November 25, 2025 • 47 mins
Step into this raw and hilarious conversation with Planta Industrial, the Bronx based Dominican duo taking over timelines in a NY minute.
They break down how they came together, their mission to go against the current, and how their Bronx and Dominican roots shaped their whole vision. They talk about going "viral overnight" after YEARS of grinding, how their community and the algorithm pushed them to the forefront , not the industry , and how Saso encouraged aka the darknight to step into his own as an artist after seeing his creative brilliance behind the scenes.
The guys also share what’s next for 2026 , from their new distribution deal to striking gold with their first single “That’s My Bitch,” plus whether they ever worry about breaking up and why the industry plant rumors make them laugh.
They dive into the rock bands, hip hop, and Dominican artists they grew up on , and how that fusion naturally created their Spanglish lane. And yes, we get into how they manifested a COLORS performance early in the game. Culture, brotherhood, manifestation, and momentum in one episode. Tap in before the world catches up.
Their new EP 'Punk Waves Sin Barreras' is out now.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Grass Come Again a podcast by Honey German.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to another episode of Grassias Come Again. I'm hype today, man,
we're doing something so different. So to the left, why
are you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Looking at me like that? AKA? The Dark Knight is here?
So it's here, plant that ind is in the building.
Come on, come on a.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
How's it going? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Nah, I've been dying to talk to you too, because
I'm like, Bro.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
These dudes are so different. You're like nothing I've ever seen.
And I'm born and raised New Yorker, so I've seen
a lot of shit. Okay, what's going on? Like where
did this all come from?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like? Who who's the rock fan? Who? Who developeds?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Like we're gonna do punk, We're gonna do Dumbo, We're
gonna do you know some rap.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Some rock? Like are you friends? What's the backstory on
this situation?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Like wh who's planting? And where do we come from?
What it seems came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Exactly all of a sudden. Everybody's like, do you have
you heard these guys? All of a sudden, They're like
did you see this? Colors?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Did you see this? I'm like, yeah, what's going on here?
I said, I need them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I first started with my solo career. I've been
doing music for I want to say eight years in total,
you know seriously of course.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And we're talking right now to Saso.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yes, this is Sasso by the way. So yeah, as
a solo career is Saso was doing music. So at
that time, I fell in love with Bilefunky, fell in
love like with Jersey Club and all that type of stuff,
Like I was doing Jersey Club I guess before it
was like very popularized. I've always been like the type
of person that's always want to do something that everybody's
(01:40):
going that way, I'm going this way the other way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Right, you don't want to swallow you know, the current.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, Like it's it's more like, why would I want
to be just an extra person in this industry making
the same stuff, Like you got to bring something different,
just like with business with everything, you know. And so
I've been I've been doing that for a while and
throughout that journey. Aka and I both went to high
school together, so we've been in the Bronx. In the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, what's what's your Bronx neighborhood? Come on, we
got a lot of New Yorkers listening.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So I'm from Castle Hills, riga like sixth Line mostly
Now now I'm like in the gun Hill area, this
Center and the third but drews from I'm from Kingsbridge.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And then like later on in life, I moved to Throgs,
which was a whole Yeah, it just changed everything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Listen, you're still in the Bronx. You can make it happen, right,
what happened? What's over Thenthrogs at the.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Time, that was straight Dominican power over there.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We took it over, Yeah, we took it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was like one of the first ones. But at
the time it was a whole bunch of like Italians
Irish and it was it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was also I saw a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm like, y'all moving like that over here, Like there's
a lot of like races, a lot of ship happening.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, the Trump supporters lived, but it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was in the area where our high school was, and
that's where.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We And you're both Dominicanos, Yeah, both Dominicans, mom, dad Dominicans.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Both of you as well from the island.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And you're both born here.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, I was born here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Do you go back to Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, I was raised there as well. For where my
primary primary years in Santo Do.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's why I'm you do where you go back to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All the time. I went to high school there, Like
we have a very before South and I even like
Matt in high school, we had such a similar upbringing
and uh, like a story is the same, Like our
parents are from like the east Side, which is the hood,
but then they.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No nor lommin I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
My Momba and Bonica which is on the border of Haiti.
And then she might you know, she moved to to
La Capital. I don't know where she lived in a capital,
but I know my dad is from Nomina and then
my mom's native like town.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Is it's crazy that you say that because my mom
is from Nomina too.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look at that Lomonado's like that a lot of talent
has come out of that area.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
How dope is what's happened with you know, the Dominican
Republic in the past few years as far as like
you know, the mo you know, people like Doky going global.
You know what I'm saying, Like, it's just dope. What's
happening for us?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
This movement.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know, so many artists, and you know the way
that we're being perceived is as the youth is.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I just love it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I mean even going back top and through that, like.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh you want to bring it back to the Ogska
But they you know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's just that same thing like you know, Bronx, Dominican's
body whatever. And they were global. They went crazy, and
I felt like to at least to me, that was
an inspiration because I saw, like, whoa these people are
like everywhere?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, they were local. They were our guys.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know if you were born and raised New York
or will be that day. It was just like what
is happening here? And they were singing in Spanglish with
resonated so close to all of.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Us, which is similar the music that we make too.
But so I'm sorry, I just want to go back
to like that. I know it was like a long,
long answer. Oh that's to say, because I know we
go from but Aka and I grew up together. I
was doing my music thing. He has always been behind
the scenes. He's always been directing, editing. If I'm in
(05:24):
the studio and I'm missing like a few parts structure wise,
line or two.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So while you were a solo artist, you were working
with Yeah, okay, all right, so from day one you've
always worked together creatively.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes, So then and then you could tell the other part, you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Know, just I would. I would always help Saso and
other friends and people they like trusted me at least
with like my ear and my vision. And then it
got to the point people like especially Sasso would like
encourage me, like, yo, do your own music. I'm like, nah,
you don't know what.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm a little shy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Really, the way you move. I'll be watching the videos
and I'll be watching social media. You were born to
do this. Stop your ship.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No no, no, I just you know, I didn't know
that in it, like you know, and then I tried it,
and you know, ship was moving a little on the
ground Brooklyn scene and they're like, yo, we really like
this guy.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And then Sasa's like, we've been doing this for a
long time, it's time to make a song together now
and that's my bitch.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And it blew up and did you watch him perform?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And you were like, wait, hold up, what's going on here?
We gotta we gotta create something together. Did you see
him on stage or what was the moment where you decided,
like we gotta, we gotta be a group.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The thing is that I've always admired a k for
for his artistic vision, whether it's like I already saw
his potential being in the front, just by the way
he was moving behind the scenes. You get what I'm saying.
It was just only a matter of time for him. Uh,
you know, Drew. I'm gonna call him Drew because people
know it's listen.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
That's what you want. I don't know, I'm gonna call
him the Dark Knight type shit, right.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So I'm gonna just like just for for lower purposes
Dark Knight aka. He has always been talented from from
the visions and editing and directing my music videos and
all these things. I just I just knew that if
he just did this other artistic thing is gonna be
good anyway too. And once I saw that that his
focus was towards music, I do that with all of
(07:28):
my friends who I hang out with, Like you make music,
like's get in the fucking studio, lets do a song,
you know what I mean. So it was just it
was a very natural thing and of course because Aka
and myself we work together for so long, we didn't
even think too much about it as well as like,
oh this this is gonna be like I've always known
he was a guy, you know what I'm saying. So
it was just like we just like struck gold with
(07:51):
that to my bitch, That's really what it was. It
was just a mixture of like understanding what the culture
really needs, like on both in the Latin side and
also like in New York coming out with something simple
like that's my bitch. Like obviously it's like a lot
comes behind that battle Mami, Like, it's just it was
(08:15):
just fun making a fun record, Like let's just have
fun and make a good song. That's really what what
our focus was.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Now your music does come off as like they had
fun making.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This, right, Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Do you ever worry, like with other partnerships and groups
that she could just go bad?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Do you ever worry?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I feel like so many amazing groups and then you
know Romeo, you know new addition, like do you because
I fear a lot to work as a duo because
in the past things have gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do you worry?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No? I when it came and I.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Formed Industry Plan. I was like, this is such a
dope name.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I was like, are they an industry plant or are
they not? We moved, well, yeah, some wal disruptors, I'll
tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I said, who what the algorithm would say? We are?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Is that what we move?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We are?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But we're not, obviously, Like that's the whole marketing plan
behind there, you know, and the name behind me.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I see what you did, but.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
We but we've been behind the scenes. We've been in
New York City in the Bronx, doing shows at parks,
on the train, wherever the fuck You got what I'm saying.
So it's like, obviously we're not industry plants.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
He's like, listen, listen, let's make sure. Let's make sure
we get that line in there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We ain't no industry industry plan, He's you know, but
that was.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like CARDI you remember the whole carties in industry planing ship.
It's just like, I'm not I just want to make music.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
We've just been, uh, I guess, like building a community.
