February 27, 2026 • 18 mins
Jaydon stopped by the Cruz Show to talk about his new music, being co-signed by Usher & Chris Brown & so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Nice because you're inside put away?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You move? I know you did this? Go away?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He moves.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Even I'm gonna try.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I just tried. I'm doing. I should have been tied.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But and I like that, baby, I like that. Don't
baby here, we have the way here?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You just from me? Was I just love? Flame up?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lamed up? Going, never changed up? Changed up?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
On the Cruise show on Real ninety two three, Ja
Don is on the cruise.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, y'all kill What that means?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Intro by Nico Blitz? Right there, man, amen? Right right a, bro,
let's do it? Shall I say? Jay donn is back
on the cruise. You've been here man, been here for years?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What up? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What's up with you all? Good? Man? Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You got a crazy one out right now, I do.
Lullaby is out of here, bro, Hey man, it's going crazy.
God is great now for sure? Man and the mega situation.
Congratulations on that, yes sir? Right yo. So when I
hear a lot of stories of people signing with artists
like Usher and big names like that, right, was there
an auditioning process?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It wasn't really, but sometimes the artists have to perform
for the labels. Yeah, okay, I did that for sure.
Definitely did that a lot. So I met him when
I was a kid. Actually, I mel a reeg. When
I was a kid, I was like ten, and it
was just I'm just too young. And then I met
him again when I was sixteen, and uh, he kind
of still wasn't feeling me. And then I came back
(01:51):
maybe like a few months later, and he's seen it
and uh yeah, and his son brought me to him,
and then, uh, it was kind of easy from there.
Akong there that day, they was having a different meeting.
They was playing some music. I just walked in and
start dancing and let me just sit in the meeting.
I was cracking jokes. I was just having fun and
they was like, hey, man, you want.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
To record some songs.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I was like yeah, I recorded three songs that day
and knocked out and they just seen the work ethic man.
And I was just at the studio every day. Also, Yeah,
turned seventeen over there. I was there on my birthday.
Oh and yeah, and we had a bunch of meetings
with Apple and different people and I'll be dancing every meeting,
so you know, I think they just love my spirit
every meeting.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right, you gotta you gotta perform, right, you gotta you
gotta show them what you're made up. But on the
spot with no background dancers, no pyro, no no auto to,
none of that. It's just you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's just me, man.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, man, Yeah, that's what you gave him. Bro, that's
great man, congratulations, thank you. It takes it takes a
lot of work. You know you did The Lion King,
the live action with Beyonce John Favreau. Crazy, bro, at
what eight nine years old?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Nine years?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Nine years old? There's a lot of pressure. I don't
think you felt it throw you're nine.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I was nine, right, it's the Lion King. It's fun.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I'm getting paid. This is crazy. It's crazy, Yo,
that's wild. Man. What a situation. And never felt scared,
never felt I think I get the sense. And I've
been talking to you. I've been interviewing you since you
were a kid. You've always had this confidence about you, right,
and there's never any nerves. No, there's no nerves no.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think even more now nowadays, it's like I'm just
excited to get out there. And showing what I got,
like everybody looking, I'm ready now, you know what I mean?
So yeah, I don't think I'm really.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Does that come from your family? Because your family for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That definitely comes from my family.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The musical aspect my you know, the entertainment aspect of
me comes from my family, my dad's side, my mom's side,
for sure. But when it comes just to the confidence, man,
it's just preparations. Just now, you stay prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Bro. I saw you do the national anthem at so Far.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Bro oh man, we saw that the bro that was
crazy man than.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You, and then you were just kind of looking around
like that's it, like I want more? Like Yo, that's it,
Like that's all Like that's all y'all wanted, y'all know
that's what. That's what the vibe was like you just
you were you weren't happy, like you want you want more?
Oh yeah, you're ready to go, man, absolutely, that's right. Man.
What's up?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jack?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
What's that feeling like when you go and perform for
Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh it was crazy, super crazy Jennifer Hudson. Man, I
love they show.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I love their show and I was tunnel was crazy.
