.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I love that exactly. I love that. Oh my god, Nah,
she's right on the money. I love this shit. If
that comes to life, Da says A and R the track.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, you're a DJ. What is your go to hype song?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
It depends on where I'm at, but I like to
do again. I'm from Houston, and so I use this
etche that goes from Argos to Gasolina because it's such
a it's a journey. But if it wasn't an edit
my go to song, I mean, I really like if
I get to play whatever I want, I really like
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to play it is we'll take it through my Blambert
like the crowd, if they know the music catalog, they'll
vibe to that one.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, okay, you can never go around with Blumbee. I
am Plumbey for life week I'm digging and I'm digging it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
What is your favorite way to discover music?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Honestly, I've noticed that Spotify.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
But Spotify definitely.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Has, like any some playlists that will tell you what
they recommend. I also feel that as a DJ, if
you become friends with producers they'll have some new tracks
that will help you and your music catalog and SoundCloud
has a bunge of songs that you can check out
when you have a personalized playlist or like a personalized
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mix it make for you, which honestly is hand sound
great to meet new artists or new producers.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I love that, Okay, she said, I'm using technology. Okay, okay, okay.
And last but not least, what is your hot take
right now?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I think that we're drifting a lot on like a
big bass type of sound. I think we're drifting more
into like a slow like R and B type of sound.
I noticed that when by Bunny mentioned some of his
top favorite artists right would include like Dela Ruse included
right now, it included on my courts. Something I saw
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recently was that they had they mentioned that they have
a similar sound to the Weekend. So I'm like that
flowy wave is really pushing right hard right now, but
I think we're moving away from like that hard.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Corporeal.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Than what it was. Do you like that or not?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What's your take on it? Personally?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
I'm obviously we love where stems from, right that it
comes from rawness, authenticity, It comes from. So of course
there's elements that you missed, but you know that with
every genre, people incorporated and then they transform into other things,
like I know that this Afro type of movement has
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also been shaping what we hear as well. So I
mean it depends on what the consumer.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
For me personally, I.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Mean I always love the rawanas pero. You know when
you when you get to the wall and it's it
is dirt like sweaty.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's never.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Something that we're gonna have a deep conversation about this.
It's all a lot of this is about clickbait, what
is easy to consume, what is tangible, and what's gonna sell.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
DJ Roses and.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
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music by Haave Vibes Lavi bra And I don't know
what I would do without my amazing production assistance Naomi A.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Savelo and Kayla exliston. I'm your host Gata and I
will see you next time here in
Please go to some son you know me being me.
I feel like a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Of artists can be passive a little bit when speaking
with me, especially at first, because they're nervous and like
you though I get then they see that I'm a
vibe and they're like a aye, and their edges softened.
Then there are some artists who are never scared to
speak their mind, just quick with it, and I.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Appreciate that too. I get it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You don't want to sound like you're saying the wrong
thing and get canceled. I never been gathered in an
interview before, and that's exactly what Naami did.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
She got me together and you know what, respect all.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Girls said, no assumptions around queerness, bo equo, identity or
even her artistic process. And I soaked up every single
moment of it. It was refreshing different for sure, even
know you're not so you know that stuff that is
not me, But that's what happened, and I respect that.
I really do for those of you getting to know
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her for the first time. She's a brilliant artist from Bayamo,
Puerto Rico who brings an impressive refresh to fusions of
house and and the colleague of.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Today with childco s A k.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Army not getting I say, and La La La La
La La Mike twos. Then Notori's work with Mike Tyris
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has brought some of the most favorable cultural moments in
recent years, and it wasn't easy for them to get here,
neither full Harmony or Noam.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Let's get into their story.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I guess I'm got that have the honor of interviewing
the amazing creative an artist that is. I mean, thank
you so much for being here. How are you doing today?
