November 6, 2025 • 43 mins
We dive deep into the life of the legendary Frankie Cutlass, the man behind the timeless anthem “Puerto Rico” 🇵🇷🎶.
The ICONIC DJ/Producer opens up about turning his life over to God after surviving a dark chapter in his youth, when his life was threatened over false accusations of snitching within his crew. He talks about growing up in Spanish Harlem, being raised by a strong Puerto Rican mother who worked hard to support nine children, and the moment she sacrificed to buy him his first DJ equipment so he could chase his dreams early on.
The convo dives into the golden era of Spanish Harlem, where Frankie came up alongside icons like Marc Anthony, freestyle greats T.K.A., Cynthia, and more showing how one neighborhood produced a generation of Latin music superstars.
He also shared how it felt hearing his anthem “Puerto Rico” echo through the Super Bowl Halftime Show when Jennifer Lopez performed to it - surely one of the proudest and most emotional moments of his life, a true full-circle celebration of his culture and roots on one of the biggest stages in the world.
Frankie also breaks down: His first big radio break thanks to Funkmaster Flex. Working with Biggie Smalls and NYC hip-hop legends + touring the world and staying grounded in faith and culture
It’s a story of faith, legacy, and the power of music: straight from one of New York’s most respected DJs and producers.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Come Again, a podcast by Honey German.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to another episode of Grass Come Again. Today, I'm
sitting down with someone who is an artist, a super producer,
a writer, a man of God, a DJ, a Grammy nominee.
Welcome to Grass Come Again.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Franky Cutlers, Hey my pleasure, salute. Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know why I expected you to come up
with you know, man all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm used to, That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm used to seeing you on stage, just like I expected. Explosive,
I said, I'm giving them time to wind up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you
for you know, allowing me to come up here.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I just extracting. I never expected them to be that color.
Don't mind me. I'll be all over the place with.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You fishy green eyes. And also depends on the clothes
that I wear.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Too popping today. I got that from Grandpa, right you
thought you was all.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That I was.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was slim too, so you know my share.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
How are you feeling today.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Overall in this universe, you feel like you know you
are where you're supposed to be right now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
As far as the music. Yes, Spiritually no.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Why aren't you a man of God? You find God very.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
God, But I'm not. I'm not to be very honest
with you. Talk to me to be very transparent with you.
I have a calling in my life, so I've been
running away from that calling.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So are you supposed to be leading us in the church?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And what you're not ready?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know. It's it's not that I'm not ready. I
think that's a powerful calling.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you have to be careful with so much things
that's going on in the churches today. You know, all
the past is getting criticized. You know, some of these
churches pimping the congregations. So we have to have you know,
it's it's it's scary, it's very it's very scary.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And remember you know, but you have it here, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's he wakes me up every day at five in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
When are you gonna do this?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm you know, he talks to me, you know,
and I talked to him and I said, just just
just hold my hand, just leave me there, you know,
And he's working.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But I don't blame you because you have you know,
instances like let's say, Faruko Farus, like I said, that's it,
that's it, And now he's back and everybody's like, so
what happened? So I can see your hesitance to like
be like, am I gonna go? Am I gonna stay?
And you don't want to jump in, and then be
like don't I want to go back?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, you don't want to jump in, and then want
to go back and they want to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right, you know it's just that's even worse.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It gets, Yeah, it gives it a bad name, right,
it gets you know, Christianity the whole, you know, like
a bad name, and everybody look at you like you're
just a joke.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I think it's a disrespect to your calling. Also,
absolutely when you decide to accept that calling, whether it
be to lead, whether it be no to prophesize, you know,
found a church, and then you're like, all right, God,
I think I made a mistake. I'm a woman of
God also and be like I think I made a mistake.
I don't want to do this anymore. The disrespect is severe.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's definitely, yeah, it's definitely. So. You know, I didn't
ministry for like about fifteen years. That's that's when I
left the music business in ninety It was like ninety
seven ninety eight. I left the entire music business that
I was in my peak too. I was signed to
Epic Records, you know. I was part of the Flip
Squad with Flex, I was DJing, I was doing a
lot of big things. Just finished producing a song for
(03:16):
the Tori's Big.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And Luke don't get no bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I think that, you know, when you work with
the man, and I'm not talking about hey, send me
the a cappella. I'm talking about when you're in the studio,
when the Tories big, you know, you popping.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh, I'm saying, they don't get no bigger than big.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So so I left all that and I just like
turned around and started serving the Lord and walking and
you know, and doing stuff in the ministry. After year,
after sitting down for a whole year and a half,
I started going out there and ministering all over the world,
you know, sharing my testimony.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What happened. You can't just be like, you know, one
day I decided to do this. Was there a specific
moment or was it the way you were living your life?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Uh? Yeah, the way I was living my life. So
you know, first thing, first, I lost my moms so
I was only twenty years old. Siblings of nine, so
I was the youngest. That's why I was the youngest.
So he got really got to see my mom for
twenty years. So that that hurt a lot, you know.
And then I was part of of a gang in
New York City, and you know, we were doing a
(04:18):
lot of crazy stuff, you know, and they accused me
of snitching and I was not snitching. To this day,
they thank god, there's no paperwork because they were Mama
didn't raise no snitch, so.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
There was you know, but that's snitch called.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know, that's that's so serious. It's like one of
the most serious accusations.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Absolutely absolutely know you died for that, and that's exactly
what they did. They put a contract on my head
to kill me, was it, Yes, you know, and big up,
and you know, big up to them. I love I
love them, I loved you know, some of my brothers
and sisters. Unfortunately, there was a couple of bad apples
that started accusing me of this force information. Yeah, and
you know they it was it was it was a
(04:56):
really bad situation. And I was twenty at twenty years old.
I was, you know, running with them and everything. I
would hire them too. They were they were good, they
were good brothers and sisters. I was hiring some of
the Lion Kings to do security for me when I
was out there DJing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You were already popping at twenty Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was popping, you know. So we was out there,
you know, I had Puerto Rico out body was under
set with Fat Joe and Douop.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you feel like you were targeted by these individuals
because they.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Were they were you know. So what happened was, you know,
the fans was cracking down, you know what I'm saying.
So they thought that I became an informant, which wasn't true.
So I told them that I needed to kind of
like chill for a second, because I would these guys
was picking me up literally at the other stations, you
know what I'm saying, at the recording studio, and it
was getting difficult for me, you know what I'm saying.
(05:42):
So I spoke to my lawyer, and my lawyer asked
me to speak to them. I spoke to the leaders
and I told them what was going on, but they
didn't want to hear that. You know what I'm saying.
So I started like kind of missing some of the
weekly meetings that we used to have. You know, we
used to always have meetings.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
At your radio station.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I'm talking about the gang, Yeah yeah, yeah. So
I started missing some of those meetings and they didn't
like that. So some of these you know, bad apples
ended up, you know, accusing me of snitching. They're saying, oh,
he's been coming them in a former and I was
not snitching, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Talking about that's why you weren't showing up at the
meetings because you were meeting with the Feds.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like no, yeah, right, so that's what they thought. So anyway,
you was making money, I was making money. I was.
I was at my peep you know, video was playing
on you know on BT that I mean, I was popping, right,
So I didn't need that headache, you know what I'm saying.
And so anyway, to make the long story short, you know,
they accused me of snitching, and they put a contract
and I had to run for my life, you know
(06:31):
what I'm saying, because everywhere I was going, they were
showing up to really kill me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And people think New York is big, New York is small.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. Yeah, but you have to understand in the nineties
there were a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was like like lan Kings were big and wall
You would go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade in
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was a mob. It was all of us.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It was all of us. And yeah, so that was that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So did you leave New York? No?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
No, I had to hide, you know. So I came
across my brother law who was a minister, and he
started praying for me, and then he just started sharing
and he'd say, man, you gotta look for God right now.
You got a dark cloud of your head and you
might not survive this. So you have to make a
choice what you want to do. So I started going
to church. I loved what I was feeling because you know,
my mother also raised us in Pentecostal home, So I
(07:14):
love what I was feeling. And one day I just
decided to do a three sixty and just stay in
the church.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You gave your life to Christ.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I gave my life to christisrender and I felt so good.
I felt the peace, and I began to hear God
speak to my heart and telling me, you know, if
you follow me, I'm going to give it all this stuff.
And thank god. We was like, what thirty years later,
I'm still here. You know, later on they found out
that it was not you, that there was no paperwork.
To this day, there's no paper and there will never
be no paperwork.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But it sucks because you know, bringing that that, you know,
stigma upon you is like you have to constantly be
clearing your name. It's like that's the last thing you want,
especially in the hood.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Imagine that it took me out for no reason.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
They took me off for no reason, to find out
there is no paperwork, right, you know, my daughter would
have been father's less.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know, my family was already that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I was a dad to my first daughter, Charisma,
and she wouldn't have had a dad, and my family
would have been really you know, it would have been
hurting behind.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That saved you because like you said, there is a
calling on your mic. You're not going to go before
your time.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is God is good. God is big. God is big.
If he has a plan for you, not even the
devil will take you out, you know what I'm saying.
So so I thank God for you know, sparing me
with this contract and everything. But like I said, they
cool people. I speak to a lot of them till
to this day, you know what I'm saying. And even
the big one, the captain, I'm not, you know, not
going to say his names, but he he, he sent
(08:34):
a letter saying thank God that I was to chose
the positive. And and actually those guys end up informing.
The ones that actually said that I was snitching end
up becoming informed. Trick the stand against.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Hand on the Bible, they were deflecting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They were like anyway, they the one that ended up,
you know, snitching on him and Towers the witness stand.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, born and raised in New York, Spanish Hall, Spanish.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Talk to me what hospital you were born in?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Metropolitan Hospital, right two blocks away from where I lived.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Mammy took you home walking, probably yeah, she probably did.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
One hundred and first Street. Funny story. Mark Anthony lived
on the first floor. I lived on the seventh floor.
Long hair mar Anony, Mark Anthony, he used to call
him skinny Tony.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Did he start his career there?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And yes, yes, yes he was young, we were very young.
And he started there with his sister named Jelanda. Yolanda
is like almost a twin. They look alike. And they
started a guy by the name of David Harris who
used to always pick us up, and he had this
thing called the Cadets, you know, and we would go
to the Cadets and Mark Anthony was part of a
Jorlanda was part of it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Was it like an after school program.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It was like after school program, but it was a
program in the neighborhood, you know, trying to keep everybody
from the streets or whatever. So they started with that.
