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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lewis Jason from The Fred Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
And I'm here with another artist that I have recently
discovered and I'm obsessed with, and it's time for you
to be too, ARMANI West, Welcome, How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
What's not money away? Can I guess on here?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yes you can, girl, it's your busy.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Miss West. I came money seeing a bitch.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Oh my god, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So we were at Summer smash here in Chicago, which
you should play next year.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you haven't played it, that would be insane.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But north was there, which is so funny that you
just said that, And so we saw her there and
literally we drove on a golf cart pass. I was like,
that was freaking Northwest, Like miss Westy is here, Like
that's insane. That just made me like it just like
came rushing back to me that I was the same,
like in the same air as Northwest.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But welcome. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh my god, I'm doing aesthetic. I'm so exciting and
I'm just breaking the sign up.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
A great time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, Oh my god, I love your energy and your
music is everything. It is everything that I want from
like hip hop right now, Like it's feel good vibes,
but you're also you're talking your shit and you're.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Just doing what you need to be doing.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I want to just sort of go back a little
bit because I think Piano Tiles is a song like
everyone is hearing right now and it's on everyone's for
you page and everyone is streaming it. But before all
of that, like, what sort of made you start doing
hip hop?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Like did you had you been doing this a minute?
Did you? Was it always like you'renating you?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Or was there a turning point that you were like
I want to do this, Like what made you sort
of getting this lane?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You know what, I've always been interested in music. I
used to like during quarantine was like everyone's in a house,
so I just kind of felt myself, you know, just
making reps with my friends online and stuff like that.
But it really came when I graduated high school. I'm like,
you know what, I'm going to college in LA for acting,
and I pursued something on the side. So I was
in the summertime just making freestyle songs and rapping on
(01:55):
TikTok live and the girls is liking it. So I
pursue my dream and I'll drop the EP. When I
was in college and it was ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh my god, that's nuts. So you wanted to do acting?
You still want to do that?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Have you done any of that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Honestly?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Acting is like my really I really want to act,
really really bad. But I'm so one on like my music.
I'm just like, look at a rapper girl, and I'm
just really to take over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, And you're gonna do it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You could take take it over music and acting because
you're hilarious and just I just think you're so entertaining
that I could definitely see that happening. So are you
in La right now or where are you?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm not in La right now. I'm actually Ohio right now?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh Ohio?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, Okay, I see Taylor and Travis are supposedly buying
a house there.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Taylor, Travisty me.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I love it. Little Thanksgiving I live.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I want to talk a little bit about piano Tyles, okay,
because like I said, that is the Bob, that is
the song in the summer, that is what I can't
open my TikTok app without hearing that song, which I
am obsessed with I love, and that would make me
sort of like dive into the rest of your music.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I want to just talk.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
About what did it feel like to I always envisioned
like when a song like pops up overnight like this
on TikTok, Like you open your app one day and
you're like.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Holy shit, look at.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
All of these people using it and dancing and making
their own videos, Like what does.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That feel like? That'd be such a cool feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, it's definitely surprising.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's so like it's fun, Like it's just really it's
so fun to happen to see because I mean, I
dropped this song like it was on my project. It
got leaked last year and I couldn't even have it
last year. So I'm like, you know what, it's been here,
I'm gonna put it out on my album. It's been
like four months. I'm like, whoa, it started going up
out of nowhere. I'm like, I'm so I'm overall blessed.
But it was just so crazy and just so like,
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you know, just a ghost star for me.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Because then I feel like I want to talk a
little bit about like the social media of it all,
because I feel like there's like a really bad side
to it, but then there's a really good side. And
I think the really good side is like artists like
you who should deserve the recognition and people hear your music,
like it allows your music to be amplified in a
(04:15):
way that wasn't possible like five, six.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What is that experience like to be able to like
connect directly with your fans and you're independent, right, So
it's like you don't have a major label pushing you know,
you don't have you know, all the people working radio
and all the shit that they do with them, which
you don't even need anymore, right because your showing that
you have the streams, you have the fans, you have
(04:41):
the listeners whatever. What I guess is it really important
to you to like stay independent or how do you
sort of see that going? Because you're crushing it as
is and you can tell that you are authentic and
you get to pick what you want and look how
you want things to look, and release things the way
you want them to talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You know, one thing I preach is be yourself or
nobody will. I feel like everyone else, like everyone else
is taken, you know, like it's nothing else to be yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And I just really love the world build.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I love being personal and having all authenticity but
being genuine as well, like having like my close supporters,
even though ones that been knew me from when I
dropped my first EP, they're still around and they're like like, oh,
I knew all money before that, and I it's like love.