So it's like once the fucking button turned on, it
almost seemed like there was already a machine behind you
get what I'm saying, but in reality, it's all like
the friends that see me at my first show fucking
eight years ago, or this, that and the thirds just
like the a culmination of everybody all that to say,
to answer your question, like, I don't necessarily worry because
(10:05):
Aka and myself have always been individual artists and we
always know that we're gonna shift off Focus or Plants
for the time being. But at the end of the day,
Aka is free to do his own records like that,
and and myself too, Like our manager knows this. The
whole team knows this, and everybody else is in Planteendustrial
(10:25):
who's not obviously Aka and myself. There's a whole you know,
team that we have are also their own individual artists,
and they're also free to besides working with Plants, they
work on their own stuff too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So everybody still has like creative freedom to be an individual.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And that's what makes that's what makes the community and
plants Ria strong because it's like we're not really tying
people down in that way.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I love that. Now, Colors type shit, how dope is that?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And you know the way that you did it by
having you know, extra people that I was just like,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was just so fucking dope. Who plugged you in
to do Colors? Your management or somebody you knew?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, this is the story. So we have a very
very very we have a very cool manager. His name
is Alex to me. Some people may know him, some
people may not.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And I'm on the phone with him and we were
talking about other platforms like to like we were seeing
this momentum. We're like, all right, we now we.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Need like really good have you already done on the radar?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And we were discussing this and I'm like, yo, I
want to do on the radar. I want to do
from the block, I want to do all these things
I want to do again. But I was like, but
I don't know. For some reason, feels like we're colors artists,
Like it just felt it, and I kept saying it.
So then I called Alex and I'm like, yo, do
(11:55):
you know anybody that can plug us in with Colors?
And he's like, actually, they hit him up because he's
an engineer. Like he's an engineer, very well known engineer,
So they hit him up to work. All the time.
He was like I can call some people, you know,
I'll get to that this week. And as I'm on
the phone with him, I get an email from Colors
and I'm like, yo, at America, like you you hit
(12:18):
them up? And he was like, no, what are you
talking about? And it just so happened to be that
they just hit us up, literally like on the.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Phone, because we were talking about Colors. They already are
emailing us to be part of Colors.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, so it was literally us, like it was just
TikTok that got them. This guy, his name is Jimmy
and he like scouts for talent and stuff, at least
one of theirs or whatever, and he hit us up.
He's like, Yo, we love what you're doing. We would
love to invite you to Colors because we're opening up
our new studio in New York and you guys feel
(12:52):
like you're in New York. And it was insane, just manifesting,
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You're on the phone asking to go on the show
and you're getting emailed with an invitation.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Insane.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
How lucky do you feel right now at how everything
has been unfolding for you?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Honestly, because I'm telling you and I work in the industry,
and it's like every other person is like showing me
you a TikTok or YouTube, and I'm like, okay, I
get it. I got to I got to get these
guys up here. How blessed do you feel right now?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Ten years ago, I would have felt lucky, But after
all the years of working, it's like, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We think that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, I would second that too. It's just like, obviously,
well now obviously we do feel blessed. We do feel
a sense of luck, but that luck we created that,
you know, over the years and against doing a lot
of shows for free, a lot of projects for free
outside of our own endeavors, just being part of the
(13:49):
community and just everybody knowing who we were before we
before every the rest of the world knew who we were.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And you know, because it takes years to become an
overnight success. Yeah, literally, trust me, I know exactly what
you're talking about, and you know, but it's still a blessing.
I know so many people you know that have been
hustling that are talented, and I'm like, yo, bro, this
person is so talent. They're like, why can't they take off?
(14:17):
Do you feel like now with social media, it's a
little bit easier for you to reach the masses versus
let's say, ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I personally feel like it's the opposite. I think, like
you have now since everyone has the access, like there's
so much more competition.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know, Oh okay, so you're seeing it from a
competitive angle versus.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm just saying like it is, it's both. It's kind
of both. Like it's easier because you get to like
what happened with us, you know, you could reach independently,
just get into college doing all these things. But then
also how many other people are posting online and it's
an even.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Plain field I guess, because everybody can post. But then
you got to compete with people from all over there.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The anti I guess, and like be too Dominicans from
the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, it's just so dope, Like you don't understand. Like
I was just like, they're both Dominicans and they're both
in the Bronx, and then your style it's just so different.
I was like, Yo, what am I gonna wear it?
I said, I know they're gonna pop out with some
real wild ship and y'all just y'all chilling. I'm like
I'm glad I didn't wear no crazy wild feel like
definitely eight.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
He's a good friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He's super dope.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
He put Angie Martinez in the new Ads. I was
like iconic. Oh shit, And she was talking about it.
They just went in there. They're like, naw, we're gonna
do something different. We're gonna put you in a wig.
And she's like, for for the first time in a
very long time, she just let go and she lets
somebody else take creative control and said it just felt
so good, and the pictures came out so fire. I
(16:01):
was just like, but I love him. He just thinks
so outside the box, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Also been working for years and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh no, for sure, Like I know the story top
to bottom. Another overnight success.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That you know, people are like, oh, you got lucky. No,
it's not love. It's hard work, hard work.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And that's the thing too. It's like, you know, that's
the that's what I mean, what we mean by building
community because we knew so far before was a thing,
you know what I mean, Like he knew me for
my music. He loves Aka's music. So it's just like
he was already a fan of us, like independently, so
once we joined the houses and just fucking.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know, we just he was like whatever y'all need.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's always supported us for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's what's so far as that guy for real also
happy when he launched, you know, the flagship store here
in New York, it was like we were all over it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Such a dope face.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Really, and you know, if you're listening from anywhere else
outside of New York, which they listened from all over
the world. New York is a big place, but it's
also a very small place, and I know you can
second that. It's just like, yeah, it's huge, but then
we're all like connected one way or another.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Small, right, Yeah, they're very exact.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right, Yeah, it's I guess it's like the lane you
take if you want to be in the industry. It's
the lane, and everyone kind of knows each other.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's like sixth Street degrees separation.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's just like, you know, even when my producer I'm mad,
I'm like, you know, I want to get Amanda Sano
up here.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Can we throw a line? Can we see where does
she live? Is she here? She in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Can we find somebody and immediately be like, oh yeah,
let me hit this person and then we make it happen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's just how it works here in New York.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Your families, how do they feel about this? Mommy Bobby,
are they with us here in the Bronx? Who's here?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
My mom's here, my dad's in Dominican Republic. She's like finally,
you know, like.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, typical Dominican mom. We ain't. Yeah, It's like, does
she see you that way yet?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
For other things that I've done, I always grow up.
I'm a painter, like I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
She's supportive of all of it, very supportive.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But but also you know, like again I've been I
always chose the starving artist route. I'm gonna figure it out,
you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And are you an only child?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, it was like okay, okay, so mom can deal
with one starving artist?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Want to be you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, also my younger brother
is another he like he produced oil for us. Like
that's you know, we keep it in the family and we're.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Not gonna keep the money at home.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, for sure, But you know she's just like she's
happy about everything's happening. But again, it's like years of
like yo, like you know, like take care of yourself,
and I'm like i am, but I'm on a mission
right now and like you gotta let me just do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But she's now, she's happy, she's proud. I bet you
should be showing her friends your stuff. But you know,
Dominican moms, they gonna be like whatever, but then they're
behind your bag, posting you on face.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Whatspp so saying that type ship.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's that's Dominican moms for you.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
How your mom feels?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh my mom? My mom is ecstatic. You know, she's
constantly bragging to her friends. Everybody knows about me. Glad,
she's very proud of me. Good.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm happy for you both. You know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
The the beginning, she was like a little confused because
I came out of nowhere doing music a long time ago,
like eight nine years ago. I was actually going to
school for law. Yeah. Nice, it's an it's an ambitious pursuit,
you know what I'm saying. And sometimes it's like it
takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The road just looks very long.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, I want to say it's like, uh, at least
for me. Everybody has reasons why they drop out of
law school and stuff like that, but at least for me,
I just couldn't afford it. I couldn't afford it. I
had to work. I came to work here and I
was just like, I don't know if I want these
loans right now. I already got loans from my from
my bachelor's Like, I don't want to just get more loans.
Like so I was just like, you wanna know something,
(20:16):
I'm gonna do fucking music. I'm gonna just go at it.
And like from the first record, which was like a
bilet funky, which at that time then I novah that
I had had its novelty to it because nobody was
doing it in Spanish and the rest is history. After that,
like I knew I was doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You just felt it like this is this is my
ship right.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Here, because you know in law school, like I never
made it to law school. I was applying to go
to law school.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But when I was like, you had already done the
el set.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I took the else had twice.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Terrible.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I did terribly on both of them. So it
was just like as I was doing that, like nobody
was like, oh, so that does a great job, Like
oh you're doing you know, you're.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Just at home with that big ass book by yourself, studying.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Nobody drop one song and in the fucking world goes crazy.
So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm going towards the people
telling me good job, like I need I need like
some love over.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Here, mann, you know, reassurance.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Some reassurance like So, had had that not happened, like
I would have not pursued music the way I didn't
back then. But I just knew that I had something
once I saw the reception, because this something that I
always known, but I never showed it, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So it was just like, did you perform like privately
at home? No, did you ever record yourself like let
me see if I could be an artist or nothing?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Do you just spelt it?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I did some songs in high school, and like in college,
I did like one song. I knew, I knew that
I wanted to do, so even back then, I was
just like I still, which is the reason why I
don't have necessarily like a favorite artist and stuff like that.
