November 8, 2022 • 33 mins
On this episode of Off the Record, Dannie features Terry Fox, known to those in the music industry as P.L. for his rapping and composing skills. P.L, an Ann Arbor native, is the voice of every Detroit Lions kickoff video viewed by thousands inside Ford Field on game days. You might recognize his work from NFL Network and his classic hit song, "In the Zone."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Off the Record, I'm featuring Terry Fox,
known to those in the music industry as p L
for his rapping and composing skills. PL, and inn Arbor
native is the voice of every Detroit Lions kickoff video
viewed by thousands inside Ford Field on game days. You
might recognize his work from NFL Network and his classic
hit song in the Zone. This is PL story. I
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am joined by a very special guest in the studio today. PL.
Do we tell people your actual name? Uh? Yeah, My
real name is Terry Fox. Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know,
even I feel like some like a playoff of Fox
would have been a great Fox. That is the rapper name.
How did you come to PL? I came to PL
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because I used to rap at a day camp and
one of the administer administrators or whoever supervisors, he uh,
he used to make me rap in front of people,
like this kid can really rap, and how he raps,
how he describes things, It's like a punchline. So he
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was like, you should call yourself punch lines. And I'm like,
that's too long. Like and I just always associate names
with like winning a Grammy and if you can't hear
it like if it doesn't sound right, if they amounted,
you don't use it. And I just was thinking, like
the winner is punch lines. Now that's whack. So I
just said, pl that's hilarious. Okay. I'm glad we got
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to that. For the Detroit Lines fans who might not
recognize your face yet, you'll definitely recognize his voice if
you're there on game day in ford Field. So I'm
gonna play a snippit because it's just the best way
to introduce you. Awesome, so good, ye know what's good?
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So good? It's show time. Do you rememberize all of this?
I remember this one for sure. This was big. Okay.
So you wrote, produced, edited the whole thing. Yeah, yeah,
well I didn't produce the beat. As far as the beat,
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the Olympics did. Those are really good friends of mine.
Their producers Grammy Award, our Grammy nominated Platinum producers. They're amazing.
They're from Michigan. UM shout out Knoxville and JA. Yeah,
they cooked that up for me. We sampled some stuff
and went to work. So this is your first year
with the Lions. Yes you have you gone to game
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jays and have you been able to hear. Yeah, no listen.
Uh shout out to Jeremy Smoker too, he helped make
it happen. Um in DJ ray But yeah yeah first day,
opening day, Uh, like it was amazing, you know what
I'm saying just seeing that on the on the big screen.
I was definitely in the building and watching the fans react,
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you know, like like genuinely saying like Yo, we're excited,
and the players are on the field as it's happening. Amazing.
It just it just feels like Detroit when you hear
something like that. Didn't drop off that music, It just
feels like Detroit and you're from it in our worst
just down the street. Yeah. Song composer rapper Terry pl Flox, Yeah, Okay,
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how did you get started in this business? Um? So
as far as sports music, UM, I had already been rapping,
like you know, just making music and trying to trying
to win like everybody else. And um, the competition aspect
was cool, but it was just like getting a little
too crazy for me, you know, just the politics and
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I just wasn't happy with it. So, um, I just
started making sports music. Like I just felt like so
attached to sports, you know, I always played sports when
I was a kid. But in twenty eleven, it was
a song that I made called in the Zone, and
I tried to make it for the NBA two K
soundtrack and yeah, yeah. It was a huge competition, so like, um,
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it was like a record label that linked up with
two K Sports and basically they just dropped a beat
and they said, uh, you know, rap on it and
talk about the game, and whoever has the top I
think it was like top ten or top five songs
they would vote on them. So I made the top ten.
And what's crazy is and this is this is nuts.
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You won't believe this. I made the top ten, but
at first I didn't, And so I'm looking for my
name and all I see is in the Zone but
it's a different rapper. So I click on it and
it's my song. But somebody stole it and they're doing
their pl impression and they made the top ten though,
so I'm like, yo, what do I do. I'm talking
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to my team. We're like, man, we gotta email. So
they just hurt. So when at the beginning of the competition,
you could just submit your songs and you could listen
to everybody's song until the deadline. Yeah. Yeah, So he
just listened to my song and then re recorded and
submitted it, and then when the deadline happened, they picked,
and they picked him over me. And I'm no original,
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so I guess he did better than me. But I
emailed them call, did everything I could, and they switched it.
I proved to them that I made the song. I
had the song in pro tools and pro tools, I
had the whole session everything, so they switched it. I
made the top ten, then the top five, then its
top three, and it was just voting at that point.
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You just reach out to your fans and say vote
as many times as you can. And I didn't win.
But luckily I didn't win because I just put the
song out. Me and my homie, Alex Kressovitch. He's who
made the he's the producer for that that song in
his own and it's got like over twenty million views
on YouTube and Apple Music and Spotify, all of that
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can combined. It's like over twenty million views. What else
the type in pl in his zone, Oh my gosh.
And that was a huge blessing because if the song
would have got picked, I'm sure it would have been
it would have been on point, but like it's it's
crazy now. It's my it's my most successful song ever,
and it was. It was a wird decade ago. Yeah,
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for sure, for sure. Yeah. So that's how I got
started with sports music. Honestly, in twenty eleven. Oh m okay,
I want to hear this. This is that's it. Shout out,
Alex Kresovich. Man, that's my homies to stop me. I'm
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in the league of I made that in my closet. Legit.
I gotta get the echo out. Oh my gosh, yeah yeah,
and just yeah, this dude from Baltimore. Um, shout out
to the Ravens. This dude from Baltimore. I forgot his name.
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I would totally say his name because that was so crazy.
I forgot his name. Crazy yeah, stole the whole song
and got picked Danny. Okay. The first comment that comes
off on here is I still feel sad because the
song did not win the two K soundtrack Contact. I
was so bummed when it was not included in the game.
Amazing song even after all these long years. Isn't that crazy?
And people still go to it? It gets streamed so
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much like right now, like legit. It's probably like I
can actually check Spotify and it's probably like forty five
people listening to it right now. Or and you haven't
found another home for it. There hasn't been another home
for it. Um, I mean it gets licensed. Yeah yeah,
so I licensed it all the time, Me and Alex
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licensed it to like, uh, you know, organizations, teams. Yeah, yeah,
all of that. So yeah, it's still living for sure.
So I love the Michigan tattoo you have on your hand.