So that guy had some somehow he had kind of
like a musical background, and he started Mark's career like
like yeah, he started like recording with marc Anton. I
still have actually I have those recordings, believe it or not.
For real, crazy man, I have those recordings, you know.
(10:08):
So I started with him and his sister, and then
Mark end up just free lancing. And Mark started doing
what something that it's really still big to this day
called freestyle music, so huge. He started doing background for
some of those freestyle.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Artists, like see, I didn't know that you're putting me
on right Nowhires. I always thought marketing is like a
superstar no, he.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Started doing background He actually wrote Sapphire song, boy, I've
been told, And he started doing backgrounds for the Lan
the Lion Rascals.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I guess we all got to start somewhere with Mariah
Carey was the background singer for Brenda.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
My sister Brenda. Yeah, so he started doing backgrounds and
then after that, one thing led to another. He met
David Mondonaldo. I'm running through it real quick, and he
got down with the whole rm N Ralph mccardo, you know,
and I met up with our boy, Sergio George, who
also lived in the neighborhood, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And you always still to be stars if you were
all in that same little you know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The rest is history. This is Mark Anthony Si Satto,
you know, one of the biggest, right, you know, one
of the biggest.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The King of sid Well, one of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, you started mixing when you were twelve years old.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Twelve years old, My brother, where did you get equipment? Well, no,
I did it, my brother Tito, may he rest in peace.
He had equipment, was back nineteen seventy eight, nineteen seven
and around there. And I heard him, you know, DJ
in the room and stuff and every time he'll leave
the room, my mother would pick the lock and I'll
start playing with equipment and stuff. The day my mother
was like, I went picking the lots and he would
(11:34):
he would catch me because you know, like I'll leave
the equalizer on or something.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
He said, something's wrong, so hey, you knew.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He was like, Ma, why you let him play with
my equipment? But that's how I started. I saw my
brother first record I heard, believe it or not that
I could remember coming out with my Kusa. I saw
my Kusa that was the first record, and Super Sperm excuse.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You're fine, You're good, You're good.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, those are the two records that I heard him
always playing at the house of my kusaig and Super
Sperm you know, break records, and I loved it. Something happened.
I was just like, I love that. I want to
do that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know you watched him DJ I watched it, watched
the room.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Some types of kicked me out because there was boys
and I was a young one. Get out the room,
you yeah, yeah yeah. But when I heard like him
playing like Freedom and danced to the Drummer's Bee and
all my Coupside and all those records, just begun. Something
happened to me. I was like, I want to do that.
That's what I want to do, and that's how that's
how I started.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know, fifteen, you were already DJ by fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
My mother bought me some equipment. Yeah, thank you mom.
She she jeopardized her rent one day and told me
buy your equipment.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You went with her to buy the equipment. Tell me
the story.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
What happened was my boy from the neighbor. He was
a DJ. So every Saturday I would go to his
house with records and he was, you know, we will
practice and one day, you know, he wanted to be
more of a womanizer. So you know, one day I
knocked there and he kind of like came out, came
from from inside and locked the door real quick behind him.
He was like, no, man, I got a shorty here.
You ain't coming. We're not practicing today. So I was
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just like, mann seriously, He's like, yeah, yeah, I got
to show you note you're not coming today. So I
went home. I was a little sad, to be honest,
because I just bought records too.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You were hype and ship.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Because I bought new records. I wanted to really like
practice the little vinyls. I went, yeah, I had vinyls.
It was strictly vinyl. So we I went into the
you know, my room and everything, and my mom came
in there. She saw what's wrong? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The president?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I was looking sad looking out the windows and
now no. She was like, what happened to happen with
this guy? After he was priding? I got a girl
and theyre blah blah blah, And like twenty minutes later
she came in. She was like, come on, let's go.
And I was like, let's go were.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She was like, moms are So I was.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Like, go where. She was like, I want you to.
I want to buy that chiky chiky jiggy where you
get that chiggy jiggy from? And I said, Mom, you
don't got money. She says, well, I'm jeopardizing this month's rent.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
My little baby can't be in here sad because you
was the baby, right, yeah, it was the baby. There
would be that there was she was dark super boy
and she was dark.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You will have Blanke, I would have Blanketo. Yeah, you know,
I was me and my sister, the one with a
lot of eyes. But I'm the is. You know, my
brother used to tease me, Oh, mom made it. You know,
they made a mistake in in the emergency room.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
All the hospital we picked up in the trash can.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That's what I used to tell you, adopted, they picked
different all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But what she ended up getting it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So she didn't get the best equipment, but at least
she got something. She know, she got me techniques and
straight arms techniques, you know, and she got me something
to you know, get me started. And I always, I
will always share that in my heart forever.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Moms.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
She didn't really get to see me at my peep
she you know, she passed away in ninety five.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So like she actually supported you, supporting the dream. And
you know, if it wasn't for mom, maybe buying that
equipment and you would be like, I don't want to
do this. Yeah, say, mothers are super important, and you
know you lost yours early at twenty years old, but
you got to experience Yeah, yes, I loved you and
she raised you and a twenty your man kind of
(14:53):
sort of yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, she carried I had my I had my you know,
my my lady and we had a baby together and everything.
So I kind of moved out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You definitely was a man into Yeah. Yeah, you know,
it still hurts, but at least mom got to see you,
you know, become an adult and even have a child. Right,
that's super.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well she didn't get to see the child.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Oh she didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
She actually passed away a week before the child was born.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, that was that was Was it an accident?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
She had a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You know us people, you know, we eat crazy, diabetes,
high blood pressure. Yeah, she was like sixty years old
and she passed away from all complications, you know, those
kind of complications.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That stays with you know, it stays with you forever.
But you know, I'm glad that you have such a
you know, great story to share about your mom.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, you were feeling down and mom said, nah, we're
gonna fix this for you, because you know, that's what
mom's doing. You know, not just Latina mothers, but we
also experienced that, you know what you know, inner city moms.
You know, we grew up in the hood, and it's
just like we understand the struggle. Your mom had nine
kids and she's out here buying DJ equipment. Some moms
can't even buy clothes. You know what I'm saying, that
was a Sacrif you definitely sacrifice, how much did you
(15:58):
take from her into your you know, parenting style?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
A lot, a lot, Yeah, you know, you know, you
know my mom and my dad they were together for
forty years.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, what a beautiful story.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I love.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, you know, so I don't know what, no disrespect nobody,
But I don't know what you know what to have
a step father or step mother like, you don't come
from a broken No, we don't, we don't. So you know,
so I want I wanted that all.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Nine kids, both of them together, all nine kids. When
y'all got your TV.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There was no TV. That's why they made nine kids.
They was was, yeah, Puerto Rico and over there, you know,
there was no TV.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Oh my god, I love this story.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But a house of nine? How noisy was that house
where everybody kept growing up and leaving.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, one of my sisters stood in PR. She met
someone over there she got married to this day, they
still married PR and PR. So she stood with that guy,
but then she brought everybody else over here. So yeah,
there was a lot of kids. Well, my mother cooked,
she made those big those big trays, those big there,
the big one now had to be the one that
takes up all the It had to be good to
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cook in those big pots.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Man, Like you have a game.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No, it's not. You have to be on point.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It's a science.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, you got to make sure that season is the
right you know, the right amount. And she did it
all man, and she cooked for all nine of us.
You know your mom worked, No, she was a housewife.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I can imagine nine kids, How can you even leave
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, we you know, we grew up in the project.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So you know which project we met off.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Metro, offf Plaza, So we grew up in the projects.
You know, my dad tried to work in there. You know.
On warfare, you know, it's a lot. You know, social security,
all that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Seventies, eighties nineties, you know, it was if you're listening
from anywhere in the world or outside of New York,
we went through some tough times here in New York seventies,
eighties nineties. It was not for the week right, to
say the absolute least. Now, when did you start making music?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Were DJing?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So when did you get into a studio? Was like,
I'm gonna put a track.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Together, yeah, so nineteen eighty six. So so what happened was,
I went Sapphire was the neighborhood because we all from
the same neighborhood, fire t K, Layin Dia, Mark Anthony,
Cynthia was all of us is from the same neighborhood
that talents.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So you said Mark Anthony and you said Layin Da.
You could have stopped right there. Those two, Yeah, had
the nineties chokehold absolutely continue.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Absolutely, so you know, we was off the neighborhood. So
what happened was somebody came, one of my friends named
David Burials came to the park in one hundred and
EIGHTHU where we used to all hang out, and he
was saying, hey, man, we just I just found out
that Sapphire is looking for a remix. You already had
you know, a song out and she was looking for
a remix on her second single, call let Me be
the one. So they were like, yeah, they were So
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they were like, hey, you know they won like a remix,
go ahead, go home and do it. I'll take it
to her. So I ran home that day. I put
together like a you know, a remix type you know thing,
you know, splicing tapes, of nobody probably know what the
hell that is.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're just gonna ask you, how did you make a remix?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Splicing real to real, like go back, We're going back
like land Rascal days, you know what I'm saying. So,
you know, I had a real tourreal splicing it, doing edits,
and then I do some overdubs, you know, because I
kind of got that from Land Rascals that they used
to be on a station called ninety eight point seven
Kiss and they would do like overdubs and play keyboards
on top of the records that make it sound good.
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So I kind of did that, Senator, but fortunately I
didn't make the I didn't make them, you know, the remix.
Land Rascals end up doing it. Two weeks later, my
friend who worked the heart Throbs where Little Louis Vega
used to DJ right on twenty sixth Street and Chelsea
back in the days in New York. Yeah, yeah, right.
So so he was like, hey, man, we got Sapphires
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performing with Land Rascals. You should come. And I was like, oh,
I'll be there. So I went over there, and you know,
he brought me to the VIP room and I met
Sapphire for the first time, and then I told hey,
I'm the kid that did the remix for you. She
was like, wait a minute, you Frankie. I was like yeah.