It's like I don't hear what I want to hear
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and everything else that's going on, So I'm going to
try myself to kind of make something that I want.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
To listen to.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So you did just that. Yeah, that's been my lane
on that.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's just kind of you both did just that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It's like, when I hear your music, it's not I
can't be like I hear this, or I hear that,
or this person has done it before.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Like it's hard. I'm like, who are even their musical influences.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm thinking like rock, I'm thinking like the UK, I'm
thinking anything and everything because what you're doing is so unique.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And it's just it's dope because you know, in a
world where everybody tries to mimic this one and this
one sounds like that one, and you know, drill is
just drill, and you know, like hip hop is just
hip hop.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Like, but you're doing it. You've created something.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Brand new, yeah, and people don't do that anymore. People
just you know, recycle old songs, sample tracks from the seventies,
from the eighties, like, but this just feels so fresh.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
We just came at the right time. I feel like
we we needed it. We met people with it where
they are currently, Like, we grew up music three what
does mills ninety three?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Late millennials, So.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It's like, no, we've millennio.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I'm not a gen zy.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He's like, listen, listen, AKA said, don't play.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
With me Millennials. We are okay, cool, I don't. I
don't even know. Yeah, no, we've been making like the music.
I know it's coming as a surprise, but it's really
just like in a culmination of all of the things
that we grew up listening to.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
From talk to me, give me, give me, give me,
some of these people you grew up on.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I don't want to go two back, but my first
my first love was rock music because my brother was
putting me on to a lot of rock bands and
metal bands where we were living in d R.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's so crazy how Dominigans. A lot of people don't
know this about Dominicans. Dominicans love you know you too,
The Doors in Excess, Depeche Mode. Talk to me, who
was your brother listening to? Because that's who my brother
was listening to.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So around that time, you know, that's like you know,
ninety nine, two thousand, two thousand and one, and that's
Lincoln Park, that system of a Down, that's Coohedon Cambria,
that Slipknot, that's my chemical Romance some forty one and
taking back Sunday, Am I missing something? I think? Yeah,
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just in general, like that was kind of the his realm.
He used to burn CDs, like I used to listen
to it in my little CD player or whatever, and
that's how I kind of just like was introduced to music.
Later on, obviously, you know, the Dominican hip hop scene
came around, so of course we were listening to a
loppy listening to Grow all those guys, Jello, all those guys.
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So it's like, you know, listening to rock here, listening
to Dominican hip hop here. Then I moved to New York,
so that was dipset. That was the unit at that time.
This is when, like I want to say, like what
two thousand and five or something, when like Low Wayne
was peak, the No Ceilings mixtapes was out, like all that,
all that stuff was happening. And obviously like throughout the
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years listening and just being part of this city. Also
growing up Dominican listening to mee Ms, which I grew.
I grew up listening to and all these things. It's
like the culmination of all those things. It's like we
decided to just blend it. As opposed to like AKA
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as an individual artist mostly focuses on electronic you want
to country me making balow dumbo reggaeton. We were just like,
let's fucking fuse all of our musical palettes, like stuff
that we we loved as as you know, as adults
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and also when we were growing up, put it together
in something that feels true to us in Spanish, right
because we're both from dr and New York. And it's
like because now over the years of you know, we're
standing on the on the on the backs of legends
and ogs out here that's been doing you you know,
from Sandy Sandy Papo and all these other like artists.
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Obviously I've been through that, like people have have gotten
used to the whole spanglish thing and the whole like
we're more than just pregato dimbo artists, you know what
I mean. So that's why it was easy for like,
that's why it's like, oh my god, finally that's what
people say.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I feel like it and I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Feel like it just like we didn't go into the
studio with that in mind. It was more so who
we are, you know, so like just even like us
becoming friends and like our whole friend group and if
you see like our performances, we're with a whole bunch
of people. They all come from back in the day,
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and it was like we all had like a mute
true thing where we would listen to Aventura or Omega
or Evanescence or fifty or whatever, and nobody ever felt
like they were lost. Everyone knew every song and it
was like this melting pot of music of like, oh yeah,
we all fuck with each other because we all kind
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of understand each other musically. And even at the time,
I didn't think I would be a musician, but it
was something cool that got all of us together because
we it was through music, which is it's crazy, you know,
so as we're like things are kind of blowing up
a bit, we're realizing this as it's happening, you know,
not like oh, we got to go to the studio
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and do this. Ye, we go to the studio, we
do it, and then people like yourself ask us, and
then we're we're like realize, like, oh, shit, we are.
We are doing these things without knowing, but now we know.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
We're really getting your most authentic selves. Yeah, absolutely, I
see what you did here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's just like everything we listen to, everything we grow
up listening to. You know, we spent summers in dr
then we come back, we're in the Bronx, we go
to Florida, Like you fused everything together and that that's
the reason why your sound is so unique. But at
the same time resonates with so many of.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That exactly a lot of people out there. They we
grew up like that everywhere.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Everyone, you know, they always they always talk. We always
talk about the jay Z and the Lincoln Park when
they did the collabor That's that's just what Planta is. Like,
think about it like that. It's like a word. But
what a little what a little Dominican low, little omega little,
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you know what I mean. It's just like that's what
it is. And I think people could get behind that
because it's obviously we're standing on the on the backs
of a lot of people that have like opened the
ways and the musical palace for the audience to get
who we are, you know. So yeah, we're all that
to say We're fucking grateful as hell that you guys.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Are and I love that you exist.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I love that we're sitting down together today. And you
know that that the audience you know, that listens Tos's
coming is going to be able to open up to
new artists, like if they've never heard of you, let's say,
in Nicara and Peru and Lima, wherever you're listening from, like,
you're going to be able to really, you know, get
to know some artists that are out here, you know,
just trailblazing.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Because what you're doing is just so different. You're in
your own lane.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I hope you know this, Like I can't be like, oh,
you're like this one or you're like that one.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
People try, though, make sure people try, because that's what
it is. It's like when you don't understand something, people
try to. I mean everybody does this. They try to
find a reference that's the closest to it so they.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Can I'm sorry, I can't when I hear your music,
I can't be like, oh, they like these people, they
like that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
People, you know, they try. But it's it's a good
thing that people try to bring us like closer to
something that they understand. Because it's like, Okay, we sound
like that, then maybe.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We should can they connect you to who have you heard.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That we sound like? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I want to be like yes or no.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
They people say that this the song that we have.
The thing is, it's just like, let's say we have
four songs out and we've made it so far already.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I love It's just so aggressive, but I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Four songs out and each song sounds different from the next, right,
So like we have four songs, they are all different.
This is one song that we have. Uh, that's that
they're in the Bronx that people say that we sound
like either Gorilla's Monov which is like this really big
band from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't sound like anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
We don't sound like any of those guys.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know, wrong, but but shout out to them again.
But we, like I said, like we we we have
a lot of we love music. So regardless, nothing's original
under the sign, you know what I mean? Like if
something is like if we're giving you all these genre
blending things, people are going to find one thing that
they relate to. And that's fine, it works, right. We
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want that, you know, we want to give people. I
tell you like, we want to give people rice. You
could eat rice with any and Everythingala sessing me chicken,
you eat rice?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
What everything?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And that's what we want to give. We want to
give something that everyone could digest and they're just like, oh,
I hear a little bit of myself and that doesn't
have to be the whole thing, but just enough that
we bring people together.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Are you guys signed or you're still independent?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We just signed?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
We just signed.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Are we happy?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Who you signed with?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
We signed with Bodega Records. It's a new label, it says,
I feel.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Like somebody was up here and mentioned as really yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I feel like it could be. There's been so many
people out here. But we're happy with the deal.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh absolutely, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Talk to me? Album tour? What's what's the word? Because
you know by the way they be like, this is
the plan?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, you know. Right now, we're going to release an
EP just to kind of hold people off for the
rest of the year. Album next year, Uh, tour next year?
Tour next year.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I don't have to hit the road.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I'm sorry already, don't have to leave so many already
you're ready?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Really already.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know, I've been preparing for ten years.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I have in my whole life.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
But you know, leaving and you know, touring the world
is different. That's the only reason I asked if you're ready,
you know.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, I mean I won't know because I never toured
the world yet. You know, we're again, we're.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
In the very big anxiety.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Anxiety, yeah, making me nervous now Like I was mad,
I'm happy and.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Now listen, I'm happy, I'm hype and you know, but
going all over the world, you know, and sharing your
music and performing in front of thousands, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
A different ship, to be honest. I don't get nervous
on stage as much as I used to.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh here comes, we'll talk about I'm chilling. I don't
get nervous no more. No.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, Like I actually get more nervous during things like
this than I do on stage.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, I like things like this, don't.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
When I have to introduce an artist in front of thousands,
I'm like, I want to die right before. And I'm
not even performing. I'm just going out there to hype
up the crowd a little bit. And I'm like, do
you really have to do this?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Like Yeah, No, it's it's it's sentence. It is intense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
How much do you feed off of like energy or
you could just go up there and perform no matter
what you know the crowd is giving you.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I'm not again. I'm more on the chill, shy side.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
You're just doing like I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't get excited because there's a whole bunch of
people waiting for me.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I get anxious, but I'm a whiskey.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
And yeah, Johnny, what's yours?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I like Jamison, Jameson, James.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Real, for real. I never heard nobody talking about Jamison
in years my college days. I remember Jameson.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I just throw a bottle of Jamison from my car.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Waiting it was I'm hoping it was.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
It was up. I was just like Jameson doing here.