Oh yeah, am I one hundred to lie die? That
is my school. I love it. Okay, So talk to
us about your journey. I know you didn't go to Michigan,
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So what was your journey of coming up after high
school all of that before you took on rapping as
a full career. Yeah. No, So I grew up on
the west side of ann Arbor on Pauline. It's literally
like five minutes from the big Housetown. No, No, Carrytown
is like downtown areas, So west side it's like literally
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like right by the stadium, like literally right by the
stadium down the street. So if you take Stadium, you're
running to Pauline. Okay, that's the street that I grew
up on and um, I always love music, all types
of music too, literally, like you know, from like Tupac
to Michael Franks to Queen to Biggie like everybody. And
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I recognized early like that sports and music were like synonymous.
I will always you know, being like the yard throwing
a ball up in the air, but like kind of
like singing a song that I would hear on a
replay or something, because I just always like associated sports
and music together, and you know, just growing up, I
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played basketball a lot, but it was something that you know,
I wasn't good enough for, like for like D one college,
and I wanted to do it big, so I just
started rapping and I took it more serious when I
got out of high school. I went to Pioneer High School.
And when I got out of high school, college really
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wasn't on my radar, you know what I'm saying. I
didn't have the money, and I just didn't think it
would work out. But I knew I would do something.
So immediately, me and my friend drove to New York
and we went to audition for a show called one
or Six in parting Freestyle Friday, and I did like
five weeks on there, I just went crazy. Every week
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I would win and things would get bigger as far
as my music here. So when I got back after
I finally lost, I was on fire and I made
a song called Fresher than You, and uh it was
on the radio for a very long time in Detroit
or where. Yeah, yeah, in Detroit. Yeah, I would always come, yeah,
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fresher than you, pl fresher than you. D e n
y o U. But uh, man, it was on the
radio like DJ Kalett used to spend it in Miami
and you know he would yeah right yeah, yeah when
I was in Now a lot of that stuff isn't online.
They took that off the copyright reasons and the show
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doesn't exist anymore. But I'll get you some footage of that,
like my best week. It was exactly what that was,
you know what. Yeah, shout out than Neil, Neil, Neil,
know what's up? Look at me too, terrible baby face,
that's fresher than you produced the Olympics. Man, that song
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went so crazy. That was before social media too, like
for real, you know, like, and the song went so
crazy on on radio, especially Detroit radio, and into radio. Well,
I met a dude named DJ Mobats, which is a
really good friend of mine. That's Big Sean's DJ, and uh,
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we were super tight and Mobats worked at the radio station,
so he was like, come on, you know what I'm saying.
It introduced me to everybody at the radio station, and uh,
a lot of those DJs messed with that song and
they kind of rocked with me and pulled me under
the wing. So I went on a little run with that,
and Uh, I made fresher than you I made. I'm single. Um,
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I made a lot of songs that were on radio
and Uh, like I said, it was just a lot
of competition and it still is. And um, it was
just something that I wasn't feeling because I just wanted
I wanted to make music that people could feel. I
didn't want it. I didn't want to, you know, be
for getting to too much competition or you know, getting
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to jealousy or any of that. And so I kept
I kept working, but I slowly kind of leaned over
to like, you know, more positive music, sports music, if
you will. And I got a call from a really
good friend of mine named Drew who works for the
NFL network and we used to work together in ann
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Arbor at a at a clothing store that my homie
owns called Motivation, and so Drew called me. But before
he called me, he used to he used to hit
me on Facebook, and I got two Facebook accounts because
I think it's like a five hundred thousand I mean
a five thousand friend limit or something. So Drew was
hitting me, but I wasn't answering the message because I
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didn't see it. And he was like, Yo, I have
been hitting you forever, and I want to see if
you can make some music for the NFL network. And
I'm like what, Like, are you serious? He was like yeah,
nothing big though, no promises, just two songs. We just
want to see if you could do something. I think
it was for like NFL game day or something. So
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I made like five songs, stayed up all night, cooked
those songs up in one night. Yeah. Yeah, I've always
had like a studio in my house as you can
see from in his zone. So he hit me back
the next day and was just like yo, like we're
blown away, pl and he was just like, do you
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think you could do Thursday night football but for the
whole season? Like could you make that much music? At
that at that type of rate, and I said what yeah,
And at that time, like my setup was terrible. You know,
it might have been like this, but I'm holding it.
It sounded terrible, and I just needed that opportunity. So
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I just said yes. And I wasn't really sure, Danny,
you know what I'm saying, like, but you you know,
like when the opportunity comes, you gotta take it. So
I said yeah. And my father he was like Dyana
cancer at the time, right, And so my father he
just told me, like, yo, I'm gonna help you when
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I passed. And as soon as my father passed, man,
I had like ten thousand dollars on my bank account
and it was for a music loan, but I didn't
think I was gonna get the loan. So I got
this NFL network play on the table. I got a
terrible setup of equipment, but ten thousand dollars just hit
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my bank account. I buy everything I need as far
as studio equipment, and I start cooking up for the season.
As the season's going by, I'm getting so much praise
from the NFL network. They're like, yo, like you're killing this,
and I'm like, I appreciate it. Drew's like, yeah, that's
my boy, You're making me look good. Thank you pl
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And I'm like, thank you, Drew. And by the end
of the season, I think I was signed for the
next year, and I also did training camp, and then
that turned into me doing the playoffs, and then that
turned into me doing Super Bowl anthems, and then that
turned into me doing NFL one hundred, which was like
almost thirty songs. Dion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, you know, everybody,
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Ray Lewis like it was crazy. And that turned into me,
you know, doing like songs for the NFL combine this year,
and then the Pistons would reach out and you know,
they were like, yo, we want you to do um
a tip off song, you know, and then that turned
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into you know, the NBA doing something for the China
Games and just a big, you know, snowball effect. But
it's such a blessing though, because it all started with
with that call from Drew, you know, from the NFL network. Yeah,
Miss Faith, I'm terrible with that, right, horrible, But I'm
better because of that now. Yeah. I check everything every
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day as soon as I wake up, I'm checking Twitter, uh, Snapchat, everything,
you know, because because anything could happen from that, but
uh yeah that's pretty much how it how it happened.
And then you know, just leading into the Lions, Um,
Jeremy Smoker reached out to me and DJ Ray as well,
and that was even just like yo, we're not sure
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what we want to do, but we want to work,
you know, And um I cooked up pretty quick for that,
for that that kickoff song. But a lot of people
don't know that. Um, some of the chants that you
hear in the stadium were written by me, you know,
for the season. Uh I let I let y'all just
figure that out. But I'm going to think about all that.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, that's good. I need you to do that.