So she was like, oh my god, that was pretty
dulle blah blah blah. She was, you know, she started,
I'm talking to me and try to encourage me. But
she was like, unfortunately, you know Lion Rascals, you know
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they did it. I said, yeah, that's cool. But she said,
but I'm not going to let you go. She said,
I heard some keyboards. You play keyboards. I said, well,
I try. I'm not the best keyboards, but I try
to play keyboard. She was like, well, we well, my
brother's form in the group and I need you to
come try out. Come to the house on Monday. So
I went over there did my tryout, you know, saying
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albut Cob from Land Rascals there because that was her
boy keyboard. I did play keyboards and she said, you know, what,
what do you guys think? And she was like yeah, yeah.
So I became part of a group called am Moore
and the song it was a nineteen eighty six is
on Mick Maverick. It was called You Never Found Another Love?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That song Oh please a song no this song right right?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So, I mean, you know, for all the freestyle heads, right,
you know, so we did. My first song was you
Never Found Another Love? Uh, and it was by m
Moore And that was my very first song. I don't
want to hear the song play right now, but that
was my very first song. And then I continued, you know,
doing music for you know, within the freestyle produced TK
give Your Love to Me, I did a Zamma London
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Together Forever, I did Love Me Tonight by Cynthia. I
produced those records, you know what I'm saying. So I
got into the whole freestyle genre. And the nineties, early
nineties freestyle took a bad you know, a bad hit
with the other station. I don't know if I could
say the name of the star ninety three Hot ninety seven,
you know.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Was it was it the hot ninety seven we know
now or before it was hip hop?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No, it was it was hot, it was Hot ninety seven.
They were playing freestylea So what ended up happening was
I guess they did that whole change where flex started,
you know, became the hip hop DJ, and they started
changing they format. It took a you know, turn for
the worst. And then I my very first hip hop
big record. I met funk Master Flex in front of
Hot Day seven. I was like, hey man, I'm just
a kid trying to get on I hope you like
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my record. It was a white label and I was driving.
I was driving up Hudson.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Hudson River, So you handed him what did you handle?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I handed him a record. It was white label, and
he said, I'll check it out, you know, I'll listened
to it. And as I was driving through the Hudson,
you know River playing Holly seven, all I heard was
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Typical Flex.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He wouldn't do some ship like that. And I'm screaming
in the cargoing records, no heads up or nothing, just
I just played it and he started cutting the beginning
and it was just like me and my man was
looking at you.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
It was crying, you ain't have to pull over.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah we did. We Actually, that's crazy, we did pull
over it. It was just like, yo, we couldn't believe it.
So he started playing on Puerto Rico. Then the next
day he played it again. He just just started playing
the record and it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Was at the beginning of you entering the hip hop arena.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, yes, So what happened was and I bumped into
him about two weeks later. He was like, yo, who
manages you? And I was like nobody. He was like,
all right, man, yo, meet me here. So he wanted
me to meet with him and a lady by the
name of Jessica Rosenbro who used to have a company
called Stress Entertainment and the Flip Squad. She's the one
that did all the parties at the Tunnel and all
those parties at the Flip Squad used to DJ, and
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one thing led to another. They started managing me and
that was then My second single was Shake What Your
Mama Gave You?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That song was iconic.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You that song in Vertigo when they had that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Dude, Yeah, yeah, funny talk about that. So my engineer Rock,
the guy whose voice you hear me shake with your
mom You know it's my boy Rock. He was an
engineer SOB Studio, a studio downtown by Delancey. And the
funny thing is that when we did that record, he
was just an engineer. Because I was supposed to say
shake what your Mamma gave But I ain't have that
kind of soul, graspy voice. You know. I'm Puerto Rican,
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you know, so I ain't have that black voice, you know. Yeah, yeah,
So I told him, yo, going in the booth and
he did it and I sampled him. Funny thing is
that we I think it was for New Year's Eve.
The Tunnel had Luke Uncle Luke to perform. So Jessica
calls me and goes, yo, you should perform. Shake what
your mama gave you. I will have you open up
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for Luke. I said, come on, but I got Puerto Rico, like,
I'm not trying to go in that direction. And she's like,
so what are you gonna do? I said, hold up,
give me a second. So I called Rocky and Jenny.
I said, rock you ready to be an artist? He's like, man,
you crazy bro, ain't no artist. I said, rock I'm
telling you're gonna open up for Luke. This is big
New Year's Eve. This place is gonna be a massive house. Like,
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you need to do. What am I going to do?
I said, Yo, go to the strip bar, go get
two girls, three girls, and go on, go on the
stage and I don't know, come up to him, do
something shit And he did it and to this day.
He performed Shake with Your Mama Gave You and then
you know I started his career. My boy rock YEP.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
That's insane. You know these stories like you see things
unfold but you don't know, you know, the behind the
scenes and how one thing leads to another. Now, can
we talk about I like it like that?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah? Sergio George did that?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I got it? Yeah, I got I got a call
from Sergio George was like, Yo, we need you to
do the remix. So I like it like that. So
I was like, Sergio, let's do it. So I did.
I did the remix and became an over nice to say.
I actually end up working with a second time. So, uh,
there's a song that I had. I think it was
my third single on Relativity, Violated Records and Epic Records.
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It was called You and You and You and the
hip hop had sa X and Redman. They were rapping
on it and and then then we did like kind
of a like a Latin tribal house and we hired
uh my boy Victor Vargas and his brother the Webonman
Don who passed away of COVID. He's the guy to
sing s I lo Guy and Son and I get it.
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You know that voice that you hear in the clubs. Doubt.
They did the remix the Mambo Bix for my song
You and You and You. So I ended up calling.
I was like, hey, man, I need you to do
vocals on this. And we we we went and picked
them up and we took them to the projects. So
they lived in Western Projects over there and the Bronx.
We took him there. He had a Mercedes like, Yo, man,
if I come down and my my rims are missing, bro,
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I'm telling you're gonna get beat up on you. Yeah.
He was like telling me. I'm like yo. He's like yo,
we in the hood. Hood bro, Like I know, I know,
but this is where they do. They they they you
know their music. So we brought them up and we
put him. You know, when he went inside the elevator,
all the old lady I can only imagine that was
going crazy. We brought him to Victis house and Don's
house and the mother was like, oh my god, you
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want some coffee. I'll give you coffee.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
She was like, let me make a where it was big.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Remember when he was really big. Dave Booth was like,
for one hundred and fifty pound guy. So we were
pushing him inside of booth and like, Yo, hurry up
because I'm sweating.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm die in here. Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We had the vocals in there.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
We have vocals that we closed the door. He was
sweating like sardine. Man. Some time in the project. I'm
telling you, we were cracking myself. Right now, we was
cracking up at Ditos. To this day, I saw not
to logo. I was like, Tito, you remember that. He
was cracking up, Like, Yo, you guys are crazy man,
big shout out to my boy, Tite is man.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Your music has been sampled a lot, and it has
been used movies, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
With song Puerto Rico. Yeah, Like it's Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So iconic, Like did you think this was going to
span decades the way it has, Like the fact that
Jennifer Lopez opened up the super Bowl, not on.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Super Bowl so she The first time she used it
was in two thousand and two NBC special Live from
Puerto Rico. This is her first concert Puerto Rico. And
we're sitting there, you know, ready to see this live
special on NBC, and all of a sudden, I hear
Puerto Rico, Oh, Puerto Rico, and then she put she
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put the big pun a little big punch sample, and
then back and forth with Puerto Rico, and then my
whole songs played. The band started playing my I was like,
Jennifer was emotional. I was like, yo, Chao's using my song,
Like this is crazy. So you got paid yeah, yeah, yeah,
you get paid for that. You know, you get paid
for mastering, publishing and all that. The lawyers, you know,
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usually negotiate that and stuff. But so that was the
first time. And then again NFL called me and they
were like, hey, you know, Jello is going to use
your song for the Super Bowl. She's gonna open up.
You know, she's performed with dal If you don't stand
next to the TV, you would have not been able
to hear Puerto Rico. It was really fast, it was low,
but it was in there right, so it was cool.
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It was you know, it was Jennifer Lopez, Ti Miguel
Colto came out to the song. It was part of
the New York Undercover Cops back in the days. It
was called Macha Thero's when they used it. Sharon Stone
on Gloria, there's a scene where she's walking with the
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little boy. Uh, if you, if you, if you guys
saw the movie, the film she was walking with the
little boy and then all of a sudden you hit
Puerto Rico on the back around like somebody was playing
on the radio. So, yeah, this record reached a lot
of places, a lot of place. It's like you said,
every year on the national Puerto Rican they prayed for
the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
You know, that's a soundtrack to like the parade as
soon as anything. You know, one sixteen festival Puerto Rican,
they parade Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah. The funny The funny thing is really quick that
I wanted to know. The funny thing is that my
name when it came to Puerto Rico and everything I've
done was erased in the music business when I became
a born again Christian.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So like why do you think why?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You know, it was like everything was changing in the
music business, you know, so there was a lot of
new artists coming out. There was you know, it's never ending, right,
but it was. It's now that people put the face
together with Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So is it because you really left?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah? I left. I left the industry and nobody knew, like,
you know, there was a new generation coming up, you
know what I'm saying. So they were like, yeah, we
heard the song, but we don't know who he is.
We didn't even know it was Frankie Cutlers. They were like,
you know, you got to remember back then it was records, vinyons, right,
cassette CDs. You see the name Frankie cut So now
has everything started changing to digital? All that got loss?
Who produced what? You know, who did what? All that
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stuff got lost, you know, but it's now within the
last i want to say, the last seven years, eight
years that people are putting in the face and the
name together, like, oh, Snape, we didn't.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Know it was you, you know, and you know what,
You're still here with us, and we can you know,
we can still give you your flowers. We can still
you know, connect the icon with the legendary track, and
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that's super important. Some people don't get to see that,
you know what I'm saying, Like, you're still here, you're
with us, You're thriving, it's blessing, you're working, you're making money.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, it's a blessing.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Stuff your blessing. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I'm so happy. You know that you're you're still here
and you're working. How does your family see you?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Are you just dad? Are you just?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Are you married?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
No, So when you go home, who's there?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So when I go home, is my grandson? You know
what I'm saying? Yeah? Yeah, and I have four grandkids
by the way, so I have four grandkids. I have
I have two daughters. Yeah yeah. So so when I
get home, you know, they usually there. Whatever my family
for most they try to they treat me sensitive, They
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treat me different.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You know, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Like I don't know, I don't know. They become fans
or something like that, Like you, I don't know. I
kind of look at them like it's me Like you
know what I'm saying, they got to be extra sensitive,
would be asking me stuff, and you know, they treat
me a little different. But whatever it is, what do you.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Mean by that? It's like they don't want to hurt
your feelings or like I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
They they you know, they call me dad, you know,
and stuff like that all my but they're more sensitive,
like they want to make sure, like you know, they
they don't want to hurt my feeling as far as like,
you know, treat me or certain like you just frank
you from the house or whatever. You know. Now it's like, okay,
you just a levity guy, now, you know what I'm saying. So,
I mean, it's all respect.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But you know, fifty, you know, some families they'd be like,
oh whatever, you ain't nothing. You know, even if you're
the biggest start in the world, some families just want
to chop you down to size. And then some families like, nah, right, respect,
don't play. That's fanky cutlass ops. But you give them
his respect.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess that's how they treat me.