We see a lot of Jamison, and what was gonna say?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, I for me, I would say it's like I
gauged the crowd, or we gauge the crowd if they're
already hyped to see us. We don't have to overdo it.
We just have to make sure that we do what
we do very accurately, like pronounce every word. Make sure
that whenever I'm taking a breath, a KA is like
backing me up. Make sure that that's good, because that's
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going to what's going to make the show good. But
say like the show's not really fucking with us. We
can't or like the crowd because sometimes like they'll put
us on lineups that it doesn't make sense, and usually
people be like, who the hell are these guys? You know,
it happened once, but it's not gonna be the first
time that it happens.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
You know to that, I feel you because I've been
to festivals and I'm like, this crowd that wanted to
see this person doesn't want to.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
See this person. It's weird.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
So I can understand why. You know, you might be like, oh,
these are not our people, right, And.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I guess, like what what Drew is talking about is
the that time when we did Summer Stage.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Okay, what happened in Summer Stage.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
We did Summer Stage.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Happen a Summer Stay Latin Latin.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Alternative Music conference, and they they do a bunch of
programming with Summer Stage. They added us on the lineup.
We were very excited. Shout out to Tomas, great guy.
And they at the end of they put us with
a lineup with a with artists that don't align musically,
like in terms of like it just I know our
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music is like random this, that, and the third, but
somehow that makes makes sense. It just didn't make sense
are mixed with their other mixes. All that to say,
you know, we were the smaller time artists in that lineup,
and you know, we had our crowd, but then the
other artists brought their crowd by you know, like ten
times more than what we brought, you know, thirty times
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more like thirty times more.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So they wanted artist.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
They wanted that artist. So so we're like, it happens.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I've seen it in big festivals.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
So all that to say, it's like my experience what
I did. Then they did not want us, so I
just didn't back down. I was just like, you're gonna
hear this ship, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
I put on the shot. I made it even I
wasn't even harder because it's like, you're not about to
boom me out of here.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
That's a chance to make them your fans.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Also, yeah, it's like it's like your guys are all
literally saying no.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Boo, let go a little bunch of like, yeah, Colombian
girls and Colombian May twelve years old. They didn't no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Shut up. Shout out to Mora and and their fans.
It's it's just they don't And there was Mora and
shout out to them, but they just don't listen to
what we listened to. Grew up the way we grew up,
so of course they don't understand it. Sorry you had
to go through that, but we did what we had
to do. The industry loved us.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
We were different than we performed for Rolling Stone magazine.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Alutely, the whole industry was there. So we're like, we're
putting on the show for obviously the in the audience
love it. No problem, Well we'll do it for the industry.
Like this is this is how we get that, you know,
this is how we do it.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
So but talk to me.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I was like, we have a little card on the
like you know, our sleeve, like we're gonna play what
are you doing marc Anton at the end. Yeah, so
like you know, it was the thing that we do
for all our shows. We sing a song at the
end with everybody. We just make a song that like people,
we feel like the crowd and we're like, okay, we
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go do this with that. And I told our DJ gave,
I'm like throw that and watch how all these she
just become fans of us.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
So it went from boob By like let's go, I
want to see my already. So like the Mastive feat and.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
The whole crowd, it was going crazy, and then the
lighters went up the phones and yes they.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Most footage of like Plan playing on at Summer Stage
and everybody singing the song.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
It went viral, and the viral viral to the point
Worked himself reposted.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It on his iconic listen that was worth.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Going insane, insane insane, So like the whole optics of it,
even you know, nobody even cared.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I wouldn't have even known that that happened. I wasn't there, I.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Didn't see it, but everyone's seeing started shuts down Summer
Steak because of this one.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Hey, you will take it right, absolutely, Yeah, so it worked.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I want to say, you know, congratulations on the deal.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
PP.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Anything you guys do here in New York, any support
that you need, feel free to reach out.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
We Got you. Album twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Keep killing it, man, keep making us proud Dominicans, Latinos,
Spanguish New Yorkers, people from the BX Yo. You guys
got a lot of people on your back.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, it's like even like there's a whole bunch of
like the bouncers in the city, the bouncers, the clubs. Yeah,
like a lot of them are from like uptown, you know,
and and they show us so much love.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
He loves bouncers. We are I don't even fun with this.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Music, like you know, because that's how it is. Man.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
We're community, especially you know Latinos, like we see somebody
doing something positive, pushing the culture forward, and especially when
it comes to Dominicanos, we're gon, we're gonna support some
Dominicans that we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, But but it's also funny because it's like there's
these kids in d R what's that grown hell hell right?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Like like grungy.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, Like they're doing music it sounds very Nirvana, you know,
very vain, but Dominican, these little kids, and the comments.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Are yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, and I'm like how we got here, Like this
is positive, always gonna but they're.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Like these kids don't want to know we're you know,
the narrow is changing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah, And the thing is, I guess like to kind
of add on to what you're saying, is like Dominicans
were always going to find something to say. We're always
because as hell, Like people still drive gas in d R,
which is our fuel achievement and controvencia and and rage
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baiting is our fuel. Like that's what Dominicans do. That's
what generated so much like hype around Dominicans, and like
there's always achievement something going on. So all that to say,
like people always going to find something to say, even
if they love it, just to kind of entice.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
And we have our opinions.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You know, we can see them, we can see the dopest,
but there's always going to be one person I hold
the end of yea. We have opinions that we're heavy
with the sauce when it comes to the opinions, But
as long as we don't feed into it. You know,
I've sat down with plenty of artists that they're like,
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I don't feet into the Dominican you know, any any
type of Teese mail. I don't want to go to
any outlets that's gonna pay me in a negative light.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, we can. We can control the narragin That's true.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
That's why I'm saying, Like Dre and I talk about
this from time to time, and I'm like, Yo, thank god,
we didn't have to go through all of the Dominican
channels and do all the Dominican radio shows and do
all of this to kind of get to Colors through
summer stage doing on the radar. We didn't have to
do any of that. But now it's going to be
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obviously on the under a better context, not like oh
the comes too Dominicans grinding, like trying to do the
song and dance is what I'm trying to say. Now
will be four million invited. It's like, Yo, there's more
demand now, it's.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Like, now you're gonna invite it's the Grammys, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Better received. That's opposed to like having to fight through
the channels, Like I could just imagine, like, well it
will be us and and somebody like you know in
the radio show out there, we just look at it
like what the fuck is this? You know what I mean?
But now that everybody, because that's what it is Dominicans
in general, so so they won't know everybody could have
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could have attested to this. I'm not I'm not speaking.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Any plane was built in Dominica. Of public, we really
want to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
We I'm talking about I'm talking and he understands. He
knows this, and so they don't really jack things until
everybody else Jackson.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
That's just what it is like on the Wave once Yeah,
oh yeah, once the Wave is going like look at
even I mean season two drops.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Tomorrow, and I mean, but that's no way that right there.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I'm gonna watch because I want to. I want to
see good Bone on that ship. Hello.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I'm saying though, but it's like I would like in
America if you think about it, like imagine a reality
show like you have your New York or your like
you know, I love New York stuff like that. But
major artists in America being on a reality show. It
sounds crazy to us, like I don't I wouldn't see that.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
I don't know, maybe like Big Brother. Yeah no, this
is it is like.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Big Brother, but in d R they don't care like
leans on it now, like all these big artists that
don't need this platform.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
No, I see it. I'm like, but get.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
You're in Hollywood antics.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It's like I want to go to you want to
Oh this clip definitely going up, but not like uh,
I kind of.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Just want to pop in like the way you know,
for like a day or so.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
I think she's on this season now.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Oh nah, like.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
I heard, Oh yeah, I think I did see her now.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
What I'm saying is like they don't care. They're like,
oh this is popping, this making money right now.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
But I saw like there's like an alternate house. I
was looking at it like when I'm on Young something.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I think thats just that I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yeah, it's like and I saw they were going.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
If I'm not mistake, I think even that's under the
like it's another house. They make money out there.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
They like, we're gonna get to this bad Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
You know the first prices of Ferrari, I don't know
if you know, like they're given a Ferrari with all those.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Poles and.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
You got to drive ten miles per hour you know,
you know that shy driving and yellow that roll.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, that's where that cars going, which is crazy, right,
Like we think of d R and we think like
third world country and like we're going over there compo logo.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I was just there like so much a month ago,
and I'm like at a pool club and I see
the Lambos and I see the range A MG here,
a m G there Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
I saw Louis Vaton. Listen are you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Joe said, was popping over there to you. Yeah, shout
out to my mother some hell. All her money was
real estate, mom and.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
And prop and so lot.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
They know about. Everyone got so love, you know, everybody.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Everybody got.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Somewhere that like you got fucking three four aunts and
uncles trying to contest. You gotta get tense signatures from
all the uncles, and everybody's getting. It's a whole to you.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
I want to thank you guys for coming up today,
sitting down with me, letting me in your space, getting
to know you, and allowing you know, our listeners to
get to know Plant and and you know, if you
haven't heard their music, I want you to run up
those numbers today. You said we only have four songs,
but stream them ships. Go to YouTube, watch the videos,
watch colors. Watch on the radar.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That's the homie Gabe.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Let's run up those numbers, you know, and they're creating
something that's for us, so we have to support it,
let's share it, and let's get behind them.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Man, that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
That's exactly how we got here, and that's how we're
going to keep building together community, like minded folks making
great music, just doing good things, just doing good stuff.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Man, Grassier's come again. Both of you.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Thank you, Honey, I appreciate you, Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Grassiers Come Again is a production of Honey German Productions
in partnership with IHEARTMCRO through the podcast network
Grass Come Again a podcast by Honey German.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to another episode of Grassias Come Again. I'm hype today, man,
we're doing something so different. So to the left, why
are you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Looking at me like that? AKA? The Dark Knight is here?