I say, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I guess I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Rest, last night so good?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Crazy week because Grammys we're not so much going on.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, but it's dope.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
You know, everybodys doing what they love and you know,
connecting the people.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Their best selves. I'm especially happy to speak with you.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's hitting me because we're both, of course women in
this space, but we're also both.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Queer in this space.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Like my second interview, Oh no, no mea, this is
amazing thing, like but you let girl experience know, in.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Which case I think Americanship is something that is just
so beautiful. And so with that said, I just want
to say I'm sor happy to exist anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I'm happy here.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's nascoligos.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're talking about the cheat codes of what it means
to be successful, be great, be knowing me right.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So I would like to know, you know, what is
an example of you putting your cell phone?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Chekoke? What do I call your life?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Putting myself on, showing up, really just being everywhere, you know,
with the right attitude, being yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I feel like that's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Thing you're gonna do for yourself, not just show up
to a place and try to fit in, but like,
you know, be yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I appreciate that, especially because your style is very unique
to you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You're very intentional and different aspects of your artistry of course,
but also your presentation. I'm always so excited to know, like, Okay,
what's she gonna look like now? Like last summer sommer
she had flames in her hair. I was like, I
just love it, Yeah, because it's authentic with you, and
it gives an attitude.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Of like I'm doing what the fuck I want.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, but it's more powerful than people give creditude. Absolutely,
So in regards to like going back to like your
artist stream talk me.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
About what this path has been for you. It's going good.
You know, you're doing a lot of exciting things.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, it's exciting.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I mean it's been a long journey, so much more
to go, right, but a little bit of everything. I
feel like you have to go through a little bit
of everything, and if it's just like handed to you
and you get there and like with no issue and
good to whoever that works for it. But it's been
a little bit of everything, you know, but it all
has worked out to get me to where I am today.
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So I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Being very patient with the process, enjoying it the goods,
the bad, the highs and downs, you.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Know, all of that really like just trains your mind,
your artistry into becoming who you need to become. Because
I feel like it's easy to go through certain things
that take away your motivation and just call it quits
and go do something else.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But like my manager was saying when you were talking
to her, like the consistency can't stop even.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
When it goes up or down, Like you just have
to stay being the north and then then you just
have to keep going and get through each one of
those things. So yeah, it's it's been fun overall, honestly,
like all the downs hasn't been because like we chose,
it's because it was meant to be like that. I
feel like that's why it's easy to accept anything that
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comes my way, because everything we go through is we.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Just accept it. With her it is good bad.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So as a creative I often say, like, oh my god,
like I really appreciate what you're saying, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Like you just gotta keep going regardless of like what
you're hearing, Like you just have to keep at it right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think as an artist, for me, like what
is difficult about that is that sometimes you don't resonate
with or artist with For me, I won't project sometimes
for me, like I look back at art work I've
done before and I'm like, this has nothing to do
with who I am now, you know what I want
to say, now, where I'm at now.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Stuff like that. So it's hard to like keep that
as part of the collection of like who I am
because it no longer speaks to me and promotes what I.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Wanted to and in which case, you know, being able
to push through regardless of that, it is something that
I battle with. It's something that's like the hardest thing
for me as an artist because it's like you're trying
to figure out what that line is.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But with you and now I am projecting, I feel
like you have a very clear idea of who No.
I am is.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah, but once upon a time I was where you
were at and I feel like that's where I say, like,
some downs are part of the process, and when you
look at it from that perspective, it's like how you
look at things, you know. I mean, you can look
at something and give it the meaning that you want
to give it to, you know, you know what I'm saying.
You can say like you were going through that and
it's a struggle. But if you keep saying that, it's
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a struggle and that's what it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
In your artistry.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
It's more so like when I was going through that
process where I'm.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Like, hey, I'm making these type of sounds and these
type of songs, like music that I don't feel like
I identify.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
With, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
But if I didn't try doing those songs and identify
that that's not the sound.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
That I want to do, then I would I have
never done the album that I'm about to put out,
you know what I'm saying. So it's like everything plays
a part and like where you're going to become.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
So you have to go through those lows and be like, Okay,
this doesn't really go with me, So now you know
not to really tap into it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Maybe as much, maybe you see it more later on.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know what I'm saying, It's not necessarily.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's a bad thing. So an example like pet don't
I'll make.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
A doone song and I'll sound good and in my
mind just like oh you did like big things sound
like it sounds good and I'm like cool, like I
like it, but it doesn't feel the same when I
do like a pop or house or any alternative telling
you know what I mean, Because I feel that that
identity very clear on those sounds.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Not that Reggeddon is bad.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I just feel like more clear on this path. But
I'll still tap into Reggeddon, you know what I'm saying.