The tunnel was crazy, I think, which I think I
did too.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Much and everything.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
A lot of people need to do more with the
tunnels because sometimes people just be walking. I'm just like,
you gave us nothing, thank you so much, like I was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Trying to break them out a little bit. I don't
be reading the comments, so I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Good people get that away but that way. But most people,
well not most, but some people do shrug their way
through it.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
No, I have to do everything. I'm gonna start flying
next time I get there.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
That was a great time.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, so yeah, Jennifer Hesson was great, hospitality was on
a hundred. It was amazing, bro, Like, I want to
be back. I want to have an interview with them
with miss Hudson.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, that's right, that's right. Have you performed in front
of a small crowd three four or five people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think it starts there.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Huh it starts there.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It starts there? Right, Yeah, what's that like? Man, it's
mumbling obviously, but all good. You know, it's the beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean, even like when I was kind of like
on like, you know, still having different meetings and meeting people.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know, I still perform.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, it doesn't matter if it's one of one, two,
three thousand, you know, so it's it's all being true
to your craft. And you know, I think that builds
even more confidence. What's intimate? You really have to look
people in the eyes and be right there. No, that's right,
you know that's honestly harder. That is harder, for real,
that's all. That's very tough than performing in front of
fifty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For sure, because then you get to you get to
low key hide behind.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You know, you on the stage, you could move Brown
like look at everybody, like you're not really looking at somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're in their face when it's one on one, so
mm hm. You know that's harder to do when.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's five people. They're like, okay, let's see what you have.
What you got for all eyes all but thirteen eyes
on you or something like that whatever for na man, Yo,
your inspiration one of your inspirations to see Breezy Chris Brown. Obviously,
that's right. He showed love.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, he did. He did. Come bro he comedy
man coming on my page.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It's the comment that comment you read that woke me up.
I was like, oh, man, talk about it, breezy.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He show so much love, man, And honestly, it felt
like now I didn't feel like I kind of felt
like like the torch is yours almost. So you know,
I'm honored, bro, and and I'm glad that he's, you know,
paying attention. I actually got to meet him and speak
to him and all that. I want to hoop with him, man,
breeze cool, right, are you.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Trying to hoop with him?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You know he paints too. Man. You're from the valley, right,
you grew up seeing that all over.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I don't I don't do the graffiti thing, but I
do draw.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, we can. We can make some art, man, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That'd be crazy. Should he do the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes? Yeah, I don't know why that's controversy man, Right?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Chris what? Chris Brown is one of the greatest entertainers
to live ever, and you know, he's almost in that
legacy phase now. I feel like he you know, he's earned,
he's proven himself.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So it's like, why not to you, who's better him
or Michael That's crazy, bro, Chris Brown or Michael Jackson.
He looked at me, said, ah, you know, music is music,
(07:50):
You know music. You love them both. You love him,
you love him, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Have the opportunity to block the ship out of his
shot because you're much would.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You do that? If you guys are playing, can I
cut on your show? You're blocking the ship out of
his shide?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Come on like or not?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Get him out of here?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man? We're still competitive bro for sure? Right, No, just
you get like that with you know, I know you
you sat with Usher as well, right, and you're singing
in front of him as well, and you're you know,
is there is there a competitiveness there as well with anyone,
like anyone can get it?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, anybody can get it. But definitely yeah, definitely a competitiveness,
you know. He he hopped on the remix a lullaby, Yeah,
and the video I recorded my verse after his nice
nice nice Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Usher, that's the way to do it, dog, because you
don't want to get beat on yourn ship? Right man?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's Usher though, Bro?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Sure, bro, he got me regardless.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's a legend.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But I put my best foot out there, like, you know,
I show I showed my heart, show my heart tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Nah, you So there's a mentionship there too, right, what's
that like?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I have a real report with him, bro, He's like,
that's real, big bro uncle figure. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I caught him up the other day and just asking
him like, how you feeling about you know, my new
song and everything, how's it like my trajectory?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And he thinks I'm doing great?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And you know, I get to call him, I get
to really speak to him and you know, pick his brain,
spend time with him, spend time at his house, his kids.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You know, he's dope, bro, like real, real solid solid guy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Been through it too, Bro, been through it, you know
what I mean? So he knows, Yeah, absolutely, he can
give that advice and he knows exactly where where it's
going and where it's not going. I guess, right.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So I try to ask him as many questions as
I can, smart.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Bro me my songs out now. The tape is crazy, bro,
Boo Baby's crazy Lullaby. It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Thank you, bro?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know the way you move last track on the
joint like that?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, man? What was that process like creating that? These
songs you already had or did you? These are all.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Fresh, h all fresh they are fresh, probably about a