So it's here, plant that ind is in the building.
Come on, come on a.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
How's it going? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Nah, I've been dying to talk to you too, because
I'm like, Bro.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
These dudes are so different. You're like nothing I've ever seen.
And I'm born and raised New Yorker, so I've seen
a lot of shit. Okay, what's going on? Like where
did this all come from?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Like? Who who's the rock fan? Who? Who developeds?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Like we're gonna do punk, We're gonna do Dumbo, We're
gonna do you know some rap.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Some rock? Like are you friends? What's the backstory on
this situation?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Like wh who's planting? And where do we come from?
What it seems came out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Exactly all of a sudden. Everybody's like, do you have
you heard these guys? All of a sudden, They're like
did you see this? Colors?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Did you see this? I'm like, yeah, what's going on here?
I said, I need them.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I first started with my solo career. I've been
doing music for I want to say eight years in total,
you know seriously of course.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And we're talking right now to Saso.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yes, this is Sasso by the way. So yeah, as
a solo career is Saso was doing music. So at
that time, I fell in love with Bilefunky, fell in
love like with Jersey Club and all that type of stuff,
Like I was doing Jersey Club I guess before it
was like very popularized. I've always been like the type
of person that's always want to do something that everybody's
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going that way, I'm going this way the other way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Right, you don't want to swallow you know, the current.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, Like it's it's more like, why would I want
to be just an extra person in this industry making
the same stuff, Like you got to bring something different,
just like with business with everything, you know. And so
I've been I've been doing that for a while and
throughout that journey. Aka and I both went to high
school together, so we've been in the Bronx. In the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, what's what's your Bronx neighborhood? Come on, we
got a lot of New Yorkers listening.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So I'm from Castle Hills, riga like sixth Line mostly
Now now I'm like in the gun Hill area, this
Center and the third but drews from I'm from Kingsbridge.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And then like later on in life, I moved to Throgs,
which was a whole Yeah, it just changed everything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Listen, you're still in the Bronx. You can make it happen, right,
what happened? What's over Thenthrogs at the.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Time, that was straight Dominican power over there.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We took it over, Yeah, we took it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was like one of the first ones. But at
the time it was a whole bunch of like Italians
Irish and it was it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was also I saw a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm like, y'all moving like that over here, Like there's
a lot of like races, a lot of ship happening.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, the Trump supporters lived, but it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was in the area where our high school was, and
that's where.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We And you're both Dominicanos, Yeah, both Dominicans, mom, dad Dominicans.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Both of you as well from the island.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And you're both born here.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, I was born here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Do you go back to Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, I was raised there as well. For where my
primary primary years in Santo Do.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's why I'm you do where you go back to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
All the time. I went to high school there, Like
we have a very before South and I even like
Matt in high school, we had such a similar upbringing
and uh, like a story is the same, Like our
parents are from like the east Side, which is the hood,
but then they.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No nor lommin I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
My Momba and Bonica which is on the border of Haiti.
And then she might you know, she moved to to
La Capital. I don't know where she lived in a capital,
but I know my dad is from Nomina and then
my mom's native like town.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Is it's crazy that you say that because my mom
is from Nomina too.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look at that Lomonado's like that a lot of talent
has come out of that area.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
How dope is what's happened with you know, the Dominican
Republic in the past few years as far as like
you know, the mo you know, people like Doky going global.
You know what I'm saying, Like, it's just dope. What's
happening for us?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
This movement.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know, so many artists, and you know the way
that we're being perceived is as the youth is.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So I just love it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I mean even going back top and through that, like.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh you want to bring it back to the Ogska
But they you know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's just that same thing like you know, Bronx, Dominican's
body whatever. And they were global. They went crazy, and
I felt like to at least to me, that was
an inspiration because I saw, like, whoa these people are
like everywhere?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, they were local. They were our guys.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You know if you were born and raised New York
or will be that day. It was just like what
is happening here? And they were singing in Spanglish with
resonated so close to all of.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Us, which is similar the music that we make too.
But so I'm sorry, I just want to go back
to like that. I know it was like a long,
long answer. Oh that's to say, because I know we
go from but Aka and I grew up together. I
was doing my music thing. He has always been behind
the scenes. He's always been directing, editing. If I'm in
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the studio and I'm missing like a few parts structure wise,
line or two.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So while you were a solo artist, you were working
with Yeah, okay, all right, so from day one you've
always worked together creatively.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes, So then and then you could tell the other part, you.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Know, just I would. I would always help Saso and
other friends and people they like trusted me at least
with like my ear and my vision. And then it
got to the point people like especially Sasso would like
encourage me, like, yo, do your own music. I'm like, nah,
you don't know what.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm a little shy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Really, the way you move. I'll be watching the videos
and I'll be watching social media. You were born to
do this. Stop your ship.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No no, no, I just you know, I didn't know
that in it, like you know, and then I tried it,
and you know, ship was moving a little on the
ground Brooklyn scene and they're like, yo, we really like
this guy.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And then Sasa's like, we've been doing this for a
long time, it's time to make a song together now
and that's my bitch.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And it blew up and did you watch him perform?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And you were like, wait, hold up, what's going on here?
We gotta we gotta create something together. Did you see
him on stage or what was the moment where you decided,
like we gotta, we gotta be a group.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The thing is that I've always admired a k for
for his artistic vision, whether it's like I already saw
his potential being in the front, just by the way
he was moving behind the scenes. You get what I'm saying.
It was just only a matter of time for him. Uh,
you know, Drew. I'm gonna call him Drew because people
know it's listen.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
That's what you want. I don't know, I'm gonna call
him the Dark Knight type shit, right.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So I'm gonna just like just for for lower purposes
Dark Knight aka. He has always been talented from from
the visions and editing and directing my music videos and
all these things. I just I just knew that if
he just did this other artistic thing is gonna be
good anyway too. And once I saw that that his
focus was towards music, I do that with all of
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my friends who I hang out with, Like you make music,
like's get in the fucking studio, lets do a song,
you know what I mean. So it was just it
was a very natural thing and of course because Aka
and myself we work together for so long, we didn't
even think too much about it as well as like,
oh this this is gonna be like I've always known
he was a guy, you know what I'm saying. So
it was just like we just like struck gold with
(07:51):
that to my bitch, That's really what it was. It
was just a mixture of like understanding what the culture
really needs, like on both in the Latin side and
also like in New York coming out with something simple
like that's my bitch. Like obviously it's like a lot
comes behind that battle Mami, Like, it's just it was
(08:15):
just fun making a fun record, Like let's just have
fun and make a good song. That's really what what
our focus was.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Now your music does come off as like they had
fun making.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This, right, Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Do you ever worry, like with other partnerships and groups
that she could just go bad?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Do you ever worry?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I feel like so many amazing groups and then you
know Romeo, you know new addition, like do you because
I fear a lot to work as a duo because
in the past things have gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do you worry?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No? I when it came and I.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Formed Industry Plan. I was like, this is such a
dope name.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I was like, are they an industry plant or are
they not? We moved, well, yeah, some wal disruptors, I'll
tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I said, who what the algorithm would say? We are?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Is that what we move?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We are?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But we're not, obviously, Like that's the whole marketing plan
behind there, you know, and the name behind me.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I see what you did, but.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
We but we've been behind the scenes. We've been in
New York City in the Bronx, doing shows at parks,
on the train, wherever the fuck You got what I'm saying.
So it's like, obviously we're not industry plants.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
He's like, listen, listen, let's make sure. Let's make sure
we get that line in there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We ain't no industry industry plan, He's you know, but
that was.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like CARDI you remember the whole carties in industry planing ship.
It's just like, I'm not I just want to make music.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
We've just been, uh, I guess, like building a community.
So it's like once the fucking button turned on, it
almost seemed like there was already a machine behind you
get what I'm saying, but in reality, it's all like
the friends that see me at my first show fucking
eight years ago, or this, that and the thirds just
like the a culmination of everybody all that to say,
to answer your question, like, I don't necessarily worry because
(10:05):
Aka and myself have always been individual artists and we
always know that we're gonna shift off Focus or Plants
for the time being. But at the end of the day,
Aka is free to do his own records like that,
and and myself too, Like our manager knows this. The
whole team knows this, and everybody else is in Planteendustrial
(10:25):
who's not obviously Aka and myself. There's a whole you know,
team that we have are also their own individual artists,
and they're also free to besides working with Plants, they
work on their own stuff too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So everybody still has like creative freedom to be an individual.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And that's what makes that's what makes the community and
plants Ria strong because it's like we're not really tying
people down in that way.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I love that. Now, Colors type shit, how dope is that?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And you know the way that you did it by
having you know, extra people that I was just like,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was just so fucking dope. Who plugged you in
to do Colors? Your management or somebody you knew?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, this is the story. So we have a very
very very we have a very cool manager. His name
is Alex to me. Some people may know him, some
people may not.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And I'm on the phone with him and we were
talking about other platforms like to like we were seeing
this momentum. We're like, all right, we now we.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Need like really good have you already done on the radar?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And we were discussing this and I'm like, yo, I
want to do on the radar. I want to do
from the block, I want to do all these things
I want to do again. But I was like, but
I don't know. For some reason, feels like we're colors artists,
Like it just felt it, and I kept saying it.