It's not like I'm gonna be like no, you're canceled,
like no, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So then the part comes in where you have to
listen to yourself as an artist as a writer, like okay.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Like then let me sit down make it because that's
what's sounding right now.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
No, like I'm gonna sit down and listen to myself
what the fuck I want to talk about and then
just talk about it and whether I do I want
to talk about it or acoustic whatever.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You just have to really go for like what feels right.
So that's my end of that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Can you describe to me, like the story like imagine
if many like memories with all of your songs are
all personal to you, Can you tell me a story
of like when that like artistic process really like pushed
you and in a way that really has helped you
get to.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Live where you are right now? Does anything come to mine? Yeah,
there's this song.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I have like three songs out of all of them
that I feel like they're very very special because they
they gifted me like a different feeling from when I
created other songs, Like for example, like be Ahead, Yeah
yahe was one of tho songs where like I was
like hold on, Like my producer sent me that beat,
and because I was like you'll send me be, send
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me be, He's like you have done nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I got some stuff here.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I was doing some weird stuff, but like send me
weird stuff, I don't care. And then he sent me
that song and I went to the studio that same day.
While I was driving, I wrote it and then when
I got to the studio, I recorded because it just
felt right. But that was the first song that I
experimented like really tapping into like that more like electronic pop,
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more like you know what I mean if you like,
because he did that and I had I didn't play
a part in that production, like he's He sent me that,
and I was like, yo, like I like the color
and the feeling of and the energy that this beat
like gives me.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it was so easy for me to flow on it.
You know, some songs are more difficult for me to
write because maybe you know, it's just the I'm not
flowing naturally and that's okay.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
But I find myself flowing naturally like in songs like
with that type of color.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So that song, yeah, I will say it was.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I still listened to it, and I can still remember
that feeling of like, Okay, this is gonna take me
somewhere else, And that's exactly what it did. Because when
you listen to my next album. You can feel that
influence from that song.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He's trying to let the smell that the album is
coming and that we need to be paying attention.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I would love to know a story of, like when
you put on either for yourself or for others.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm leave that open too.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I would like to really say when I decided to
buy my whole.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
My studio equipment, you know what I mean, and throwing
myself in a world of engineering and things like that
that I wasn't educated on because I never really understood
how to record myself.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But I feel like I better myself and I put
on for myself. Just educating myself in that sense and
having that creative control of.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Writing for myself, recording myself, chopping my vocals and yeah,
and also the discipline that comes with that because I'm
in the studio in my house but myself, nobody's telling
me to clock and clock out, So having that discipline,
I'm telling myself, like, hey, wake up at ten because from.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Eleven to four you're gonna work on this song and
literally doing it like that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So I feel like that is one. Oh my god,
Miami is a.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
She's amazing. I'll be back with more of her after
these messages, I, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yes, I'll go back.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I didn't understand the power that comes with recording yourself.
It's very different, and I'm sure you can explain, like
when someone records you and how intimate it is when
you're recording.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yourself and they allowing yourself to be like silly or
some however, And.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Thank you for saying power, because I had someone one
time tell me that, oh, if you get your studio equipment, you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Might you might become lazy. No, because you don't have
you don't have the initiative of getting out of your
house and whatever. And I remember going back to that
person and being like, hey, yo, you remember.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
When you told me this.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I just want to tell you that you were wrong, you.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Know, because if it wasn't for that decision.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
That I made about like buying myself and recording myself
and really depending on me, like on the on the
creative side of making my music, like I wouldn't be
sitting here today.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like that's facts, I bet.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
That person, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Also didn't consider the fact that you're a woman, you know,
like and like recording spaces sometimes aren't always.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The baddest, you know, like in regards of comfortability.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
There's a little better.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Everything is as as an industry that is dominated by
male and then there's this perception and you know, I mean,
I've been to the studio session where guys, you know,
I'd like to have a lot of women around because
they like the energy and they're like, you know, writing
with that, that's not if you're wrong with that. So
sometimes men seeing that all the time, then they start
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to think that that's what women are here for or
something like that, like an object to just motivate them.