But you know, I want them at the end of
the day, I want them to treat me like I'm
just a normal person. You yeah, just dad.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You know. But what what you've done, you know, it
is amazing. You know, it must be respected and it
must be admired. You know what I'm saying. When you
did you did it during the time.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You know, it wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We didn't have what we have now, whether it be
TikTok where there it'd be Instagram labels, YouTube, did you
made it happen with nothing?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Posters? Right, cowboys outside two in the morning, three in
the morning, a big van, a job of glue, you know,
hang up those posters everywhere city. We did that. I
did it. I did I was part of that crew
with the hoodie on. Let's go handing these posters up.
And that's that's how we do it, man, That's how
we did it back then. Marketing.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You know, what are your thoughts on AI. I was
reading a story today about this AI artist, just Goss,
signed to a three million dollar deal. I'm like, what
is the future of music and artists in your opinion
when it comes to AI.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's scary. It's really scary because it loses that whole identity,
you know, as an artist, as a producer. You know,
we worked extra hard. You know, we was in the
studio for what twenty four hours. Now it's like one hour.
You can tell AI to do whatever you want, you know,
and it's it's scary. It's a scary situation. I don't
I don't know about the future of the music or
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anything else.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Is do you think the music industry will survive?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
What if artists and the music industry leverages the AI
and works together with it, Do you still think it's
something that can be used in a positive way, or
you think that the music industry is.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Just yeah, yeah, I don't know. Like I said, that's
a very hard question so right now, but you know,
like I said, with AI doing everything, it kind of
takes away the fun and you know, it takes away
what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
A lot of artists are not with it, like I
saws like, don't play with me, don't use, don't.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Use because you know, we work hard for this man.
Like you know, like even even when I listen to
some of the seventies stuff and the eighties stuff, you
could feel the funk, you can feel the soul because
everything is live. So when that bass player is playing,
like from Chic when you hear that bass player there,
you hear that soul, it's like he's rocking that base
and you hear the druma everybody's like it's a feeling.
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You know what I'm saying right now, it's like it's
missing all that right now with music, you know what
I'm saying, There's no more of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
There's a lot has changed.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
What hasn't changed for you when it comes to music.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, I still, believe it or not, I still do
turntables in vinyl, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So I saw you we were at one sixteen festival
doing your thing. You still do turntable and by at.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Home or at home at home, and I do it
at home when I go live. I do you know that?
And I used twelve hundred. I got my twelve hundreds,
you know, yeah, I got my vinyls. Excuse me, but
you know that haven't changed, you know, as far as blending,
you know that haven't changed. That's something that I I
wish a lot of DJs do you know which I
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hear a lot of DJs do it? You know still
to this day do tie boogey Man Crazy tie Boogie
is my guy. I don't play about shout a big
shot out to tie Bookie. He's just insane with that
those blends. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, leave it up if you let me tell it.
I'm biased, you know, my brother, but still he nice
with it.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, no, blend the tie book is definitely that dude.
And it comes to blending, man, you know, he does
this thing. I hear a lot of that stuff. I'm like, yo,
I'm like that's fire kid coming from a legend.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Thank you man, appreciate Why does sound just like him?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Alway, give him his floppers like yo, coming from you
a legend, Thank you man, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I always say it. I'll be like one of the
best DJs in New York. I'll look by DJ sus one,
not because they both worked here, well still works here,
but because I've watched them.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I got to give another DJ shout out that.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Bring it up, that blends a DJ snob and he.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Blends, he scratches, and the kid is off the hood.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I have to say, Star, I thought you were going
to talk about Frank Ross.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
No, DJ Mail Star is another one. I got to
give him his flower, bro that dude when it comes
to Blend, oh, when it comes to Blend home and
and you know who's another one. I have to give
another another shout out, Scrap Jones I gotta give. I
gotta give him his flowers too and stuff. Those two
cats right there is definitely putting in some work and stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
When a DJ impresses the DJ that means impressed to.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
All those two impressed me, I'll be like.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's the thing like when with.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Them too, you know, I met up with them and
talk to them and we talk sometimes, you know, especially
a mail star, we do a lot of talking, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
DJ academies. I love when DJs do that. What are
you doing with with Are you doing anything with kids? Like,
are you passing your legacy down anyone in your family?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
No? Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, I actually don't want my daughter, my younger daughter,
my younger daughter. Face she she she she has like
this little thing going on where she singing. She's came
out with a few songs, not big, be down social
media and whatever. But I don't want my I don't
want my kids in the music business, especially my daughter.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You feel like the music industry is just two a bunch.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Of them, a bunch of freaking purpose. We know, we
know there are a lot of purpose here, man. So
I get scared with that. With my daughter. She's very beautiful,
you know what I'm saying, And I just don't want
her to go through that. You know, I don't want one.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
He could change her life, come on, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Could, but I don't want her to go through hell.
I know I could. I could, girl, I could share
stories right now from major artists and everything they've done
to get up there, and I have receives in its
facts with major artists that will blow this whole place
out of this world. But I'll keep my mouth shut
where they have to do to get there.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
So things are different though now with Instagram, she can
blow up on TikTok and tour of the world, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But she still need marketing. You still need that marketing money.
You still need that backing, you know what I'm saying.
I mean, you know it's yeah, you know social media
helps you, but you still need that marketing money, you know,
and you still need I still think you need a
label because label will take you world why and they'll
they'll get to places where you can't get on your own,
you know, unless you become like you said, that overnight sensation,
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that one you know hit you know, viral, your video
goes viral and whatever. That's different.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But because you have labels now making Tiktoker's artists, the
music industry is very backwards now. Before she's like, we're
going to create an artist, now they're like, oh, let's
take this TikToker you know that has this song and
bring them over to the l Yeah, you know that.
That's what's important now, you know, streams, views, TikTok, YouTube.
The music industry is a complete differ landscape. Let your
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daughter do a song.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Let she's done.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I can be in your life because I'll be like,
let's let's let.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Her do it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It's funny you saying that because I was just the
other day. I was thinking, like, you know, I'm gonna
go to iTunes, Apple Music and I'm gonna listen to
her music and I was going to surprise her. I
was going to actually take one her songs, stack the
a cappella and do my own beat to it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Come on, come on, pops, don't play.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, I was thinking of doing that. So still still
it's still on the work.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So se and to me, I want to hear I
want to hear it once, once it's all done. I
want to hear it. Now. What are you working on
right now?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
What are we looking out for? Are you going on tour?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, I've been on tour. I've been a DJ. Yeah
it's a DJ. I do like fifty something gigs a
year every weekend. You get into that, so I'm you know,
we just opening up a new market and Atlanta, Georgia
with freestyle music has never been in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Can we talk a little bit about freestyle on how
everybody just eats every week every year it's just freestyle.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I believe. I believe, even I don't know anybody's a witness,
I believe I brought it back to a place. Everybody
gives me the fop. Even when Case Slave was here
and he rest in peace, he told me, Bro, you
bringing his freestock thing back. Like everybody that talked to Master,
Everybody's like, yo, I see what you do with that freestyle.
You brought it back. It was like it was dead,
and they believe I brought it back to the social
(40:19):
media platform, it is everywhere, right everywhere. So the concerts
and that happened because you know, Monday night Freestyle Class,
I was bringing all of them to my house singing,
not only talking, but they were singing to you know,
in the camera, and we had this this show going on.
So I believe that freestyle all of a sudden it
just blew up out of nowhere and now and now
the concerts is like selling out, like just two weeks ago,
(40:42):
I was in Tampa, Florida. We have five thousand plus insane.
You could go all my itune and look at the video.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Was do you organize the concert?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
How is the promoter? So you know the promoters they
booked me in and you know, they pay me and
they and and then I promoted, I marketed. Okay, yeah,
I'm the one in my the you know, take the
ads and all that stuff and all that. But we
had about five thousand plus. That's insane two weeks ago
in Tampa, Florida, which they bringing me back in January.
It's like, bro, dude, you got a great following.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You know, I love this for you.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I love this for you because, you know, sometimes you
have a career in the eighties, in the nineties and
two thousands, we're in twenty twenty five and you're still
out here.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Off of your craft.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thank you, Thank you, Jesus Amen.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
That's a blessing. Now I'm anybody listening, you know, they
want to learn more about you, your social media, your website, wheking,
they go.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Frankie Cutlers, all social frank not just nothing. Just Frankie Cutlers.
That's it. And make sure it's the certain five pages,
not the fake pages because you might see some funny
stuff in then.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Don't want to see that. Don't want to see that.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Man, I'm
so happy you know that you're part of the culture.
I want to sit with you, you know, and just
let you know you're important to us. What you've done,
you know, it's forever cemented in the history of freestyle,
of hip hop, of Latinos, of Bodiquas, of New Yorkers
like you represent so many different you know, people and areas.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Big shout out to he was just here and I
recently my Boyanga Louis Goosewan. He's from Kye Porto Rico,
where I'm from. But if you guys are knowing, body
was on the set. He was in the beginning of
the video.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
We gotta go back and watch. You look different.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
He looks the same, but you know, he was in
the beginning walking with me talking to me, say, Frankie, Man, like,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Man?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I heard you fell off?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
You know, I gotta go watch this And I was like,
well you talk about he said.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
I said, we're going to the island right now of me,
Fat Joe and do wop and we're doing Body and Man,
get out of here. Poppy Joys talking that stuff. Man,
and then at that moment is walking and we say Yo,
Doto and he was like, Yo, what's up, Franky, don't
get classic video. Body was on the set with you know,
Louis Guzman, Fat Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
We're watching this right now as soon as we finished. Man,
thank you so much for taking the time, you know,
to come up here, sit down with me.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
You didn't drink the water.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Come on good.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I can open later later, later, later, later.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Thank you for having me. It's honor. It's a blessing.
Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, Grassiers Come Again. Thank you, rank you cutlers.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Grassiers Come Again is a production of Honey German Productions
in partnership with Iheart's microL Thura podcast network.
Come Again, a podcast by Honey German.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to another episode of Grass Come Again. Today, I'm
sitting down with someone who is an artist, a super producer,
a writer, a man of God, a DJ, a Grammy nominee.
Welcome to Grass Come Again.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Franky Cutlers, Hey my pleasure, salute. Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know why I expected you to come up
with you know, man all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm used to, That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm used to seeing you on stage, just like I expected. Explosive,
I said, I'm giving them time to wind up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you
for you know, allowing me to come up here.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I just extracting. I never expected them to be that color.
Don't mind me. I'll be all over the place with.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You fishy green eyes. And also depends on the clothes
that I wear.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Too popping today. I got that from Grandpa, right you
thought you was all.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That I was.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I was slim too, so you know my share.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
How are you feeling today.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Overall in this universe, you feel like you know you
are where you're supposed to be right now.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
As far as the music. Yes, Spiritually no.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Why aren't you a man of God? You find God very.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
God, But I'm not. I'm not to be very honest
with you. Talk to me to be very transparent with you.
I have a calling in my life, so I've been
running away from that calling.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So are you supposed to be leading us in the church?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And what you're not ready?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know. It's it's not that I'm not ready. I
think that's a powerful calling.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you have to be careful with so much things
that's going on in the churches today. You know, all
the past is getting criticized. You know, some of these
churches pimping the congregations. So we have to have you know,
it's it's it's scary, it's very it's very scary.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And remember you know, but you have it here, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's he wakes me up every day at five in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
When are you gonna do this?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm you know, he talks to me, you know,
and I talked to him and I said, just just
just hold my hand, just leave me there, you know,
And he's working.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But I don't blame you because you have you know,
instances like let's say, Faruko Farus, like I said, that's it,
that's it, And now he's back and everybody's like, so
what happened? So I can see your hesitance to like
be like, am I gonna go? Am I gonna stay?
And you don't want to jump in, and then be
like don't I want to go back?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, you don't want to jump in, and then want
to go back and they want to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right, you know it's just that's even worse.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It gets, Yeah, it gives it a bad name, right,
it gets you know, Christianity the whole, you know, like
a bad name, and everybody look at you like you're
just a joke.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And I think it's a disrespect to your calling. Also,
absolutely when you decide to accept that calling, whether it
be to lead, whether it be no to prophesize, you know,
found a church, and then you're like, all right, God,
I think I made a mistake. I'm a woman of
God also and be like I think I made a mistake.
I don't want to do this anymore. The disrespect is severe.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's definitely, yeah, it's definitely. So. You know, I didn't
ministry for like about fifteen years. That's that's when I
left the music business in ninety It was like ninety
seven ninety eight. I left the entire music business that
I was in my peak too. I was signed to
Epic Records, you know. I was part of the Flip
Squad with Flex, I was DJing, I was doing a
lot of big things. Just finished producing a song for
(03:16):
the Tori's Big.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And Luke don't get no bigger than that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I think that, you know, when you work with
the man, and I'm not talking about hey, send me
the a cappella. I'm talking about when you're in the studio,
when the Tories big, you know, you popping.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh, I'm saying, they don't get no bigger than big.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So so I left all that and I just like
turned around and started serving the Lord and walking and
you know, and doing stuff in the ministry. After year,
after sitting down for a whole year and a half,
I started going out there and ministering all over the world,
you know, sharing my testimony.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What happened. You can't just be like, you know, one
day I decided to do this. Was there a specific
moment or was it the way you were living your life?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Uh? Yeah, the way I was living my life. So
you know, first thing, first, I lost my moms so
I was only twenty years old. Siblings of nine, so
I was the youngest. That's why I was the youngest.
So he got really got to see my mom for
twenty years. So that that hurt a lot, you know.
And then I was part of of a gang in
New York City, and you know, we were doing a
(04:18):
lot of crazy stuff, you know, and they accused me
of snitching and I was not snitching. To this day,
they thank god, there's no paperwork because they were Mama
didn't raise no snitch, so.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
There was you know, but that's snitch called.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You know, that's that's so serious. It's like one of
the most serious accusations.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Absolutely absolutely know you died for that, and that's exactly
what they did. They put a contract on my head
to kill me, was it, Yes, you know, and big up,
and you know, big up to them. I love I
love them, I loved you know, some of my brothers
and sisters. Unfortunately, there was a couple of bad apples
that started accusing me of this force information. Yeah, and
you know they it was it was it was a
(04:56):
really bad situation. And I was twenty at twenty years old.
I was, you know, running with them and everything. I
would hire them too. They were they were good, they
were good brothers and sisters. I was hiring some of
the Lion Kings to do security for me when I
was out there DJing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
You were already popping at twenty Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was popping, you know. So we was out there,
you know, I had Puerto Rico out body was under
set with Fat Joe and Douop.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you feel like you were targeted by these individuals
because they.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Were they were you know. So what happened was, you know,
the fans was cracking down, you know what I'm saying.
So they thought that I became an informant, which wasn't true.
So I told them that I needed to kind of
like chill for a second, because I would these guys
was picking me up literally at the other stations, you
know what I'm saying, at the recording studio, and it
was getting difficult for me, you know what I'm saying.
(05:42):
So I spoke to my lawyer, and my lawyer asked
me to speak to them. I spoke to the leaders
and I told them what was going on, but they
didn't want to hear that. You know what I'm saying.
So I started like kind of missing some of the
weekly meetings that we used to have. You know, we
used to always have meetings.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
At your radio station.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I'm talking about the gang, Yeah yeah, yeah. So
I started missing some of those meetings and they didn't
like that. So some of these you know, bad apples
ended up, you know, accusing me of snitching. They're saying, oh,
he's been coming them in a former and I was
not snitching, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Talking about that's why you weren't showing up at the
meetings because you were meeting with the Feds.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like no, yeah, right, so that's what they thought. So anyway,
you was making money, I was making money. I was.
I was at my peep you know, video was playing
on you know on BT that I mean, I was popping, right,
So I didn't need that headache, you know what I'm saying.
And so anyway, to make the long story short, you know,
they accused me of snitching, and they put a contract
and I had to run for my life, you know
(06:31):
what I'm saying, because everywhere I was going, they were
showing up to really kill me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And people think New York is big, New York is small.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah. Yeah, but you have to understand in the nineties
there were a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was like like lan Kings were big and wall
You would go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade in
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was a mob. It was all of us.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It was all of us. And yeah, so that was that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So did you leave New York? No?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
No, I had to hide, you know. So I came
across my brother law who was a minister, and he
started praying for me, and then he just started sharing
and he'd say, man, you gotta look for God right now.
You got a dark cloud of your head and you
might not survive this. So you have to make a
choice what you want to do. So I started going
to church. I loved what I was feeling because you know,
my mother also raised us in Pentecostal home, So I
(07:14):
love what I was feeling. And one day I just
decided to do a three sixty and just stay in
the church.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You gave your life to Christ.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I gave my life to christisrender and I felt so good.
I felt the peace, and I began to hear God
speak to my heart and telling me, you know, if
you follow me, I'm going to give it all this stuff.
And thank god. We was like, what thirty years later,
I'm still here. You know, later on they found out
that it was not you, that there was no paperwork.
To this day, there's no paper and there will never
be no paperwork.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But it sucks because you know, bringing that that, you know,
stigma upon you is like you have to constantly be
clearing your name. It's like that's the last thing you want,
especially in the hood.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Imagine that it took me out for no reason.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's the worst.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
They took me off for no reason, to find out
there is no paperwork, right, you know, my daughter would
have been father's less.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know, my family was already that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, I was a dad to my first daughter, Charisma,
and she wouldn't have had a dad, and my family
would have been really you know, it would have been
hurting behind.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That saved you because like you said, there is a
calling on your mic. You're not going to go before
your time.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is God is good. God is big. God is big.
If he has a plan for you, not even the
devil will take you out, you know what I'm saying.
So so I thank God for you know, sparing me
with this contract and everything. But like I said, they
cool people. I speak to a lot of them till
to this day, you know what I'm saying. And even
the big one, the captain, I'm not, you know, not
going to say his names, but he he, he sent
(08:34):
a letter saying thank God that I was to chose
the positive. And and actually those guys end up informing.
The ones that actually said that I was snitching end
up becoming informed. Trick the stand against.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Hand on the Bible, they were deflecting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They were like anyway, they the one that ended up,
you know, snitching on him and Towers the witness stand.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, born and raised in New York, Spanish Hall, Spanish.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Talk to me what hospital you were born in?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Metropolitan Hospital, right two blocks away from where I lived.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Mammy took you home walking, probably yeah, she probably did.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
One hundred and first Street. Funny story. Mark Anthony lived
on the first floor. I lived on the seventh floor.
Long hair mar Anony, Mark Anthony, he used to call
him skinny Tony.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Did he start his career there?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And yes, yes, yes he was young, we were very young.
And he started there with his sister named Jelanda. Yolanda
is like almost a twin. They look alike. And they
started a guy by the name of David Harris who
used to always pick us up, and he had this
thing called the Cadets, you know, and we would go
to the Cadets and Mark Anthony was part of a
Jorlanda was part of it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Was it like an after school program.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It was like after school program, but it was a
program in the neighborhood, you know, trying to keep everybody
from the streets or whatever. So they started with that.
So that guy had some somehow he had kind of
like a musical background, and he started Mark's career like
like yeah, he started like recording with marc Anton. I
still have actually I have those recordings, believe it or not.
For real, crazy man, I have those recordings, you know.
