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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from them Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge excellent.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh is Mason Ramsey here? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
He is?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I just I just saw it. I shook his hand. So, hey,
where's our producer Nate Nay? Why don't you bring our
guests in? Hello?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Nay?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Can you can someone go get Nate bring.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
He's probably out there telling him dad jokes, crying. He
has a chopped of audio.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Interesting story about Mason Ramsey. You're about to hear it now,
you know what. Every artist has a story, and you're
about to hear Masons. Come on in, Mason, have a seat.
Thank you mister producer for having here, having him on time.
Somebody headphones, someone stile your headphones? Hey, Ded Mason, welcome
to the show. Well, thank you, thanks for being here.
Where are you from? Originally I am?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I am from Golf coln To Illinois, right, which is
a very small town of seven hundred people.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What's it like here getting close to that microphone? Cause
these are these are not they're not as good as
your studio mics. Right, Yeah, what's it like growing up
in a town with seven hundred people? Very interesting to
say the least. Well, if it's all you know at
that point when you're a kid anyway, when there's not a.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Whole lot that goes on around where I'm at. It's
mainly like a postcard town, you know, like you have
like a main street and like the buildings face each other,
and you know, it's like.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They do that here too. I guess everybody.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Knows everybody's business though. That's a problem right in a
town like that, Like everyone knows.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Everything, everything everything literally. Yeah, and also everyone knows everybody too,
so that's that's another thing. It's it's there's not a
like I said seven other people, there's there's literally no
stop lights in the whole town.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
God, I would love that.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have them in New York City, but we don't.
We don't pay attention to It's a suggestion, the suggestion.
But you are you, and it's okay to kind of
toot your own horn. Are you turning into or have
become like a like the town celebrity? Actually, really, if
you think about.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It, I mean you could say that you could say
that I think you have. I have been given the
key to the city, which was really awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Does it open anything?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah? Does it really open things?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, it's just stuck to like this like little thing
and it's like a golden key made of plastic. But
it's really really beautiful once you hang it up on
your wall and look.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, no, and there's something to be proud about for
the rest of your life, you know, absolutely, And I wish,
but it'd be great if they gave you a key
that opened it from freaking door in town. There's some
things even in your in your town. I bet there's
some things behind those doors you don't want to see.
I don't know, I don't know. Let me let me
take you through a little history of Mason Ramsey. The
first time we heard Mason and saw him on video.
(02:52):
By the way, this was a video that was taken
was the Walmart in your town?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Did Walmart give you like gift cards like for free stuff?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't, well they should. They gave me some stuff.
I don't remember what it was. I think, like a
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. They gave me up
like like a like a like a gift bag okay,
with like a PS four and oh wow. This was
like a few years ago, twenty eighteen, before they just
recently came out with the PS fives.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Back.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I bet if you walked in, you could say, hey,
I'm Mason Ramsey. Yeah, well I'm gonna take whatever I
want and walk out the Okay, okay, I want to
play this sound now. Don't ask any questions. So it
was what six years ago? We figured out when this.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Is something like that, it's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And hell were you six years I do the math
for me.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I don't know, eleven.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Eleven years old? This is eleven year old Mason Ramsey.
Someone was videoing you yotling I'm singing actually at this Walmart?
Why were they video on you? Was this a contest
or a concert? Or is this your ploy to steal
things from Walmart? So didn't know what you were doing
with my kiddiness.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, So, actually I had. I had traveled with my grandparents.
We were doing something earlier that day. I don't remember what,
but it caused me to be, you know, dressed up
like like I was, and we ended up going to
our local Walmart, which is about, I don't know, forty
five minutes from us. Maybe I don't really know, but
(04:28):
we we went there and we were shopping, and all
of a sudden, I just, you know, I felt like
I wanted to sing, and so I just stopped what
I was doing and started singing. And I started getting
a small little crowd gathering around.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Which do you have a problem with this, this kid
doing on Aisle four?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, I I don't think. I don't think they did.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
No.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think that they really didn't know what was going
on because it was you know, b Supposedly they could
hear me from the other end of the store corner.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm gonna play that all right. You've heard a million times.
You're probably like, oh, here we go, but no, we
still love listening to it. I remember how we felt
the first time we saw you doing that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You're gonna be shocked whenever you hear that, the comparison
between my voice now and well and from then.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, I don't think we'll be shocked, but I'd like
to literally AB say, okay, here is Here's Mason Ramsey
at the Walmart six years ago.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Oh said, fine, the last long day, she said, where.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
She knew me, she.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
She's got the gun, the love you here?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Of course people are gonna come running across the story
to see what is going on in here? I loved
which song is this?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
By the way, Love Sick Blues by Hank Williams. Okay,
all right, and then but his version, of course he
didn't ride it. I was intrigued when you did the
Little Naws X song and we really y hold on
my racer.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Got a thousand eight or ride up all accounts, but
it's straight the inn' o pay while. I'll give me
you guys. You ain't got no giddy. I think giddy
on my way. I'm going to check my horse.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
At this point, your family and we was thinking, you know,
there's something here. I Mason should be like he should
be on stage doing these things, and is it something?
Is this something you always wanted to do, like be
an artist?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Absolutely, ever since, ever since I was three years old,
I've always wanted to, you know, really be kind of
famous or whatever and do what I love to do.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I live, you're doing this, and now you're you're traveling around.