I mean, I don't know, I'm not a man, but
I'm just thinking, like maybe that's what it was. And yeah,
maybe sometimes I went to a few studio sessions that
I wasn't really like given the opportunity, maybe because it
was a girl and stuff like that. But honestly, like
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like I said, like I just bought my own stuff
and I just got it done. And if something doesn't happen,
like if I'm not turning in music, I can't blame
studios in Jemmy, I can't blame nobody.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I just gotta blame myself, like because I have everything
right there.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
You know what I'm saying, But you know what it
is if we Another thing is like if we keep
talking about the same stuff, like I feel like, oh,
women in the in the industry, in the studio, Like
I feel like it's always gonna We're always going to
keep that conversation and that thing looking.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Like it's an issue.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, I don't know what I'm saying. No, I
hear what you're saying, because we give power to what
it is.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
That we know.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I hear exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, And I feel like it has changed, and I
feel like men are on aut Yeah, and I feel
like men are really like understanding.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Like I don't feel like they're doing it on purpose
or they were.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I feel like it's just from what.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
They're seeing all the time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Before you wouldn't see a lot of women's in the
studio like making music, so maybe you know what I mean.
They're just like used to just that part and that's okay,
But now they're understanding, like, you know, womens are talented writers, producers, engineers,
and we can sit in the studio, we can make
good music.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And it's dope the fact that we are able to
now change that perception and like and just collabse. You know,
no matter the gender, what you like brown blue, like,
it doesn't matter, you know what I mean. And I'm
happy about that.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I love that, and thank you for going there because
I'm with that. I don't want to ever enforce stereotypes.
So like, if there is something that we could just
go deeper on, I mean, this is why I like you.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's question perto Bayamo, Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What does it feel like to you know, honor your
culture and heritage and just simply exist with you know,
the full part of your adentity and your music?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
What the what is that?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Like?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
It's dope to to really like be a part of
a community, you know, specifically like Puerto Rico that plays
such a big part of in the Latin urban culture
and you know, musically, and it's just dope that I
can contribute to that in my own way, you know,
and bring another type of energy that maybe people were
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looking for, you know, And I'm excited for that, you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Know, because a lot of the things that we see
is that, you know, sometimes.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
When artists don't find their identity, they go about what's
going on around them. You know, and then that's why
everything becomes the same. But I feel like taking that
homework or really finding my identity as a person first,
because I feel like you have to be a dope
person first before adult artists. So taking the homework to
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do that just reflects on my music and it helps
me contribute in their way for my culture, the music
and the community.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So it's still you're so done. Thank you, And I'm
excited for your next album.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm promoting it. Yes, I'm gonna do a clothes and
I'm gonna do ask you why don't we handed? That
is all the time that we have for today.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Noami, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I know Wamy no Wymy, she's such a badass bro.
If it's anything I'm taking away from this conversation, it's
a reminder to say true to yourself despite everything going
on in the industry. At THENDOS three, you know they
won't won't eat bo get full of smoke and mirrors.
There's a major movie production. Look at Saba movie. When
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you're breathing rare air, it's easy to let go of
what got you there, and also to be convinced or
more so fooled that being refined is what's going to
distinguish you. But you know what, you're breathing, rare air.