So then I called Alex and I'm like, yo, do
(11:55):
you know anybody that can plug us in with Colors?
And he's like, actually, they hit him up because he's
an engineer. Like he's an engineer, very well known engineer,
So they hit him up to work. All the time.
He was like I can call some people, you know,
I'll get to that this week. And as I'm on
the phone with him, I get an email from Colors
and I'm like, yo, at America, like you you hit
(12:18):
them up? And he was like, no, what are you
talking about? And it just so happened to be that
they just hit us up, literally like on the.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Phone, because we were talking about Colors. They already are
emailing us to be part of Colors.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, so it was literally us, like it was just
TikTok that got them. This guy, his name is Jimmy
and he like scouts for talent and stuff, at least
one of theirs or whatever, and he hit us up.
He's like, Yo, we love what you're doing. We would
love to invite you to Colors because we're opening up
our new studio in New York and you guys feel
(12:52):
like you're in New York. And it was insane, just manifesting,
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You're on the phone asking to go on the show
and you're getting emailed with an invitation.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Insane.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
How lucky do you feel right now at how everything
has been unfolding for you?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Honestly, because I'm telling you and I work in the industry,
and it's like every other person is like showing me
you a TikTok or YouTube, and I'm like, okay, I
get it. I got to I got to get these
guys up here. How blessed do you feel right now?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Ten years ago, I would have felt lucky, But after
all the years of working, it's like, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
We think that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, I would second that too. It's just like, obviously,
well now obviously we do feel blessed. We do feel
a sense of luck, but that luck we created that,
you know, over the years and against doing a lot
of shows for free, a lot of projects for free
outside of our own endeavors, just being part of the
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community and just everybody knowing who we were before we
before every the rest of the world knew who we were.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And you know, because it takes years to become an
overnight success. Yeah, literally, trust me, I know exactly what
you're talking about, and you know, but it's still a blessing.
I know so many people you know that have been
hustling that are talented, and I'm like, yo, bro, this
person is so talent. They're like, why can't they take off?
(14:17):
Do you feel like now with social media, it's a
little bit easier for you to reach the masses versus
let's say, ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I personally feel like it's the opposite. I think, like
you have now since everyone has the access, like there's
so much more competition.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know, Oh okay, so you're seeing it from a
competitive angle versus.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm just saying like it is, it's both. It's kind
of both. Like it's easier because you get to like
what happened with us, you know, you could reach independently,
just get into college doing all these things. But then
also how many other people are posting online and it's
an even.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Plain field I guess, because everybody can post. But then
you got to compete with people from all over there.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The anti I guess, and like be too Dominicans from
the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, it's just so dope, Like you don't understand. Like
I was just like, they're both Dominicans and they're both
in the Bronx, and then your style it's just so different.
I was like, Yo, what am I gonna wear it?
I said, I know they're gonna pop out with some
real wild ship and y'all just y'all chilling. I'm like
I'm glad I didn't wear no crazy wild feel like
definitely eight.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
He's a good friend of ours.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He's super dope.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
He put Angie Martinez in the new Ads. I was
like iconic. Oh shit, And she was talking about it.
They just went in there. They're like, naw, we're gonna
do something different. We're gonna put you in a wig.
And she's like, for for the first time in a
very long time, she just let go and she lets
somebody else take creative control and said it just felt
so good, and the pictures came out so fire. I
(16:01):
was just like, but I love him. He just thinks
so outside the box, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Also been working for years and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh no, for sure, Like I know the story top
to bottom. Another overnight success.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That you know, people are like, oh, you got lucky. No,
it's not love. It's hard work, hard work.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And that's the thing too. It's like, you know, that's
the that's what I mean, what we mean by building
community because we knew so far before was a thing,
you know what I mean, Like he knew me for
my music. He loves Aka's music. So it's just like
he was already a fan of us, like independently, so
once we joined the houses and just fucking.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know, we just he was like whatever y'all need.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's always supported us for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's what's so far as that guy for real also
happy when he launched, you know, the flagship store here
in New York, it was like we were all over it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Such a dope face.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Really, and you know, if you're listening from anywhere else
outside of New York, which they listened from all over
the world. New York is a big place, but it's
also a very small place, and I know you can
second that. It's just like, yeah, it's huge, but then
we're all like connected one way or another.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Small, right, Yeah, they're very exact.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right, Yeah, it's I guess it's like the lane you
take if you want to be in the industry. It's
the lane, and everyone kind of knows each other.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's like sixth Street degrees separation.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's just like, you know, even when my producer I'm mad,
I'm like, you know, I want to get Amanda Sano
up here.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Can we throw a line? Can we see where does
she live? Is she here? She in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Can we find somebody and immediately be like, oh yeah,
let me hit this person and then we make it happen.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's just how it works here in New York.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Your families, how do they feel about this? Mommy Bobby,
are they with us here in the Bronx? Who's here?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
My mom's here, my dad's in Dominican Republic. She's like finally,
you know, like.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, typical Dominican mom. We ain't. Yeah, It's like, does
she see you that way yet?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
For other things that I've done, I always grow up.
I'm a painter, like I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
She's supportive of all of it, very supportive.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But but also you know, like again I've been I
always chose the starving artist route. I'm gonna figure it out,
you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And are you an only child?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, it was like okay, okay, so mom can deal
with one starving artist?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Want to be you.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, also my younger brother
is another he like he produced oil for us. Like
that's you know, we keep it in the family and we're.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Not gonna keep the money at home.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, for sure, But you know she's just like she's
happy about everything's happening. But again, it's like years of
like yo, like you know, like take care of yourself,
and I'm like i am, but I'm on a mission
right now and like you gotta let me just do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But she's now, she's happy, she's proud. I bet you
should be showing her friends your stuff. But you know,
Dominican moms, they gonna be like whatever, but then they're
behind your bag, posting you on face.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Whatspp so saying that type ship.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's that's Dominican moms for you.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
How your mom feels?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh my mom? My mom is ecstatic. You know, she's
constantly bragging to her friends. Everybody knows about me. Glad,
she's very proud of me. Good.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm happy for you both. You know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
The the beginning, she was like a little confused because
I came out of nowhere doing music a long time ago,
like eight nine years ago. I was actually going to
school for law. Yeah. Nice, it's an it's an ambitious pursuit,
you know what I'm saying. And sometimes it's like it
takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
The road just looks very long.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, I want to say it's like, uh, at least
for me. Everybody has reasons why they drop out of
law school and stuff like that, but at least for me,
I just couldn't afford it. I couldn't afford it. I
had to work. I came to work here and I
was just like, I don't know if I want these
loans right now. I already got loans from my from
my bachelor's Like, I don't want to just get more loans.
Like so I was just like, you wanna know something,
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I'm gonna do fucking music. I'm gonna just go at it.
And like from the first record, which was like a
bilet funky, which at that time then I novah that
I had had its novelty to it because nobody was
doing it in Spanish and the rest is history. After that,
like I knew I was doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You just felt it like this is this is my
ship right.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Here, because you know in law school, like I never
made it to law school. I was applying to go
to law school.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But when I was like, you had already done the
el set.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Yeah, I took the else had twice.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Terrible.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, I did terribly on both of them. So it
was just like as I was doing that, like nobody
was like, oh, so that does a great job, Like
oh you're doing you know, you're.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Just at home with that big ass book by yourself, studying.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Nobody drop one song and in the fucking world goes crazy.
So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm going towards the people
telling me good job, like I need I need like
some love over.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Here, mann, you know, reassurance.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Some reassurance like So, had had that not happened, like
I would have not pursued music the way I didn't
back then. But I just knew that I had something
once I saw the reception, because this something that I
always known, but I never showed it, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So it was just like, did you perform like privately
at home? No, did you ever record yourself like let
me see if I could be an artist or nothing?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Do you just spelt it?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I did some songs in high school, and like in college,
I did like one song. I knew, I knew that
I wanted to do, so even back then, I was
just like I still, which is the reason why I
don't have necessarily like a favorite artist and stuff like that.
It's like I don't hear what I want to hear
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and everything else that's going on, So I'm going to
try myself to kind of make something that I want.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
To listen to.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So you did just that. Yeah, that's been my lane
on that.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's just kind of you both did just that.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It's like, when I hear your music, it's not I
can't be like I hear this, or I hear that,
or this person has done it before.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Like it's hard. I'm like, who are even their musical influences.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm thinking like rock, I'm thinking like the UK, I'm
thinking anything and everything because what you're doing is so unique.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And it's just it's dope because you know, in a
world where everybody tries to mimic this one and this
one sounds like that one, and you know, drill is
just drill, and you know, like hip hop is just
hip hop.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Like, but you're doing it. You've created something.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Brand new, yeah, and people don't do that anymore. People
just you know, recycle old songs, sample tracks from the seventies,
from the eighties, like, but this just feels so fresh.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
We just came at the right time. I feel like
we we needed it. We met people with it where
they are currently, Like, we grew up music three what
does mills ninety three?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Late millennials, So.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It's like, no, we've millennio.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I'm not a gen zy.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He's like, listen, listen, AKA said, don't play.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
With me Millennials. We are okay, cool, I don't. I
don't even know. Yeah, no, we've been making like the music.