(10:08):
So I started with him and his sister, and then
Mark end up just free lancing. And Mark started doing
what something that it's really still big to this day
called freestyle music, so huge. He started doing background for
some of those freestyle.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Artists, like see, I didn't know that you're putting me
on right Nowhires. I always thought marketing is like a
superstar no, he.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Started doing background He actually wrote Sapphire song, boy, I've
been told, And he started doing backgrounds for the Lan
the Lion Rascals.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I guess we all got to start somewhere with Mariah
Carey was the background singer for Brenda.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
My sister Brenda. Yeah, so he started doing backgrounds and
then after that, one thing led to another. He met
David Mondonaldo. I'm running through it real quick, and he
got down with the whole rm N Ralph mccardo, you know,
and I met up with our boy, Sergio George, who
also lived in the neighborhood, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And you always still to be stars if you were
all in that same little you know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The rest is history. This is Mark Anthony Si Satto,
you know, one of the biggest, right, you know, one
of the biggest.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The King of sid Well, one of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, you started mixing when you were twelve years old.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Twelve years old, My brother, where did you get equipment? Well, no,
I did it, my brother Tito, may he rest in peace.
He had equipment, was back nineteen seventy eight, nineteen seven
and around there. And I heard him, you know, DJ
in the room and stuff and every time he'll leave
the room, my mother would pick the lock and I'll
start playing with equipment and stuff. The day my mother
was like, I went picking the lots and he would
(11:34):
he would catch me because you know, like I'll leave
the equalizer on or something.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
He said, something's wrong, so hey, you knew.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He was like, Ma, why you let him play with
my equipment? But that's how I started. I saw my
brother first record I heard, believe it or not that
I could remember coming out with my Kusa. I saw
my Kusa that was the first record, and Super Sperm excuse.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You're fine, You're good, You're good.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, those are the two records that I heard him
always playing at the house of my kusaig and Super
Sperm you know, break records, and I loved it. Something happened.
I was just like, I love that. I want to
do that.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know you watched him DJ I watched it, watched
the room.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Some types of kicked me out because there was boys
and I was a young one. Get out the room,
you yeah, yeah yeah. But when I heard like him
playing like Freedom and danced to the Drummer's Bee and
all my Coupside and all those records, just begun. Something
happened to me. I was like, I want to do that.
That's what I want to do, and that's how that's
how I started.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know, fifteen, you were already DJ by fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
My mother bought me some equipment. Yeah, thank you mom.
She she jeopardized her rent one day and told me
buy your equipment.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You went with her to buy the equipment. Tell me
the story.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
What happened was my boy from the neighbor. He was
a DJ. So every Saturday I would go to his
house with records and he was, you know, we will
practice and one day, you know, he wanted to be
more of a womanizer. So you know, one day I
knocked there and he kind of like came out, came
from from inside and locked the door real quick behind him.
He was like, no, man, I got a shorty here.
You ain't coming. We're not practicing today. So I was
(12:58):
just like, mann seriously, He's like, yeah, yeah, I got
to show you note you're not coming today. So I
went home. I was a little sad, to be honest,
because I just bought records too.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You were hype and ship.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Because I bought new records. I wanted to really like
practice the little vinyls. I went, yeah, I had vinyls.
It was strictly vinyl. So we I went into the
you know, my room and everything, and my mom came
in there. She saw what's wrong? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The president?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I was looking sad looking out the windows and
now no. She was like, what happened to happen with
this guy? After he was priding? I got a girl
and theyre blah blah blah, And like twenty minutes later
she came in. She was like, come on, let's go.
And I was like, let's go were.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She was like, moms are So I was.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Like, go where. She was like, I want you to.
I want to buy that chiky chiky jiggy where you
get that chiggy jiggy from? And I said, Mom, you
don't got money. She says, well, I'm jeopardizing this month's rent.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
My little baby can't be in here sad because you
was the baby, right, yeah, it was the baby. There
would be that there was she was dark super boy
and she was dark.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You will have Blanke, I would have Blanketo. Yeah, you know,
I was me and my sister, the one with a
lot of eyes. But I'm the is. You know, my
brother used to tease me, Oh, mom made it. You know,
they made a mistake in in the emergency room.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
All the hospital we picked up in the trash can.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That's what I used to tell you, adopted, they picked
different all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But what she ended up getting it.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So she didn't get the best equipment, but at least
she got something. She know, she got me techniques and
straight arms techniques, you know, and she got me something
to you know, get me started. And I always, I
will always share that in my heart forever.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Moms.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
She didn't really get to see me at my peep
she you know, she passed away in ninety five.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So like she actually supported you, supporting the dream. And
you know, if it wasn't for mom, maybe buying that
equipment and you would be like, I don't want to
do this. Yeah, say, mothers are super important, and you
know you lost yours early at twenty years old, but
you got to experience Yeah, yes, I loved you and
she raised you and a twenty your man kind of
(14:53):
sort of yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, she carried I had my I had my you know,
my my lady and we had a baby together and everything.
So I kind of moved out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You definitely was a man into Yeah. Yeah, you know,
it still hurts, but at least mom got to see you,
you know, become an adult and even have a child. Right,
that's super.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well she didn't get to see the child.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Oh she didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
She actually passed away a week before the child was born.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, that was that was Was it an accident?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
She had a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You know us people, you know, we eat crazy, diabetes,
high blood pressure. Yeah, she was like sixty years old
and she passed away from all complications, you know, those
kind of complications.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That stays with you know, it stays with you forever.
But you know, I'm glad that you have such a
you know, great story to share about your mom.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, you were feeling down and mom said, nah, we're
gonna fix this for you, because you know, that's what
mom's doing. You know, not just Latina mothers, but we
also experienced that, you know what you know, inner city moms.
You know, we grew up in the hood, and it's
just like we understand the struggle. Your mom had nine
kids and she's out here buying DJ equipment. Some moms
can't even buy clothes. You know what I'm saying, that
was a Sacrif you definitely sacrifice, how much did you
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take from her into your you know, parenting style?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
A lot, a lot, Yeah, you know, you know, you
know my mom and my dad they were together for
forty years.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, what a beautiful story.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I love.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, you know, so I don't know what, no disrespect nobody,
But I don't know what you know what to have
a step father or step mother like, you don't come
from a broken No, we don't, we don't. So you know,
so I want I wanted that all.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Nine kids, both of them together, all nine kids. When
y'all got your TV.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
There was no TV. That's why they made nine kids.
They was was, yeah, Puerto Rico and over there, you know,
there was no TV.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Oh my god, I love this story.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But a house of nine? How noisy was that house
where everybody kept growing up and leaving.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, one of my sisters stood in PR. She met
someone over there she got married to this day, they
still married PR and PR. So she stood with that guy,
but then she brought everybody else over here. So yeah,
there was a lot of kids. Well, my mother cooked,
she made those big those big trays, those big there,
the big one now had to be the one that
takes up all the It had to be good to
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cook in those big pots.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Man, Like you have a game.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No, it's not. You have to be on point.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It's a science.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, you got to make sure that season is the
right you know, the right amount. And she did it
all man, and she cooked for all nine of us.
You know your mom worked, No, she was a housewife.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I can imagine nine kids, How can you even leave
the house.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, we you know, we grew up in the project.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So you know which project we met off.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Metro, offf Plaza, So we grew up in the projects.
You know, my dad tried to work in there. You know.
On warfare, you know, it's a lot. You know, social security,
all that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Seventies, eighties nineties, you know, it was if you're listening
from anywhere in the world or outside of New York,
we went through some tough times here in New York seventies,
eighties nineties. It was not for the week right, to
say the absolute least. Now, when did you start making music?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Were DJing?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So when did you get into a studio? Was like,
I'm gonna put a track.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Together, yeah, so nineteen eighty six. So so what happened was,
I went Sapphire was the neighborhood because we all from
the same neighborhood, fire t K, Layin Dia, Mark Anthony,
Cynthia was all of us is from the same neighborhood
that talents.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So you said Mark Anthony and you said Layin Da.
You could have stopped right there. Those two, Yeah, had
the nineties chokehold absolutely continue.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Absolutely, so you know, we was off the neighborhood. So
what happened was somebody came, one of my friends named
David Burials came to the park in one hundred and
EIGHTHU where we used to all hang out, and he
was saying, hey, man, we just I just found out
that Sapphire is looking for a remix. You already had
you know, a song out and she was looking for
a remix on her second single, call let Me be
the one. So they were like, yeah, they were So
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they were like, hey, you know they won like a remix,
go ahead, go home and do it. I'll take it
to her. So I ran home that day. I put
together like a you know, a remix type you know thing,
you know, splicing tapes, of nobody probably know what the
hell that is.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're just gonna ask you, how did you make a remix?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Splicing real to real, like go back, We're going back
like land Rascal days, you know what I'm saying. So,
you know, I had a real tourreal splicing it, doing edits,
and then I do some overdubs, you know, because I
kind of got that from Land Rascals that they used
to be on a station called ninety eight point seven
Kiss and they would do like overdubs and play keyboards
on top of the records that make it sound good.
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So I kind of did that, Senator, but fortunately I
didn't make the I didn't make them, you know, the remix.
Land Rascals end up doing it. Two weeks later, my
friend who worked the heart Throbs where Little Louis Vega
used to DJ right on twenty sixth Street and Chelsea
back in the days in New York. Yeah, yeah, right.
So so he was like, hey, man, we got Sapphires
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performing with Land Rascals. You should come. And I was like, oh,
I'll be there. So I went over there, and you know,
he brought me to the VIP room and I met
Sapphire for the first time, and then I told hey,
I'm the kid that did the remix for you. She
was like, wait a minute, you Frankie. I was like yeah.
So she was like, oh my god, that was pretty
dulle blah blah blah. She was, you know, she started,
I'm talking to me and try to encourage me. But
she was like, unfortunately, you know Lion Rascals, you know
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they did it. I said, yeah, that's cool. But she said,
but I'm not going to let you go. She said,
I heard some keyboards. You play keyboards. I said, well,
I try. I'm not the best keyboards, but I try
to play keyboard. She was like, well, we well, my
brother's form in the group and I need you to
come try out. Come to the house on Monday. So
I went over there did my tryout, you know, saying
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albut Cob from Land Rascals there because that was her
boy keyboard. I did play keyboards and she said, you know, what,
what do you guys think? And she was like yeah, yeah.