I just love that cause it's like y'all are loyal
to me. I'm lower to y'all. And it's just really
a fun experience when it's about the hate though, like
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of course this is like the most hate, like hey
ever got in, but also it's the most love I've
ever got.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
In, you know, Like it's.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
A community, and I was in a community I'm introduced
to I didn't know nothing about, you know, when it
came to the trends of animation and our culture, I
was always surrounded by your well, I was never indulged
in it. So it's like what I got, you know,
my music, my art to their art. It's like a
whole different space. And it was just like a one
time and meeting so many new people and people are
so many, it's a different thing. So I'm just so
(06:05):
exciting and everything is just it's just a whole bunch
of love. So I know, hey, y'all can put away
at the end of the day, I'm give hey, I shall,
I shall love.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
But sometimes when people need to be clocked, they need
to be clocked.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Speak up and speak out always you drive voice like
I'll speak up and speak out, like.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, how do you I love that you sort of
like turn from you know, you're focusing Yeah, like I
get bad comments right now then, but the love, like
really focusing in on that? Is that sort of how
you compartmentalize because I can for a small time, like
we've had some videos that we've done tiktoks or whatever
go viral, and it's so hard because I'm in the
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comments like all this person says about me or this
person like blah blah blah, you know, and it's like
it's really hard to.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Focus on that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
How do you sort of, I guess, compartmentalize it to
be like Okay, I need we're going to keep it positive,
We're going to focus on this when it's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So hard to do it sometimes, you.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Know, Yeah, honestly, I count my blessings, you know, I
count what's here because it was a day where I
was getting two streams. It was a day where I
was depressed and I'm just trying to be someone that
I wasn't. I was in a really bad hasdspace with
like when my first like ever album, I have an
album called America's Next out Rapper and my most personal
album because a lot of things went down, I made
(07:27):
a whole documentary about it and stuff, and I was
like really going through it. I was trying to be
someone I wasn't, and when I realized that that's not
going to give me nowhere, Like I'm not doing it
for them. I have to do it for me. And
if you try to cater to everyone, you cater to
no one like you don't. It's not there. So I'm like, ya,
what I count what's here? Because one day it can
(07:47):
all be gone. And it was a day where I
was wishing like I had that, Like I was wishing
like I had a million views on YouTube. But at
the end of the day, like I'm so humble and
I'm just so blessed. I just can't wait to go
up for more. And I don't really care when it
comes to other people else because my path is my path.
And Ika years, five years, two days. I'm gonna get
(08:09):
you where needs to go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, and someone that's a fan too, I can tell
you because now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I'm your fan. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It makes people like me want to uplift you and
want to be like, okay, like this is someone that
deserves it because you're hustling, your grinding, you're doing what
you need to do and it's coming off as authentic
and it's what you want to do and it's your
voice and you're working hard for it. So I think
like once you reach that point where you're like, holy shit,
I'm playing stadiums right, You're gonna look back and be like,
(08:37):
I'm really fucking proud about how I did that because
it feels so much better versus the opposite way where
sometimes people just get.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Handed to them or it's a way easier road, you know.
So I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I want to talk a little bit about like your
inspirations because for me, and I'm probably i'm older than you,
but for me, a lot of your visuals and a
lot of your music takes me back to that time
where I used to like go on people's pages on
MySpace and like the early two thousands and like discover
music or whatever. Is that sort of like the vibe
of like when you're looking at that type when you're
(09:12):
either when you're doing a photo shoot or visuals or
something or whatever, like it's very two thousands? Was that
was that the intention or where do you sort of
pull inspiration from that from?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Honestly, I'm gonna be honest, I am a gamer. So
one my first ever game to ever play was just
Dance and that's how how I kind.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Of like dip my funt into music. That's what my
music like.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know, back then I didn't really have like no
the Spotify d da da I had, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So that was the music I was listening to, so
we can.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, the Rihanna umbrellas you know to call me babies.