But uh yeah, so so chance. Um cheerleaders songs like
you know what I'm saying, just even even stuff that
you'll hear from cheerleaders or or you know on social
you know, it's stuff that I worked on. And the
reason I'm being vague with that is because that's something
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that I have a passion for and I don't want
to I don't want to just kind of like zoom
in on one thing because I do so much more
than just rap you know. Um, but yeah, I've been
working on that side of music too, kind of just
like amuser director type role to where I'm just kind
of like, you know, having some input. You know. I
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think this would make the crowd move because as a kid,
I knew what made me move, you know. So yeah,
it seems like all of those opportunities have been like
pretty sustainable for you though. Yeah. Yeah, huge blessings though,
huge blessings. And and like I told you, um, there's moments,
and I always make sure I thank people who create
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those moments for me because I'm literally swinging from tree
to tree like like this Lions thing is gonna help
me do something else, you know. And the Pistons thing
help me do something in the NFL network thing. And
and I didn't even tell you about, you know, the
music that I make for your school, Like you know,
I make tons of music for Michigan football. Yeah, and
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I narrate for them as well, you know, So like social,
what don't you do the question? You know? Um, I
don't know. We'll find out, but no, for real, like
I think that I could do a lot. You know.
It starts with faith, and it starts with confidence in yourself,
you know what I'm saying. But it also starts with
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with just doing in repetition. I put so many hours
into this, you know what I'm saying. And I don't
say that lightly, Like I really work really hard, you know. Um,
And I pray and uh, I just keep the faith,
you know what I'm saying. I keep the faith. And
I get emotional thinking about that, because, like I told you,
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it's been so long for me, you know, like it's
been such a journey and I'm not I'm not there yet,
and and and this is the only lane that that
that I feel that I've created and nobody else is in.
I agree, I think you've carved out your own path.
How long would you say the career roup has been
for you? Uh, I say probably probably twenty years. Yeah, yeah,
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easily though you know a lot of the big things
coming on the second half of that. Yeah, I mean, honestly,
like big things happen when when you prepare for big things,
you know, a lot of big things have to happen,
Like like even when you graduated, Like that's huge for
you to graduate from from Michigan, right, you know, but
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you pay dues and then you go worka more dudes. Yeah,
you go work for a college team or and then
you know, you get the call from the Lions and
they they're telling you like, yo, we're ready for you
and you come back home. Oh that's big. Think about
how big graduating felt, you know what I'm saying. So
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I just feel like, man, as you keep going, you
just got to keep preparing for those big things. This
is big for me. Yeah, I've never had this opportunity,
like this type of opportunity and this platform to talk
about everything that I've been through on my journey. And
this is a big platform. This is a huge platform.
So yeah, I appreciate it. Stut trade line, social media. Man,
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what huge platform, huge platform. Shout out to Lauren too,
Lauren our girl, Yellow Scorpion a birthday coming up. Shout
out to Lauren. She rocks it. Okay, So gosh, you've
You've already talked about, like a few times, battling adversity, like, yeah,
how when your job when your job was second and
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then you have your your music stolen from you? Like
how do you find a way to just bounce out
of those situations? Uh? And that's something that I talk
about a lot too. Just faith, man, Just faith. I
always think good things are gonna happen. And I think
the most important thing is just falling in love with
the journey man. A lot of people don't understand that. Um,
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you know, Kobe talked about it a lot, you know,
just understanding that once you make a deal with yourself,
there's no compromising. Like I really made a deal with
myself coming out of high school, you know what I'm saying,
Like I'm gonna be on this journey. And even when
I when I started making music for the NFL Network,
it was just like, you know, I don't have this
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equipment yet, but I have this opportunity and I made
a deal with myself and I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna let myself down. So I don't have it yet,
but I'm get it and and just thinking like that
through through everything. I think that's that's key, you know,
just me getting here right now. I'm not where I
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want to be by far, but you know, just me
getting here, Like I'm I'm making music with the Lions,
I'm talking to Danny Rodgers right now. It's crazy, right,
but for real, like I never thought that I would
be in this position because I don't think specific, but
I knew that I would be at this altitude. You
know what I'm saying, because if you keep working, like
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what else can happen? You know? So huge? Yeah? Yeah
you feel me? Yeah? Um what would be your most
I don't know what, What project have you taken the
most pride in doing? Um? So talking about the NFL
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one hundred. Um again, that was a project that I
think it was twenty nineteen, the NFL's hundredth year. I
made a lot of songs for a lot of key players,
and I made a song for Walter Payton in the NFL,
Like I think this is the first song they put
out from the NFL one hundred. And they posted it
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on like the NFL's page and h which was huge
for me, you know what I'm saying, Like that affiliation
m and they tagged me and everything. And the song
is pretty big, like it's it's deep, you know, I'm
talking about you know Walters, Walters not only his achievements
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on the field, but off to feel who he was
as a person. And when it aired, Walter's son Jared
reached out to me and he said, man, said, man,
this song is amazing bro, and I'm like, I'm like, yo,
like this is touching his son, like this is this
is this is touching his son's heart. Like I can't
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believe this is happening, you know. And I put my
all into this and he felt it. And I think
that was just like that was that was a moment
to where I felt like, yo, like I could really
do this at a high clip and it could be
meaningful and and it just made me feel like yo,
like like I love my job. I love what I
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do and it's real, like it's legit, like this is
something I could chase, you know. So that was huge.
That was that was big. That was big man. Oh
my gosh. Do you think if you weren't able to
get new equipment to work for the NFL do you
think that would have affected the opportunity. I feel like
you would have made it work. You would have found
a studio, You would have found something and made it work. Okay,
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So let's talk about that. So, um, I used to
be like a person that would frequent studios and the
thing with studios as far as like recording that much,
but having to go to a to a studio, like uh,
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the thing with that is you have to rely on
someone else's timing all the time though, right, And then
you got people who say, okay, PL like you've made
like two hundred songs with them, Bro, how much are
they paying you? I want in m Yeah you know,
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I know, or I can make it harder for you,
you know, I don't make it weird, you know. And
it's like, as PL, I'm thinking, like, okay, you know,
how do I eliminate this? Yeah, no one gets a cut?