You're there, right, and don't say cambiatake. This conversation with
Miami makes me think of the larger conversation of fame
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in Latin America. It functions very differently in the US,
and when you mix it coming from the Caribbean, baby
Oh through Lego, there's always a question from the.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Ely on if we quote unquote can fit in?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
But who made them?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The curators? A culture kicked.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Okay, historically the the Lulu is crazy on a tangible note,
this is the heart of the reason why certain artists
are able to appropriate while other artists get rewarded.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Noami is so refreshing, so talented, so real, and I
could say something like, okay, it's because she does whatever
she wants and you'll think, okay, got the does it everyone?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And there's the difference between selling out versus buying in,
which is like my major point here. Selling out you're
rewarded for bending over some organic aspects of yourself. When
you're buying in you're saying, this is all of who
I am, and if you're smart, you'll take it. When
I'm in the room, I'll impact it being all that
I am, which got me in the room in the
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first place. I respect it, I admire it, I aim
for it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
That's the bar for me. Miami is a jump for
all of you house lovers.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Get into her, show her some love and let's take it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
To the top because she deserves it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Me handed you know what, time it is time for
some rapririto where I get to speak with one of you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Let's get into it. Hey, what is your name and
what city you're from? My name is DJ Roses.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I am from the best city of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
A h town and the building.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
D that I'll say, tell me what is a regathon,
dream collab, dead or alive?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Dead or alive? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Okay, So I'm like I mentioned I'm from Houston, and
so we love like intersectional approaches here and what I've
been saying for the longest, and I'm like, I don't
know why they haven't done it yet.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I think that it's hiding.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
The Meghan is Stallion drop hops on like a real
reaton track and I'm waiting for Megan to collab with
Eat Quick.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I love that exactly. I love that. Oh my god, Nah,
she's right on the money. I love this shit. If
that comes to life, Da says A and R the track.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Okay, you're a DJ. What is your go to hype song?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
It depends on where I'm at, but I like to
do again. I'm from Houston, and so I use this
etche that goes from Argos to Gasolina because it's such
a it's a journey. But if it wasn't an edit
my go to song, I mean, I really like if
I get to play whatever I want, I really like
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to play it is we'll take it through my Blambert
like the crowd, if they know the music catalog, they'll
vibe to that one.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, okay, you can never go around with Blumbee. I
am Plumbey for life week I'm digging and I'm digging it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
What is your favorite way to discover music?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Honestly, I've noticed that Spotify.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
But Spotify definitely.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Has, like any some playlists that will tell you what
they recommend. I also feel that as a DJ, if
you become friends with producers they'll have some new tracks
that will help you and your music catalog and SoundCloud
has a bunge of songs that you can check out
when you have a personalized playlist or like a personalized
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mix it make for you, which honestly is hand sound
great to meet new artists or new producers.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I love that, Okay, she said, I'm using technology. Okay, okay, okay.
And last but not least, what is your hot take
right now?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I think that we're drifting a lot on like a
big bass type of sound. I think we're drifting more
into like a slow like R and B type of sound.
I noticed that when by Bunny mentioned some of his
top favorite artists right would include like Dela Ruse included
right now, it included on my courts. Something I saw
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recently was that they had they mentioned that they have
a similar sound to the Weekend. So I'm like that
flowy wave is really pushing right hard right now, but
I think we're moving away from like that hard.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Corporeal.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Than what it was. Do you like that or not?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What's your take on it? Personally?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
I'm obviously we love where stems from, right that it
comes from rawness, authenticity, It comes from. So of course
there's elements that you missed, but you know that with
every genre, people incorporated and then they transform into other things,
like I know that this Afro type of movement has
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also been shaping what we hear as well. So I
mean it depends on what the consumer.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
For me personally, I.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Mean I always love the rawanas pero. You know when
you when you get to the wall and it's it
is dirt like sweaty.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's never.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Something that we're gonna have a deep conversation about this.
It's all a lot of this is about clickbait, what
is easy to consume, what is tangible, and what's gonna sell.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
DJ Roses and.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You're listening to.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
MIKOA Son Son, you know what time it is. It's
time for the flowers.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Regattata podcast is and I Heart Media production co executive
produced by Crazy Media, Love YOUA. My producer is Grace
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