I'm so obsessed with that sound, that look, and like
that aesthetic of that. I'm like, yeah, I just love
to live by that because it was a once upon
a time where again not not even in my music,
but in my real life I couldn't be who I
was because you were around and you know, just being
like so young and knowing who you were, people were
(10:03):
afraid of that. So you know, now I'm older and
I'm able to live in my truth and I'm able
to just exemplify that and put that out in my art.
And I just love that because it kills me inside
and it can be also healing someone else, So you
know what I can do for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But the twenty the early twenty hands, the late.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Two thousands, Yeah, I'm just I'm just experience it for
the like as an adult now, like yeah, I didn't
really know, so now it's like whoa, yeah, like y'all.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was right, we had some good ship going on. There's
some ship that can stay back there, but we had
some good ship going yeah, second right exactly. And I
actually thought of you over the weekend because we were
at Lollapalooza and her backup Black was playing.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I don't know if you are familiar with her or
remember her. I love her.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, yes, that was yeah saying guys.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So now she's like this hyper pop like DJ, and
I'm like, oh shit, like herself was insane and I
was like I literally thought, I was like, oh my god,
and ARMANI Rebecca Black collab would be absolutely insane. So
I'm manifesting that, like I need that for you because
I feel like when you guys would link up like
that would be insane. Like I think like you with
that hyper pop like that Charlie XX made really famous recently,
(11:15):
or like Addison Ray like whatever, that's so like you're
like like that would be so iconic.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'm actually upssed with hyper pop right now.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I'm upset.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, icons Like it's everything.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So I dove into your album a little bit. The
last one that came out earlier this year, right Mania
and I have to shout out a Fame was like
literally a standout for me, like the bars, the production,
like that beat, Like I was like, holy shit, I
have to ask her about this because this song is everything.
And just like your production too, I think like most
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of the songs they've done, all these songs they listen to,
like there's it's so intricate about like not only are
your your versus like amazing, but then like I just
love when there's like little sounds and like stuff in
the back to like make it a full experience.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like so when you write a new song.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like are you really focused on like the production first
or the writing first? Because I feel like both are
so intricate. So how do you go like or does
every sort of situation against different.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You know what when it comes to like songwriting, cause
I'm not like a punch in tipe rapper when it
comes to them type of rappers, I feel like there's
two types of rappers, the ones.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That write the ones to like punch in.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, I'm such a writer, like I used to write
why pip fictions, Like I'll that type of girl. What
I love to write, and I learned how to write
music and I'm just so focused on like what I'm
saying my bars like first and foremost, but I always
listen to to be beforehand of course, and I like
to just play a puzzle.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's like a puzzle to me.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It's like, let me see when I say a word
like this, how does it sound on the beat that
you just piece it up and move some things around,
you know, it's the whole things. So honestly, it just
collapsed and it goes into into my eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then I do want to shout out Danny Phantom
that song because I was like this, this is a
pop song like this literally like we would play that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was like, this is getting obsessed.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm like, oh my god. Immediately adding it to my favorites. Okay,
so I want to Piano Tiles. You have a remix out. Now,
how did that all come about with the collapse and
and what made you decide to work with these artists
to sort of take that song to the next level.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, oh my god. First of all, shout out to
Bareley Human Court. This is the star. Oh my gosh.
I love my girls.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Down Trio ed a year, you know, crazy called Menso
first of all, I love my girl down. I was like,
you know what, sister, they ask for you, it's longer,
let's work.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It out on the remix.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, no, but down and.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
She is like soty, so you know what, I have
to contact her and here up, Like, girl, I need
you on here real bad, real bad. And then me
and Braley Hulm, I have a song out out from
last year called fla Bitch First d D And I
was so blessed and honored for my girls to put
me on that song.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So I'm like, you know what I need?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You want this piano house too, because so she her
open verse, she did open verse, so I'm like, you
know what, witch the world? No, what's what's up? I
need that full verse? They don't got the full so
they're going to gag. So up, let's call PBG. Let's
tok over. The music industry be underground, so let's go
ahead and put it out in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, and y'all did that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Like I was like, I don't know how you make
the song better, and like somehow y'all figure out how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Because like, holy, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, So you're like Piano Teles is massive right now
all over the internet.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What is the future going? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Where are we looking like the rast of twenty twenty five?