Well not no one gets a cut, because everybody deserves
a cut, everybody, but everybody doesn't deserve to see at
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the table, you know, so especially in my lane, Like
there's really no need for somebody to sit there and say,
all right, PL we're rolling, you know, like we're recording.
Go ahead, okay, you know, especially what I'm doing in
this every single day, you know. And I've been rapping
since I was like nine years old. My mother bought
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a Hewlett Packer computer and put it in her living
room and I took it over. I remember having like
the remember the long mic that would stick out. I
remember rapping on that and using her panty holes as
a wind screen, you know, and teaching myself how to record.
So like, as I'm getting these opportunities, I'm thinking like, yo, like,
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pl you have the jewice, like you know, so that
turned into me, you know, using my own equipment and
all of that. So I honestly feel like, no, like
I would not have this type of success if I
didn't have my own equipment, no way, because that's part
of the preparation man. Like you know, I tell people
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all the time, especially people who trying to do what
I do, like you have to be over prepared because
there's no lane for me, you know, like I showed
up here early, you know what I'm saying, because I
don't know what could happen, and I don't have the
luxury of taking a loss because I have to be
a trailblazer, you know what I'm saying, Like, I have
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to be flawless with everything that I do, and of
course I'm not perfect, but I have to try to
be because I'm the first person to do this and
I gotta make it look good. Is there a dream job? Yes, Danny. So,
I was just talking to my cousin Milton about this
my dream job, and I didn't know this, but my
dream job is to become a music director for a
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major sports team or organization. Those exist already, yes and no.
So like there's heads of music, you know, there's there's
people like that, like, uh, Seth I think his name
is Seth Dandowski. He works for the NFL. He just
kind of like was a big play, big player in
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getting Rihanna for the super Bowl. Yeah, my resume is
on Seth right now, and it's it consists of me
talking about me being a music director, not somebody's just
overseeing music, but somebody that could say, hey, man, like
this song or this vibe or this artist would be
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perfect for this occasion, this moment, you know, like we
can make this moment bigger, We can make people remember
this moment by this music. And it doesn't necessarily have
to be my music. You know, I'm well versed in
all types of music, so I see sound, you know,
like when I walked in here, I could just hear music,
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you know what I'm saying, Like celebratory horns like yo,
I'm here. You know what I'm saying. I see that
type of stuff. And that's why I brought up like,
you know, even with the Lions, man, just I feel
like I'm curating you know, I know exactly what they're
gonna play right before kickoff. I made that happen, you
know what I'm saying. That's an amazing feeling, and I
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could do that on a bigger level, and I feel
like it's really important, Like sports and music are synonymous,
and I never like really realized that a role like
music director like could exist within this space. Yeah, but
it's totally necessary. Yeah, it's totally necessary. And like Danny listened, like,
I've been preparing my whole life for this, and I
feel like, especially you know, going to college, it's it's
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it's definitely one of those situations to where you come
out of college and it's like, Yep, Danny is locked in,
she knows what she's doing. We're confident, let's go. I
feel like, no, well, I feel like I was gone
confident coming up. No, I feel like that's what they
think though. Oh sure, but think about what you just said. Yeah,
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and that's no shade to you, because you're amazing, but
you weren't even confident. No, And it's crazy because I'm
so confident and I came Rack Records weeks for itself. Yeah,
and your track record does too. Though you're a baby track.
You got a track record, Thank you. I appreciate that.
And the and the point that I'm trying to make
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is that I did go to college. I didn't, but
I did. Meaning the college that I went to was
just preparation for me to be here. And if you
can see that I'm prepared, then I gotta be. It's
the real world experiences, yeah, how everyone? Yeah every time? Yes, masters, Now,
if you can go get real world experience, highly recommend that. Yeah.
(30:32):
But I do love education. Yeah, education is key. You know.
I got I got two daughters, and I would I
would love for them to go to college and smoothly
do what they want to do. And that's gonna happen,
you know. I just gotta make it happen through this
old Anthem is one and Osley is nine. Okay, Yeah,
(30:52):
I get the anthem FA Yeah, and you gotta get
the Oisle thing. You know. No, I don't do recall
no Osley Brothers, Moley. It wasn't born. I don't think
I was first started rocking. Wait, Okay, that's a beautiful name. Yeah,
(31:18):
they're beautiful. They're beautiful. Shout out to Anthem and Isisley
and shout out to my wife Janet. Heck, yeah, Okay,
what projects are in the works that we should keep
our eyes on. Okay. So, um, I'm working on a
sports um project and it's just like original sports music. UM.
I already did one called Anthems and it's out right
(31:39):
now and it's got songs like the team on it
that Michigan used. Um. But I have another project called
Anthems too that's dropping soon, real soon, all new sports music,
uh that you'll hear, you know, the NFL license. UM
A few songs for the first project, so that'll be happen. Then.
(32:00):
UM I did a dope Time Brady feature, Patrick Mahomes feature, UM,
a dope Lamar Jackson feature. All from that original music
that is needed, you know, it's it's really needed. So
um yeah, I got Anthems coming out. UM. I got
Wolverines too coming out. That's a project of just original
(32:20):
music that that a lot of people need, especially from
my area. And UM yeah yeah, I'm working. I got
some stuff with the Pistons loaded uh and it's gonna
be crazy. We already did um a Jersey song for
them for the Till Jerseys. UM. I hope I got
some more stuff coming with the Lions because I have
so many ideas, you know, but this season we are
(32:43):
locked and loaded for kickoff, and um, you can hear
that every home game, every home game, yeah yeah at
fort Field, which is already all done. No, so every
week that yeah, yeah, I know, the personalized each week.
I didn't know if you'd already been able to personalize no. No,
so know you kind of go off like the nature
of yeah, what's happening, Yeah, yeah, what's happening? And uh,
(33:05):
even in the music, you know, it's encouraging music, you know,
so you know, when they come home, I talk about
them being home if they've been on the road for
a couple of weeks, and it's feel good music that
the crowd can relate to, you know, the players can
relate to when they're on the field, get them pumped up.
So yeah, we're definitely doing that. And it it feels good, man,
(33:25):
it feels real good. Yeah. Appreciate Hey, I appreciate you.
I appreciate you for really No, the phone goes off.
You just listen to another episode of Off the Record
with Danny Rogers. A new episode drops every Tuesday,
On this episode of Off the Record, I'm featuring Terry Fox,
known to those in the music industry as p L
for his rapping and composing skills. PL, and inn Arbor
native is the voice of every Detroit Lions kickoff video
viewed by thousands inside Ford Field on game days. You
might recognize his work from NFL Network and his classic
hit song in the Zone. This is PL story. I
(00:22):
am joined by a very special guest in the studio today. PL.