year's worth of work. They all fresh, I think, uh man,
it was it was. It was a little process making
all of them. You know, it was my first time
being in the studio day and day out every day
for months.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I was.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I was in the studio every day for maybe about
no exaggeration, like twelve thirteen hours every day for like
like four or five months, just making music and just
you know, experimenting, trying new things, trying to create and uh,
just trying to hone it on my craft. But you know,
it comes from the heart. You know, a lot of
that music, and especially I think my one of my
favorites right now is brand New.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I just I can't get out my hair. I
love Randon.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It comes from a real place, and it's kind of,
you know, based off of you know girl, you know
real When I it, I think about the girl, like
that's right, it's really happened.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This really happened.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I ain't gonna give her no cloud, nah, no, no, nah.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Does she know?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Mmmmm hmm, I don't know. Do you know she probably
watch't you know, Yeah, she knows for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Don't hate me now, very personal sounds very personal.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Sounds very personal that one. Yeah, it sounds real personal.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I co wrote on that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know that one was really like more of a
It was presented to me, like what you think about this,
and it felt like it really fits what was going
on in my life.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So it's like, that's right. Yeah, even when it's presented,
you still have to view it and you know it's
got to it's got to resonate with you, right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, shout out for sure. He really pinned out on
that for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What's the writing process like for you? Writing process? You know,
it keeps evolving. Man, The writing process is just I
like to work with a lot of different co writers.
But you know, now I really found my team, you know,
Mike J Black, Tuxedo, Harror, Felicia.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's my real that's my core team right there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's right, And uh, it's kind of it varies every day,
you know, but we'll find like an inspiration, Like I'll
maybe be listening to somebody's album or you know, feel
nostalgic one day and I'll be like, Okay, this is
the type of vibe I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To be on.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Or maybe they'll have a vision or idea and we'll
make a beat off of that or track off of that,
and you know what, kind of just bounce around ideas
and think about different concepts, and you know, we're trying
to think big. I really want to think big with
this next project that I'm coming out with, or any
other singles that I want to drop, well, I want
you know, I want that Bruno Mars that that real,
you know, crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Concepts that would a smile, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Does you and your team do you guys like write
down lyrics or do you just kind of go in
and just start doing riffs. One by myself, I kind
of just go down, just do riffs and uh, I
just find it on the way. But when I'm with
other people, I write out. You know, I look keepy
taking a back seat at first, you know, I just
run down my little nuts and let them let them work,
and then I'll be like, okay, what y'all think about this?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And then I kind of take the lead. But I
do a lot of my like melodies, you know, but
when it comes to all the A libs, I do
the abs. That's me.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Me.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, my way. I got my way.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Whose album or song last inspired you? Would you say.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Whose album song last inspired me? I listened to so
many people. Whose album or song album? Uh? I think Tyler?
Tyler chromocobea a really love album. That's one album that
I that I can't stop playing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I love the concept.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, it's really dope, really dope visually too. Yeah, yeah
for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Nah, that's right, absolutely yeah, absolutely want to work with Tyler. Man, Tyler,
hit me up, broh me bro high leve bro.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I'm right here, man, that's fright. What we're gonna do, Man,
what we're gonna do? Man, tell me what we're gonna do. Man,
We're gonna work.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Man, we're gonna work. We're gonna make some magic. Bro
for real eight TM young you know I got that
young fresh mind you know taping with me?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Bro? Yeah, you know man, that gen z mind. You
feel me for sure?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Man, you can't catch youth. You know it's me. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's me. It's me yo. Or notes say that you
can make a fire breakfast breed on Ramen? Is that
from like being homeschooled? Because you're stuck at home, you
gotta cook for yourself. You gotta make for yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right, Hey, to be honest, like with the cooking day,
I can't. I'm not a chepherd, you know what I'm saying.
I still live at home. My mom cooks, that's right,
my dad cooks. It's good. It's good.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Nah, bro, stay home and stack bro.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I'm cold with the.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Ramen though, for real though, like yeah, yeah, my brother
can cook too. You put me on you tell me
put the little limon pepper salt, limon pepper salt.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, like egging it home. I'm cold with the ramen.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
For what else could he do? Jack to the ramen
to spice things up?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
There's some green onions, there's you gotta always like add
a little razzle dazzle on top. Y'all got to make
it pretty. I feel like, yeah, as long as you know.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Jail that survival dog, jail. Sometimes you got to eat
that way to survive dog. You feel me.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Hey, man, you're like my mom cooks.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'll be okay. You live with your parents, right, and
that's saying there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Something.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Man, you're young and you're building right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Building and contributing, so you know, so since you live with.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Your parents' mom regulated still when you come back home
from studios, uh, like she wants you back at time.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, she'd be texting me like, Okay, you got something
to do in the morning, it's three am.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Come home.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But you know, a lot of the time is she cool?