Are we doing music? Are we playing shows? What are
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Okay, well, expect definitely more shows up.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'm a nationwide now for us. Expect more shows.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
These a Chicago day. We need you in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I know I need them to god, oh my god,
really bad some live shows.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Expect new music and might expect a project, you know,
and I don't know how long it's gonna be, but
expect the project is definitely Expect a new single.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And I'm also working on my another documentary because I
just feel like, you know, just doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's been so much going on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
But yeah, I just feel like I did a documentary
for my first album, and you know, I'm not worried
about da da da because my decrementy is so see.
But I'm like, you know what, why go back to
my rooms and like give the girls what they want
because I feel like it's so personal and it really
like grabs the girls like on enough for different level
because I just put my life out there and just
for the girls to really you know, know who can relate
(15:41):
and you know, just need a helping hand. So documentary
live shows we're turning out money Montating Up Bitch twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, I'm so excited for you. I can't
wait to watch you blow up. And when you were
talking about the documentary, I was like, yeah, that's really
cool that you know your fans get that inside look.
But for you too, like selfishly, that's gonna be so
cool for you to look back on, like in twenty
years when you're like playing you know, stadium shows and
be like wow, like it was all documented, Like when
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all this was happening for you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You know, like I still thought I found about I'm
not a whole team here.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Right exactly. You're gonna be like Jason, who like I
don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Like no, no, I would never.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love you and I love your energy and I
whatever I can do to support you. You are so
talented and inclusive and like just everything is so good
from the lyricism to the production.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
If you have not checked out Our Money, please do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
She's amazing and check out. Piano Tiles is the song
that made me just upsats. But then there's the Piano
Tiles two out now and more stuff to come and
dive into. Like when you're talking about projects, girl, you
have projects, Okay. I was like, oh, there's there's a
lot of music for me to check out.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
About it, like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But you know what, like it's just growth, Like you
grow every single day, so who today might not be
who we were tomorrow and that story might change. So
you know what, I just really cherished my art style. Yeah,
I got yat and the next month's coming someone with
kind of saying.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh, yes, you are working and I love it. You
are putting that work in.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Thank you so much for sitting down with me. ARMANI
wives please check her out wherever you get your music.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Kevin, good rest of your day, Okay
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Thank you so much,
Lewis Jason from The Fred Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
And I'm here with another artist that I have recently
discovered and I'm obsessed with, and it's time for you
to be too, ARMANI West, Welcome, How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
What's not money away? Can I guess on here?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yes you can, girl, it's your busy.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Miss West. I came money seeing a bitch.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Oh my god, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So we were at Summer smash here in Chicago, which
you should play next year.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you haven't played it, that would be insane.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
But north was there, which is so funny that you
just said that, And so we saw her there and
literally we drove on a golf cart pass. I was like,
that was freaking Northwest, Like miss Westy is here, Like
that's insane. That just made me like it just like
came rushing back to me that I was the same,
like in the same air as Northwest.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But welcome. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh my god, I'm doing aesthetic. I'm so exciting and
I'm just breaking the sign up.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
A great time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, Oh my god, I love your energy and your
music is everything. It is everything that I want from
like hip hop right now, Like it's feel good vibes,
but you're also you're talking your shit and you're.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Just doing what you need to be doing.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I want to just sort of go back a little
bit because I think Piano Tiles is a song like
everyone is hearing right now and it's on everyone's for
you page and everyone is streaming it. But before all
of that, like, what sort of made you start doing
hip hop?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Like did you had you been doing this a minute?
Did you? Was it always like you'renating you?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Or was there a turning point that you were like
I want to do this, Like what made you sort
of getting this lane?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You know what, I've always been interested in music. I
used to like during quarantine was like everyone's in a house,
so I just kind of felt myself, you know, just
making reps with my friends online and stuff like that.
But it really came when I graduated high school. I'm like,
you know what, I'm going to college in LA for acting,
and I pursued something on the side. So I was
in the summertime just making freestyle songs and rapping on
(01:55):
TikTok live and the girls is liking it. So I
pursue my dream and I'll drop the EP. When I
was in college and it was ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh my god, that's nuts. So you wanted to do acting?
You still want to do that?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Have you done any of that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Honestly?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Acting is like my really I really want to act,
really really bad. But I'm so one on like my music.