I know it's coming as a surprise, but it's really
just like in a culmination of all of the things
that we grew up listening to.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
From talk to me, give me, give me, give me,
some of these people you grew up on.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I don't want to go two back, but my first
my first love was rock music because my brother was
putting me on to a lot of rock bands and
metal bands where we were living in d R.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's so crazy how Dominigans. A lot of people don't
know this about Dominicans. Dominicans love you know you too,
The Doors in Excess, Depeche Mode. Talk to me, who
was your brother listening to? Because that's who my brother
was listening to.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
So around that time, you know, that's like you know,
ninety nine, two thousand, two thousand and one, and that's
Lincoln Park, that system of a Down, that's Coohedon Cambria,
that Slipknot, that's my chemical Romance some forty one and
taking back Sunday, Am I missing something? I think? Yeah,
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just in general, like that was kind of the his realm.
He used to burn CDs, like I used to listen
to it in my little CD player or whatever, and
that's how I kind of just like was introduced to music.
Later on, obviously, you know, the Dominican hip hop scene
came around, so of course we were listening to a
loppy listening to Grow all those guys, Jello, all those guys.
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So it's like, you know, listening to rock here, listening
to Dominican hip hop here. Then I moved to New York,
so that was dipset. That was the unit at that time.
This is when, like I want to say, like what
two thousand and five or something, when like Low Wayne
was peak, the No Ceilings mixtapes was out, like all that,
all that stuff was happening. And obviously like throughout the
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years listening and just being part of this city. Also
growing up Dominican listening to mee Ms, which I grew.
I grew up listening to and all these things. It's
like the culmination of all those things. It's like we
decided to just blend it. As opposed to like AKA
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as an individual artist mostly focuses on electronic you want
to country me making balow dumbo reggaeton. We were just like,
let's fucking fuse all of our musical palettes, like stuff
that we we loved as as you know, as adults
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and also when we were growing up, put it together
in something that feels true to us in Spanish, right
because we're both from dr and New York. And it's
like because now over the years of you know, we're
standing on the on the on the backs of legends
and ogs out here that's been doing you you know,
from Sandy Sandy Papo and all these other like artists.
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Obviously I've been through that, like people have have gotten
used to the whole spanglish thing and the whole like
we're more than just pregato dimbo artists, you know what
I mean. So that's why it was easy for like,
that's why it's like, oh my god, finally that's what
people say.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I feel like it and I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Feel like it just like we didn't go into the
studio with that in mind. It was more so who
we are, you know, so like just even like us
becoming friends and like our whole friend group and if
you see like our performances, we're with a whole bunch
of people. They all come from back in the day,
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and it was like we all had like a mute
true thing where we would listen to Aventura or Omega
or Evanescence or fifty or whatever, and nobody ever felt
like they were lost. Everyone knew every song and it
was like this melting pot of music of like, oh yeah,
we all fuck with each other because we all kind
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of understand each other musically. And even at the time,
I didn't think I would be a musician, but it
was something cool that got all of us together because
we it was through music, which is it's crazy, you know,
so as we're like things are kind of blowing up
a bit, we're realizing this as it's happening, you know,
not like oh, we got to go to the studio
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and do this. Ye, we go to the studio, we
do it, and then people like yourself ask us, and
then we're we're like realize, like, oh, shit, we are.
We are doing these things without knowing, but now we know.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
We're really getting your most authentic selves. Yeah, absolutely, I
see what you did here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's just like everything we listen to, everything we grow
up listening to. You know, we spent summers in dr
then we come back, we're in the Bronx, we go
to Florida, Like you fused everything together and that that's
the reason why your sound is so unique. But at
the same time resonates with so many of.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That exactly a lot of people out there. They we
grew up like that everywhere.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Everyone, you know, they always they always talk. We always
talk about the jay Z and the Lincoln Park when
they did the collabor That's that's just what Planta is. Like,
think about it like that. It's like a word. But
what a little what a little Dominican low, little omega little,
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you know what I mean. It's just like that's what
it is. And I think people could get behind that
because it's obviously we're standing on the on the backs
of a lot of people that have like opened the
ways and the musical palace for the audience to get
who we are, you know. So yeah, we're all that
to say We're fucking grateful as hell that you guys.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Are and I love that you exist.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I love that we're sitting down together today. And you
know that that the audience you know, that listens Tos's
coming is going to be able to open up to
new artists, like if they've never heard of you, let's say,
in Nicara and Peru and Lima, wherever you're listening from, like,
you're going to be able to really, you know, get
to know some artists that are out here, you know,
just trailblazing.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Because what you're doing is just so different. You're in
your own lane.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I hope you know this, Like I can't be like, oh,
you're like this one or you're like that one.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
People try, though, make sure people try, because that's what
it is. It's like when you don't understand something, people
try to. I mean everybody does this. They try to
find a reference that's the closest to it so they.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Can I'm sorry, I can't when I hear your music,
I can't be like, oh, they like these people, they
like that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
People, you know, they try. But it's it's a good
thing that people try to bring us like closer to
something that they understand. Because it's like, Okay, we sound
like that, then maybe.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We should can they connect you to who have you heard.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
That we sound like? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I want to be like yes or no.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
They people say that this the song that we have.
The thing is, it's just like, let's say we have
four songs out and we've made it so far already.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I love It's just so aggressive, but I love it.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Four songs out and each song sounds different from the next, right,
So like we have four songs, they are all different.
This is one song that we have. Uh, that's that
they're in the Bronx that people say that we sound
like either Gorilla's Monov which is like this really big
band from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't sound like anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
We don't sound like any of those guys.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I know, wrong, but but shout out to them again.
But we, like I said, like we we we have
a lot of we love music. So regardless, nothing's original
under the sign, you know what I mean? Like if
something is like if we're giving you all these genre
blending things, people are going to find one thing that
they relate to. And that's fine, it works, right. We
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want that, you know, we want to give people. I
tell you like, we want to give people rice. You
could eat rice with any and Everythingala sessing me chicken,
you eat rice?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
What everything?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And that's what we want to give. We want to
give something that everyone could digest and they're just like, oh,
I hear a little bit of myself and that doesn't
have to be the whole thing, but just enough that
we bring people together.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Are you guys signed or you're still independent?
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We just signed?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
We just signed.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Are we happy?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Who you signed with?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
We signed with Bodega Records. It's a new label, it says,
I feel.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Like somebody was up here and mentioned as really yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I feel like it could be. There's been so many
people out here. But we're happy with the deal.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh absolutely, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Talk to me? Album tour? What's what's the word? Because
you know by the way they be like, this is
the plan?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, you know. Right now, we're going to release an
EP just to kind of hold people off for the
rest of the year. Album next year, Uh, tour next year?
Tour next year.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I don't have to hit the road.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I'm sorry already, don't have to leave so many already
you're ready?
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Really already.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know, I've been preparing for ten years.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I have in my whole life.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
But you know, leaving and you know, touring the world
is different. That's the only reason I asked if you're ready,
you know.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, I mean I won't know because I never toured
the world yet. You know, we're again, we're.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
In the very big anxiety.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Anxiety, yeah, making me nervous now Like I was mad,
I'm happy and.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Now listen, I'm happy, I'm hype and you know, but
going all over the world, you know, and sharing your
music and performing in front of thousands, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
A different ship, to be honest. I don't get nervous
on stage as much as I used to.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh here comes, we'll talk about I'm chilling. I don't
get nervous no more. No.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, Like I actually get more nervous during things like
this than I do on stage.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, I like things like this, don't.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
When I have to introduce an artist in front of thousands,
I'm like, I want to die right before. And I'm
not even performing. I'm just going out there to hype
up the crowd a little bit. And I'm like, do
you really have to do this?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Like Yeah, No, it's it's it's sentence. It is intense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
How much do you feed off of like energy or
you could just go up there and perform no matter
what you know the crowd is giving you.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I'm not again. I'm more on the chill, shy side.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
You're just doing like I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I don't get excited because there's a whole bunch of
people waiting for me.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I get anxious, but I'm a whiskey.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
And yeah, Johnny, what's yours?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I like Jamison, Jameson, James.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Real, for real. I never heard nobody talking about Jamison
in years my college days. I remember Jameson.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I just throw a bottle of Jamison from my car.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Waiting it was I'm hoping it was.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
It was up. I was just like Jameson doing here.
We see a lot of Jamison, and what was gonna say?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, I for me, I would say it's like I
gauged the crowd, or we gauge the crowd if they're
already hyped to see us. We don't have to overdo it.