So I became part of a group called am Moore
and the song it was a nineteen eighty six is
on Mick Maverick. It was called You Never Found Another Love?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
That song Oh please a song no this song right right?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So, I mean, you know, for all the freestyle heads, right,
you know, so we did. My first song was you
Never Found Another Love? Uh, and it was by m
Moore And that was my very first song. I don't
want to hear the song play right now, but that
was my very first song. And then I continued, you know,
doing music for you know, within the freestyle produced TK
give Your Love to Me, I did a Zamma London
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Together Forever, I did Love Me Tonight by Cynthia. I
produced those records, you know what I'm saying. So I
got into the whole freestyle genre. And the nineties, early
nineties freestyle took a bad you know, a bad hit
with the other station. I don't know if I could
say the name of the star ninety three Hot ninety seven,
you know.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Was it was it the hot ninety seven we know
now or before it was hip hop?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No, it was it was hot, it was Hot ninety seven.
They were playing freestylea So what ended up happening was
I guess they did that whole change where flex started,
you know, became the hip hop DJ, and they started
changing they format. It took a you know, turn for
the worst. And then I my very first hip hop
big record. I met funk Master Flex in front of
Hot Day seven. I was like, hey man, I'm just
a kid trying to get on I hope you like
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my record. It was a white label and I was driving.
I was driving up Hudson.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Hudson River, So you handed him what did you handle?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I handed him a record. It was white label, and
he said, I'll check it out, you know, I'll listened
to it. And as I was driving through the Hudson,
you know River playing Holly seven, all I heard was
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Typical Flex.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
He wouldn't do some ship like that. And I'm screaming
in the cargoing records, no heads up or nothing, just
I just played it and he started cutting the beginning
and it was just like me and my man was
looking at you.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
It was crying, you ain't have to pull over.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah we did. We Actually, that's crazy, we did pull
over it. It was just like, yo, we couldn't believe it.
So he started playing on Puerto Rico. Then the next
day he played it again. He just just started playing
the record and it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Was at the beginning of you entering the hip hop arena.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, yes, So what happened was and I bumped into
him about two weeks later. He was like, yo, who
manages you? And I was like nobody. He was like,
all right, man, yo, meet me here. So he wanted
me to meet with him and a lady by the
name of Jessica Rosenbro who used to have a company
called Stress Entertainment and the Flip Squad. She's the one
that did all the parties at the Tunnel and all
those parties at the Flip Squad used to DJ, and
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one thing led to another. They started managing me and
that was then My second single was Shake What Your
Mama Gave You?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That song was iconic.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You that song in Vertigo when they had that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Dude, Yeah, yeah, funny talk about that. So my engineer Rock,
the guy whose voice you hear me shake with your
mom You know it's my boy Rock. He was an
engineer SOB Studio, a studio downtown by Delancey. And the
funny thing is that when we did that record, he
was just an engineer. Because I was supposed to say
shake what your Mamma gave But I ain't have that
kind of soul, graspy voice. You know. I'm Puerto Rican,
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you know, so I ain't have that black voice, you know. Yeah, yeah,
So I told him, yo, going in the booth and
he did it and I sampled him. Funny thing is
that we I think it was for New Year's Eve.
The Tunnel had Luke Uncle Luke to perform. So Jessica
calls me and goes, yo, you should perform. Shake what
your mama gave you. I will have you open up
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for Luke. I said, come on, but I got Puerto Rico, like,
I'm not trying to go in that direction. And she's like,
so what are you gonna do? I said, hold up,
give me a second. So I called Rocky and Jenny.
I said, rock you ready to be an artist? He's like, man,
you crazy bro, ain't no artist. I said, rock I'm
telling you're gonna open up for Luke. This is big
New Year's Eve. This place is gonna be a massive house. Like,
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you need to do. What am I going to do?
I said, Yo, go to the strip bar, go get
two girls, three girls, and go on, go on the
stage and I don't know, come up to him, do
something shit And he did it and to this day.
He performed Shake with Your Mama Gave You and then
you know I started his career. My boy rock YEP.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
That's insane. You know these stories like you see things
unfold but you don't know, you know, the behind the
scenes and how one thing leads to another. Now, can
we talk about I like it like that?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah? Sergio George did that?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Please?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I got it? Yeah, I got I got a call
from Sergio George was like, Yo, we need you to
do the remix. So I like it like that. So
I was like, Sergio, let's do it. So I did.
I did the remix and became an over nice to say.
I actually end up working with a second time. So, uh,
there's a song that I had. I think it was
my third single on Relativity, Violated Records and Epic Records.
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It was called You and You and You and the
hip hop had sa X and Redman. They were rapping
on it and and then then we did like kind
of a like a Latin tribal house and we hired
uh my boy Victor Vargas and his brother the Webonman
Don who passed away of COVID. He's the guy to
sing s I lo Guy and Son and I get it.
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You know that voice that you hear in the clubs. Doubt.
They did the remix the Mambo Bix for my song
You and You and You. So I ended up calling.
I was like, hey, man, I need you to do
vocals on this. And we we we went and picked
them up and we took them to the projects. So
they lived in Western Projects over there and the Bronx.
We took him there. He had a Mercedes like, Yo, man,
if I come down and my my rims are missing, bro,
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I'm telling you're gonna get beat up on you. Yeah.
He was like telling me. I'm like yo. He's like yo,
we in the hood. Hood bro, Like I know, I know,
but this is where they do. They they they you
know their music. So we brought them up and we
put him. You know, when he went inside the elevator,
all the old lady I can only imagine that was
going crazy. We brought him to Victis house and Don's
house and the mother was like, oh my god, you
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want some coffee. I'll give you coffee.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
She was like, let me make a where it was big.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Remember when he was really big. Dave Booth was like,
for one hundred and fifty pound guy. So we were
pushing him inside of booth and like, Yo, hurry up
because I'm sweating.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm die in here. Bro.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We had the vocals in there.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
We have vocals that we closed the door. He was
sweating like sardine. Man. Some time in the project. I'm
telling you, we were cracking myself. Right now, we was
cracking up at Ditos. To this day, I saw not
to logo. I was like, Tito, you remember that. He
was cracking up, Like, Yo, you guys are crazy man,
big shout out to my boy, Tite is man.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Your music has been sampled a lot, and it has
been used movies, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
With song Puerto Rico. Yeah, Like it's Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So iconic, Like did you think this was going to
span decades the way it has, Like the fact that
Jennifer Lopez opened up the super Bowl, not on.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Super Bowl so she The first time she used it
was in two thousand and two NBC special Live from
Puerto Rico. This is her first concert Puerto Rico. And
we're sitting there, you know, ready to see this live
special on NBC, and all of a sudden, I hear
Puerto Rico, Oh, Puerto Rico, and then she put she
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put the big pun a little big punch sample, and
then back and forth with Puerto Rico, and then my
whole songs played. The band started playing my I was like,
Jennifer was emotional. I was like, yo, Chao's using my song,
Like this is crazy. So you got paid yeah, yeah, yeah,
you get paid for that. You know, you get paid
for mastering, publishing and all that. The lawyers, you know,
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usually negotiate that and stuff. But so that was the
first time. And then again NFL called me and they
were like, hey, you know, Jello is going to use
your song for the Super Bowl. She's gonna open up.
You know, she's performed with dal If you don't stand
next to the TV, you would have not been able
to hear Puerto Rico. It was really fast, it was low,
but it was in there right, so it was cool.
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It was you know, it was Jennifer Lopez, Ti Miguel
Colto came out to the song. It was part of
the New York Undercover Cops back in the days. It
was called Macha Thero's when they used it. Sharon Stone
on Gloria, there's a scene where she's walking with the
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little boy. Uh, if you, if you, if you guys
saw the movie, the film she was walking with the
little boy and then all of a sudden you hit
Puerto Rico on the back around like somebody was playing
on the radio. So, yeah, this record reached a lot
of places, a lot of place. It's like you said,
every year on the national Puerto Rican they prayed for
the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
You know, that's a soundtrack to like the parade as
soon as anything. You know, one sixteen festival Puerto Rican,
they parade Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah. The funny The funny thing is really quick that
I wanted to know. The funny thing is that my
name when it came to Puerto Rico and everything I've
done was erased in the music business when I became
a born again Christian.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So like why do you think why?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You know, it was like everything was changing in the
music business, you know, so there was a lot of
new artists coming out. There was you know, it's never ending, right,
but it was. It's now that people put the face
together with Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So is it because you really left?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah? I left. I left the industry and nobody knew, like,
you know, there was a new generation coming up, you
know what I'm saying. So they were like, yeah, we
heard the song, but we don't know who he is.
We didn't even know it was Frankie Cutlers. They were like,
you know, you got to remember back then it was records, vinyons, right,
cassette CDs. You see the name Frankie cut So now
has everything started changing to digital? All that got loss?
Who produced what? You know, who did what? All that
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stuff got lost, you know, but it's now within the
last i want to say, the last seven years, eight
years that people are putting in the face and the
name together, like, oh, Snape, we didn't.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Know it was you, you know, and you know what,
You're still here with us, and we can you know,
we can still give you your flowers. We can still
you know, connect the icon with the legendary track, and
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that's super important. Some people don't get to see that,
you know what I'm saying, Like, you're still here, you're
with us, You're thriving, it's blessing, you're working, you're making money.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, it's a blessing.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Stuff your blessing. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I'm so happy. You know that you're you're still here
and you're working. How does your family see you?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Are you just dad? Are you just?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Are you married?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
No, So when you go home, who's there?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So when I go home, is my grandson? You know
what I'm saying? Yeah? Yeah, and I have four grandkids
by the way, so I have four grandkids. I have
I have two daughters. Yeah yeah. So so when I
get home, you know, they usually there. Whatever my family
for most they try to they treat me sensitive, They
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treat me different.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You know, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Like I don't know, I don't know. They become fans
or something like that, Like you, I don't know. I
kind of look at them like it's me Like you
know what I'm saying, they got to be extra sensitive,
would be asking me stuff, and you know, they treat
me a little different. But whatever it is, what do you.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Mean by that? It's like they don't want to hurt
your feelings or like I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
They they you know, they call me dad, you know,
and stuff like that all my but they're more sensitive,
like they want to make sure, like you know, they
they don't want to hurt my feeling as far as like,
you know, treat me or certain like you just frank
you from the house or whatever. You know. Now it's like, okay,
you just a levity guy, now, you know what I'm saying. So,
I mean, it's all respect.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
But you know, fifty, you know, some families they'd be like,
oh whatever, you ain't nothing. You know, even if you're
the biggest start in the world, some families just want
to chop you down to size. And then some families like, nah, right, respect,
don't play. That's fanky cutlass ops. But you give them
his respect.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess that's how they treat me.