I'm just like, look at a rapper girl, and I'm
just really to take over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, And you're gonna do it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You could take take it over music and acting because
you're hilarious and just I just think you're so entertaining
that I could definitely see that happening. So are you
in La right now or where are you?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm not in La right now. I'm actually Ohio right now?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh Ohio?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, Okay, I see Taylor and Travis are supposedly buying
a house there.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Taylor, Travisty me.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I love it. Little Thanksgiving I live.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I want to talk a little bit about piano Tyles, okay,
because like I said, that is the Bob, that is
the song in the summer, that is what I can't
open my TikTok app without hearing that song, which I
am obsessed with I love, and that would make me
sort of like dive into the rest of your music.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I want to just talk.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
About what did it feel like to I always envisioned
like when a song like pops up overnight like this
on TikTok, Like you open your app one day and
you're like.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Holy shit, look at.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
All of these people using it and dancing and making
their own videos, Like what does.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That feel like? That'd be such a cool feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, it's definitely surprising.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's so like it's fun, Like it's just really it's
so fun to happen to see because I mean, I
dropped this song like it was on my project. It
got leaked last year and I couldn't even have it
last year. So I'm like, you know what, it's been here,
I'm gonna put it out on my album. It's been
like four months. I'm like, whoa, it started going up
out of nowhere. I'm like, I'm so I'm overall blessed.
But it was just so crazy and just so like,
(03:51):
you know, just a ghost star for me.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Because then I feel like I want to talk a
little bit about like the social media of it all,
because I feel like there's like a really bad side
to it, but then there's a really good side. And
I think the really good side is like artists like
you who should deserve the recognition and people hear your music,
like it allows your music to be amplified in a
(04:15):
way that wasn't possible like five, six.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What is that experience like to be able to like
connect directly with your fans and you're independent, right, So
it's like you don't have a major label pushing you know,
you don't have you know, all the people working radio
and all the shit that they do with them, which
you don't even need anymore, right because your showing that
you have the streams, you have the fans, you have
(04:41):
the listeners whatever. What I guess is it really important
to you to like stay independent or how do you
sort of see that going? Because you're crushing it as
is and you can tell that you are authentic and
you get to pick what you want and look how
you want things to look, and release things the way
you want them to talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You know, one thing I preach is be yourself or
nobody will. I feel like everyone else, like everyone else
is taken, you know, like it's nothing else to be yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And I just really love the world build.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
And I love being personal and having all authenticity but
being genuine as well, like having like my close supporters,
even though ones that been knew me from when I
dropped my first EP, they're still around and they're like like, oh,
I knew all money before that, and I it's like love.
I just love that cause it's like y'all are loyal
to me. I'm lower to y'all. And it's just really
a fun experience when it's about the hate though, like
(05:36):
of course this is like the most hate, like hey
ever got in, but also it's the most love I've
ever got.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
In, you know, Like it's.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
A community, and I was in a community I'm introduced
to I didn't know nothing about, you know, when it
came to the trends of animation and our culture, I
was always surrounded by your well, I was never indulged
in it. So it's like what I got, you know,
my music, my art to their art. It's like a
whole different space. And it was just like a one
time and meeting so many new people and people are
so many, it's a different thing. So I'm just so
(06:05):
exciting and everything is just it's just a whole bunch
of love. So I know, hey, y'all can put away
at the end of the day, I'm give hey, I shall,
I shall love.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
But sometimes when people need to be clocked, they need
to be clocked.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Speak up and speak out always you drive voice like
I'll speak up and speak out, like.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, how do you I love that you sort of
like turn from you know, you're focusing Yeah, like I
get bad comments right now then, but the love, like
really focusing in on that? Is that sort of how
you compartmentalize because I can for a small time, like
we've had some videos that we've done tiktoks or whatever
go viral, and it's so hard because I'm in the
(06:48):
comments like all this person says about me or this
person like blah blah blah, you know, and it's like
it's really hard to.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Focus on that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
How do you sort of, I guess, compartmentalize it to
be like Okay, I need we're going to keep it positive,
We're going to focus on this when it's.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So hard to do it sometimes, you.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Know, Yeah, honestly, I count my blessings, you know, I
count what's here because it was a day where I
was getting two streams. It was a day where I
was depressed and I'm just trying to be someone that
I wasn't. I was in a really bad hasdspace with
like when my first like ever album, I have an
album called America's Next out Rapper and my most personal
album because a lot of things went down, I made
(07:27):
a whole documentary about it and stuff, and I was
like really going through it. I was trying to be
someone I wasn't, and when I realized that that's not
going to give me nowhere, Like I'm not doing it
for them. I have to do it for me. And
if you try to cater to everyone, you cater to
no one like you don't. It's not there. So I'm like, ya,
what I count what's here? Because one day it can
(07:47):
all be gone. And it was a day where I
was wishing like I had that, Like I was wishing
like I had a million views on YouTube. But at
the end of the day, like I'm so humble and
I'm just so blessed. I just can't wait to go
up for more. And I don't really care when it
comes to other people else because my path is my path.