Do we tell people your actual name? Uh? Yeah, My
real name is Terry Fox. Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know,
even I feel like some like a playoff of Fox
would have been a great Fox. That is the rapper name.
How did you come to PL? I came to PL
(00:42):
because I used to rap at a day camp and
one of the administer administrators or whoever supervisors, he uh,
he used to make me rap in front of people,
like this kid can really rap, and how he raps,
how he describes things, It's like a punchline. So he
(01:04):
was like, you should call yourself punch lines. And I'm like,
that's too long. Like and I just always associate names
with like winning a Grammy and if you can't hear
it like if it doesn't sound right, if they amounted,
you don't use it. And I just was thinking, like
the winner is punch lines. Now that's whack. So I
just said, pl that's hilarious. Okay. I'm glad we got
(01:26):
to that. For the Detroit Lines fans who might not
recognize your face yet, you'll definitely recognize his voice if
you're there on game day in ford Field. So I'm
gonna play a snippit because it's just the best way
to introduce you. Awesome, so good, ye know what's good?
(01:52):
So good? It's show time. Do you rememberize all of this?
I remember this one for sure. This was big. Okay.
So you wrote, produced, edited the whole thing. Yeah, yeah,
well I didn't produce the beat. As far as the beat,
(02:14):
the Olympics did. Those are really good friends of mine.
Their producers Grammy Award, our Grammy nominated Platinum producers. They're amazing.
They're from Michigan. UM shout out Knoxville and JA. Yeah,
they cooked that up for me. We sampled some stuff
and went to work. So this is your first year
with the Lions. Yes you have you gone to game
(02:37):
jays and have you been able to hear. Yeah, no listen.
Uh shout out to Jeremy Smoker too, he helped make
it happen. Um in DJ ray But yeah yeah first day,
opening day, Uh, like it was amazing, you know what
I'm saying just seeing that on the on the big screen.
I was definitely in the building and watching the fans react,
(02:59):
you know, like like genuinely saying like Yo, we're excited,
and the players are on the field as it's happening. Amazing.
It just it just feels like Detroit when you hear
something like that. Didn't drop off that music, It just
feels like Detroit and you're from it in our worst
just down the street. Yeah. Song composer rapper Terry pl Flox, Yeah, Okay,
(03:19):
how did you get started in this business? Um? So
as far as sports music, UM, I had already been rapping,
like you know, just making music and trying to trying
to win like everybody else. And um, the competition aspect
was cool, but it was just like getting a little
too crazy for me, you know, just the politics and
(03:43):
I just wasn't happy with it. So, um, I just
started making sports music. Like I just felt like so
attached to sports, you know, I always played sports when
I was a kid. But in twenty eleven, it was
a song that I made called in the Zone, and
I tried to make it for the NBA two K
soundtrack and yeah, yeah. It was a huge competition, so like, um,
(04:08):
it was like a record label that linked up with
two K Sports and basically they just dropped a beat
and they said, uh, you know, rap on it and
talk about the game, and whoever has the top I
think it was like top ten or top five songs
they would vote on them. So I made the top ten.
And what's crazy is and this is this is nuts.
(04:29):
You won't believe this. I made the top ten, but
at first I didn't, And so I'm looking for my
name and all I see is in the Zone but
it's a different rapper. So I click on it and
it's my song. But somebody stole it and they're doing
their pl impression and they made the top ten though,
so I'm like, yo, what do I do. I'm talking
(04:50):
to my team. We're like, man, we gotta email. So
they just hurt. So when at the beginning of the competition,
you could just submit your songs and you could listen
to everybody's song until the deadline. Yeah. Yeah, So he
just listened to my song and then re recorded and
submitted it, and then when the deadline happened, they picked,
and they picked him over me. And I'm no original,
(05:12):
so I guess he did better than me. But I
emailed them call, did everything I could, and they switched it.
I proved to them that I made the song. I
had the song in pro tools and pro tools, I
had the whole session everything, so they switched it. I
made the top ten, then the top five, then its
top three, and it was just voting at that point.
(05:33):
You just reach out to your fans and say vote
as many times as you can. And I didn't win.
But luckily I didn't win because I just put the
song out. Me and my homie, Alex Kressovitch. He's who
made the he's the producer for that that song in
his own and it's got like over twenty million views
on YouTube and Apple Music and Spotify, all of that
(05:58):
can combined. It's like over twenty million views. What else
the type in pl in his zone, Oh my gosh.
And that was a huge blessing because if the song
would have got picked, I'm sure it would have been
it would have been on point, but like it's it's
crazy now. It's my it's my most successful song ever,
and it was. It was a wird decade ago. Yeah,
(06:19):
for sure, for sure. Yeah. So that's how I got
started with sports music. Honestly, in twenty eleven. Oh m okay,
I want to hear this. This is that's it. Shout out,
Alex Kresovich. Man, that's my homies to stop me. I'm
(06:42):
in the league of I made that in my closet. Legit.
I gotta get the echo out. Oh my gosh, yeah yeah,
and just yeah, this dude from Baltimore. Um, shout out
to the Ravens. This dude from Baltimore. I forgot his name.
(07:04):
I would totally say his name because that was so crazy.
I forgot his name. Crazy yeah, stole the whole song
and got picked Danny. Okay. The first comment that comes
off on here is I still feel sad because the
song did not win the two K soundtrack Contact. I
was so bummed when it was not included in the game.
Amazing song even after all these long years. Isn't that crazy?
And people still go to it? It gets streamed so
(07:25):
much like right now, like legit. It's probably like I
can actually check Spotify and it's probably like forty five
people listening to it right now. Or and you haven't
found another home for it. There hasn't been another home
for it. Um, I mean it gets licensed. Yeah yeah,
so I licensed it all the time, Me and Alex
(07:46):
licensed it to like, uh, you know, organizations, teams. Yeah, yeah,
all of that. So yeah, it's still living for sure.
So I love the Michigan tattoo you have on your hand.