You know, I call him like, what's upon you? Hear something?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The song in Just think it's cool. All right, I'm
gonna be here for a little longer. But now she's good.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
You know. I like how you change your voice with
your mom on the phone.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
That's bro. Bro, you You've always sang on the spot,
not asking you to sing, but that's something that you
can do that not a lot of people can do,
especially these days. An R and B is has this
like has this turn. I think this wave right now,
that's that that is giving people that maybe that nostalgic
vibe right that R and B is not coming back
(16:29):
because it's been here, but that R and B is
is showing itself once again. I think that's I think
that's important to say, right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes sir, yes sir, and uh yeah, I'm here. I'm
here to lead it. You know, I want to I
want to innovate R and B and and really keep it,
you know, thriving. Because I feel like, like I've said
this before the stigma of what's going on nowadays with
young artists, R and B artists or just artists in general,
it's like they're not really putting their neck out there
and and performing and really uh, you know, true to
(16:58):
the music.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So I want to break that. You know, some people
are like, hey, I'm really about this.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah right. I think Flamed Up proves that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, man, I think so too. I think y'all should
I'll go listen to that, check out a video and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, man, let him know. Yeah, yeah, I'll be good
as well, Yes, sir, Yeah, Okay, that's right, Troy. Yeah, Radio,
you're in good hands. Man.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Shout out the shout out the tray man said, you
haven't here, bro.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah. Every artist he pulls up with it just goes
on to do some amazing things. Man, Man, feel me, man.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yes, sir, Hey, I'm gonna make sure I keep that going,
you do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, that's right, so yo, Jay, don me my songs
out now. The tape is crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You know, you're you're traveling, you're doing a lot of work.
I'm sure we're already focused or maybe thinking about the
next project, maybe putting that together.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah right, I ain't gonna speak going too much we can't,
but definitely got a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yo, this is jay Don.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
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Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Nice because you're inside put away?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You move? I know you did this? Go away?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
He moves.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Even I'm gonna try.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I just tried. I'm doing. I should have been tied.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But and I like that, baby, I like that. Don't
baby here, we have the way here?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You just from me? Was I just love? Flame up?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lamed up? Going, never changed up? Changed up?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
On the Cruise show on Real ninety two three, Ja
Don is on the cruise.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Hey, y'all kill What that means?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Man?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Intro by Nico Blitz? Right there, man, amen? Right right a, bro,
let's do it? Shall I say? Jay donn is back
on the cruise. You've been here man, been here for years?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What up? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
What's up with you all? Good? Man? Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You got a crazy one out right now, I do.
Lullaby is out of here, bro, Hey man, it's going crazy.
God is great now for sure? Man and the mega situation.
Congratulations on that, yes sir? Right yo. So when I
hear a lot of stories of people signing with artists
like Usher and big names like that, right, was there
an auditioning process?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It wasn't really, but sometimes the artists have to perform
for the labels. Yeah, okay, I did that for sure.
Definitely did that a lot. So I met him when
I was a kid. Actually, I mel a reeg. When
I was a kid, I was like ten, and it
was just I'm just too young. And then I met
him again when I was sixteen, and uh, he kind
of still wasn't feeling me. And then I came back
(01:51):
maybe like a few months later, and he's seen it
and uh yeah, and his son brought me to him,
and then, uh, it was kind of easy from there.
Akong there that day, they was having a different meeting.
They was playing some music. I just walked in and
start dancing and let me just sit in the meeting.
I was cracking jokes. I was just having fun and
they was like, hey, man, you want.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
To record some songs.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I was like yeah, I recorded three songs that day
and knocked out and they just seen the work ethic man.
And I was just at the studio every day. Also, Yeah,
turned seventeen over there. I was there on my birthday.