But you know, I want them at the end of
the day, I want them to treat me like I'm
just a normal person. You yeah, just dad.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You know. But what what you've done, you know, it
is amazing. You know, it must be respected and it
must be admired. You know what I'm saying. When you
did you did it during the time.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
You know, it wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We didn't have what we have now, whether it be
TikTok where there it'd be Instagram labels, YouTube, did you
made it happen with nothing?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Posters? Right, cowboys outside two in the morning, three in
the morning, a big van, a job of glue, you know,
hang up those posters everywhere city. We did that. I
did it. I did I was part of that crew
with the hoodie on. Let's go handing these posters up.
And that's that's how we do it, man, That's how
we did it back then. Marketing.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You know, what are your thoughts on AI. I was
reading a story today about this AI artist, just Goss,
signed to a three million dollar deal. I'm like, what
is the future of music and artists in your opinion
when it comes to AI.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's scary. It's really scary because it loses that whole identity,
you know, as an artist, as a producer. You know,
we worked extra hard. You know, we was in the
studio for what twenty four hours. Now it's like one hour.
You can tell AI to do whatever you want, you know,
and it's it's scary. It's a scary situation. I don't
I don't know about the future of the music or
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anything else.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Is do you think the music industry will survive?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
What if artists and the music industry leverages the AI
and works together with it, Do you still think it's
something that can be used in a positive way, or
you think that the music industry is.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Just yeah, yeah, I don't know. Like I said, that's
a very hard question so right now, but you know,
like I said, with AI doing everything, it kind of
takes away the fun and you know, it takes away
what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
A lot of artists are not with it, like I
saws like, don't play with me, don't use, don't.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Use because you know, we work hard for this man.
Like you know, like even even when I listen to
some of the seventies stuff and the eighties stuff, you
could feel the funk, you can feel the soul because
everything is live. So when that bass player is playing,
like from Chic when you hear that bass player there,
you hear that soul, it's like he's rocking that base
and you hear the druma everybody's like it's a feeling.
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You know what I'm saying right now, it's like it's
missing all that right now with music, you know what
I'm saying, There's no more of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
There's a lot has changed.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
What hasn't changed for you when it comes to music.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, I still, believe it or not, I still do
turntables in vinyl, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So I saw you we were at one sixteen festival
doing your thing. You still do turntable and by at.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Home or at home at home, and I do it
at home when I go live. I do you know that?
And I used twelve hundred. I got my twelve hundreds,
you know, yeah, I got my vinyls. Excuse me, but
you know that haven't changed, you know, as far as blending,
you know that haven't changed. That's something that I I
wish a lot of DJs do you know which I
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hear a lot of DJs do it? You know still
to this day do tie boogey Man Crazy tie Boogie
is my guy. I don't play about shout a big
shot out to tie Bookie. He's just insane with that
those blends. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, leave it up if you let me tell it.
I'm biased, you know, my brother, but still he nice
with it.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah, no, blend the tie book is definitely that dude.
And it comes to blending, man, you know, he does
this thing. I hear a lot of that stuff. I'm like, yo,
I'm like that's fire kid coming from a legend.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Thank you man, appreciate Why does sound just like him?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Alway, give him his floppers like yo, coming from you
a legend, Thank you man, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I always say it. I'll be like one of the
best DJs in New York. I'll look by DJ sus one,
not because they both worked here, well still works here,
but because I've watched them.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I got to give another DJ shout out that.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Bring it up, that blends a DJ snob and he.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Blends, he scratches, and the kid is off the hood.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I have to say, Star, I thought you were going
to talk about Frank Ross.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
No, DJ Mail Star is another one. I got to
give him his flower, bro that dude when it comes
to Blend, oh, when it comes to Blend home and
and you know who's another one. I have to give
another another shout out, Scrap Jones I gotta give. I
gotta give him his flowers too and stuff. Those two
cats right there is definitely putting in some work and stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
When a DJ impresses the DJ that means impressed to.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
All those two impressed me, I'll be like.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's the thing like when with.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Them too, you know, I met up with them and
talk to them and we talk sometimes, you know, especially
a mail star, we do a lot of talking, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
DJ academies. I love when DJs do that. What are
you doing with with Are you doing anything with kids? Like,
are you passing your legacy down anyone in your family?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
No? Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, I actually don't want my daughter, my younger daughter,
my younger daughter. Face she she she she has like
this little thing going on where she singing. She's came
out with a few songs, not big, be down social
media and whatever. But I don't want my I don't
want my kids in the music business, especially my daughter.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
You feel like the music industry is just two a bunch.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Of them, a bunch of freaking purpose. We know, we
know there are a lot of purpose here, man. So
I get scared with that. With my daughter. She's very beautiful,
you know what I'm saying, And I just don't want
her to go through that. You know, I don't want one.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
He could change her life, come on, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Could, but I don't want her to go through hell.
I know I could. I could, girl, I could share
stories right now from major artists and everything they've done
to get up there, and I have receives in its
facts with major artists that will blow this whole place
out of this world. But I'll keep my mouth shut
where they have to do to get there.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
So things are different though now with Instagram, she can
blow up on TikTok and tour of the world, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But she still need marketing. You still need that marketing money.
You still need that backing, you know what I'm saying.
I mean, you know it's yeah, you know social media
helps you, but you still need that marketing money, you know,
and you still need I still think you need a
label because label will take you world why and they'll
they'll get to places where you can't get on your own,
you know, unless you become like you said, that overnight sensation,
(38:35):
that one you know hit you know, viral, your video
goes viral and whatever. That's different.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But because you have labels now making Tiktoker's artists, the
music industry is very backwards now. Before she's like, we're
going to create an artist, now they're like, oh, let's
take this TikToker you know that has this song and
bring them over to the l Yeah, you know that.
That's what's important now, you know, streams, views, TikTok, YouTube.
The music industry is a complete differ landscape. Let your
(39:02):
daughter do a song.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Let she's done.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I can be in your life because I'll be like,
let's let's let.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Her do it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It's funny you saying that because I was just the
other day. I was thinking, like, you know, I'm gonna
go to iTunes, Apple Music and I'm gonna listen to
her music and I was going to surprise her. I
was going to actually take one her songs, stack the
a cappella and do my own beat to it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Come on, come on, pops, don't play.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, I was thinking of doing that. So still still
it's still on the work.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So se and to me, I want to hear I
want to hear it once, once it's all done. I
want to hear it. Now. What are you working on
right now?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
What are we looking out for? Are you going on tour?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yeah, I've been on tour. I've been a DJ. Yeah
it's a DJ. I do like fifty something gigs a
year every weekend. You get into that, so I'm you know,
we just opening up a new market and Atlanta, Georgia
with freestyle music has never been in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Can we talk a little bit about freestyle on how
everybody just eats every week every year it's just freestyle.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I believe. I believe, even I don't know anybody's a witness,
I believe I brought it back to a place. Everybody
gives me the fop. Even when Case Slave was here
and he rest in peace, he told me, Bro, you
bringing his freestock thing back. Like everybody that talked to Master,
Everybody's like, yo, I see what you do with that freestyle.
You brought it back. It was like it was dead,
and they believe I brought it back to the social
(40:19):
media platform, it is everywhere, right everywhere. So the concerts
and that happened because you know, Monday night Freestyle Class,
I was bringing all of them to my house singing,
not only talking, but they were singing to you know,
in the camera, and we had this this show going on.
So I believe that freestyle all of a sudden it
just blew up out of nowhere and now and now
the concerts is like selling out, like just two weeks ago,
(40:42):
I was in Tampa, Florida. We have five thousand plus insane.
You could go all my itune and look at the video.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Was do you organize the concert?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
How is the promoter? So you know the promoters they
booked me in and you know, they pay me and
they and and then I promoted, I marketed. Okay, yeah,
I'm the one in my the you know, take the
ads and all that stuff and all that. But we
had about five thousand plus. That's insane two weeks ago
in Tampa, Florida, which they bringing me back in January.
It's like, bro, dude, you got a great following.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You know, I love this for you.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I love this for you because, you know, sometimes you
have a career in the eighties, in the nineties and
two thousands, we're in twenty twenty five and you're still
out here.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Off of your craft.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Thank you, Thank you, Jesus Amen.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
That's a blessing. Now I'm anybody listening, you know, they
want to learn more about you, your social media, your website, wheking,
they go.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Frankie Cutlers, all social frank not just nothing. Just Frankie Cutlers.
That's it. And make sure it's the certain five pages,
not the fake pages because you might see some funny
stuff in then.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Don't want to see that. Don't want to see that.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Man, I'm
so happy you know that you're part of the culture.
I want to sit with you, you know, and just
let you know you're important to us. What you've done,
you know, it's forever cemented in the history of freestyle,
of hip hop, of Latinos, of Bodiquas, of New Yorkers
like you represent so many different you know, people and areas.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Big shout out to he was just here and I
recently my Boyanga Louis Goosewan. He's from Kye Porto Rico,
where I'm from. But if you guys are knowing, body
was on the set. He was in the beginning of
the video.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
We gotta go back and watch. You look different.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
He looks the same, but you know, he was in
the beginning walking with me talking to me, say, Frankie, Man, like,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Man?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
I heard you fell off?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
You know, I gotta go watch this And I was like,
well you talk about he said.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
I said, we're going to the island right now of me,
Fat Joe and do wop and we're doing Body and Man,
get out of here. Poppy Joys talking that stuff. Man,
and then at that moment is walking and we say Yo,
Doto and he was like, Yo, what's up, Franky, don't
get classic video. Body was on the set with you know,
Louis Guzman, Fat Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
We're watching this right now as soon as we finished. Man,
thank you so much for taking the time, you know,
to come up here, sit down with me.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
You didn't drink the water.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Come on good.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I can open later later, later, later, later.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Thank you for having me. It's honor. It's a blessing.
Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, Grassiers Come Again. Thank you, rank you cutlers.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
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