Oh yeah, am I one hundred to lie die? That
is my school. I love it. Okay, So talk to
us about your journey. I know you didn't go to Michigan,
(08:07):
So what was your journey of coming up after high
school all of that before you took on rapping as
a full career. Yeah. No, So I grew up on
the west side of ann Arbor on Pauline. It's literally
like five minutes from the big Housetown. No, No, Carrytown
is like downtown areas, So west side it's like literally
(08:29):
like right by the stadium, like literally right by the
stadium down the street. So if you take Stadium, you're
running to Pauline. Okay, that's the street that I grew
up on and um, I always love music, all types
of music too, literally, like you know, from like Tupac
to Michael Franks to Queen to Biggie like everybody. And
(08:52):
I recognized early like that sports and music were like synonymous.
I will always you know, being like the yard throwing
a ball up in the air, but like kind of
like singing a song that I would hear on a
replay or something, because I just always like associated sports
and music together, and you know, just growing up, I
(09:15):
played basketball a lot, but it was something that you know,
I wasn't good enough for, like for like D one college,
and I wanted to do it big, so I just
started rapping and I took it more serious when I
got out of high school. I went to Pioneer High School.
And when I got out of high school, college really
(09:35):
wasn't on my radar, you know what I'm saying. I
didn't have the money, and I just didn't think it
would work out. But I knew I would do something.
So immediately, me and my friend drove to New York
and we went to audition for a show called one
or Six in parting Freestyle Friday, and I did like
five weeks on there, I just went crazy. Every week
(09:57):
I would win and things would get bigger as far
as my music here. So when I got back after
I finally lost, I was on fire and I made
a song called Fresher than You, and uh it was
on the radio for a very long time in Detroit
or where. Yeah, yeah, in Detroit. Yeah, I would always come, yeah,
(10:17):
fresher than you, pl fresher than you. D e n
y o U. But uh, man, it was on the
radio like DJ Kalett used to spend it in Miami
and you know he would yeah right yeah, yeah when
I was in Now a lot of that stuff isn't online.
They took that off the copyright reasons and the show
(10:40):
doesn't exist anymore. But I'll get you some footage of that,
like my best week. It was exactly what that was,
you know what. Yeah, shout out than Neil, Neil, Neil,
know what's up? Look at me too, terrible baby face,
that's fresher than you produced the Olympics. Man, that song
(11:04):
went so crazy. That was before social media too, like
for real, you know, like, and the song went so
crazy on on radio, especially Detroit radio, and into radio. Well,
I met a dude named DJ Mobats, which is a
really good friend of mine. That's Big Sean's DJ, and uh,
(11:25):
we were super tight and Mobats worked at the radio station,
so he was like, come on, you know what I'm saying.
It introduced me to everybody at the radio station, and uh,
a lot of those DJs messed with that song and
they kind of rocked with me and pulled me under
the wing. So I went on a little run with that,
and Uh, I made fresher than you I made. I'm single. Um,
(11:49):
I made a lot of songs that were on radio
and Uh, like I said, it was just a lot
of competition and it still is. And um, it was
just something that I wasn't feeling because I just wanted
I wanted to make music that people could feel. I
didn't want it. I didn't want to, you know, be
for getting to too much competition or you know, getting
(12:10):
to jealousy or any of that. And so I kept
I kept working, but I slowly kind of leaned over
to like, you know, more positive music, sports music, if
you will. And I got a call from a really
good friend of mine named Drew who works for the
NFL network and we used to work together in ann
(12:31):
Arbor at a at a clothing store that my homie
owns called Motivation, and so Drew called me. But before
he called me, he used to he used to hit
me on Facebook, and I got two Facebook accounts because
I think it's like a five hundred thousand I mean
a five thousand friend limit or something. So Drew was
hitting me, but I wasn't answering the message because I
(12:53):
didn't see it. And he was like, Yo, I have
been hitting you forever, and I want to see if
you can make some music for the NFL network. And
I'm like what, Like, are you serious? He was like yeah,
nothing big though, no promises, just two songs. We just
want to see if you could do something. I think
it was for like NFL game day or something. So
(13:15):
I made like five songs, stayed up all night, cooked
those songs up in one night. Yeah. Yeah, I've always
had like a studio in my house as you can
see from in his zone. So he hit me back
the next day and was just like yo, like we're
blown away, pl and he was just like, do you
(13:37):
think you could do Thursday night football but for the
whole season? Like could you make that much music? At
that at that type of rate, and I said what yeah,
And at that time, like my setup was terrible. You know,
it might have been like this, but I'm holding it.
It sounded terrible, and I just needed that opportunity. So
(14:00):
I just said yes. And I wasn't really sure, Danny,
you know what I'm saying, like, but you you know,
like when the opportunity comes, you gotta take it. So
I said yeah. And my father he was like Dyana
cancer at the time, right, And so my father he
just told me, like, yo, I'm gonna help you when
(14:22):
I passed. And as soon as my father passed, man,
I had like ten thousand dollars on my bank account
and it was for a music loan, but I didn't
think I was gonna get the loan. So I got
this NFL network play on the table. I got a
terrible setup of equipment, but ten thousand dollars just hit
(14:44):
my bank account. I buy everything I need as far
as studio equipment, and I start cooking up for the season.
As the season's going by, I'm getting so much praise
from the NFL network. They're like, yo, like you're killing this,
and I'm like, I appreciate it. Drew's like, yeah, that's
my boy, You're making me look good. Thank you pl
(15:06):
And I'm like, thank you, Drew. And by the end
of the season, I think I was signed for the
next year, and I also did training camp, and then
that turned into me doing the playoffs, and then that
turned into me doing Super Bowl anthems, and then that
turned into me doing NFL one hundred, which was like
almost thirty songs. Dion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, you know, everybody,
(15:34):
Ray Lewis like it was crazy. And that turned into me,
you know, doing like songs for the NFL combine this year,
and then the Pistons would reach out and you know,
they were like, yo, we want you to do um
a tip off song, you know, and then that turned
(15:55):
into you know, the NBA doing something for the China
Games and just a big, you know, snowball effect. But
it's such a blessing though, because it all started with
with that call from Drew, you know, from the NFL network. Yeah,
Miss Faith, I'm terrible with that, right, horrible, But I'm
better because of that now. Yeah. I check everything every
(16:17):
day as soon as I wake up, I'm checking Twitter, uh, Snapchat, everything,
you know, because because anything could happen from that, but
uh yeah that's pretty much how it how it happened.
And then you know, just leading into the Lions, Um,
Jeremy Smoker reached out to me and DJ Ray as well,
and that was even just like yo, we're not sure
(16:39):
what we want to do, but we want to work,
you know, And um I cooked up pretty quick for that,
for that that kickoff song. But a lot of people
don't know that. Um, some of the chants that you
hear in the stadium were written by me, you know,
for the season. Uh I let I let y'all just
figure that out. But I'm going to think about all that.