Oh and yeah, and we had a bunch of meetings
with Apple and different people and I'll be dancing every meeting,
so you know, I think they just love my spirit
every meeting.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right, you gotta you gotta perform, right, you gotta you
gotta show them what you're made up. But on the
spot with no background dancers, no pyro, no no auto to,
none of that. It's just you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's just me, man.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, man, Yeah, that's what you gave him. Bro, that's
great man, congratulations, thank you. It takes it takes a
lot of work. You know you did The Lion King,
the live action with Beyonce John Favreau. Crazy, bro, at
what eight nine years old?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Nine years?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Nine years old? There's a lot of pressure. I don't
think you felt it throw you're nine.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I was nine, right, it's the Lion King. It's fun.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I'm getting paid. This is crazy. It's crazy, Yo,
that's wild. Man. What a situation. And never felt scared,
never felt I think I get the sense. And I've
been talking to you. I've been interviewing you since you
were a kid. You've always had this confidence about you, right,
and there's never any nerves. No, there's no nerves no.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think even more now nowadays, it's like I'm just
excited to get out there. And showing what I got,
like everybody looking, I'm ready now, you know what I mean?
So yeah, I don't think I'm really.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Does that come from your family? Because your family for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That definitely comes from my family.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The musical aspect my you know, the entertainment aspect of
me comes from my family, my dad's side, my mom's side,
for sure. But when it comes just to the confidence, man,
it's just preparations. Just now, you stay prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Bro. I saw you do the national anthem at so Far.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Bro oh man, we saw that the bro that was
crazy man than.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You, and then you were just kind of looking around
like that's it, like I want more? Like Yo, that's it,
Like that's all Like that's all y'all wanted, y'all know
that's what. That's what the vibe was like you just
you were you weren't happy, like you want you want more?
Oh yeah, you're ready to go, man, absolutely, that's right. Man.
What's up?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jack?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
What's that feeling like when you go and perform for
Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh it was crazy, super crazy Jennifer Hudson. Man, I
love they show.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I love their show and I was tunnel was crazy.
The tunnel was crazy, I think, which I think I
did too.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Much and everything.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
A lot of people need to do more with the
tunnels because sometimes people just be walking. I'm just like,
you gave us nothing, thank you so much, like I was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Trying to break them out a little bit. I don't
be reading the comments, so I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Good people get that away but that way. But most people,
well not most, but some people do shrug their way
through it.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
No, I have to do everything. I'm gonna start flying
next time I get there.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
That was a great time.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, so yeah, Jennifer Hesson was great, hospitality was on
a hundred. It was amazing, bro, Like, I want to
be back. I want to have an interview with them
with miss Hudson.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, that's right, that's right. Have you performed in front
of a small crowd three four or five people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think it starts there.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Huh it starts there.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It starts there? Right, Yeah, what's that like? Man, it's
mumbling obviously, but all good. You know, it's the beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I mean, even like when I was kind of like
on like, you know, still having different meetings and meeting people.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know, I still perform.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, it doesn't matter if it's one of one, two,
three thousand, you know, so it's it's all being true
to your craft. And you know, I think that builds
even more confidence. What's intimate? You really have to look
people in the eyes and be right there. No, that's right,
you know that's honestly harder. That is harder, for real,
that's all. That's very tough than performing in front of
fifty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
For sure, because then you get to you get to
low key hide behind.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You know, you on the stage, you could move Brown
like look at everybody, like you're not really looking at somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're in their face when it's one on one, so
mm hm. You know that's harder to do when.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's five people. They're like, okay, let's see what you have.
What you got for all eyes all but thirteen eyes
on you or something like that whatever for na man, Yo,
your inspiration one of your inspirations to see Breezy Chris Brown. Obviously,
that's right. He showed love.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, he did. He did. Come bro he comedy
man coming on my page.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It's the comment that comment you read that woke me up.
I was like, oh, man, talk about it, breezy.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He show so much love, man, And honestly, it felt
like now I didn't feel like I kind of felt
like like the torch is yours almost. So you know,
I'm honored, bro, and and I'm glad that he's, you know,
paying attention. I actually got to meet him and speak
to him and all that. I want to hoop with him, man,
breeze cool, right, are you.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Trying to hoop with him?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
You know he paints too. Man. You're from the valley, right,
you grew up seeing that all over.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I don't I don't do the graffiti thing, but I
do draw.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, we can. We can make some art, man, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That'd be crazy. Should he do the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes? Yeah, I don't know why that's controversy man, Right?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Chris what? Chris Brown is one of the greatest entertainers
to live ever, and you know, he's almost in that
legacy phase now. I feel like he you know, he's earned,
he's proven himself.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So it's like, why not to you, who's better him
or Michael That's crazy, bro, Chris Brown or Michael Jackson.