And Ika years, five years, two days. I'm gonna get
(08:09):
you where needs to go.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, and someone that's a fan too, I can tell
you because now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I'm your fan. You know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It makes people like me want to uplift you and
want to be like, okay, like this is someone that
deserves it because you're hustling, your grinding, you're doing what
you need to do and it's coming off as authentic
and it's what you want to do and it's your
voice and you're working hard for it. So I think
like once you reach that point where you're like, holy shit,
I'm playing stadiums right, You're gonna look back and be like,
(08:37):
I'm really fucking proud about how I did that because
it feels so much better versus the opposite way where
sometimes people just get.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Handed to them or it's a way easier road, you know.
So I think that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I want to talk a little bit about like your
inspirations because for me, and I'm probably i'm older than you,
but for me, a lot of your visuals and a
lot of your music takes me back to that time
where I used to like go on people's pages on
MySpace and like the early two thousands and like discover
music or whatever. Is that sort of like the vibe
of like when you're looking at that type when you're
(09:12):
either when you're doing a photo shoot or visuals or
something or whatever, like it's very two thousands? Was that
was that the intention or where do you sort of
pull inspiration from that from?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Honestly, I'm gonna be honest, I am a gamer. So
one my first ever game to ever play was just
Dance and that's how how I kind.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Of like dip my funt into music. That's what my
music like.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know, back then I didn't really have like no
the Spotify d da da I had, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So that was the music I was listening to, so
we can.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, the Rihanna umbrellas you know to call me babies.
I'm so obsessed with that sound, that look, and like
that aesthetic of that. I'm like, yeah, I just love
to live by that because it was a once upon
a time where again not not even in my music,
but in my real life I couldn't be who I
was because you were around and you know, just being
like so young and knowing who you were, people were
(10:03):
afraid of that. So you know, now I'm older and
I'm able to live in my truth and I'm able
to just exemplify that and put that out in my art.
And I just love that because it kills me inside
and it can be also healing someone else, So you
know what I can do for somebody else.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But the twenty the early twenty hands, the late.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Two thousands, Yeah, I'm just I'm just experience it for
the like as an adult now, like yeah, I didn't
really know, so now it's like whoa, yeah, like y'all.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Was right, we had some good ship going on. There's
some ship that can stay back there, but we had
some good ship going yeah, second right exactly. And I
actually thought of you over the weekend because we were
at Lollapalooza and her backup Black was playing.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I don't know if you are familiar with her or
remember her. I love her.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, yes, that was yeah saying guys.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So now she's like this hyper pop like DJ, and
I'm like, oh shit, like herself was insane and I
was like I literally thought, I was like, oh my god,
and ARMANI Rebecca Black collab would be absolutely insane. So
I'm manifesting that, like I need that for you because
I feel like when you guys would link up like
that would be insane. Like I think like you with
that hyper pop like that Charlie XX made really famous recently,
(11:15):
or like Addison Ray like whatever, that's so like you're
like like that would be so iconic.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'm actually upssed with hyper pop right now.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I'm upset.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, icons Like it's everything.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So I dove into your album a little bit. The
last one that came out earlier this year, right Mania
and I have to shout out a Fame was like
literally a standout for me, like the bars, the production,
like that beat, Like I was like, holy shit, I
have to ask her about this because this song is everything.