We just have to make sure that we do what
we do very accurately, like pronounce every word. Make sure
that whenever I'm taking a breath, a KA is like
backing me up. Make sure that that's good, because that's
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going to what's going to make the show good. But
say like the show's not really fucking with us. We
can't or like the crowd because sometimes like they'll put
us on lineups that it doesn't make sense, and usually
people be like, who the hell are these guys? You know,
it happened once, but it's not gonna be the first
time that it happens.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
You know to that, I feel you because I've been
to festivals and I'm like, this crowd that wanted to
see this person doesn't want to.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
See this person. It's weird.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
So I can understand why. You know, you might be like, oh,
these are not our people, right, And.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I guess, like what what Drew is talking about is
the that time when we did Summer Stage.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Okay, what happened in Summer Stage.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
We did Summer Stage.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Happen a Summer Stay Latin Latin.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Alternative Music conference, and they they do a bunch of
programming with Summer Stage. They added us on the lineup.
We were very excited. Shout out to Tomas, great guy.
And they at the end of they put us with
a lineup with a with artists that don't align musically,
like in terms of like it just I know our
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music is like random this, that, and the third, but
somehow that makes makes sense. It just didn't make sense
are mixed with their other mixes. All that to say,
you know, we were the smaller time artists in that lineup,
and you know, we had our crowd, but then the
other artists brought their crowd by you know, like ten
times more than what we brought, you know, thirty times
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more like thirty times more.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So they wanted artist.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
They wanted that artist. So so we're like, it happens.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I've seen it in big festivals.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
So all that to say, it's like my experience what
I did. Then they did not want us, so I
just didn't back down. I was just like, you're gonna
hear this ship, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
I put on the shot. I made it even I
wasn't even harder because it's like, you're not about to
boom me out of here.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
That's a chance to make them your fans.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Also, yeah, it's like it's like your guys are all
literally saying no.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Boo, let go a little bunch of like, yeah, Colombian
girls and Colombian May twelve years old. They didn't no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Shut up. Shout out to Mora and and their fans.
It's it's just they don't And there was Mora and
shout out to them, but they just don't listen to
what we listened to. Grew up the way we grew up,
so of course they don't understand it. Sorry you had
to go through that, but we did what we had
to do. The industry loved us.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
We were different than we performed for Rolling Stone magazine.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Alutely, the whole industry was there. So we're like, we're
putting on the show for obviously the in the audience
love it. No problem, Well we'll do it for the industry.
Like this is this is how we get that, you know,
this is how we do it.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
So but talk to me.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I was like, we have a little card on the
like you know, our sleeve, like we're gonna play what
are you doing marc Anton at the end. Yeah, so
like you know, it was the thing that we do
for all our shows. We sing a song at the
end with everybody. We just make a song that like people,
we feel like the crowd and we're like, okay, we
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go do this with that. And I told our DJ gave,
I'm like throw that and watch how all these she
just become fans of us.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
So it went from boob By like let's go, I
want to see my already. So like the Mastive feat and.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
The whole crowd, it was going crazy, and then the
lighters went up the phones and yes they.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Most footage of like Plan playing on at Summer Stage
and everybody singing the song.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
It went viral, and the viral viral to the point
Worked himself reposted.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
It on his iconic listen that was worth.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Going insane, insane insane, So like the whole optics of it,
even you know, nobody even cared.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I wouldn't have even known that that happened. I wasn't there, I.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Didn't see it, but everyone's seeing started shuts down Summer
Steak because of this one.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Hey, you will take it right, absolutely, Yeah, so it worked.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I want to say, you know, congratulations on the deal.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
PP.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Anything you guys do here in New York, any support
that you need, feel free to reach out.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
We Got you. Album twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Keep killing it, man, keep making us proud Dominicans, Latinos,
Spanguish New Yorkers, people from the BX Yo. You guys
got a lot of people on your back.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, it's like even like there's a whole bunch of
like the bouncers in the city, the bouncers, the clubs. Yeah,
like a lot of them are from like uptown, you know,
and and they show us so much love.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
He loves bouncers. We are I don't even fun with this.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Music, like you know, because that's how it is. Man.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
We're community, especially you know Latinos, like we see somebody
doing something positive, pushing the culture forward, and especially when
it comes to Dominicanos, we're gon, we're gonna support some
Dominicans that we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, But but it's also funny because it's like there's
these kids in d R what's that grown hell hell right?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Like like grungy.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, Like they're doing music it sounds very Nirvana, you know,
very vain, but Dominican, these little kids, and the comments.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Are yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, and I'm like how we got here, Like this
is positive, always gonna but they're.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Like these kids don't want to know we're you know,
the narrow is changing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah, And the thing is, I guess like to kind
of add on to what you're saying, is like Dominicans
were always going to find something to say. We're always
because as hell, Like people still drive gas in d R,
which is our fuel achievement and controvencia and and rage
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baiting is our fuel. Like that's what Dominicans do. That's
what generated so much like hype around Dominicans, and like
there's always achievement something going on. So all that to say,
like people always going to find something to say, even
if they love it, just to kind of entice.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
And we have our opinions.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You know, we can see them, we can see the dopest,
but there's always going to be one person I hold
the end of yea. We have opinions that we're heavy
with the sauce when it comes to the opinions, But
as long as we don't feed into it. You know,
I've sat down with plenty of artists that they're like,
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I don't feet into the Dominican you know, any any
type of Teese mail. I don't want to go to
any outlets that's gonna pay me in a negative light.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, we can. We can control the narragin That's true.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
That's why I'm saying, Like Dre and I talk about
this from time to time, and I'm like, Yo, thank god,
we didn't have to go through all of the Dominican
channels and do all the Dominican radio shows and do
all of this to kind of get to Colors through
summer stage doing on the radar. We didn't have to
do any of that. But now it's going to be
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obviously on the under a better context, not like oh
the comes too Dominicans grinding, like trying to do the
song and dance is what I'm trying to say. Now
will be four million invited. It's like, Yo, there's more
demand now, it's.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Like, now you're gonna invite it's the Grammys, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Better received. That's opposed to like having to fight through
the channels, Like I could just imagine, like, well it
will be us and and somebody like you know in
the radio show out there, we just look at it
like what the fuck is this? You know what I mean?
But now that everybody, because that's what it is Dominicans
in general, so so they won't know everybody could have
(43:13):
could have attested to this. I'm not I'm not speaking.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Any plane was built in Dominica. Of public, we really
want to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
We I'm talking about I'm talking and he understands. He
knows this, and so they don't really jack things until
everybody else Jackson.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
That's just what it is like on the Wave once Yeah,
oh yeah, once the Wave is going like look at
even I mean season two drops.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Tomorrow, and I mean, but that's no way that right there.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I'm gonna watch because I want to. I want to
see good Bone on that ship. Hello.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I'm saying though, but it's like I would like in
America if you think about it, like imagine a reality
show like you have your New York or your like
you know, I love New York stuff like that. But
major artists in America being on a reality show. It
sounds crazy to us, like I don't I wouldn't see that.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
I don't know, maybe like Big Brother. Yeah no, this
is it is like.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Big Brother, but in d R they don't care like
leans on it now, like all these big artists that
don't need this platform.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
No, I see it. I'm like, but get.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
You're in Hollywood antics.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It's like I want to go to you want to
Oh this clip definitely going up, but not like uh,
I kind of.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Just want to pop in like the way you know,
for like a day or so.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
I think she's on this season now.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Oh nah, like.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
I heard, Oh yeah, I think I did see her now.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
What I'm saying is like they don't care. They're like,
oh this is popping, this making money right now.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
But I saw like there's like an alternate house. I
was looking at it like when I'm on Young something.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I think thats just that I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yeah, it's like and I saw they were going.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
If I'm not mistake, I think even that's under the
like it's another house. They make money out there.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
They like, we're gonna get to this bad Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
You know the first prices of Ferrari, I don't know
if you know, like they're given a Ferrari with all those.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Poles and.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
You got to drive ten miles per hour you know,
you know that shy driving and yellow that roll.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, that's where that cars going, which is crazy, right,
Like we think of d R and we think like
third world country and like we're going over there compo logo.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I was just there like so much a month ago,
and I'm like at a pool club and I see
the Lambos and I see the range A MG here,
a m G there Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
I saw Louis Vaton. Listen are you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Joe said, was popping over there to you. Yeah, shout
out to my mother some hell. All her money was
real estate, mom and.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
And prop and so lot.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
They know about. Everyone got so love, you know, everybody.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Everybody got.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Somewhere that like you got fucking three four aunts and
uncles trying to contest. You gotta get tense signatures from
all the uncles, and everybody's getting. It's a whole to you.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
I want to thank you guys for coming up today,
sitting down with me, letting me in your space, getting
to know you, and allowing you know, our listeners to
get to know Plant and and you know, if you
haven't heard their music, I want you to run up
those numbers today. You said we only have four songs,
but stream them ships. Go to YouTube, watch the videos,
watch colors. Watch on the radar.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That's the homie Gabe.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Let's run up those numbers, you know, and they're creating
something that's for us, so we have to support it,
let's share it, and let's get behind them.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Man, that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
That's exactly how we got here, and that's how we're
going to keep building together community, like minded folks making
great music, just doing good things, just doing good stuff.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Man, Grassier's come again. Both of you.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Thank you, Honey, I appreciate you, Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Grassiers Come Again is a production of Honey German Productions
in partnership with IHEARTMCRO through the podcast network
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