He looked at me, said, ah, you know, music is music,
(07:50):
You know music. You love them both. You love him,
you love him, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Have the opportunity to block the ship out of his
shot because you're much would.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You do that? If you guys are playing, can I
cut on your show? You're blocking the ship out of
his shide?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Come on like or not?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Get him out of here?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man? We're still competitive bro for sure? Right, No, just
you get like that with you know, I know you
you sat with Usher as well, right, and you're singing
in front of him as well, and you're you know,
is there is there a competitiveness there as well with anyone,
like anyone can get it?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, anybody can get it. But definitely yeah, definitely a competitiveness,
you know. He he hopped on the remix a lullaby, Yeah,
and the video I recorded my verse after his nice
nice nice Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Usher, that's the way to do it, dog, because you
don't want to get beat on yourn ship? Right man?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's Usher though, Bro?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Sure, bro, he got me regardless.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's a legend.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But I put my best foot out there, like, you know,
I show I showed my heart, show my heart tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Nah, you So there's a mentionship there too, right, what's
that like?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I have a real report with him, bro, He's like,
that's real, big bro uncle figure. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I caught him up the other day and just asking
him like, how you feeling about you know, my new
song and everything, how's it like my trajectory?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And he thinks I'm doing great?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And you know, I get to call him, I get
to really speak to him and you know, pick his brain,
spend time with him, spend time at his house, his kids.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You know, he's dope, bro, like real, real solid solid guy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Been through it too, Bro, been through it, you know
what I mean? So he knows, Yeah, absolutely, he can
give that advice and he knows exactly where where it's
going and where it's not going. I guess, right.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So I try to ask him as many questions as
I can, smart.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Bro me my songs out now. The tape is crazy, bro,
Boo Baby's crazy Lullaby. It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Thank you, bro?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know the way you move last track on the
joint like that?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, man? What was that process like creating that? These
songs you already had or did you? These are all.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Fresh, h all fresh they are fresh, probably about a
year's worth of work. They all fresh, I think, uh man,
it was it was. It was a little process making
all of them. You know, it was my first time
being in the studio day and day out every day
for months.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I was.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I was in the studio every day for maybe about
no exaggeration, like twelve thirteen hours every day for like
like four or five months, just making music and just
you know, experimenting, trying new things, trying to create and uh,
just trying to hone it on my craft. But you know,
it comes from the heart. You know, a lot of
that music, and especially I think my one of my
favorites right now is brand New.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I just I can't get out my hair. I
love Randon.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It comes from a real place, and it's kind of,
you know, based off of you know girl, you know
real When I it, I think about the girl, like
that's right, it's really happened.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This really happened.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I ain't gonna give her no cloud, nah, no, no, nah.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Does she know?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Mmmmm hmm, I don't know. Do you know she probably
watch't you know, Yeah, she knows for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Don't hate me now, very personal sounds very personal.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Sounds very personal that one. Yeah, it sounds real personal.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I co wrote on that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You know that one was really like more of a
It was presented to me, like what you think about this,
and it felt like it really fits what was going
on in my life.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So it's like, that's right. Yeah, even when it's presented,
you still have to view it and you know it's
got to it's got to resonate with you, right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, shout out for sure. He really pinned out on
that for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What's the writing process like for you? Writing process? You know,
it keeps evolving. Man, The writing process is just I
like to work with a lot of different co writers.
But you know, now I really found my team, you know,
Mike J Black, Tuxedo, Harror, Felicia.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's my real that's my core team right there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's right, And uh, it's kind of it varies every day,
you know, but we'll find like an inspiration, Like I'll
maybe be listening to somebody's album or you know, feel
nostalgic one day and I'll be like, Okay, this is
the type of vibe I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
To be on.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Or maybe they'll have a vision or idea and we'll
make a beat off of that or track off of that,
and you know what, kind of just bounce around ideas
and think about different concepts, and you know, we're trying
to think big. I really want to think big with
this next project that I'm coming out with, or any
other singles that I want to drop, well, I want
you know, I want that Bruno Mars that that real,
you know, crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Concepts that would a smile, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Does you and your team do you guys like write
down lyrics or do you just kind of go in
and just start doing riffs. One by myself, I kind
of just go down, just do riffs and uh, I
just find it on the way. But when I'm with
other people, I write out. You know, I look keepy
taking a back seat at first, you know, I just
run down my little nuts and let them let them work,
and then I'll be like, okay, what y'all think about this?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And then I kind of take the lead. But I
do a lot of my like melodies, you know, but
when it comes to all the A libs, I do
the abs. That's me.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Me.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, my way. I got my way.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Whose album or song last inspired you? Would you say.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Whose album song last inspired me? I listened to so
many people. Whose album or song album? Uh? I think Tyler?