(17:01):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's good. I need you to do that.
But uh yeah, so so chance. Um cheerleaders songs like
you know what I'm saying, just even even stuff that
you'll hear from cheerleaders or or you know on social
you know, it's stuff that I worked on. And the
reason I'm being vague with that is because that's something
(17:22):
that I have a passion for and I don't want
to I don't want to just kind of like zoom
in on one thing because I do so much more
than just rap you know. Um, but yeah, I've been
working on that side of music too, kind of just
like amuser director type role to where I'm just kind
of like, you know, having some input. You know. I
(17:44):
think this would make the crowd move because as a kid,
I knew what made me move, you know. So yeah,
it seems like all of those opportunities have been like
pretty sustainable for you though. Yeah. Yeah, huge blessings though,
huge blessings. And and like I told you, um, there's moments,
and I always make sure I thank people who create
(18:05):
those moments for me because I'm literally swinging from tree
to tree like like this Lions thing is gonna help
me do something else, you know. And the Pistons thing
help me do something in the NFL network thing. And
and I didn't even tell you about, you know, the
music that I make for your school, Like you know,
I make tons of music for Michigan football. Yeah, and
(18:27):
I narrate for them as well, you know, So like social,
what don't you do the question? You know? Um, I
don't know. We'll find out, but no, for real, like
I think that I could do a lot. You know.
It starts with faith, and it starts with confidence in yourself,
you know what I'm saying. But it also starts with
(18:49):
with just doing in repetition. I put so many hours
into this, you know what I'm saying. And I don't
say that lightly, Like I really work really hard, you know. Um,
And I pray and uh, I just keep the faith,
you know what I'm saying. I keep the faith. And
I get emotional thinking about that, because, like I told you,
(19:10):
it's been so long for me, you know, like it's
been such a journey and I'm not I'm not there yet,
and and and this is the only lane that that
that I feel that I've created and nobody else is in.
I agree, I think you've carved out your own path.
How long would you say the career roup has been
for you? Uh, I say probably probably twenty years. Yeah, yeah,
(19:36):
easily though you know a lot of the big things
coming on the second half of that. Yeah, I mean, honestly,
like big things happen when when you prepare for big things,
you know, a lot of big things have to happen,
Like like even when you graduated, Like that's huge for
you to graduate from from Michigan, right, you know, but
(19:58):
you pay dues and then you go worka more dudes. Yeah,
you go work for a college team or and then
you know, you get the call from the Lions and
they they're telling you like, yo, we're ready for you
and you come back home. Oh that's big. Think about
how big graduating felt, you know what I'm saying. So
(20:18):
I just feel like, man, as you keep going, you
just got to keep preparing for those big things. This
is big for me. Yeah, I've never had this opportunity,
like this type of opportunity and this platform to talk
about everything that I've been through on my journey. And
this is a big platform. This is a huge platform.
So yeah, I appreciate it. Stut trade line, social media. Man,
(20:39):
what huge platform, huge platform. Shout out to Lauren too,
Lauren our girl, Yellow Scorpion a birthday coming up. Shout
out to Lauren. She rocks it. Okay, So gosh, you've
You've already talked about, like a few times, battling adversity, like, yeah,
how when your job when your job was second and
(21:02):
then you have your your music stolen from you? Like
how do you find a way to just bounce out
of those situations? Uh? And that's something that I talk
about a lot too. Just faith, man, Just faith. I
always think good things are gonna happen. And I think
the most important thing is just falling in love with
the journey man. A lot of people don't understand that. Um,
(21:26):
you know, Kobe talked about it a lot, you know,
just understanding that once you make a deal with yourself,
there's no compromising. Like I really made a deal with
myself coming out of high school, you know what I'm saying,
Like I'm gonna be on this journey. And even when
I when I started making music for the NFL Network,
it was just like, you know, I don't have this
(21:48):
equipment yet, but I have this opportunity and I made
a deal with myself and I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna let myself down. So I don't have it yet,
but I'm get it and and just thinking like that
through through everything. I think that's that's key, you know,
just me getting here right now. I'm not where I
(22:09):
want to be by far, but you know, just me
getting here, Like I'm I'm making music with the Lions,
I'm talking to Danny Rodgers right now. It's crazy, right,
but for real, like I never thought that I would
be in this position because I don't think specific, but
I knew that I would be at this altitude. You
know what I'm saying, because if you keep working, like
(22:31):
what else can happen? You know? So huge? Yeah? Yeah
you feel me? Yeah? Um what would be your most
I don't know what, What project have you taken the
most pride in doing? Um? So talking about the NFL
(22:51):
one hundred. Um again, that was a project that I
think it was twenty nineteen, the NFL's hundredth year. I
made a lot of songs for a lot of key players,
and I made a song for Walter Payton in the NFL,
Like I think this is the first song they put
out from the NFL one hundred. And they posted it
(23:13):
on like the NFL's page and h which was huge
for me, you know what I'm saying, Like that affiliation
m and they tagged me and everything. And the song
is pretty big, like it's it's deep, you know, I'm
talking about you know Walters, Walters not only his achievements
(23:33):
on the field, but off to feel who he was
as a person. And when it aired, Walter's son Jared
reached out to me and he said, man, said, man,
this song is amazing bro, and I'm like, I'm like, yo,
like this is touching his son, like this is this
is this is touching his son's heart. Like I can't
(23:55):
believe this is happening, you know. And I put my
all into this and he felt it. And I think
that was just like that was that was a moment
to where I felt like, yo, like I could really
do this at a high clip and it could be
meaningful and and it just made me feel like yo,
like like I love my job. I love what I
(24:17):
do and it's real, like it's legit, like this is
something I could chase, you know. So that was huge.
That was that was big. That was big man. Oh
my gosh. Do you think if you weren't able to
get new equipment to work for the NFL do you
think that would have affected the opportunity. I feel like
you would have made it work. You would have found
a studio, You would have found something and made it work. Okay,
(24:40):
So let's talk about that. So, um, I used to
be like a person that would frequent studios and the
thing with studios as far as like recording that much,
but having to go to a to a studio, like uh,
(25:00):
the thing with that is you have to rely on
someone else's timing all the time though, right, And then
you got people who say, okay, PL like you've made
like two hundred songs with them, Bro, how much are
they paying you? I want in m Yeah you know,
(25:22):
I know, or I can make it harder for you,
you know, I don't make it weird, you know. And
it's like, as PL, I'm thinking, like, okay, you know,
how do I eliminate this? Yeah, no one gets a cut?