And just like your production too, I think like most
(11:53):
of the songs they've done, all these songs they listen to,
like there's it's so intricate about like not only are
your your versus like amazing, but then like I just
love when there's like little sounds and like stuff in
the back to like make it a full experience.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like so when you write a new song.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like are you really focused on like the production first
or the writing first? Because I feel like both are
so intricate. So how do you go like or does
every sort of situation against different.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You know what when it comes to like songwriting, cause
I'm not like a punch in tipe rapper when it
comes to them type of rappers, I feel like there's
two types of rappers, the ones.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That write the ones to like punch in.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, I'm such a writer, like I used to write
why pip fictions, Like I'll that type of girl. What
I love to write, and I learned how to write
music and I'm just so focused on like what I'm
saying my bars like first and foremost, but I always
listen to to be beforehand of course, and I like
to just play a puzzle.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's like a puzzle to me.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It's like, let me see when I say a word
like this, how does it sound on the beat that
you just piece it up and move some things around,
you know, it's the whole things. So honestly, it just
collapsed and it goes into into my eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then I do want to shout out Danny Phantom
that song because I was like this, this is a
pop song like this literally like we would play that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I was like, this is getting obsessed.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm like, oh my god. Immediately adding it to my favorites. Okay,
so I want to Piano Tiles. You have a remix out. Now,
how did that all come about with the collapse and
and what made you decide to work with these artists
to sort of take that song to the next level.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, oh my god. First of all, shout out to
Bareley Human Court. This is the star. Oh my gosh.
I love my girls.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Down Trio ed a year, you know, crazy called Menso
first of all, I love my girl down. I was like,
you know what, sister, they ask for you, it's longer,
let's work.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It out on the remix.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yes, no, but down and.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
She is like soty, so you know what, I have
to contact her and here up, Like, girl, I need
you on here real bad, real bad. And then me
and Braley Hulm, I have a song out out from
last year called fla Bitch First d D And I
was so blessed and honored for my girls to put
me on that song.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So I'm like, you know what I need?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You want this piano house too, because so she her
open verse, she did open verse, so I'm like, you
know what, witch the world? No, what's what's up? I
need that full verse? They don't got the full so
they're going to gag. So up, let's call PBG. Let's
tok over. The music industry be underground, so let's go
ahead and put it out in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, and y'all did that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Like I was like, I don't know how you make
the song better, and like somehow y'all figure out how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Because like, holy, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, So you're like Piano Teles is massive right now
all over the internet.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What is the future going? Like?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Where are we looking like the rast of twenty twenty five?
Are we doing music? Are we playing shows? What are
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Okay, well, expect definitely more shows up.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'm a nationwide now for us. Expect more shows.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
These a Chicago day. We need you in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I know I need them to god, oh my god,
really bad some live shows.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Expect new music and might expect a project, you know,
and I don't know how long it's gonna be, but
expect the project is definitely Expect a new single.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And I'm also working on my another documentary because I
just feel like, you know, just doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's been so much going on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
But yeah, I just feel like I did a documentary
for my first album, and you know, I'm not worried
about da da da because my decrementy is so see.
But I'm like, you know what, why go back to
my rooms and like give the girls what they want
because I feel like it's so personal and it really
like grabs the girls like on enough for different level
because I just put my life out there and just
for the girls to really you know, know who can relate
(15:41):
and you know, just need a helping hand. So documentary
live shows we're turning out money Montating Up Bitch twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh my god, I'm so excited for you. I can't
wait to watch you blow up. And when you were
talking about the documentary, I was like, yeah, that's really
cool that you know your fans get that inside look.
But for you too, like selfishly, that's gonna be so
cool for you to look back on, like in twenty
years when you're like playing you know, stadium shows and
be like wow, like it was all documented, Like when
(16:11):
all this was happening for you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You know, like I still thought I found about I'm
not a whole team here.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Right exactly. You're gonna be like Jason, who like I
don't even remember.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Like no, no, I would never.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love you and I love your energy and I
whatever I can do to support you. You are so
talented and inclusive and like just everything is so good
from the lyricism to the production.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
If you have not checked out Our Money, please do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
She's amazing and check out. Piano Tiles is the song
that made me just upsats. But then there's the Piano
Tiles two out now and more stuff to come and
dive into. Like when you're talking about projects, girl, you
have projects, Okay. I was like, oh, there's there's a
lot of music for me to check out.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
About it, like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But you know what, like it's just growth, Like you
grow every single day, so who today might not be
who we were tomorrow and that story might change. So
you know what, I just really cherished my art style. Yeah,
I got yat and the next month's coming someone with
kind of saying.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh, yes, you are working and I love it. You
are putting that work in.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Thank you so much for sitting down with me. ARMANI
wives please check her out wherever you get your music.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Kevin, good rest of your day, Okay
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Thank you so much,
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