I mean you're doing shows. You're doing shows up here
in the Northeastern in Philly, and.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You're I was, I was. I actually did a show
here in New York at the.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Was it maginon Square Garden?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
No, no, no, I wish I wish do that one day,
you'll get there. But yeah, Philly, New York. There's like
a I was first kicked off in Boston, but I'm
actually almost wrapped up with the end of my tour.
We've got one more date in uh, Colorado Springs at
boot Barn Hall, right, and so that's that's gonna be
(07:19):
really fun. And then there's supposedly more dates later on
in the fall.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So this is exactly what you were dreaming of as
a kid.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Absolutely, absolutely, you know what.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is why it's important for everyone to pay attention
to your dreams, no matter how old you are. Go
oh my god, I was dreaming about that when I
was a kid. Do it never too late. So Daniel
walks in today says, wait, Mason Ramsey's on today. Yeah,
and she starts screaming out, well, he's My kids are
listening to him. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So my son is eighteen and he's like, ma, do
you really have Mason on? And I'm like, yeah, why
he was, He's on my playlist, I go, he is, yeah,
a couple of songs.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I'm like really, I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In the house.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
You're in the house.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh okay. So what's next, because following you and where
you're going, where you've been and where you're going, it's
very fascinating for us who've been around in this business
for a long time because everyone has a different path,
a different story, and how they get to where they're going.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Absolutely, obviously I've had a really wild ride with the
whole you know, the Walmart thinking kicking off and then
me being like a little feature whatever on Oldton Road,
and then doing the Grammys in twenty twenty with lolonas X,
Billy Ray, Cyrus and BTS and Diplo.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Right when you get a.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Phone call like that and you're just starting out, do
you think it's a joke? Do you go, come on,
get right?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Who is this?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Like?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Are you?
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Who?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Is this a phone tap?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Like?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
What do you think is going on?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
So I actually don't, I don't. I don't talk to
those people, and my managers kind of all handle that.
But whenever, whenever something like that happens, I'm like super
excited and like.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
How can you know be? Yeah, I mean, do you
ever like make up? At three of them werening to go,
oh my gosh, this is really happening. I mean, is it?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Surreal for you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's kind of really what happened, only except it was
at nine or ten am or nine am, geez, at
nine or ten pm. I just went to bed at
eight and my cousin got a phone call from my
manager about the Old Town Road thing and we ended
up going to do it. We wrote a line for
(09:26):
it and recorded it and they loved it and wow,
oh cool, it's really it's really Yeah, what do you
thandh I have questions.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Okay, so you said when that Walmart video happened that
you just like had the urge to sing, so you
stopped and you started singing.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Did you do that often?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And do you do that now?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I don't do it now as much as because normally
I'm I'm like, well I'm on tour, but I uh,
I mean I sing, you know, in the shower and
stuff and you know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Enormous stay home. We have a shower down. Yeah, yeah,
we have a microphone in the show. I could see
you like rolling through Times Square today and just kind
of rapping it up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I mean subways right in the subway.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh it's a little rainy right now, but it's okay,
you can do it whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Was, yeah, Froggy, what's up now? You had said that
when we played your old clip that we would be
surprised the difference in your voice. Now do you still
do the yodeling? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Really I do?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I do? Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Actually I do the exact same song, just in a
different key.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Now is it if we asked you to do something?
You go no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean I can.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Would you be embarrassed to do that? Well? Okay, this
is this is like a Walmart man.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You may have to play me in F sharp or
something target.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
I think.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I'm sure YouTube hasn't F sharp. My goodness, YouTube is
at F sharp. I'm sure it has to write. YouTube
has everything F sharp. Note here we go. Okay, in
F sharp, come on, Froggy, fast with your F sharp.
There's an ad with Tom Brady hold on his five seconds. Good,
(11:03):
here we go.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I got a feeling called the blues o Lord.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Since my baby said goodbye, Lord, I don't know how
to do. All I do is said and say Lord
that last long day she.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Said goodbye, Well Lord, I thought I would cry.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
She'll do me, She'll do you.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
She's got that kind of loving Lord, I loved you,
And she calls him sweet Hedy.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Such a beautiful dream. I had to thank it all over.
I lost my heart.
Speaker 8 (11:45):
It seems I've grown so used to use somehow. Lord,
I'm nobody's sugar daddy in now and I'm alone.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I got the love sick Blues.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That's just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's a morning's voice.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's one morning ice.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So it's okay. Yeah, it's really weird because we have
artists up here all the time performing in the morning.
I'm like, they always sound like they're in a studio.
They sound great, and like, how do you do that?
We sound like crap in the morning. You hit it.
You hit it at a park and all you needed
was in f sharp off on YouTube.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I sing it in the same key as Hank Williams.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So well, there you go, Hank Williams. So that's your
one of your influences.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Little X.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What a weird You've got a weird, little stable motivation.
It's a pleasure having you here. Mate.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And uh, I'm gonna play your song, do you mind?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Absolutely? Yeah, Blue Blue over you.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
They call it giving it a spin. The people at
the label love that. Here we go drive Mason Ramsey,
thank you for coming on. Thank you. Everyone. Close your
eyes unless you're driving, keep them up. Pretend you're driving
to a Walmart, but this is Mason Ramsey. Listen to
this eight