Well not no one gets a cut, because everybody deserves
a cut, everybody, but everybody doesn't deserve to see at
(25:44):
the table, you know, so especially in my lane, Like
there's really no need for somebody to sit there and say,
all right, PL we're rolling, you know, like we're recording.
Go ahead, okay, you know, especially what I'm doing in
this every single day, you know. And I've been rapping
since I was like nine years old. My mother bought
(26:06):
a Hewlett Packer computer and put it in her living
room and I took it over. I remember having like
the remember the long mic that would stick out. I
remember rapping on that and using her panty holes as
a wind screen, you know, and teaching myself how to record.
So like, as I'm getting these opportunities, I'm thinking like, yo, like,
(26:28):
pl you have the jewice, like you know, so that
turned into me, you know, using my own equipment and
all of that. So I honestly feel like, no, like
I would not have this type of success if I
didn't have my own equipment, no way, because that's part
of the preparation man. Like you know, I tell people
(26:48):
all the time, especially people who trying to do what
I do, like you have to be over prepared because
there's no lane for me, you know, like I showed
up here early, you know what I'm saying, because I
don't know what could happen, and I don't have the
luxury of taking a loss because I have to be
a trailblazer, you know what I'm saying, Like, I have
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to be flawless with everything that I do, and of
course I'm not perfect, but I have to try to
be because I'm the first person to do this and
I gotta make it look good. Is there a dream job? Yes, Danny. So,
I was just talking to my cousin Milton about this
my dream job, and I didn't know this, but my
dream job is to become a music director for a
(27:33):
major sports team or organization. Those exist already, yes and no.
So like there's heads of music, you know, there's there's
people like that, like, uh, Seth I think his name
is Seth Dandowski. He works for the NFL. He just
kind of like was a big play, big player in
(27:55):
getting Rihanna for the super Bowl. Yeah, my resume is
on Seth right now, and it's it consists of me
talking about me being a music director, not somebody's just
overseeing music, but somebody that could say, hey, man, like
this song or this vibe or this artist would be
(28:17):
perfect for this occasion, this moment, you know, like we
can make this moment bigger, We can make people remember
this moment by this music. And it doesn't necessarily have
to be my music. You know, I'm well versed in
all types of music, so I see sound, you know,
like when I walked in here, I could just hear music,
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you know what I'm saying, Like celebratory horns like yo,
I'm here. You know what I'm saying. I see that
type of stuff. And that's why I brought up like,
you know, even with the Lions, man, just I feel
like I'm curating you know, I know exactly what they're
gonna play right before kickoff. I made that happen, you
know what I'm saying. That's an amazing feeling, and I
(29:01):
could do that on a bigger level, and I feel
like it's really important, Like sports and music are synonymous,
and I never like really realized that a role like
music director like could exist within this space. Yeah, but
it's totally necessary. Yeah, it's totally necessary. And like Danny listened, like,
I've been preparing my whole life for this, and I
feel like, especially you know, going to college, it's it's
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it's definitely one of those situations to where you come
out of college and it's like, Yep, Danny is locked in,
she knows what she's doing. We're confident, let's go. I
feel like, no, well, I feel like I was gone
confident coming up. No, I feel like that's what they
think though. Oh sure, but think about what you just said. Yeah,
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and that's no shade to you, because you're amazing, but
you weren't even confident. No, And it's crazy because I'm
so confident and I came Rack Records weeks for itself. Yeah,
and your track record does too. Though you're a baby track.
You got a track record, Thank you. I appreciate that.
And the and the point that I'm trying to make
(30:10):
is that I did go to college. I didn't, but
I did. Meaning the college that I went to was
just preparation for me to be here. And if you
can see that I'm prepared, then I gotta be. It's
the real world experiences, yeah, how everyone? Yeah every time? Yes, masters, Now,
if you can go get real world experience, highly recommend that. Yeah.
(30:32):
But I do love education. Yeah, education is key. You know.
I got I got two daughters, and I would I
would love for them to go to college and smoothly
do what they want to do. And that's gonna happen,
you know. I just gotta make it happen through this
old Anthem is one and Osley is nine. Okay, Yeah,
(30:52):
I get the anthem FA Yeah, and you gotta get
the Oisle thing. You know. No, I don't do recall
no Osley Brothers, Moley. It wasn't born. I don't think
I was first started rocking. Wait, Okay, that's a beautiful name. Yeah,
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they're beautiful. They're beautiful. Shout out to Anthem and Isisley
and shout out to my wife Janet. Heck, yeah, Okay,
what projects are in the works that we should keep
our eyes on. Okay. So, um, I'm working on a
sports um project and it's just like original sports music. UM.
I already did one called Anthems and it's out right
(31:39):
now and it's got songs like the team on it
that Michigan used. Um. But I have another project called
Anthems too that's dropping soon, real soon, all new sports music,
uh that you'll hear, you know, the NFL license. UM
A few songs for the first project, so that'll be happen. Then.
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UM I did a dope Time Brady feature, Patrick Mahomes feature, UM,
a dope Lamar Jackson feature. All from that original music
that is needed, you know, it's it's really needed. So
um yeah, I got Anthems coming out. UM. I got
Wolverines too coming out. That's a project of just original
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music that that a lot of people need, especially from
my area. And UM yeah yeah, I'm working. I got
some stuff with the Pistons loaded uh and it's gonna
be crazy. We already did um a Jersey song for
them for the Till Jerseys. UM. I hope I got
some more stuff coming with the Lions because I have
so many ideas, you know, but this season we are
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locked and loaded for kickoff, and um, you can hear
that every home game, every home game, yeah yeah at
fort Field, which is already all done. No, so every
week that yeah, yeah, I know, the personalized each week.
I didn't know if you'd already been able to personalize no. No,
so know you kind of go off like the nature
of yeah, what's happening, Yeah, yeah, what's happening? And uh,
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even in the music, you know, it's encouraging music, you know,
so you know, when they come home, I talk about
them being home if they've been on the road for
a couple of weeks, and it's feel good music that
the crowd can relate to, you know, the players can
relate to when they're on the field, get them pumped up.
So yeah, we're definitely doing that. And it it feels good, man,
(33:25):
it feels real good. Yeah. Appreciate Hey, I appreciate you.
I appreciate you for really No, the phone goes off.
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