Tyler chromocobea a really love album. That's one album that
I that I can't stop playing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I love the concept.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, it's really dope, really dope visually too. Yeah, yeah
for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Nah, that's right, absolutely yeah, absolutely want to work with Tyler. Man, Tyler,
hit me up, broh me bro high leve bro.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I'm right here, man, that's fright. What we're gonna do, Man,
what we're gonna do? Man, tell me what we're gonna do. Man,
We're gonna work.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Man, we're gonna work. We're gonna make some magic. Bro
for real eight TM young you know I got that
young fresh mind you know taping with me?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Bro? Yeah, you know man, that gen z mind. You
feel me for sure?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Man, you can't catch youth. You know it's me. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's me. It's me yo. Or notes say that you
can make a fire breakfast breed on Ramen? Is that
from like being homeschooled? Because you're stuck at home, you
gotta cook for yourself. You gotta make for yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right, Hey, to be honest, like with the cooking day,
I can't. I'm not a chepherd, you know what I'm saying.
I still live at home. My mom cooks, that's right,
my dad cooks. It's good. It's good.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Nah, bro, stay home and stack bro.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I'm cold with the.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Ramen though, for real though, like yeah, yeah, my brother
can cook too. You put me on you tell me
put the little limon pepper salt, limon pepper salt.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, like egging it home. I'm cold with the ramen.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
For what else could he do? Jack to the ramen
to spice things up?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
There's some green onions, there's you gotta always like add
a little razzle dazzle on top. Y'all got to make
it pretty. I feel like, yeah, as long as you know.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Jail that survival dog, jail. Sometimes you got to eat
that way to survive dog. You feel me.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Hey, man, you're like my mom cooks.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'll be okay. You live with your parents, right, and
that's saying there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Something.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Man, you're young and you're building right.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Building and contributing, so you know, so since you live with.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Your parents' mom regulated still when you come back home
from studios, uh, like she wants you back at time.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, she'd be texting me like, Okay, you got something
to do in the morning, it's three am.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Come home.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But you know, a lot of the time is she cool?
You know, I call him like, what's upon you? Hear something?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The song in Just think it's cool. All right, I'm
gonna be here for a little longer. But now she's good.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
You know. I like how you change your voice with
your mom on the phone.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
That's bro. Bro, you You've always sang on the spot,
not asking you to sing, but that's something that you
can do that not a lot of people can do,
especially these days. An R and B is has this
like has this turn. I think this wave right now,
that's that that is giving people that maybe that nostalgic
vibe right that R and B is not coming back
(16:29):
because it's been here, but that R and B is
is showing itself once again. I think that's I think
that's important to say, right.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes sir, yes sir, and uh yeah, I'm here. I'm
here to lead it. You know, I want to I
want to innovate R and B and and really keep it,
you know, thriving. Because I feel like, like I've said
this before the stigma of what's going on nowadays with
young artists, R and B artists or just artists in general,
it's like they're not really putting their neck out there
and and performing and really uh, you know, true to
(16:58):
the music.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So I want to break that. You know, some people
are like, hey, I'm really about this.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah right. I think Flamed Up proves that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, man, I think so too. I think y'all should
I'll go listen to that, check out a video and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No, man, let him know. Yeah, yeah, I'll be good
as well, Yes, sir, Yeah, Okay, that's right, Troy. Yeah, Radio,
you're in good hands. Man.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Shout out the shout out the tray man said, you
haven't here, bro.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah. Every artist he pulls up with it just goes
on to do some amazing things. Man, Man, feel me, man.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yes, sir, Hey, I'm gonna make sure I keep that going,
you do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, that's right, so yo, Jay, don me my songs
out now. The tape is crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
You know, you're you're traveling, you're doing a lot of work.
I'm sure we're already focused or maybe thinking about the
next project, maybe putting that together.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah right, I ain't gonna speak going too much we can't,
but definitely got a lot of noise.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yo, this is jay Don.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
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